Space is a scary place, no matter how old you are. As such, the minds behind Pixar's "Elio" decided to include nods to staples of both science fiction and horror cinema in the film, as a way of endearing younger viewers to the genres. Indeed, the 2025 animated movie — which centers on Elio (voiced by Yonas Kibreab), a young boy who's abducted (willingly, mind you) by aliens — features otherworldly winks to everything from the theatrical cut of Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kid" to Robert Zemeckis' "Contact." However, one scene in particular saw the creative team paying homage specifically to John Carpenter's shape-shifting 1982 sci-fi horror film, "The Thing."

The sequence in question revolves around a strand of hair from an Elio clone (which his alien buddies send

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