A Personal History of Horror Films in 101 Quirky Objects

A Personal History of Horror Films in 101 Quirky Objects #11: R.J. MacReady’s Computer Chess Game in The Thing (1982)

by Vince Stadon “We're gonna draw a little bit of everybody's blood... 'cause we're gonna find out who's the Thing.” – R.J. MacReady If nothing monstrous or extraterrestrial or monstrously extraterrestrial had happened during R.J. MacReady’s time at the

Vince Stadon

A Personal History of Horror Films in 101 Quirky Objects: An Introduction

by Vince Stadon I once got lost in the British Museum. I was eleven, so this would have been in 1981. Lots of people get lost in the British Museum—it’s a big building, with over eight million objects, the largest amount of any museum in the world. I