Humor The Thing

[Notebook]

Forgot how good a story this was(pre Alien) John Carpenter's was the best I think, though the original was good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ftmr17M-a4"]The Thing (1982) Trailer - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Andy44]

One of the very few movies that truly scared me. I was probably just a bit too young to see this film; I remember trying to sleep that night wondering if any of my family members were going to mutate. In terms of sci fi horror scenarios this concept scared me far more than even Alien did. The ending is a classic. Plus the music and Kurt Russell were great in it.

 

[Notebook]

Indeed. we all have a fear of parasites, probably justified!
Kurt Russell didn't get the roles he deserved I think, this and Escape-From are the ones I remember. Good jobbing actor.

N.

 

[Interceptor]

I really like John Carpenters movies The Thing,Escape from New York,and,both the original Halloween movies,and the music he wrote for all of those were really creepy,I think the music scared me as much as the movies did when,I was a kid.

 

[richfororbit]

I've seen the original film back in 2010, 2011, I wasn't around when first screened in cinemas. I recently played a copy of the game on the Xbox, it is a sequel to the film, so you have to investigate what happened to the Air force pilot.

It isn't too bad, I got to the last part, but every time I try to escape a facility as it is blowing up, the player has so little health an explosion which appears unavoidable just stops me from getting out of there. Nice textures for the AI, certainly on the Xbox, running a Pentium 3 processor, that tank of a console is quite dated.

 

[Enjo]

I liked the movie, although:

One of the very few movies that truly scared me. I was probably just a bit too young to see this film; I remember trying to sleep that night wondering if any of my family members were going to mutate.

I can say the same thing. In fact, I regret watching every horror movie I've watched, but The Damn Thing really scared the living out of me.

 

[Andy44]

That dog kennel scene still gives me nightmares.

 

[Enjo]

Yeah. Poor, innocent, trapped dogs, eh?

 

[francisdrake]

I happened to see the original film (from 1951) on TV as a child, and it pretty much scared me! It is best watched on a cold winters night, with the snow blowing outside and the lights dimmed. The amount of thrill created by the harsh black-and-white pictures and the suspense created by not showing too much is amazing!

 

[Andy44]

Yeah. Poor, innocent, trapped dogs, eh?

Specifically, this camera angle right here, where the "new" dog just sits oddly in the middle of the kennel, and you just know something isn't right, that dreadful feeling that you are about to witness something awful...

 

[Notebook]

For francisdrake above.

That film was one of the earliest I remember in that mode. A wordy movie, but linear, and even more horrific as the Thing was harvesting humans for its survival.
I've brought this movie up before, and asked the question who was the Thing in the original?

Free copy of Orbiter for the first correct answer, second fee copy for who knows the TV series that actor was in.

N.

 

[jgrillo2002]

There is the prequel that was released. The CGI was good but the problem was that the scripting was too shallow and that it was too predictable. My father didnt like it because of the same reason.

 

[Notebook]

Hadn't hears of that, which movie?

N.

 

[Andy44]

Hadn't hears of that, which movie?

N.

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(2011_film)

It has the same name, to add to the confusion. I liked parts of it, but overall it failed to capture the magic of the 82 film IMO.

 

[Tex]

Thanks, now I must go watch this movie again. One of my favorites in the horror genre!

 

[captain flash]

I've watched both versions of the film, but I still prefer reading the original novella, "Who goes there?". I sometimes daydream that if I had the spare money I'd like to make a film version of it that follows the written story's end more closely. That is to say the surviving human beings find one part of the alien wearing an anti gravity harness just about to leave the Antarctic base just in time.
It's a well written story that deserves to be savoured on a winters night