The film effectively focused on character interaction among its ensemble cast, with natural and rapid-fire dialogue between many characters, a convincing-looking and beseiged remote location, red herrings to create suspense, few ambiguous glimpses of "The Thing" until late into the film, appropriate scientific jargon, and the slow menace of the threatening creature.Jason punched a fire alarm button, as the blaze soon spread throughout he ship.McCulloch didn""t believe that the fire alarm was authentic, arguing that the deckhand had set it off only to cause panic- he pursued him with a flare gun.As her dull, middle-class husband Bert flops down on he sofa with a newspaper, Mildred nags him, slightly dissatisfied by the lean financial status of their strained marriage and his loss of employment.I""m not fooled by this thing you saw." Doc thought that Freddy was "f--king with the line between dreams and reality" and had not only killed them, but "erased" the teens.