This Day in Halloween: Howard Hawks' original Cold War paranoia classic "The Thing From Another World" opens across the U.S. in 1951. / Illustration by Paige Garcia
The Thing From Another World opens across the U.S. in 1951. The original version of The Thing from producer/director Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby infuses early Cold War paranoia into spooky-old-house storylines to create an alien-horror classic.
