It’s hard to talk about Carrion without bringing up other games and movies, because it borrows so much, so well, and remixes the elements together with gusto. If you want curated lists of our favorite media, check out What to Play and What to Watch. When we award the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the recipient is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive, or fun - and worth fitting into your schedule. Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games, movies, TV shows, comics, tabletop books, and entertainment experiences. If the creature from The Thing is the right hand of creation, you’re the left hand of vengeance - meting out punishment and extracting the price of cruelty from each and every one of your hapless would-be human captors.
There is no name for what you are in Carrion. The resemblance between Watts’ description of the “mutinous biomass” and “panic-stricken clots of meat” that make up the iconic monstrosity of Carpenter’s film, and the anomalous fleshy abomination you embody in Carrion, is so close as to be familial. Mutinous biomass sloughed off despite my most desperate attempts to hold myself together: panic-stricken little clots of meat, instinctively growing whatever limbs they could remember and fleeing across the burning ice.” “I remember the crash It killed most of this offshoot outright, but a little crawled from the wreckage: a few trillion cells, a soul too weak to keep them in check. In the seventh paragraph of “The Things,” the nameless creature that describes itself as, among several other titles, “the very hand by which Creation perfects itself,” reflects back on the excruciating pain it endured during the violent shipwreck that stranded it on our planet: Peter Watts published a short story called “The Things” in 2010 that retells the events of that film, except this time from the point of view of its titular monster. This isn’t the first time someone has tried this kind of switch in pop culture, let alone evoked comparisons to Carpenter’s 1982 horror classic.
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