Five of our favorite ferocious and frightening films for Halloween

Halloween is right around the creepy, chilling corner, so here are five of our critic’s favorite, ferocious, and frightening horror films! All-time: “The Thing” (1982) – John Carpenter’s remake of “The Thing from Another World” (1951) has a deserved reputation for its extreme gore and wild practical effects, but it’s much more than buckets of blood and innards thrown at the screen.  It’s an intense whodunnit and works exceptionally well in the isolated confines of a U.S. Government station located on Earth’s most lonely continent.  Kurt Russell leads an exceptional…