Abstract
This paper looks at John Carpenter's film The Thing in the context of why it so shocked audiences during its initial run in 1982. These reactions are considered alongside the AIDS phenomenon, although the film is not viewed as simply an AIDS analogue, especially since it was made before AIDS was first publicised. Using the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, I suggest that Carpenter's film captures in a biohorror genre frame the processes that Deleuze and Guattari call becoming and intensity.
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