[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The 1982 remake was more faithful to John Campbell's original 1938 novella, "Who Goes There?"

[Vaquero]

perhaps if I read Campbells novella I might feel differently, but I like the original movie best

now on the other hand, I thought the first remake of ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’(1978) was better than the original(1956)...(though I like the original)....I hear there have been other remakes since....but WHY.

and the first remake of ‘The Fly’ was incredibly disturbing...I loved it.

[EveningStar]

Yes. The 1982 John Carpenter version was much more faithful to the original Campbell story. But for me, the 1951 Howard Hawks version is much better. The Carpenter version, rather than being scary, was just non-stop gore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28film%29