I saw that, and I liked it too. I thought they did a very good job of leading up to The Thing.
It was definitely 100,000% better than the crap they make today :/
There has been no official sequel to “The Thing” for over 40 years. However, a non-official sequel called “The Thing Returns” was released in 2021, directed by Rui Constantino.
The film follows a team investigating the destruction of a McMurdo station and the discovery of two dead bodies in the ice.
John Carpenter has suggested that a sequel to “The Thing” could solve some of the biggest unresolved story beats from the original movie, including the possibility that the alien escaped from the Arctic base. However, some fans argue that there is no need for a sequel to “The Thing.”
I have not seen The Thing Returns (2021) so I can’t comment on it one way or another................