RECOMMENDED &amp;#8220;The Thing&amp;#8221; is a clever prequel from the producers who remade &amp;#8220;Dawn of the Dead,&rdquo; director Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr. and writers Ronald D. Moore and Eric Heisserer, drawing on 1982 sci-fi horror film &ldquo;The Thing,&rdquo; which was based on the 1951 film &ldquo;The Thing,&rdquo; which, in turn, was based on the 1938 story [...]