Great flops

[Morbius]

4. Actually, that's not so.

Both movies are adaptations of a novella called "Who Goes There?", by sci/fi legend John W. Campbell. I would absolutely consider them separate adaptations, not one a remake of the other, because aside from being about an encounter between humans and an alien in a polar environment, they're completely different. The John Carpenter version from 1982 is more faithful to the original story, or so I'm told; I never read it myself. I like both movies, quite a lot actually. Hollywood legend Howard Hawks directed the 1951 film, and it's snappy and well-paced. The budget was clearly limited and Hawks did well to manage suspense given what he had to work with.