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TRENDING

• 🛸 First clip from Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth series debuts, premiering this Summer on Hulu.

• 🎬 Jonathan Majors delivers Oscar-worthy performance in Magazine Dreams despite personal controversies — read this opinion piece here.

• 🎵 In a live Q&A, John Carpenter agrees to compose score for Bong Joon Ho's upcoming horror film after director's personal request.

• 🍎 Critics poison Snow White: "Visually repellant," "Exhaustingly awful," "Strange, hot mess," "Disney trashed its reputation."

• 🎭 Leonardo DiCaprio pranks Jonah Hill on street, runs up like crazed fan — Hill's startled expression captured on video.

• 🥋 Karl Urban (The Boys) cast as Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat 2 — fighter role confirmed for upcoming sequel.

• 🎧 On JRE, Quentin Tarantino talks about losing his dream in his 20s, when friend’s 30th birthday sparked realization (must-see for creatives).

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👽 Who Really Survived The Thing?

John Carpenter Finally Confirms Hidden Clue After 43 Years…

Indie filmmaker Joe Russo (not MCU Russo) dropped a bombshell theory about The Thing that might finally solve the film's greatest mystery – what if Kurt Russell's MacReady was actually the alien monster during the film's iconic final standoff?

"But we saw Mac kill The Thing!" OR… did you watch a BETTER imitation kill a POORER imitation because it had a better chance of infiltrating society upon rescue?" Russo explains in his viral tweet thread. The premise brilliantly recontextualizes the entire third act, suggesting a calculated deception that's hidden in plain sight.

Russo points to several key moments that support his theory: "After all, it's Mac who suggests and runs the blood test — and we never do see him cut his own finger... Did he use blood from the sabotaged blood bank to cheat his own test? Sure seems that way."

The evidence mounts when examining MacReady's strategic decisions throughout the finale. "Mac also posits that The Thing probably wants to freeze again so it can wait to be rescued… and then Mac convinces the team to blow up all the surviving structures — a place where a human would need to stay to survive the winter… But not The Thing."

"Mac even accounts for his clothes ripping by making a much memed tape to throw us (and any rescue teams who will find his remains) off. Note his careful wording… and how he rewinds the tape to account for it. By mentioning his name, he wants the rescuers to THINK he's human."

The theory provides new context for the film's famously ambiguous ending. "Ultimately, that's why Mac is content to wait Childs out. As soon as Childs drinks from the bottle, The Thing has won. It's beaten its most skeptical, final threat. That's why the last line of the movie is: 'Why don't we just wait here for a little while, see what happens?'"

What makes this revelation particularly significant is that John Carpenter himself recently hinted at hidden clues within the film. At a special 4K screening in Los Angeles on March 22, Carpenter revealed to director Bong Joon Ho that there is a "giant hint" in the middle of the film about who becomes The Thing (see the original screening footage).

Forty-three years later, with countless fan theories and over four decades of analysis, what began as a box office disappointment has become one of horror's most brilliantly constructed puzzles.

But, most people think Childs is The Thing:

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PUNCHLINES

Here’s a couple more Severance memes if you’ve seen the finale, including an IKEA ad, a Community homage?, and Ben Stiller on Season 3.