Writers Joel Jessup and Chris Regan reimagine cult and classic movies by adding John Carpenter's The Thing into the story. Not even the two hosts understand why they are doing this but they'll figure it out, one movie at a time.
This week, Chris and Joel travel back to 1984 (or forward to 2247, depending on your perspective) to introduce John Carpenter's shape-shifting alien to the cult sci-fi action movie Trancers. Directed by Charles Band and starring Tim Thomerson and a young Helen Hunt, Trancers follows Jack Deth, a hard-boiled cop from the future who travels back in time to 1980s Los Angeles to hunt down a psychic criminal capable of turning ordinary people into murderous zombies. We discuss the film's wonderful...
4 Aug 2026
They Live
This week on Just The Thing, we tackle one of John Carpenter's most beloved cult classics as we drop the creature from The Thing into the world of They Live. What happens when an alien species hiding in plain sight encounters a shapeshifter that could already be one of them? Joel and Chris revisit Carpenter's razor-sharp satire on consumerism, capitalism, and media manipulation, discussing why They Live remains as relevant today as it was in 1988. Along the way, they celebrate the film's uniq...
30 Jun 2026
Circuitry Man and Circuitry Man II: Plughead Rewired
This week on Just The Thing, we're heading into the low-budget wasteland of early '90s straight-to-video sci-fi as we drop John Carpenter's shapeshifting nightmare into Circuitry Man and its bonkers sequel, Circuitry Man II: Plughead Rewired. Joel and Chris explore these forgotten cyberpunk curios, discussing killer cyborgs, brain-addling biochips, post-apocalyptic world-building, and why low-budget sci-fi so often punches well above its weight. Along the way, they celebrate the weird charm o...
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