The Thing from Another World (1951)

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"NED ‘SCOTTY’ SCOTT: Watch the skies, everywhere, keep looking! Keep watching the skies!"

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"First Viewing Rented Library DVD "

A classic

“Since it is a classic and has inspired many directors such as Ridley Scott, John Frankenheimer, Tobe Hooper, and John Carpenter, I was definitely eager to check this flick. Honestly, I’m not really knowledgeable about those old horror flicks and except for ‘Nosferatu’, I still have to watch all the following : ‘King Kong’, ‘Frankenstein’, ‘The Bride of Frankenstein’, ‘The Wolfman’, ‘The Fly’,…. Anyway, it is always pretty neat to get acquainted with a new genre and I thought it was a pretty good flick indeed. Back then, they didn’t have monstrous budget (as a matter of fact, it was made with a merely 40,000 dollars) and they didn’t have such complex special effects or CGI like nowadays. In those days, it was all about the characters and what they were going ” read more

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"#87"

Monsters Mash #18 Alien Invaders The Thing (1951)

“The Thing from another world base on the book Who Goes there? by John Campbell in 1938 the book differs the movie differs a lot from only the first half follows the book and the book takes place in Antartica and the movie takes place in the Arctic neither a book and movie take place on two different sides of the world and still doesn't matter one bit a group of scientist finds something in the ice [img id=1481597 width=500full] try to see is it saucer shape [img id=2048175 width=500full] the blow the ice up accidentally losing the discovery of a life time but find one of the find one tube and it alien invaders [img id=2486304 width=500full] but thank to some dumb@$$ putting an electric blanket around it. Unlike the book where the creature can controlled it victims taken controlled of pers” read more