John Carpenter's "The Thing" is a sci-fi horror film loosely based on H.P Lovecraft's story "At the Mountains of Madness". John Carpenter's movie is also based in Antarctica and involve an alien, but the comparison stops there. The researchers in "The Thing" are never truly identified by specialty, are from the early eighties, and do not uncover an ancient civilization described in an obscure religious text. The main horror John Carpenter creates is based on the aliens ability to absorb and become any living thing. Where as the aliens in "At the Mountains of Madness" are from an ancient race that afflicted mankind with awareness not absorbing their flesh. Both involve slowing going mad with horror, but the cause and time is completely different.
I actually recommend both the book and the movie, but the book definitely will leave you with a longer lasting chill.
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