Kernel Rating (out of 5): 
MPAA Rating: R Length: 103 minutes
Age Appropriate for: 16+. So. Gross. Figure out how much nauseating gore your teen can handle before they see it.
John Carpenter changed the horror genre with his 1982 version of ‘The Thing.’ Nearly three decades of technology later, this remake — while disgusting — doesn’t have the same impact.
By Roxana Hadadi
“Who Goes There?”, the sci-fi story that inspired numerous film versions of “The Thing,” was written by John W. Campbell Jr. in 1938. It’s been eight decades, and still, the idea of an alien who can mimic any living matter it touches is a horrifying possibility. But this latest remake of “The Thing” isn’t a terror that will stick with you after the movie theater’s lights go up.
