RKO Pictures
Vegetative Vampires
Howard Hawks’s The Thing and Our Echo Chamber Age

In the 1951 classic, an otherworldly being feeds on all-too-human fears—and shows how bonds can fragment in a climate of paranoia and distrust.

Published on: June 14, 2019
Colin Fleming is the author of Buried on the Beaches: Cape Stories for Hooked Hearts and Driftwood Souls(Tailwinds Press, 2019). Find him on the web at colinfleminglit.com and on Twitter: @colinfleminglit.
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