The Thing
Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
In an isolated base in Antarctica, a team of researchers is confronted by an extraterrestrial creature capable of taking on the appearance of anyone.
John Carpenter
John Carpenter is an American director, screenwriter, producer, and composer born on January 16, 1948, in Carthage, New York. With a cinematic career spanning nearly forty years, he has directed numerous horror and science fiction films that have gained international renown over time. As an independent filmmaker, he directed his first feature film, Dark Star, in 1974. Two years later, he helmed the action film Assault on Precinct 13 before turning to horror, which quickly became his preferred genre, with Halloween in 1978. The film was a tremendous success, both critically and commercially. From then on, Carpenter's career took off, and productions continued, with Hollywood opening its doors to him. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award, lauding him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions".
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