What happens when one thousand miles of ice is the smallest prison you are in? In nineteen eighty-two, John Carpenter stranded us at United States Outpost thirty-one, where a dozen bored men maintain a fragile truce against the Antarctic emptiness. The stage is set not for a monster hunt, but for a total psychological collapse.
We meet our cynical hero, pilot R.J. MacReady, in a scene that per...
