If you loved The Thing, try Body Bags

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Body Bags has roughly 21.0× fewer votes than The Thing — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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The Thing

1982 · dir. John Carpenter

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1993 · dir. John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper

What they share

Both films are directed by John Carpenter, and they sit in Horror / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Thing, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Body Bags is

Dark highway at midnight a lone payphone rings A college student faces a serial killer a botched hair transplant A classic horror anthology from John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper

If you loved The Thing, try Body Bags

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What they share

What Body Bags is

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