Since we're on the subject of John Carpenter, I got a question about the music for The Thing.
You see, I'd gone and used it for a case of a group of anime-style characters going to the Mountains of Madness (in Antarctica) to find the dead city of the Elder Things (Yup, Lovecraft mythos) where they encountered Shoggoths (very Thing-like when you consider their abilities) that they had to get by in order to operate a transport device to get them off-world. That scene was basically a Lovecraft-Carpenter homage.
The full measure of the theme goes thusly...
At about four and a half minutes in, it busts into some loud and creepy organ music, of which I couldn't recall EVER hearing in the movie. Anybody have any idea why that's in there?
