User blog comment:EmpyrealInvective/Emp's Halloween Horr-tacular/@comment-4715955-20151002115803/@comment-4715955-20151003043135

That's what I meant: Ringu/the Ring. The Changeling has all the same major plot points and setpieces, up to and including finding the remains of the dead kid in a well hidden beneath a house late in the film.

I remember reading Who Goes There? and finding it to be a godawful waste of text. Carpenter's interpretation really is the best of all, improving on it in every way.

I saw a little of Night of the Lepus, but even better, the novel it's based on -- Year of the Angry Rabbit -- is my favorite novel. You should give it a read if you can find a copy for less than $200 online. It's incredibly rare, but it's a witty satire where giant killer rabbits are only part of a more complex plot.

Them! has been a favorite of mine since I was a kid, and it's still the best-crafted of the "giant bug" genre that it started. It has moments of genuine dread, and the ant mockups are wonderfully made and actually look like ants, even if they move unnaturally. My favorite scene is when they have the little girl in the back of the ambulance and they hear the ants for the first time -- it's absolutely chilling, even by 1950's standards.