VERY SUPERSTITIOUS—Horror today seems overly preoccupied with the gore factor, but little of it comes close to the ridiculous special effects and too-real-for-camp scenes in John Carpenter’s underrated 1982 classic The Thing. Screened tonight by podcasters Cort and Fatboy, it remains Kurt Russell’s movie, really: Dude knows his way around a blowtorch—that’s a special effect by itself. WE