"I know I'm human. And if you were all these things, then you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it's won."
What’s amazing about the film is that the older I get the scarier the film is. I must have seen the film a half dozen times now. I first watched it when I was a kid, maybe 11 or 12, and I just kind of loved the gore effects. Was just riveted by them. Every subsequent rewatch has unsettled me a little more and watching it a few nights back the film struck me in a way that I wasn’t expecting. It... read more
It doesn’t matter how many times you watch The Thing, it still has the ability to raise the hairs on the back of your neck and forces you to the edge of your seat.
The dark, brooding atmosphere starts at the opening credits when the title burns its way through the screen. The eerie thudding music accentuates this and the tone doesn’t let up for the full running time.
Description:Horror-meister John Carpenter teams Kurt Russell's outstanding performance with incredible visuals to build this chilling version of the classic. Features stunning special effects.
MacReady (Kurt Russell) and his team of twelve Antarctic ... Full Descriptionresearches unearth and inadvertently defrost a hideous, 100,000-year-old aHorror-meister John Carpenter teams Kurt Russell's outstanding performance with incredible visuals to build this chilling version of the classic. Features stunning special effects.
MacReady (Kurt Russell) and his team of twelve Antarctic ... Full Descriptionresearches unearth and inadvertently defrost a hideous, 100,000-year-old alien life form. Havoc ensues as the isolated scientists struggle with a foe that is a shape-shifting misanthrope. The remaining men are soon faced with the task of determining who's who in order to ensure their survival. Stunning visual effects, an eerie score by Ennio Morricone, and director John (HALLOWEEN) Carpenter's familiarity with spine-tingling material make this a gruesome nail-biter. This is a remake of the 1951 Howard Hawks/Christian Nyby classic, but is much more in keeping with the John W. Campbell, Jr. story on which it is based.
Based on both the short story by John W. Campbell, Jr. and the 1951 film produced by Howard Hawks, THE THING is John Carpenter's stunning masterpiece of horror. A group of weary scientists enduring the winter in an isolated camp deep in Antarctica chance upon an alien spacecraft buried in the ice. Near the strange craft is the body of an alien being, frozen solid. Thinking they have made the find of a lifetime, the scientists bring the alien body back to camp and thaw it out. The alien awakens, not in the best of moods, and proceeds to take over the identities of the scientists, one by one, body and all. Helicopter pilot MacCready (Kurt Russell) must lead the surviving men in discovering who among them is human and who is not and how they can destroy "the thing" before it takes them all and moves on to the heavily populated mainland and the rest of humanity. Rob Bottin supplies the awe-inspiring special effects of the creature in its many, ever-changing forms. The effects were groundbreaking at the time and hold up flawlessly over the passing years. But Carpenter does not rely solely on special effects, utilizing his spectacular cast, which includes Wilford Brimley and Richard Dysart, to create three dimensional characters enduring an unthinkable situation. The score from Ennio Morricone is understated, yet increases the tense mood tenfold. Shooting was difficult and done in below freezing conditions, but despite the discomfort the cast and crew produced a truly terrifying film that will stand the test of time. THE THING is surely one of Carpenter's definitive films and a true horror classic.
THE THING was based on the short story "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, Jr. It was previously the basis for the 1951 film, THE THING (a.k.a. THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD), which was produced by Howard Hawks and directed by Christian Nyby. This 1982 version is more loyal to the source material and restores the creature's ability to masquerade as any living creature. Director Carpenter gave whiz kid special effects artist Rob Bottine total freedom when creating the concepts for the alien creature's many forms. The result was an Academy Award and effects that still hold up over time.
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Oli todella pitkä aika siitä kun viimeksi tämän klassikon nähnyt ja muistikuvat alkoivat olla melko nollissa, muistin vain että tämä on loistava ja sitä tämä todellakin oli.
Tarina tässä on todella kiinnostava ja tapahtumapaikkakaan ei voisi olla hirveästi parempi, kaukainen, asuttamaton, yksinäinen ja kylmä erämää. Tarinaa kuljetetaan todella tyylikkäästi eteenpäin, se periaatteessa käynnistyy todella nopeasti, mutta tunnelmaa onnistutaan silti nostattamaan pikkuhi"
“Honestly, it has been a while since I saw it and even though it didn't blow me away, I really enjoyed it. I have seen it a really long time ago and I guess it is time for a re-watch to make up my mind for good. Anyway, it is considered by many as the best movie directed by John Carpenter. It is another great example that you can take an old movie, give it a fresh look, modify the story to fit our modern world with some tremendous results. It is probably the most highly regarded movie directed by John Carpenter and it is rightfully so. It is now a classic and definitely worth a look.” read more
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Directed by: John Carpenter ('In the Mouth of Madness', 'Escape from New York', 'The Fog'(1980), 'Halloween'(1978) )
With: Kurt Russell
Was the original - The Thing from Another World (1951) - worth a look?
Another very old flick but it has reached cult status a long time ago and I'm pretty sure it deserves it.
Was this remake worth a look?
It is another great example that you can take an old movie, give it a fresh look, modify the story to fit our modern world with some tremend"
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