re: #80 engineer dog

the remake of The Thing a number of years ago was yet another sci fi movie with an alien that ended up being a remake of Alien - the original 1951 The Thing was more interesting. almost all sci fi movies with aliens in the past 30 years have been remakes of Alien. it’s a challenge now to portray hostile aliens without remaking Alien

The 80s “The Thing” was much closer to the original 1938 story than the 50s version.