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“‘The Thing’ was a bomb. Fans hated it, critics hated it. They thought I showed them too much of the monster. You just don’t do that. Only if you’re a low-rent director, like me, do you show the monster. You’re supposed to hide it in the shadows,” he said. After “The Thing” debuted in 1982 to mostly bad press, the movie went on to inspire countless horrors, thrillers and TV shows, like “Stranger Things,” and received a prequel in 2011.
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