Carpenter's The Thing is the maybe the most truly scary "monster movie" ever made. It uses the actual story by John Campbell, instead of the silly version that was so distorted in the 1950s film. Though the 50s film is also great, but mainly in its acting and dialogue and pacing, rather than being actually frightening. But John Carpenter's film is simply the most hideous, damnable story imaginable, done perfectly. It is a thousand times better than Alien, but was a bomb at the box office. Just like Big Trouble in Little China, which was a thousand times better than Indiana Jones and bombed. Critics hated both flms - showing that critics are morons. John Carpenter had some bad luck on those films, though they are now called "cult classics."
On Jane Eyre, that production is spectacular, over-the-top Uber-Romantic with Orson Welles fantastically good as usual. It is aggravating that the story had to be cut down to feature length. Like Olivier's Hamlet - they are both the best films ever made of those subjects, but unfortunately had to be done in a very abridged form. Hamlet was cut in to about half length to fit the feature length format. Too bad that Olivier could not be allowed to do the same full-length version that Branagh later did, not so well.