“You gotta be fucking kidding!”

Ever wanted to hear horror visionary John Carpenter’s 1982 film The Thing re-scored by its maker?

YouTube series House by the Video Store has swapped Ennio Morricone’s original soundtrack for Carpenter’s 2015 Lost Themes LP and unsurprisingly, it works rather well.

Hear the result below and then dive into our Beginner’s Guide to John Carpenter.

In other Carpenter news, new album Lost Themes II is due for release April 15, with the first taste, ‘Distant Dream’,  having already been unveiled.