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That's the whole point. Even if you can argue that shock would root someone in place, it doesn't affect everyone equally, and it doesn't last forever. The survival instinct takes over, and your ass makes tracks. Plus, in The Thing, they keep reacting the same way every time, despite the fact...

Hopefully not to let this get too sidetracked just dunking on Ebert, but it's apropos to The Thing to point out that he had a massive blind spot with horror movies in general that made him awfully inconsistent in how he judged them. Compare his two-star review of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with...

Oddly enough, I'm not as surprised.