| "John Carpenter's The Thing Joins The Army" would be a good alternative title for this exciting horror movie. This movie hits all of its mark to make it into a really great horror/suspense/thriller. It has a good cast of believable characters who are trapped in a location that just oozes foreboding and paranoia, which must undoubtedly exist along the real North Korean/South Korean border. Throw into that mix death and a mysterious plague-like illness and you get to watch the whole thing crumble.
I love how the not everything is explained--too often we feel compelled to tell the audience every single last detail, but not so here. It lets you fill in some of the blanks. I think it's always more effective to let the individual audience members fill in some of the blanks because it always makes it more mysterious and frightening. It absolutely runs circles around every domestic horror movie made in recent years by treating the audience like rational humans and not over excitable puppies who need constant visual stimulus to keep them from chasing their own tails. |
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