It's been 43 years since legendary director John Carpenter’s The Thing hit screens, but the mystery behind which character tu🥀rns into the fearsome mon🌃ster has remained shrouded in secrecy, until now. And one fan has worked it out.

At a special 4K screening of The Thing at David Geffen Theater on March 22, Carpenter revealed that a scene in the middle of the movie reveals whether Kurt Russell’s R♉.J. MacReady or Keith David’s Childs is The Thing. "I think I fo🍷und that hint," said Joe Russo (a film fan not the Marvel director) on .

As pointed out by Russo, MacReady is informed that The Thing can replicate at the cellular level, so to be safe they should only drink and eat what the🎃y have prepared themselves. Despite the warning, toward the end of the movie, MacReady shares a bottle of liquor with Childs, which could mean that he is either rather forgetful or he is, in fact, The Thing. "As soon as Childs drinks from the bottle, The Thing has won🙈. It’s beaten its most skeptical, final threat," says Russo. Check out the post below.

Of course, the movie ends before this can be confirmed. But it is quite i💫nteresting that the last line in the film is MacReady saying, "Why don't we just wait here for a little while, see what happens?" Russo goes even further to prove his point adding that although we do see MacReady kill The Thing, he thinks we saw "a BETTER imitation kill a POORER imitation because it had a better chance of infiltrating society upon rescue."

Of course, some fans are still a little skeptical as one responded, "Childs was infected. You can’t see any breath from him in the cold air, but you can see MacReady’s breath." And , "I still think it’s Childs because we don’t know his whereabouts for a long time heading into thꦺe final scene. But Keith David will tell you he’s 100% not the thing," to which , "Carpenter said both actors don't know... Childs always felt like a red herring to me."

Whether you believe the theory or not, you have to admit that Carpenter’s little hint and Russo’✃s find✃ings make sense. But who knows, maybe the horror director has thrown us yet another red herring.

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