The Thing, An Escape Thwarted Time and Time Again

Of Cohen's theses, I gravitate and find the most relevance in the alien/monster's relationship from John Carpenter's 1982 The Thing in the second thesis: The Monster Always Escapes. 

*cough* Blatant spoilers. *cough*

Throughout the entirety of the film, from the very first shot to what some interpreted in the very last, the creature (fondly referred to as "Thing") is attempting an escape. Following a similar path as Cohen explained, the creature manages to escape to some extent, whether it be with very little trace similar to the yeti or being killed off such as the case of the ogre of Mount Saint Michael brought up in the thesis, but in each situation and every occurrence the Thing continues to reappear in a new form. It's attempts at escape are so prevalent in the creatures life throughout the story (including the horrible 2011 prequel of the same title) that the viewer's and the characters first interaction (even if they didn't realize it) with this creature were in moments of an escape attempt. In the 1982 film, it was during the opening scene with the Husky fleeing from the two members of the Norwegian outpost. (Or, you could say it was with the discovery of Two Face. As it was shown in the truly horrendous prequel, that the reason Two Face was outside and was merely frozen, unlike the rest of the remains which were burnt to a char, was because it got stuck in an escape attempt.) The 2011 version's first encounter with the Thing was with the Norwegian outpost's discovery of it frozen in the ice sheet after it had attempted to escape from its crashed vessel how many thousands of years prior to the story's setting. And, as stated before, after each escape or after being killed in one form it reappears shortly after adapted(/ing) to its new situation. In the first instance, after the Husky/Kennel Thing is killed, the reanimated cells of Two Face assimilate Bennings and subsequently turn him into another Thing (though it is revealed later that the Husky preemptively "planned" an escape by assimilating Palmer). The Thing's actions towards escape also go beyond assimilating the members of the Outpost. After Blair had been assimilated (which I might add, nobody can agree when or how that happened) he, as a Thing, began to create a small flying saucer assumingly to escape Earth. Once that plan had been thwarted, it destroyed the outposts power facilities in order to refreeze itself in hopes of being rediscovered and possibly brought to some other location and away from the frozen hell hole (of which it seemingly had been attempting to escape the entire time).