35mm at The New Beverly
This is obviously still miraculous, holy scripture within the horror movie landscape that remains fresh and precisely constructed no matter how many times you watch it, but I recently read Alec Nevala-Lee’s brilliant group-biography Astounding, which documents several prominent figures of the golden age of sci-fi, and at one point describes how John W. Campbell Jr’s main inspiration for Who Goes There? was the psychological abuse he endured at the hands of his often unpredictable mother, namely…
