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The ending of John Carpenter’s sci-fi creature feature The Thing is one of genre cinema’s greatest puzzles; with just two characters left alive, the viewer is never sure who’s human, and/or who’s secretly an alien. Now, a popular theory about the scene has been dismissed by the director.