“I know who’s the Thing and who’s not in the very end.”
Don’t get it twisted: John Carpenter knows who is the Thing at the end of The Thing, and he’s not telling. The Thing ends on one of the great open-ended conclusions in movie history when the director fades out on the two survivors of the alien’s shape-shifting, rib-cracking, goopy-as-all-hell attack in the icy tundra of Antarctica.
At the end of the film, the character Childs has an eye gleam and MacReady does not. Hence, Childs is the Thing if one follows Cudney’s logic, but, according to John Carpenter, Cudney’s “full of shit,” man. Only Carpenter knows the truth. “He has no clue,“ Carpenter told ComicBook.com. “Yes, I know. I know who’s the Thing and who’s not in the very end.” “ doesn’t know. He has no idea. He puts the lights up. He puts the lights up, and we were in the snow. He has no clue. You tell him that.
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