Now you need to watch Kurt Russell again in Escape from New York (1981), Escape from LA (1996), and Big Trouble in Little China (1986), all directed by John Carpenter. #MoreKurtRussellAndJohnCarpenterForAddieCounts
It's clever, really. The Thing is not a social creature, neither has a hive mind. If ratting out your own kind means you yourself can stay hidden a Thing def would do that! Palmer and Norris prob did work together when they were Things (they are for the majority of the movie). Norris was staying with the group to observe and calculate while Palmer ruined the blood samples and infected Blair. Palmer is after all most absent during most scenes, which is why I think he did the most damage. But once Norris Thing was revealed, Palmer Thing prob knew he was alone among the group (Blair was in his shed) and had to do everything to draw attention away from him.
@owOh yeah they absolutely do work cooperatively for the overall goal of spreading, but norris was a tactical sacrifice. He was down to just a head and its imitation identity was already blown. At best on its own, that head either gets caught and killed or absorbed as useful biomass into another Thing (like how blair ate nauls and gary to have the mass for that giant worm-form), or it gets sacrificed tactically to push trust in the palmer thing. After all, he just prevented a thing from escaping
18:50 “This is worse than what I was expecting” That’s why this movie is so memorable and so good. Usually films do their best to avoid showing things that are meant to scare you because your imagination is often more powerful than anything they can show you on the screen. But not in this case.
Hmmm. Yes, that's why I still prefer the original 1951 version... 🙂 Less special effects and more imagination. 🙂 And if I think of the audience of 1951, well, it just must have been hard for them 😅. But this version is good enough. 🙂
The only reason why it's called "The Thing" is that was the name of the original, very well-regarded, (but frankly lame) 1951 original. The 1982 audience still remembered it, so the name meant something different then. It told them the outline of the plot, if not the more explicit, gross details. Unfortunately, I think it backfired. The people who most liked that movie were not ready for the shock of this one. This one is far closer to the 1938 Joseph W. Campbell short story "Who Goes There," which was the basis for both.
@@MarshallFlores I have to watch it again then... My memory doesn't tell me that. But I'm old, and my memory is kinda faltering. 🙂 I remember only a couple scenes in which you had "sort of" a view of the monster, and they were all blurred, or too dark, or... I remember a forearm and hand chopped off the monster, and still moving as if it was "independently alive". That's it. Heck, last time I saw that movie was about 50 years ago 😅.
BEST SCI-FI HORROR FILM EVER MADE! MY #1 FAVORITE JOHN CARPENTER MOVIE! Critics were not too kind to this movie when it was released, calling "Boring, Dull, and a wretched excess," and also being"one hell of an antidote for ET." Speaking of, ET was released two weeks before the release of THE THING. It has gained a cult following and has been regarded as one of John Carpenter's best films. The Dog Kennel Sequence was done by Oscar Winning VFX artist Stan Winston after Rob Bottin ended up in the hospital with a bleeding ulcer and heat exhaustion. Winston received "Special Thanks" at th rolling credits. The sound effects of The Thing when it transforms are that of Bears, Alligators, Horses, Pigs, Snakes, and Human screams played backwards or sped up to make it sound otherworldly. The movie was filmed in Juneau Alaska, Stewart British Columbia Canada, and Universal Studios, Hollywood California.
I remember Siskel and Ebert's comments on this movie, referring to it as a 'barf bag' of a movie. Not all that inaccurate! But it is damn good. I like how so many reactors and others are watching this movie, and while not everyone likes it, most people are very complimentary and admiring of the effort put into a film where cgi was years off, as well as the story itself. I never thought it would stand the test of time in the movie world, but I was wrong!
That's because it came out two weeks after ET. Many people loved ET (I'm not one of them) and hated the premise of the bad alien. It's a great film and stayed much closer to John W. Campbell's novella Who Goes There? rather than the original The Thing from Another World from 1951.
"...Critics were not too kind..." Some critics are just idiots. "Acclaimed non-binary artist Nayland Blake first watched the film in 1983, initially interpreting it as an AIDS analogy, then later as a metaphor for fears of homosexuality."
@@Magneticlaw Even when I was a kid, I found E.T. to be quite dull honestly. The Thing special effects really still looks awesome even today! It will always be a special timeless movie very much like Alien and Aliens.
Funny story about the Thing. Back when it came out my mom and aunt went to see it in the cinema, they got as far as the Head Scene when my aunt turned to my mother and said: "You brought me to this for my Birthday? AND YOU LET ME EAT FIRST?" Cue the cinema breaking out into laughter. Probably the only time that's ever happened during this film.
Hi Addie! Congrats on getting through The Thing! It's a great movie, besides being super scary & gross. Watching it a few times and noticing things really help to appreciate this classic. Thanks for persevering Addie!
Hi, Addie. What a reaction!!! This movie started its life as a 1938 novella called "Who Goes There?" It first became a movie in 1951. The movie was called "The Thing From Another World." It's a really good, interesting movie, but due to the limitations of the day, they couldn't do the shapeshifting part. Real good movie, though. Carpenter was a huge fan of the movie and redid it in 1982 to be closer to the novella. In 2011, they made a prequel showing what had happened at the Norwegian camp. This movie is the absolute pinnacle of practical effects before CGI became widespread. Some people look down on the 2011 prequel because it uses CGI, but I like it. Keep up the good work!
There's also the unofficial 1972 version, _Horror Express_ , starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. It relocates the action to the Tran-Siberian Express, and it's take on the Thing is closer to a shapeshifter, though more as a body-hopping parasite. It's also a fun watch.
You have the best reaction to the beginning of this movie I've seen on youtube. I have watched most of the reactions to this film. The majority of people get so upset at the Norweigian guy shooting at the dog. You actually considered that there may be more happening than you know yet.
First, congratulations. This is the first movie that ever actually scared me. Scared my grandfather, to, and that took a LOT. We only saw movies as second and third run matinees, back when three bucks got you two ticket with sodas and a big bucket of popcorn for the 1pm showing, so I was 8 or 9 when we saw this. :P It was worse than we were expecting to. It was a "remake" of 50s movie "The Thing From Another World" which is really tame due to a lack of special effects. The question that has been hotly debated for 40 years is, was it Childs or Mac. And props to Ollie saying "Mom, you're going get scared, thats a bad boy!"
First video of yours I've seen. This was a great reaction. Between your editor adding in the dog subtitles, and the karate chop poses 7:37 I had a lot of laughs. It's incredible how well this movie holds up 40 years later. Truly unsettling. +1 sub for sure. Can't wait to watch your other content!
The special makeup and prosthetic effects for John Carpenter's The Thing were designed by special makeup effects artist Rob Bottin. Bottin had previously worked on John Carpenter's The Fog, where he not only did the special makeup effects, but he also played the role of the ghost of Blake, the leader of the ghost ship Elizabeth Dane. Bottin took on such a heavy workload working on The Thing that he eventually came down with pneumonia, and special makeup effects artist Stan Winston was called in to do the effects for the scene with the dog-thing in the kennel. Winston would later work on films like The Terminator, Aliens, Predator, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Rob Bottin had previously worked on films like The Howling (where he took over for Rick Baker, who left the production to work on An American Werewolf in London), and Star Wars, where he did effects for the Mos Eisley Cantina scene and even played one of the aliens in the cantina band. Bottin would later do the special makeup effects for Robocop and Total Recall, which earned him an Academy Award in 1991.
@@Beardo2517 Many people don't know that because Winston only worked on the dog kennel scene. Bottin was pretty exhausted during filming and needed the help.
@@Beardo2517 Well, anybody who saw the dog-thing could tell that's not Bottin's design. Bottin's creations are less defined, like the Norris-thing and the Palmer-thing. The Dog-Thing is closer to Winston's other work on Aliens and Predator.
Your statement at the beginning reminded me of this quote from H. P.. Lovecraft: "The strongest emotion is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." I guess that's what you were feeling there and that's sort of the vibe for the whole movie. One of my favorite films, btw. I'm so glad you did a reaction to it.
As a huge Lovecraft fan, I'm more partial to... The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
I love the fact that John Carpenter is still alive and as sharp as ever. He was on Colberts show the other day and it's great that his movies are finding new fans every day and I don't see that changing ever
In the opening scenes Addie was gushing lovingly over the Husky Dog... However... Having been traumatized at seeing the Husky transform into The Thing... She immediately decided to find Ollie a new home... 🤣 Only joking Addie. 😊
I always catch something new each time I watch this and even though I knew Blair was still human, this time I realized that Blair likely saved the world when he destroyed the helicopter so early.
I believe Blair was an alien when he was locked up. During the autopsy he used the pencil to touch the thing, and then touched the pencil to his mouth. He needed time to build a ship, and getting locked up meant he would be left alone to do it.
@@JayM409 I've never been a believer in the cellular infection theory. I think the violent attack is a necessary part of assimilation. If the Thing could just infect people with one cell, no need for the attacks-just go drink out of everyone's coffee mug and there you go. No drama, no movie.
The point of the film is paranoia and uncertainty, so having a definitive answer defeats that purpose. I love that people still make theories after so many years, such an amazing movie.
Hey, Addie. You've just watched a true classic from the 80s. With its practical effects, ominous soundtrack and great acting from all, this gem takes some beating. Great that you survived intact, especially with a dog roaming around the place! And where was the No counter this time? It's icky, you're beautiful. A great mixture. More please.
Watching this reaction was great as the pieces came together of what's capable and who could be infected. Thanks Addie and I hope you enjoyed the very memorable movie!
Hey, Addie! This John Carpenter classic is a masterful exercise in paranoia and practical effects! I discovered "The Thing" during my junior high school years on VHS when going through a Carpenter phase. Originally a 1938 pulp novella written by John W. Campbell called "Who Goes There?", the story was first adapted to film as a 1951 Howard Hawks production called "The Thing From Another World". A '50's-era sci-fi classic in its own right, the original was taken to a whole new level by John Carpenter abetted by the incredible practical effects wizardry of Rob Bottin. A prequel was made in 2011 chronicling what happened at the Norwegian base but wasn't nearly as good. Led by a world-weary Kurt Russell, Carpenter assembled a cast of terrific veteran character actors including Keith David, Richard Dysart, Wilford Brimley, David Clennon, Charles Hallahan, Donald Moffat and Richard Masur who believably inhabit their roles and ratchet up the tension by degrees. Carpenter would direct Russell in five films including "Elvis", "The Thing", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Escape From New York" and "Escape From LA". He would direct Keith David again in "They Live!" John Carpenter is a one-man band who writes, directs, edits and scores all his films. In a rare exception, the score for "The Thing" was provided by composing great Ennio Morricone. Carpenter's body of work includes a number of pulpy classics and B-movie greats like "Assault on Precinct 13", "Halloween", "Someone's Watching Me!", "The Fog", "Escape From New York", "The Thing", "Christine", "Starman", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Prince of Darkness", "They Live!", "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", "In the Mouth of Madness", "Vampires" and "The Ward". His first film, "Dark Star", was a sci-fi horror-comedy that partially inspired "Alien"! He also wrote the screenplays for "The Eyes of Laura Mars", an American giallo, and "Black Moon Rising", a techno-thriller. His scores are instantly recognizable with their throbbing notes and he expertly uses silence and stillness to generate unbearable tension. Wilford Brimley's Blair sabotaged the vehicles after making the discovery that there was a high probability of someone being infected and seeing the grim projection that three years would be all it would take for the Thing to spread over the Earth! He was determined to trap them there which is the same realization Macready comes to at the end. He's taken to the shack a human but, the second time they check on him, he's probably a Thing because his demeanor is so calm. The funny noises he says he was hearing must've gotten to him before he could avail himself of the noose he fashioned as an escape from its clutches! As a Thing, he was building a craft under the shed to travel to the mainland. The Thing has absorbed countless beings including space-faring species. The knowledge to construct a craft that can take him to the mainland was absorbed from a host so it's not far-fetched that he can do this with so much metal and electronic equipment around. He also probably dug out the cavern in a non-human form. Additionally, alien engineering and propulsion principles could function in a vastly simpler way than what 20th-century humans are aware of. My favorite non-horror moment in "The Thing" is Donald Moffat's slow-burning explosive outburst while tied to the sofa. "I know you gentlemen have been through a lot but, when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS F**KING COUCH!" It gets me every time. The ambiguous ending leaves you with four possible outcomes and they're all bleak. Lol. The best case scenario is that both Childs and Mac are human, the Thing was destroyed and the survivors DIE of hypothermia. The other three options are that one or the other or both survivors are Things who will copy the remaining human and the rescue party as well eventually dominating the Earth. There is a popular fan theory that Things lack eye gleam and Childs doesn't have it in that last scene. It could also be a trick of light. There is another popular fan theory that claims Mac tests Childs by giving him a flask of kerosene instead of liquor which Childs consumes! Mac chuckles with fatalistic resignation realizing he has failed and humanity is doomed. That is, unless, he has a spare stick of dynamite he can use to blow himself up along with a now very flammable Childs! Lol. The only sequels exist as a series of Dark Horse comics and a video game featuring John Carpenter himself as a Dr. Faraday!
Wonderful breakdown! I will however note that John Carpenter confirmed the "eye glint" theory is false, as well as it's been disproven with frame by frame I'm pretty sure The "gasoline" theory is possible, but most likely false since the Thing gains memories of the people to some extent and it's probable it would know the difference. Also you can make fire bombs with alcohol so the bottle didn't "have" to be gas like some believe. There is also the "visible breath" theory that Childs exhales weren't visible therefore he was the thing, but that was just because the original film was a bit dim in that moment and you couldn't see it. With that I believe both were human, and the central theme of paranoia was the purpose of that ending.
Good debunking! I've also heard the theory that Mac dies in the blast but the Thing survives and copies him. Childs is actually human and Mac infects him with the bottle. Mac's chuckle is basically the Thing's gloat of victory! How's that for sinister? @@soulstice94
This is such awesome timing! I just got home from a trip to see my family and we had a Halloween party last night where I dressed as MacReady! The Thing is one of my favourite horrors and this video could not have been better timed, nor better in general!
LOL,,, I have not watch this movie reaction yet but since I just finished seeing your reaction to "The sixth sense" and seeing just how nervous you were during that one holly cow this is going to be hilarious. Covering one's face because you thought the statues were going to move I just can't wait to see your doggie head split reaction.
2:00 wow the timing of doggy walking onto cam lol. Also Great reaction, this is one of those movies that just hold up its older than me and still better than a lot of stuff thats been made these days. Maybe I'm just a sucker for practical effects.
To this date one of the best suspense horrors of all time. The premise is absolutely brilliant in design: suspicion and paranoia. It’s perfect. I really love how to this day we are STILL arguing over who is who. I have watched this movie more times than I can count and I still find new details to pick apart. Those practical effects… wow. Some of the best ever made imho. The body-horror results were absolutely unreal. Just when you think that thing cannot possibly get any scarier it just goes and triples the ante. Very first time I saw this as a kid I did actually manage to puke a couple times, but I was SO mesmerized by the plot that I could not look away. I was literally planted to my seat in shock and horror. One of the most memorable movies I ever watched. You just cannot ever forget the first time you see this movie. I just wish I had been alive/old enough to see this in theaters.
I've only seen The Thing once, but I thought it was well made. A solid cast, amazing effects, and a director I respect. Gotta be my second favorite John Carpenter movie.
@@WolfHreda Christine. I'm a big Stephen King fan, and Christine was a fun book. It's my third favorite Stephen King book and the same for the movie. I'm hoping that Addie will do more Stephen King in the future, but Christine was really good.
I was worried you were thinking Halloween was his best movie. I’m pleasantly surprised you loved Christine! It’s an amazing movie. Personally my second favorite one is They Live. But most of his movies would make my top 250 films
As I saw the tense reaction to "sixth sense" which I condider mystery genre I'm sure this reaction will be expressive. 😉 Such a nice coincidence to have the dog watching too, fits nicely. 😏
The ending is the most unsettling part. Like if one of them is the think and they freeze to death, they'll be found later by rescuers and taken away. When they thaw it'll get out again
Am I the only one that noticed as soon as the opening scene rolled and she asked if they were shooting at a dog her own dog, not only came into frame, but looked out the window just like the Thing-dog did when Mac & Doc were taking the chopper up to the Norwegian camp! As her dog indicates by barking during the first half of the film, there is no such thing as coincidences!🤘 Also, a lot of first time viewers always comment on the grossness of the film but almost never the genius of the practical effects. Why?! How?!😳 It was 1981-82 for Gods sake! There was no CGI back then so everything had to pretty much designed and pulled off practically and the man behind these ULTIMATE of all movie effects was the Master Rob Bottin! This man deserves WAY MORE than just credit as Bottin put himself in the hospital nearly dying for this film. This happened through him doing 2 “things.”( get it?!😝) He overworked himself/hardly slept AND tried to live on nothing but soft drinks and Snickers bars! To show how much he deprived himself…especially those who think most people in the prime of their life may be able to take it; Bottin was in exactly that! He was only 22 years of age when he did this film! “Thing” (😝) is he worked on it for 57 weeks, 7 days a week! Yes, that’s one full year plus 5 more weeks..EVERY day! Just goes to show how very hard/intensely he was working on top of the PURE talent he had (in the Howling as well) being basically..a baby.🤩 Thank you Rob! Now that CGI has pretty much taken over the SFX world, you will now, officially, NEVER be dethroned!🤘🤩🤘
Love you Addie and your reactions. Please though -for the humanity....Why why why, Soo many playlists?!!! lol I went to go verify if you had seen a certain movie and Oh My.... You just need like I don't know five or six categories and then maybe one for each series :) 😮😢😂😊
Watch Wilford Brimley in the award winning "Cocoon". In this movie he was 48. Yes he looks old. Just a few years or several years later he would play a senior citizen in the movie.
This movie was based on a 1938 novella. It adds more action and changes some details, but is fairly faithful to the original story. The novella was first adapted into the 1951 movie The Thing from Another World, which left out the shapeshifting aspect of the story and just made the thing a conventional alien. Coincidentally, The Thing from Another World is the movie that Tommy is watching while Laurie babysits him in the original Halloween, also by John Carpenter.
Lately, I've watched a lot of "The Thing" reaction videos. I particularly enjoyed your for incorporating your dog's barking as a warning about the husky. That's some dang clever and funny post editing! 👍
At about 8:56 you can see Blair appear to touch the organism with his pencil and then put it to his lips, I think that's when he was infected. Also at the end you can easily see McReady's breath but you can't see Chile's breath or is my monitor not HD enough. One of those great old sci-fi films, you certainly had many jumpscares Addie.
A reaction to this movie is always an automatic watch for me. It's my favorite horror movie of all time. Addie, there are grosser movies out there but this is definitely a tough one for the squeamish. Grats on getting through it.
I laughed soooo many times at your reaction! Good job, Addie! I never thought you'd do this one, I'm so happy! I would love to know what was going through your mind at 26:00, your face changed from a look of horror to a devious smile within seconds. Loved it!
One of my all time favourite movies. And one of the greatest movies ever. That combination of fear and tense moments. And for even now those practical effects are phenomenal. Great video Addie. Hope you didn't feel to nauseous watching this.
Im so surprised that you watched this considering your "not-love" for horror movies... Bravo!!! This is actually one of my all-time favorite movies & modern horror filmmakers still use this as one of the best examples for applying practical effects!
This was fun Addie.... John Carpenter was a big fan of the original The Thing from 1957. He put it in his Halloween and then with the success of that movie he was able to move forward with this great version. 😊
At 4:50 when he said, "Anybody there," It might be a callback to the original story, which was called I believe, "Who goes there?" Though in the original 1950s movie, the Thing looked nothing like its victims, They wrote that out.
I heard it mentioned before. Childs at the end didn't give off a breath when he was talking but MacReady did. Meaning Kurt Russell's character was alive with internal body heat, Keith David's was not. They were a few feet away from each other in the the same cold.
Depends on the version!.....on the VHS version, you *can* see Childs' breath. On the DVD it's much less visible, and almost invisible on the BluRay. Personally I've never thought much of the breath theory because of this. The only thing that convinces me Childs could be a Thing is that Carpenter filmed an alternate ending, that features only Mac, getting the all clear at a medical facility. The game is set immediately after the film and Childs is found dead, from hypothermia, iirc, he is human. Carpenter has said the game is canon. In the comics, both Mac and Childs are human at the end of the film...and both are alive. I have no idea what Carpenter makes of those. In the end, I dont think it really matters, we aren't meant to know for sure, that's part of the point of the film.
LOL. What a grea reaction Addie! I'm sure you're looking at your dog a little differently ... Such a great movie with practical effects that still stand up to today. This would be considered a cult classic because it really didn't do well in the theater but it did find it's audience later when it hit video and cable.
Stephen Colbert of late-night talk television, had the director, John Carpenter, on as a guest very recently, and the two talked about this film. He asked Carpenter if one of the two survivors was the thing. After Carpenter confirmed that one of them indeed was, Colbert asked if there was a way to watch the movie to tell who was. Carpenter's answer made it clear, there were clues, but you have to pay close attention in order to see them. There was a RUclips video, who I think, figured it out. I didn't notice the clues until he pointed them out.
Then he changed his position, maybe as a joke or because people are obsessed with believing one of them, and often there's one who is believed more to be the thing. Because before Carpenter said the game or whatever was Canon and the game has both Childs and Mac surviving and being normal, non things. But if we are going on a belief that one of them is a thing at the end, in going against the popular theory of Childs and saying it is Mac. Partly because look at how the beginning tries to trick us; we are lead to believe the guy who spent time with the dog was turned into one when he was normal, and instead it was Palmer and the other guy who were things. It would be easy for Mac as a thing to convince Palmer to sacrifice himself during the blood test, while Mac used somebody else's blood as his own. He could play the good guy the whole time until the end, and he pretends to kill the one who possessed/replicated the scientist guy in order to lure Childs out and let the thing take over Childs. Or he saw the other as a threat since it didn't replicate perfectly like he did, so he may have killed it at the end. I mean it's pointed out early on that the thing likes to be isolated, and we find out at the start Mac isolates himself from the other people on the research team.
The burned out remains of the Norwegian base was actually filmed after they burned down the US base and just used those burned out remains of that set, saved money on production costs. They filmed this movie in Alaska and British Columbia as a stand-in for Antarctica.
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Let's give Addie a round of applause for surviving The Thing (1982). 👏👏 I'm definitely gonna watch this movie tonight.
Now let’s see if she can handle “The Fly” and the 1988 remake of “The Blob.”.
Now you need to watch Kurt Russell again in Escape from New York (1981), Escape from LA (1996), and Big Trouble in Little China (1986), all directed by John Carpenter. #MoreKurtRussellAndJohnCarpenterForAddieCounts
Follow up with the Howling
Why? Her reaction was completely fake and mugging for the camera! FAKE
Yup.........
hugs for Addie.
Your dog at the start going “that mf is NOT REAL”
EVERY REACTOR Starts with "You better not hurt that puppy!"
And ends with "KILL IT WITH FIRE!"
Exactly. First time watch: “THEY BETTER NOT HURT THAT DOG!” Subsequent viewings… see above. 😂
And some say that initially because they're dog owners themselves. Observe at 2:04. 😂
I love how Palmer is the one to call attention to the head-spider while *he himself* was a thing.
It's clever, really. The Thing is not a social creature, neither has a hive mind. If ratting out your own kind means you yourself can stay hidden a Thing def would do that!
Palmer and Norris prob did work together when they were Things (they are for the majority of the movie). Norris was staying with the group to observe and calculate while Palmer ruined the blood samples and infected Blair. Palmer is after all most absent during most scenes, which is why I think he did the most damage.
But once Norris Thing was revealed, Palmer Thing prob knew he was alone among the group (Blair was in his shed) and had to do everything to draw attention away from him.
@owOh yeah they absolutely do work cooperatively for the overall goal of spreading, but norris was a tactical sacrifice. He was down to just a head and its imitation identity was already blown. At best on its own, that head either gets caught and killed or absorbed as useful biomass into another Thing (like how blair ate nauls and gary to have the mass for that giant worm-form), or it gets sacrificed tactically to push trust in the palmer thing. After all, he just prevented a thing from escaping
You can almost hear the head-crab squeak out a tiny "Bastard!" after Palmer draws attention to it, with a little imagination.
I've done that before in among us
I’ve seen it pointed out in other breakdowns that it was actually Windows that noticed it first; Palmer saw him noticing and played along.
18:50 “This is worse than what I was expecting”
That’s why this movie is so memorable and so good. Usually films do their best to avoid showing things that are meant to scare you because your imagination is often more powerful than anything they can show you on the screen. But not in this case.
Hmmm. Yes, that's why I still prefer the original 1951 version... 🙂
Less special effects and more imagination. 🙂
And if I think of the audience of 1951, well, it just must have been hard for them 😅.
But this version is good enough. 🙂
The only reason why it's called "The Thing" is that was the name of the original, very well-regarded, (but frankly lame) 1951 original. The 1982 audience still remembered it, so the name meant something different then. It told them the outline of the plot, if not the more explicit, gross details. Unfortunately, I think it backfired. The people who most liked that movie were not ready for the shock of this one. This one is far closer to the 1938 Joseph W. Campbell short story "Who Goes There," which was the basis for both.
@@DavideBaroni As still solid the 1951 version is, you didn't need to do much imagining - Hawks showed the monster plenty too.
@@MarshallFlores I have to watch it again then... My memory doesn't tell me that. But I'm old, and my memory is kinda faltering. 🙂
I remember only a couple scenes in which you had "sort of" a view of the monster, and they were all blurred, or too dark, or... I remember a forearm and hand chopped off the monster, and still moving as if it was "independently alive". That's it. Heck, last time I saw that movie was about 50 years ago 😅.
Fun fact: the destroyed remains of the American outpost 31 were used for the burned out Norwegian set, which was filmed last.
Many movies are filmed that way. It's very efficient and cost saving.
The dog actors killed it in this movie
I love practical effects. 🥰
Beats cgi everytime:)
@@CyberBeep_kenshi CGI is ok in small doses but it is ALWAYS way over used.
BEST SCI-FI HORROR FILM EVER MADE!
MY #1 FAVORITE JOHN CARPENTER MOVIE!
Critics were not too kind to this movie when it was released, calling "Boring, Dull, and a wretched excess," and also being"one hell of an antidote for ET."
Speaking of, ET was released two weeks before the release of THE THING.
It has gained a cult following and has been regarded as one of John Carpenter's best films.
The Dog Kennel Sequence was done by Oscar Winning VFX artist Stan Winston after Rob Bottin ended up in the hospital with a bleeding ulcer and heat exhaustion. Winston received "Special Thanks" at th rolling credits.
The sound effects of The Thing when it transforms are that of Bears, Alligators, Horses, Pigs, Snakes, and Human screams played backwards or sped up to make it sound otherworldly.
The movie was filmed in Juneau Alaska, Stewart British Columbia Canada, and Universal Studios, Hollywood California.
I remember Siskel and Ebert's comments on this movie, referring to it as a 'barf bag' of a movie. Not all that inaccurate! But it is damn good. I like how so many reactors and others are watching this movie, and while not everyone likes it, most people are very complimentary and admiring of the effort put into a film where cgi was years off, as well as the story itself. I never thought it would stand the test of time in the movie world, but I was wrong!
That's because it came out two weeks after ET. Many people loved ET (I'm not one of them) and hated the premise of the bad alien. It's a great film and stayed much closer to John W. Campbell's novella Who Goes There? rather than the original The Thing from Another World from 1951.
"...Critics were not too kind..."
Some critics are just idiots. "Acclaimed non-binary artist Nayland Blake first watched the film in 1983, initially interpreting it as an AIDS analogy, then later as a metaphor for fears of homosexuality."
E.T. hasn't aged very well, whereas the Thing has withstood the test of time, and gained quite a following.
@@Magneticlaw Even when I was a kid, I found E.T. to be quite dull honestly. The Thing special effects really still looks awesome even today! It will always be a special timeless movie very much like Alien and Aliens.
LOL when Addie said it "may not be that bad" I laughed out loud!
I'm just waiting for when the chest opens. Gonna be good😂
Yep…. This chick has no clue!!😝🤣
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As good as that one is; just wait till the blood screeches and jumps out of the Petrie dish during the tests!🤘😝🤘
"Watch out for the dog!" Ollie gave you good advice. 🤣
great cameo Ollie, just the right moment :P
Funny story about the Thing.
Back when it came out my mom and aunt went to see it in the cinema, they got as far as the Head Scene when my aunt turned to my mother and said:
"You brought me to this for my Birthday? AND YOU LET ME EAT FIRST?"
Cue the cinema breaking out into laughter.
Probably the only time that's ever happened during this film.
Sure they did
@@johnLennon255I would certainly laugh if I heard that while watching the movie. So yeah, they probably did.
Ollie's instincts are on point 👌
Aw your dog is so cute, coming in to make sure the other doggos are …OH MY GOD!!
Hi Addie! Congrats on getting through The Thing! It's a great movie, besides being super scary & gross. Watching it a few times and noticing things really help to appreciate this classic. Thanks for persevering Addie!
"Head-crab" was one of the most adorable things I've ever head someone surviving watching "The Thing" ever say
Hi, Addie. What a reaction!!! This movie started its life as a 1938 novella called "Who Goes There?" It first became a movie in 1951. The movie was called "The Thing From Another World." It's a really good, interesting movie, but due to the limitations of the day, they couldn't do the shapeshifting part. Real good movie, though. Carpenter was a huge fan of the movie and redid it in 1982 to be closer to the novella. In 2011, they made a prequel showing what had happened at the Norwegian camp.
This movie is the absolute pinnacle of practical effects before CGI became widespread. Some people look down on the 2011 prequel because it uses CGI, but I like it.
Keep up the good work!
The prequel sucks.
@@Elsupermayan8870 The only thing bad about the prequel is the effects. The rest of it is ALMOST as good as the original.
Also this movie was sorta teased in a previous Carpenter film, Halloween. One of the movies that is on TV is the Thing From Another World.
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You must be on something.
There's also the unofficial 1972 version, _Horror Express_ , starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. It relocates the action to the Tran-Siberian Express, and it's take on the Thing is closer to a shapeshifter, though more as a body-hopping parasite. It's also a fun watch.
You have the best reaction to the beginning of this movie I've seen on youtube. I have watched most of the reactions to this film. The majority of people get so upset at the Norweigian guy shooting at the dog. You actually considered that there may be more happening than you know yet.
I came here to comment on this, so I second your thoughts. I am thoroughly impressed! Everyone angry reacts without thinking the majority of the time.
First, congratulations. This is the first movie that ever actually scared me. Scared my grandfather, to, and that took a LOT. We only saw movies as second and third run matinees, back when three bucks got you two ticket with sodas and a big bucket of popcorn for the 1pm showing, so I was 8 or 9 when we saw this. :P It was worse than we were expecting to. It was a "remake" of 50s movie "The Thing From Another World" which is really tame due to a lack of special effects. The question that has been hotly debated for 40 years is, was it Childs or Mac. And props to Ollie saying "Mom, you're going get scared, thats a bad boy!"
First video of yours I've seen. This was a great reaction. Between your editor adding in the dog subtitles, and the karate chop poses 7:37 I had a lot of laughs.
It's incredible how well this movie holds up 40 years later. Truly unsettling. +1 sub for sure. Can't wait to watch your other content!
The special makeup and prosthetic effects for John Carpenter's The Thing were designed by special makeup effects artist Rob Bottin. Bottin had previously worked on John Carpenter's The Fog, where he not only did the special makeup effects, but he also played the role of the ghost of Blake, the leader of the ghost ship Elizabeth Dane. Bottin took on such a heavy workload working on The Thing that he eventually came down with pneumonia, and special makeup effects artist Stan Winston was called in to do the effects for the scene with the dog-thing in the kennel. Winston would later work on films like The Terminator, Aliens, Predator, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Rob Bottin had previously worked on films like The Howling (where he took over for Rick Baker, who left the production to work on An American Werewolf in London), and Star Wars, where he did effects for the Mos Eisley Cantina scene and even played one of the aliens in the cantina band. Bottin would later do the special makeup effects for Robocop and Total Recall, which earned him an Academy Award in 1991.
Glad someone finally mentioned the Stan Winston makeup too
@@Beardo2517 Many people don't know that because Winston only worked on the dog kennel scene. Bottin was pretty exhausted during filming and needed the help.
@@44excalibur ya I've tried telling people and they said I was full of it.
@@Beardo2517 Well, anybody who saw the dog-thing could tell that's not Bottin's design. Bottin's creations are less defined, like the Norris-thing and the Palmer-thing. The Dog-Thing is closer to Winston's other work on Aliens and Predator.
@@44excalibur ya for sure.
Your statement at the beginning reminded me of this quote from H. P.. Lovecraft: "The strongest emotion is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." I guess that's what you were feeling there and that's sort of the vibe for the whole movie. One of my favorite films, btw. I'm so glad you did a reaction to it.
As a huge Lovecraft fan, I'm more partial to...
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
Nothing quite like cosmic horror
Wow, going from the Sixth Sense to the Thing. Addie's really been going through it the last couple of days.
I love the fact that John Carpenter is still alive and as sharp as ever. He was on Colberts show the other day and it's great that his movies are finding new fans every day and I don't see that changing ever
In the opening scenes Addie was gushing lovingly over the Husky Dog... However... Having been traumatized at seeing the Husky transform into The Thing... She immediately decided to find Ollie a new home... 🤣 Only joking Addie. 😊
I always catch something new each time I watch this and even though I knew Blair was still human, this time I realized that Blair likely saved the world when he destroyed the helicopter so early.
I believe Blair was an alien when he was locked up. During the autopsy he used the pencil to touch the thing, and then touched the pencil to his mouth. He needed time to build a ship, and getting locked up meant he would be left alone to do it.
@@JayM409 I agree about the pencil, very real possibility.
@@JayM409 I've never been a believer in the cellular infection theory. I think the violent attack is a necessary part of assimilation. If the Thing could just infect people with one cell, no need for the attacks-just go drink out of everyone's coffee mug and there you go. No drama, no movie.
The point of the film is paranoia and uncertainty, so having a definitive answer defeats that purpose. I love that people still make theories after so many years, such an amazing movie.
@@whitehuayra I bet you say for zombie movies it's all about the real biggest threat which is human behavior or something.
Hey, Addie. You've just watched a true classic from the 80s. With its practical effects, ominous soundtrack and great acting from all, this gem takes some beating. Great that you survived intact, especially with a dog roaming around the place! And where was the No counter this time? It's icky, you're beautiful. A great mixture. More please.
Hey Addie! I’m proud of you for soldering through The Thing. It’s one of the best examples of 80s practical effects out there.
Watching this reaction was great as the pieces came together of what's capable and who could be infected. Thanks Addie and I hope you enjoyed the very memorable movie!
“Watch ouuuuuut for the dog dog dog dog!” Lol I love your dog. Make sure he isn’t the thing.
It was a treat seeing the 40th anniversary showing in theaters last year.
Addie was mimicking the thing at 12:04 🤣
Hey, Addie! This John Carpenter classic is a masterful exercise in paranoia and practical effects!
I discovered "The Thing" during my junior high school
years on VHS when going through a Carpenter phase.
Originally a 1938 pulp novella written by John W. Campbell called "Who Goes There?", the story was first adapted to film as a 1951 Howard Hawks production called "The Thing From Another World". A '50's-era sci-fi classic in its own right, the original was taken to a whole new level by John Carpenter abetted by the incredible practical effects wizardry of Rob Bottin. A prequel was made in 2011 chronicling what happened at the Norwegian base but wasn't nearly as good.
Led by a world-weary Kurt Russell, Carpenter assembled a cast of terrific veteran character actors including Keith David, Richard Dysart, Wilford Brimley, David Clennon, Charles Hallahan, Donald Moffat and Richard Masur who believably inhabit their roles and ratchet up the tension by degrees. Carpenter would direct Russell in five films including "Elvis", "The Thing", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Escape From New York" and "Escape From LA". He would direct Keith David again in "They Live!"
John Carpenter is a one-man band who writes, directs, edits and scores all his films. In a rare exception, the score for "The Thing" was provided by composing great Ennio Morricone. Carpenter's body of work includes a number of pulpy classics and B-movie greats like "Assault on Precinct 13", "Halloween", "Someone's Watching Me!", "The Fog", "Escape From New York", "The Thing", "Christine", "Starman", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Prince of Darkness", "They Live!", "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", "In the Mouth of Madness", "Vampires" and "The Ward". His first film, "Dark Star", was a sci-fi horror-comedy that partially inspired "Alien"! He also wrote the screenplays for "The Eyes of Laura Mars", an American giallo, and "Black Moon Rising", a techno-thriller. His scores are instantly recognizable with their throbbing notes and he expertly uses silence and stillness to generate unbearable tension.
Wilford Brimley's Blair sabotaged the vehicles after making the discovery that there was a high probability of someone being infected and seeing the grim projection that three years would be all it would take for the Thing to spread over the Earth! He was determined to trap them there which is the same realization Macready comes to at the end. He's taken to the shack a human but, the second time they check on him, he's probably a Thing because his demeanor is so calm. The funny noises he says he was hearing must've gotten to him before he could avail himself of the noose he fashioned as an escape from its clutches! As a Thing, he was building a craft under the shed to travel to the mainland.
The Thing has absorbed countless beings including space-faring species. The knowledge to construct a craft that can take him to the mainland was absorbed from a host so it's not far-fetched that he can do this with so much metal and electronic equipment around. He also probably dug out the cavern in a non-human form. Additionally, alien engineering and propulsion principles could function in a vastly simpler way than what 20th-century humans are aware of.
My favorite non-horror moment in "The Thing" is Donald Moffat's slow-burning explosive outburst while tied to the sofa. "I know you gentlemen have been through a lot but, when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS F**KING COUCH!" It gets me every time.
The ambiguous ending leaves you with four possible outcomes and they're all bleak. Lol.
The best case scenario is that both Childs and Mac are human, the Thing was destroyed and the survivors DIE of hypothermia.
The other three options are that one or the other or both survivors are Things who will copy the remaining human and the rescue party as well eventually dominating the Earth.
There is a popular fan theory that Things lack eye gleam and Childs doesn't have it in that last scene. It could also be a trick of light.
There is another popular fan theory that claims Mac tests Childs by giving him a flask of kerosene instead of liquor which Childs consumes! Mac chuckles with fatalistic resignation realizing he has failed and humanity is doomed. That is, unless, he has a spare stick of dynamite he can use to blow himself up along with a now very flammable Childs! Lol.
The only sequels exist as a series of Dark Horse comics and a video game featuring John Carpenter himself as a Dr. Faraday!
Wonderful breakdown!
I will however note that John Carpenter confirmed the "eye glint" theory is false, as well as it's been disproven with frame by frame I'm pretty sure
The "gasoline" theory is possible, but most likely false since the Thing gains memories of the people to some extent and it's probable it would know the difference. Also you can make fire bombs with alcohol so the bottle didn't "have" to be gas like some believe.
There is also the "visible breath" theory that Childs exhales weren't visible therefore he was the thing, but that was just because the original film was a bit dim in that moment and you couldn't see it.
With that I believe both were human, and the central theme of paranoia was the purpose of that ending.
Good debunking! I've also heard the theory that Mac dies in the blast but the Thing survives and copies him. Childs is actually human and Mac infects him with the bottle. Mac's chuckle is basically the Thing's gloat of victory! How's that for sinister? @@soulstice94
Love your reaction to this classic!!! Especially how you hide behind your karate hands😄
YOU are a champ, Addie! You never looked away.
This is such awesome timing! I just got home from a trip to see my family and we had a Halloween party last night where I dressed as MacReady! The Thing is one of my favourite horrors and this video could not have been better timed, nor better in general!
21:22 The part that we were ALL waiting to see! 😂🤣😆
LOL,,, I have not watch this movie reaction yet but since I just finished seeing your reaction to "The sixth sense" and seeing just how nervous you were during that one holly cow this is going to be hilarious. Covering one's face because you thought the statues were going to move I just can't wait to see your doggie head split reaction.
30:38 I never noticed that Dr. Blair touched his lip with the pencil after touching the Dog/Thing Corpse
2:00 wow the timing of doggy walking onto cam lol.
Also Great reaction, this is one of those movies that just hold up its older than me and still better than a lot of stuff thats been made these days. Maybe I'm just a sucker for practical effects.
To this date one of the best suspense horrors of all time. The premise is absolutely brilliant in design: suspicion and paranoia. It’s perfect. I really love how to this day we are STILL arguing over who is who. I have watched this movie more times than I can count and I still find new details to pick apart. Those practical effects… wow. Some of the best ever made imho. The body-horror results were absolutely unreal. Just when you think that thing cannot possibly get any scarier it just goes and triples the ante. Very first time I saw this as a kid I did actually manage to puke a couple times, but I was SO mesmerized by the plot that I could not look away. I was literally planted to my seat in shock and horror. One of the most memorable movies I ever watched. You just cannot ever forget the first time you see this movie. I just wish I had been alive/old enough to see this in theaters.
I've only seen The Thing once, but I thought it was well made. A solid cast, amazing effects, and a director I respect. Gotta be my second favorite John Carpenter movie.
Now I have to know, what's your favorite?
@@WolfHreda Christine. I'm a big Stephen King fan, and Christine was a fun book. It's my third favorite Stephen King book and the same for the movie. I'm hoping that Addie will do more Stephen King in the future, but Christine was really good.
@@BGsBooks86 Good choice.
@@WolfHreda you know, it's good to hear someone not complain that it isn't Halloween. You made my day.
I was worried you were thinking Halloween was his best movie. I’m pleasantly surprised you loved Christine! It’s an amazing movie. Personally my second favorite one is They Live. But most of his movies would make my top 250 films
As I saw the tense reaction to "sixth sense" which I condider mystery genre I'm sure this reaction will be expressive. 😉
Such a nice coincidence to have the dog watching too, fits nicely. 😏
Addie: I've never been scared of a dog
Cujo: Hold my beer
I didn't expect you to react to this one! Congratulations for making it through one of the scarier monster movies of all time!
When i first got the notification i thought it was a misprint😮 Who suggested this to Addie?! Then i saw the reaction🤔 BRAVO!!! Great job!!!
Addie shrieking at all the jump scares made my whole week. :)
Love the new Halloween intro!! Get those karate hands ready! Ollie really didn't like that guy in the beginning hahaha
The ending is the most unsettling part. Like if one of them is the think and they freeze to death, they'll be found later by rescuers and taken away. When they thaw it'll get out again
Am I the only one that noticed as soon as the opening scene rolled and she asked if they were shooting at a dog her own dog, not only came into frame, but looked out the window just like the Thing-dog did when Mac & Doc were taking the chopper up to the Norwegian camp! As her dog indicates by barking during the first half of the film, there is no such thing as coincidences!🤘
Also, a lot of first time viewers always comment on the grossness of the film but almost never the genius of the practical effects.
Why?! How?!😳
It was 1981-82 for Gods sake! There was no CGI back then so everything had to pretty much designed and pulled off practically and the man behind these ULTIMATE of all movie effects was the Master Rob Bottin! This man deserves WAY MORE than just credit as Bottin put himself in the hospital nearly dying for this film. This happened through him doing 2 “things.”( get it?!😝)
He overworked himself/hardly slept AND tried to live on nothing but soft drinks and Snickers bars! To show how much he deprived himself…especially those who think most people in the prime of their life may be able to take it; Bottin was in exactly that! He was only 22 years of age when he did this film! “Thing” (😝) is he worked on it for 57 weeks, 7 days a week! Yes, that’s one full year plus 5 more weeks..EVERY day! Just goes to show how very hard/intensely he was working on top of the PURE talent he had (in the Howling as well) being basically..a baby.🤩
Thank you Rob! Now that CGI has pretty much taken over the SFX world, you will now, officially, NEVER be dethroned!🤘🤩🤘
3:23 Foreshadowing.
A great ensemble performance, especially from the dog. What a champ.
When Addie jumps at the title screen - I knew she was in for a ride haha
Thanks for the video!
Love you Addie and your reactions. Please though -for the humanity....Why why why, Soo many playlists?!!! lol I went to go verify if you had seen a certain movie and Oh My.... You just need like I don't know five or six categories and then maybe one for each series :) 😮😢😂😊
Always so fun to see newbies watch this film for the first time.
I seriously love Addie for this! This streak of horror films have been the best and I know it wasn't easy for you but thank you. : )
Watch Wilford Brimley in the award winning "Cocoon".
In this movie he was 48.
Yes he looks old.
Just a few years or several years later he would play a senior citizen in the movie.
Just watched and reviewed earlier in the week on a friends channel. Definitely one of the scariest films ever! The practical effects are amazing!!!
This movie was based on a 1938 novella. It adds more action and changes some details, but is fairly faithful to the original story. The novella was first adapted into the 1951 movie The Thing from Another World, which left out the shapeshifting aspect of the story and just made the thing a conventional alien.
Coincidentally, The Thing from Another World is the movie that Tommy is watching while Laurie babysits him in the original Halloween, also by John Carpenter.
I saw this pop up in my feed and went "Oh no, Addie. You poor, sweet summer child." 😂😂😂
Lately, I've watched a lot of "The Thing" reaction videos. I particularly enjoyed your for incorporating your dog's barking as a warning about the husky. That's some dang clever and funny post editing! 👍
Literally everyone five minutes in: "Why? Don't hurt the dog!"
Twenty minutes later: "Oh my god, kill it! Kill it with fire!"
The dog appearing behind you was just perfect ahah
At about 8:56 you can see Blair appear to touch the organism with his pencil and then put it to his lips, I think that's when he was infected. Also at the end you can easily see McReady's breath but you can't see Chile's breath or is my monitor not HD enough. One of those great old sci-fi films, you certainly had many jumpscares Addie.
That's a theory! More likely he was visited by the Palmer thing or the Norris thing.
Gooey Borg-Among US, @ 17:43 you see palmer and other thing look at eachother puzzled when nauls said Mac was one of them, nice foreshadowing
When you jumped at the title sequence alone I knew this was going to be good...
A reaction to this movie is always an automatic watch for me. It's my favorite horror movie of all time. Addie, there are grosser movies out there but this is definitely a tough one for the squeamish. Grats on getting through it.
I was crying with you. I loved your reaction!
I LOVE that your dog barked in the beginning, it was so fitting, your dog knew 😂
I laughed soooo many times at your reaction! Good job, Addie! I never thought you'd do this one, I'm so happy! I would love to know what was going through your mind at 26:00, your face changed from a look of horror to a devious smile within seconds. Loved it!
“Watch out for the doooog!”
“Are we gonna see something burst out of him?”
…kinda.
10 posts in 2 weeks?! I think you just became my personal hero!
This is one of my favourite movies. I love how anxious you get.
One of my all time favourite movies. And one of the greatest movies ever. That combination of fear and tense moments. And for even now those practical effects are phenomenal. Great video Addie. Hope you didn't feel to nauseous watching this.
This has to be the most hilarious yet adorable reaction I’ve ever watched your facial expressions are perfect!
I saw this when I was 11 with my friends (we snuck in). And, after that I was obsessed with special effects! It makes me miss Fangoria magazine alot.
Great reaction! First time watching The Thing for me recently as well and enjoyed every minute of it. Love your channel, keep it up!
Im so surprised that you watched this considering your "not-love" for horror movies... Bravo!!! This is actually one of my all-time favorite movies & modern horror filmmakers still use this as one of the best examples for applying practical effects!
I really appreciate that Addie never looked away from the screen 👍
I watched the the thing documentary and it explains the ups and downs while making this film.
You did a wonderful job getting through the movie!
This was fun Addie.... John Carpenter was a big fan of the original The Thing from 1957. He put it in his Halloween and then with the success of that movie he was able to move forward with this great version. 😊
You were a trooper. Well done, Addie! This film is in my top ten. 😁
At 4:50 when he said, "Anybody there," It might be a callback to the original story, which was called I believe, "Who goes there?" Though in the original 1950s movie, the Thing looked nothing like its victims, They wrote that out.
I heard it mentioned before. Childs at the end didn't give off a breath when he was talking but MacReady did. Meaning Kurt Russell's character was alive with internal body heat, Keith David's was not. They were a few feet away from each other in the the same cold.
Depends on the version!.....on the VHS version, you *can* see Childs' breath. On the DVD it's much less visible, and almost invisible on the BluRay. Personally I've never thought much of the breath theory because of this. The only thing that convinces me Childs could be a Thing is that Carpenter filmed an alternate ending, that features only Mac, getting the all clear at a medical facility.
The game is set immediately after the film and Childs is found dead, from hypothermia, iirc, he is human. Carpenter has said the game is canon.
In the comics, both Mac and Childs are human at the end of the film...and both are alive. I have no idea what Carpenter makes of those.
In the end, I dont think it really matters, we aren't meant to know for sure, that's part of the point of the film.
The Fly 1986 and The Blob 1988 to finish off the 80s remake trilogy. Its so good.
10:43- To quote M. Bison from the Street Fighter movie, "OF COURSE!"
Oh Addie! I can't believe you actually got through this one. I can't handle it. So brave! Kudos and (( hugs))!❤
Haha as soon as the dog shows up in the movie, your doggo shows up! She looks like such a sweet pup!!
LOL. What a grea reaction Addie! I'm sure you're looking at your dog a little differently ... Such a great movie with practical effects that still stand up to today. This would be considered a cult classic because it really didn't do well in the theater but it did find it's audience later when it hit video and cable.
Addie YOUR REACTIONS ARE FANTASTIC....you are awesome😊😊😊😊
the jumps and squeals are so cute 😆
I think Palmer had one of the best reactions I've seen in a movie when he saw the "head-crab" trying to get away.
and yet oddly, he turned out to be one
@@grabtharshammerHe saw that the others were starting to notice the crab so he played the part.
Best. Practical effects. Ever.
Stephen Colbert of late-night talk television, had the director, John Carpenter, on as a guest very recently, and the two talked about this film. He asked Carpenter if one of the two survivors was the thing. After Carpenter confirmed that one of them indeed was, Colbert asked if there was a way to watch the movie to tell who was. Carpenter's answer made it clear, there were clues, but you have to pay close attention in order to see them. There was a RUclips video, who I think, figured it out. I didn't notice the clues until he pointed them out.
Then he changed his position, maybe as a joke or because people are obsessed with believing one of them, and often there's one who is believed more to be the thing. Because before Carpenter said the game or whatever was Canon and the game has both Childs and Mac surviving and being normal, non things.
But if we are going on a belief that one of them is a thing at the end, in going against the popular theory of Childs and saying it is Mac. Partly because look at how the beginning tries to trick us; we are lead to believe the guy who spent time with the dog was turned into one when he was normal, and instead it was Palmer and the other guy who were things. It would be easy for Mac as a thing to convince Palmer to sacrifice himself during the blood test, while Mac used somebody else's blood as his own. He could play the good guy the whole time until the end, and he pretends to kill the one who possessed/replicated the scientist guy in order to lure Childs out and let the thing take over Childs. Or he saw the other as a threat since it didn't replicate perfectly like he did, so he may have killed it at the end. I mean it's pointed out early on that the thing likes to be isolated, and we find out at the start Mac isolates himself from the other people on the research team.
This movie 🍿 was ahead of its time. It is a classic.
The blood test scene is so great.
Also, Addie, there is a prequel movie thats also called the thing that tells the story from the norwegians POV
The burned out remains of the Norwegian base was actually filmed after they burned down the US base and just used those burned out remains of that set, saved money on production costs. They filmed this movie in Alaska and British Columbia as a stand-in for Antarctica.
All we can be sure of is that the Thing is still alive at the end of the movie. The music cues act as the heartbeat of the Thing itself.
Heart? Thing? Why do You know that...