+Benjámin Kurilla It certainly had some moments. The way they incorporated elements from what was left of the Norwegian camp in the '82 film was done really well, but overall it was pretty meh sadly.
ShumaiAxeman Indeed. Numerous basic errors, bad plot elements, sometimes stupid or unnecessary characters, and stupid alien (for example when she went for the keys, the alien just began loudly shapeshifing behind her, instead of just grabbing her ... etc ... etc) .... and what about the video footage they find in the '82-movie? - where the norvegians put charges into the alien spaceship and blow it up? .... the director forgot about it or what?.... This is sad.
That jump scare gets me everytime! I freaking love this movie and I read that in 2020 another remake would be in development, I hope not. Just saw the 2011 prequel for the second time, wasn't as bad as I remembered (well the effects are mostly ass, thanks studio interference!) but nothing beats the 1982 version IMO.
I read somewhere that captured the feeling behind this theme perfectly. They said, 'The Theme for the Thing sounds like something mimic ing a human heartbeat but doesn't get it quite right.'
Makes very little sense for the theme to ever be suggesting something like that when the entire basis of The Thing story is that the alien is - perfectly - indistinguishable from human.
the wrong critics saw it. the good critics were out watching blade runner which came out same day. it only left the wankers who didnt know their arse from their elbow free to see this movie and not have a clue what they were seeing
The wrong critics also watched blade runner. Even Leonard Maltin was meh on that movie. It bombed then but became a classic now. Both BR & Thing deserved to be in the higher echelons of sci-fi classics.
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I have a feeling that this time, Morricone was actually influenced by John Carpenter himself, because the way it progresses, it sounds like a Carpenter composition
"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." "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 FUCKING COUCH!" Here you can clearly see why this movie is great.
A friend pointed out to me the most horrific part of this theme. It's a microcosm of the film itself. We start with a big, powerful beat - the heartbeat of the Thing itself. Strong, wilful, drowning out all other noise. DUM-DUM. DUM-DUM. Then we have, cutting in, the triple beat of a frightened human heart; insistent and quick. dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-dum. Then the slow, creepy chords of the organ, to signify the absorption - the Thing is copying the victims' *organs*. Then - finally - in the last two minutes - the second heartbeat is copying the first with every other beat...dum-dum-dum, dum-dum, dum-dum-dum, dum-dum... ...and disappears. Until only the Thing's heart is beating.
" Childs, it happens all the time, man.They're falling out of the sky like flies.And the government knows all about it, right, Mac ? Chids, Childs! Chariots Of The Gods, man... They practically own South America... I mean, they taught the Incas everything they know... * continues to smoke weed* "
I'm an old guy, and never realized until the other night that my wife had never seen 'The Thing'. I rented it and my wife and I watched it (she's not too big on horror movies, anyhow). Needless to say, she went from 'oh, it's an old movie' to 'OMG, now I'll have bad dreams!' The movie STILL scares, and it was mostly done with the drama of actual actors (though 'spider head' still drives it home). Excellent movie.
+Lance Cole You can always tell when an older guy writes a comment on RUclips...they can spell, use grammar properly and are literate...the younger generation are ill-educated in just about anything.
I've watch so many horror films about demons, aliens, ghosts, zombies you name it, but none have ever made me feel like the thing does. I remember I watched it at my friends house when I was 15 I went home it was a cold winter night, and I felt genuinely uneasy and anxious, to this day as a 20 year old I feel no shame in saying this film still makes me anxious and uneasy when I'm on my own, that's why I love it so much, how many films make you question things like that, as stupid as it sounds when ever I walk past someone at night on my own it's on the back of my mind, what if I hear that thing scream, as I said such a great film, my favourite horror film of all time!
Read the original John W Campbell short story "Who Goes There" with nobody around except maybe a pet dog...... The movie "almost" captures the story, though not quite.
@@pamelahughes7891 Well, I read the book several years ago, and it's a very interesting read indeed. No self-respecting 'Thing' fan should miss the opportunity...in fact, I still own the book.
I grew up in rural north western Canada on a farm, in one of the windiest coldest parts of even this cold country. Often, especially once I turned 13, I'd be at the farm by myself when parents go visit friends, on business etc out of town. Now, I know it's Canada but like I had access to firearms, loyal farm dog who I'd seen fight off Coyotes etc, like far from truly alone or helpless is my point even when had farm to myself, and for most part was awesome be like Kurt but instead of chess wizard had my gaming computer right, kitchen, satellite TV, etc all to my self for week or more at a time. Anyways, I watched the OG Thing one night on Movie Central, and thought for an old 50's movie pretty good, and my horror obsessed buddy already told me to check out The Thing remake by Carpenter (he lives and breathes 80's horror even tho we grew up in the late 80s, ie little before our time.) so phoned him up next day, hung out for a bit during day, dropped off the movie (no streaming and only dial up, so 'lucky' he was around or I wouldn't have seen it for years probably) but his sister was in town so had head home for the evening. Like mid January. -30 celsius, so real fucking cold, no jokes middle of a blizzard. Watched whole thing, still don't know how, thinking back I was like petrified in fear legit. Didn't sleep until the sun came up next day. Like half way through movie heard a noise outside (100% just the wind, especially there and old farm house), so had shotgun loaded sitting beside me for entire night after that(watching on big tv in parents bedroom, and gun cabinet was literally in their attached study so like hopped up, loaded it few shells, carefully put beside the bed and resumed watching xD), think dog starting getting spooked too cos I was so spooked so that just added to it eventually, and very unlike him he slept in my room while I stayed up and played games (kennel trained, rarely wouldn't sleep in "his room" downstairs by back door.) Yeah...movie is fucking creepy and how it so realistically depicts that sense of isolation and like fear of unknown, you'd have be a psychopath to not be effected by this movie when first watching it haha.
the original score is the same as a heart beat in time to a elevated time /plus four chambers 2 the heart 4 beats 2 the bar ,i could be wrong im smashed !:))
Where I live in Texas: Winter storm hit us, below freezing temperatures, no power or heat is in our home, snow up to knees yet, tonight we saw footprints that wasn’t ours walking around our house...some thing is going on.
This was really nominated for the golden rapbserry? Jeez, cant believe it. This creepy and scary masterpiece is one of the best themes i have ever listened.
I actually never knew this was a Morricone theme. I always thought Carpenter composed it himself since he composed most of his own music for his movies.
Turns out I was wrong. Morricone did write the main theme in a style he knew would've been appreciated by Carpenter, which did score some parts, but not the main theme
Godzilla52 I was the same way. I flipped when I found out Ennio Morricone composed "The Thing" because before I watched it for the first time, I spoke of him earlier that day to a friend. We also watched "The Last Starfighter" directed by Nick Castle whom also worked with John Carpenter. Interesting universe we live in.
If I didn't know better I would have thought this music was written by Carpenter himself. It's definitely of his style. That's not to take anything away from the great Ennio Morricone.
It has the "Carpenter Sound" all over it. Also, its supposed to have been Morricone`s first step into ambient\Electronic score. He never did anything like this again, There are few Places I can hear Morricone in the soundtrack, but I believe most of it was written in collobration With John.
Carpenter told Boulenger: “[Morricone] had written several pieces for The Thing, and I told him that he was using too many notes for the title track and that he should simplify it. He did simplify it, and the title track that you hear is his. He did all the orchestrations and recorded for me 20 minutes of music I could use wherever I wished but without seeing any footage. I cut his music into the film and realised that there were places, mostly scenes of tension, in which his music would not work. “Since we needed something, I secretly ran off and recorded in a couple of days a few pieces to use. My pieces were very simple electronic pieces - it was almost tones. It was not really music at all but just background sounds, something today you might even consider as sound effects. I used these pieces as unifying moments because structurally we had to redo The Thing at one point in the centre. I put them in there to glue together the film, but in no way was I trying to compete with Ennio’s score. The score is his.”
„I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but if you‘d find the time, I‘d rather not spent the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!“ Damn I love that movie.
What's weird to me is how different it is from some of his other scores. It's almost like he listened to to some of Carpenter's own scores for some of his previous films he did himself and tried to channel a bit of that feel.
Being nominated for a razzie is appalling, whenever I hear the two drum beats in this song or think about them I pause with both a feeling of dread and the feeling of a kind of solitude, like everything around me just disappears, and I'm not making that up
Short Changed Hero Actually it's not the drum that ticks me off, it's the pulsating noise, it make me feel like there is an alien heart pounding. And that scares me especially when I'm trying to concentrate in typing my school assignment.
A lot of John Carpenter's movies have moments of the heartbeat effect with the synth bass. The disquieting beat is relentless which adds to the perfect pace of the movie.
Short Changed Hero The razzy award are shit. If they were accurate the worst movie would be a movie nobody know, a composer nobody know etc, and nobody would care. The objective of the razzy is to make money, and polemic. That’s all.
Dude, these fuckers nominated Stanley Kubrick for the worst director (for The Shining) on the very first year of their pathetic existence. No matter how I try, I can't think of a better way for them to show right from the beginning how much of a laughable joke their "award" is. For that fact alone they themselves deserve an award as the goofiest clowns in Hollywood.
One of the best movies of all time. I actually watched this movie on a research ship heading down to do field work in Antarctica for my masters degree! It was amazing. And terrifying.
[last lines] Childs:"Fire's got the temperature up all over the camp. Won't last long though." MacReady:"Neither will we." Childs:"How will we make it?"MacReady:"Maybe we shouldn't."Childs:"If you're worried about me..." MacReady:"If we've got any surprises for each other, I don't think we're in much shape to do anything about it."Childs:"Well, what do we do?"MacReady:"Why don't we just... wait here for a little while... see what happens?"
At the end The keyboard plays the same pattern in different scales I think. The creepy melody splits in two like the copy of humans that the Thing does.
***** I agree. I think that the fact that it was not CGI worked . Some of the older, cruder effects often seem somehow more real. Too many modern movies seem too ultra-realistic, too polished and clean to seem true. Some things are really better done the old way.
***** I don't like this movie for the special effects, as good as they are. I like it for the plot, the characters, the concept of the Thing (though it was taken from the original short story by John Campbell Jr.) Do you watch science fiction mostly for its cool special effects?
It could have imitated a million life-forms on a million planets. It could change into any one of them at any time. Now, it wants life-forms on Earth....
In the story it's implied the one thing that scared it more than anything else during the events of the movie is MacReady himself. It even says in reflection about the blood test that "THAT'S NOT HOW THE WORLD WORKS". It's a pretty interesting read, but it's canon status is debatable.
Man they really need to make a Thing game with Among Us’s formula. It would need to be triple aaa game with scary and realistic graphics of course but the gameplay would be same with one player being The Thing and trying to kill and sabotage the others while they work to survive and expose it. All sit in a run down base in he Antarctic One can only hope lol but if they can make these Predator and Friday the 13th games I don’t see it as too much of a stretch.
This theme has always stood with me. It was absolutely perfect for the movie. Eerie and unsettling, just as with the premise of the entire movie. The Thing - a timeless masterpiece. Ennio Morricone - a timeless talent. Coupled together - pure magic.
PLOT TWIST: The crewmates are not in fact, and earthlings, but aliens themselves... When the crewmates returned to Mira HQ, they took the dropship home and they abandoned the Skeld. Unbeknownst to any of them, a few Crewmates and impostors were left behind on the Skeld. The remaining impostors on the Skeld attacked the abandoned Crewmates. In a last ditch effort, the abandoned Crewmates flies the Skeld into a solar system with 8 planets and a G-type main-sequence star. They then crash land on a snowy continent on a strange planet, however, all the crewmates died in the crash, and the remaining imposter freezes into a block of ice. 100,000 years later, a Norwegian research team finds the ruined Skeld and a frozen impostor. It's time for the Things to shine again.
@@AndyHappyGuy oh shit that would be dope but idk if that is going to happen Bc among us in the same universe as Henry stickman. Idk when that takes place but I imagine it’s after 1982
I like how Carpenter’s style is so unique and indispensable that even Morricone has to intentionally ape it when composing for one of his films. He’s obviously going for that.
You know a theme song is bloody amazing when it brings out so many emotions in you.. In this case I feel like that alien spider head is lurking around the corner...shit Wheres my blow torch!
One of my favorite film composers. The Thing (1982) score is such a masterpiece and one of my all time favorite scores. The score is very atmospheric and feels creepy and sinister and it gets under your skin in a good way. R.I.P. Maestro
This is the theme at the end of the movie . I like the original film as well and the music for it . 6,7 James arness was chosen to play the thing in the original , someone knew what they were doing when they chose him for the part . He,s a big bugger . I saw a picture of him standing next to 6,2 Dennis weaver and poor old Dennis looked like a midget standing next to James .
Carpenter had been told by friends that he would never be able to obtain Morricone's services to compose a score for his 'The Thing' movie. "We don't know that, do we ?" Carpenter replied and approached Morricone. The latter talked to Carpenter, looked at several of his movies and agreed upon reading the script. I believe he also informed Carpenter that he admired his scores for several of his movies. To me it sounds like Morricone's score is influenced by Carpenter's scores ? Because it suits his way of directing.
The sleeve notes by Leo Nichols in the Silva Screen CD booklet says: "Usually, director John Carpenter provides the music for his own films, but, with The Thing, big-budget studio politics prevailed and Carpenter brought in a more recognised 'name.' Morricone was Carpenter's own choice and scored the film in much the same way that Carpenter would have done. The desolate snowscape with its lone inhabitants under alien siege is mirrored in the bleak, cold and unemotional theme."
Best listened to at night, in winter, preferably if it's snowing outside, and if you're alone.
Or at least, you think you're alone.
+DarthCipient yes were never alone ,,,,,,in the cold
And man is the warmest place to hide.
+DarthCipient Great comment
+DarthCipient or an indoor ski resort, you know somewhere with imitation snow?
lol i take it youve listened to this song under those conditions?
"Let's just sit here and see what happens."
🤣👍 then both hit the J&B
Why don't we just sit here a little while? See what happens
if you're worried about me
@@benhammond4127 gazoline inside ;)
WHY DONT WE WAIT HERE FOR A LITTLE WHILE. ....SEE WHAT HAPPENS.” GET IT ROGHT
Ennio Morricone - one of Italy's great gifts to the world. RIP 6 July 2020.
🙏✝️🎥
He was a genius.
Every italian are a great gift to the world. Especially the ancent one named Benito.
Yeah but the biggest ever is Da Vinci
Oh man he was one of the biggest man who ever lived he was just so genius and a few centuries above his time
And Basilios Polidouris from her sister Greece.
Sometimes a movie is just perfect.
+Benjámin Kurilla
And very often the remake sucks gangbangs of dicks.
+Benjámin Kurilla
And very often the remake sucks gangbangs of dicks.
Lothar Scholz
I tried. I really tried to love the prequel... but nah, it sucks.
+Benjámin Kurilla It certainly had some moments. The way they incorporated elements from what was left of the Norwegian camp in the '82 film was done really well, but overall it was pretty meh sadly.
ShumaiAxeman
Indeed. Numerous basic errors, bad plot elements, sometimes stupid or unnecessary characters, and stupid alien (for example when she went for the keys, the alien just began loudly shapeshifing behind her, instead of just grabbing her ... etc ... etc) .... and what about the video footage they find in the '82-movie? - where the norvegians put charges into the alien spaceship and blow it up? .... the director forgot about it or what?.... This is sad.
The part where MacReady is testing the blood with the hot wire has got to be the most gripping and tense scene ever made in the history of cinema!
That jump scare gets me everytime! I freaking love this movie and I read that in 2020 another remake would be in development, I hope not. Just saw the 2011 prequel for the second time, wasn't as bad as I remembered (well the effects are mostly ass, thanks studio interference!) but nothing beats the 1982 version IMO.
Macready: now I’ll show you what I know
*he use the hot wire on his blood and shows no reaction*
“We’ll do you last...”
**Demonic screech**
@ Buckblacket: The blood actually screamed when burned by the hot wire‼
I reckon so.....The moment the wire makes contact with The Palmer petri dish.
The absolute Godfather of all sci fi alien-horror movies that ever followed afterwards. Only Alien can really rival for it.
Alien on a league of its own
Cinematography picture costume set acting special effects
Just too perfect
Aliens, The Thing & Akira are my top 3 of all time in that order lol
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@@seanykins96 Akira is an absolute masterpiece in every possible sense. One of the greatest movies ever made for me.
Alien y aliens rivalizan
I read somewhere that captured the feeling behind this theme perfectly. They said, 'The Theme for the Thing sounds like something mimic ing a human heartbeat but doesn't get it quite right.'
Very interesting - I've never thought about it from this perspective, but it's definitely spot-on and accurate.
no it dosent cos mine would be 120 at least :)
Makes very little sense for the theme to ever be suggesting something like that when the entire basis of The Thing story is that the alien is - perfectly - indistinguishable from human.
Shut up :P
+OrganismoPerfecto Go to your room.
can't believe the critics did not like this movie when it came out
the wrong critics saw it. the good critics were out watching blade runner which came out same day. it only left the wankers who didnt know their arse from their elbow free to see this movie and not have a clue what they were seeing
Now they get more love and respect
The wrong critics also watched blade runner. Even Leonard Maltin was meh on that movie. It bombed then but became a classic now. Both BR & Thing deserved to be in the higher echelons of sci-fi classics.
Also blame E.T.
Trickoholic the critics didn't like the prequel either and it was amazing
I know you commenters have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I’d rather not spend the rest of the rest of the pandemic *TIED TO A BUNCH OF FUCKING AMONG US COMMENTS!*
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one of the best movies ever made
Yup, it is. And prequel aint got shit on this!
***** The prequel was decent imo
+tonyhawkarg the original was great too
+tonyhawkarg so very true. the tune also
+Sablicious Agreed. Minimalism is key for good film-making.
"Man is the warmest place to hide"
take it to San Fransisco
only because its top of its own food chain /deny it ?please
"Man is the warmest place to hide" - Nicki Minaj
"Nicki Minaj is the warmest place to hide"-A Man.
Where were you childs?
Amazing how such a simplistic set of notes can be so memorable and iconic. Pure genius!
I have a feeling that this time, Morricone was actually influenced by John Carpenter himself, because the way it progresses, it sounds like a Carpenter composition
Stolas! Glad to see you have good taste in movies!
"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."
"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 FUCKING COUCH!"
Here you can clearly see why this movie is great.
Or when the head-spider is walking away and Palmer says "You gotta be fucking kidding..."
"you believe any of this voodoo bullshit Blair?"
The Thing is Capital.
"Have you heard the story of Darth Plagueis the wise?"
Nauls:
WHERE WE GOIN!?
WHAT THE HELL FOR?!
A friend pointed out to me the most horrific part of this theme. It's a microcosm of the film itself.
We start with a big, powerful beat - the heartbeat of the Thing itself. Strong, wilful, drowning out all other noise. DUM-DUM. DUM-DUM.
Then we have, cutting in, the triple beat of a frightened human heart; insistent and quick. dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-dum.
Then the slow, creepy chords of the organ, to signify the absorption - the Thing is copying the victims' *organs*.
Then - finally - in the last two minutes - the second heartbeat is copying the first with every other beat...dum-dum-dum, dum-dum, dum-dum-dum, dum-dum...
...and disappears. Until only the Thing's heart is beating.
Ed Saul the That's amazing where they get there inspiration for there score.
Huh
Well, that's massive overanalysing from a first year student.
@Ironclaw XII Who the fuck are you anyway?
Digging that breakdown brother! Excellent thoughts there.
Hard to believe that this soundtrack got nominated for a Razzie Award.
they don't know shit!
Calvin Candie can't believe that, This music sounds so dreadful, just like the situation the characters were stranded in during the movie.
Jim Walker It's even more dreadful to think that out there, in the deep mystic space, there are things beyond our imagination.
I agree, while this is far from Ennio Morricone his best, this soundtrack captures the flick really good.
+Mees In my opinion, it is among Ennio's very best. Just love it.
Happy halloween everyone.
No, happy halloween to you!
You too, bud.
Happy Halloween to you as well my good man
Wrong movie. Take care of michael mayers
@@andreabourelly6446 true. Lol
Ennio Morricone elevated everything he worked on. R.I.P. to a legendary musician.
I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is...
What if we're wrong about him? Well then, we're wrong..
Can u lower the damn music, i was shot today ahhaah...meow
" Childs, it happens all the time, man.They're falling out of the sky like flies.And the government knows all about it, right, Mac ? Chids, Childs! Chariots Of The Gods, man... They practically own South America... I mean, they taught the Incas everything they know... * continues to smoke weed* "
I'm an old guy, and never realized until the other night that my wife had never seen 'The Thing'. I rented it and my wife and I watched it (she's not too big on horror movies, anyhow). Needless to say, she went from 'oh, it's an old movie' to 'OMG, now I'll have bad dreams!' The movie STILL scares, and it was mostly done with the drama of actual actors (though 'spider head' still drives it home). Excellent movie.
+Lance Cole You can always tell when an older guy writes a comment on RUclips...they can spell, use grammar properly and are literate...the younger generation are ill-educated in just about anything.
+Josh Webster Whats a structer.
Spider Head, Spider Head, does whatever a Spider Head does!
Mike Jenkins Do you feel that it’s obligatory to shit on younger generations whenever you can? Get your head out of your ass.
I saw it in theaters when I was growing up, and it still scares the shit out of me.
Why don't we just... wait here for a little while... see what happens?
I've watch so many horror films about demons, aliens, ghosts, zombies you name it, but none have ever made me feel like the thing does. I remember I watched it at my friends house when I was 15 I went home it was a cold winter night, and I felt genuinely uneasy and anxious, to this day as a 20 year old I feel no shame in saying this film still makes me anxious and uneasy when I'm on my own, that's why I love it so much, how many films make you question things like that, as stupid as it sounds when ever I walk past someone at night on my own it's on the back of my mind, what if I hear that thing scream, as I said such a great film, my favourite horror film of all time!
Read the original John W Campbell short story "Who Goes There" with nobody around except maybe a pet dog...... The movie "almost" captures the story, though not quite.
@@pamelahughes7891 Well, I read the book several years ago, and it's a very interesting read indeed. No self-respecting 'Thing' fan should miss the opportunity...in fact, I still own the book.
I grew up in rural north western Canada on a farm, in one of the windiest coldest parts of even this cold country.
Often, especially once I turned 13, I'd be at the farm by myself when parents go visit friends, on business etc out of town.
Now, I know it's Canada but like I had access to firearms, loyal farm dog who I'd seen fight off Coyotes etc, like far from truly alone or helpless is my point even when had farm to myself, and for most part was awesome be like Kurt but instead of chess wizard had my gaming computer right, kitchen, satellite TV, etc all to my self for week or more at a time.
Anyways, I watched the OG Thing one night on Movie Central, and thought for an old 50's movie pretty good, and my horror obsessed buddy already told me to check out The Thing remake by Carpenter (he lives and breathes 80's horror even tho we grew up in the late 80s, ie little before our time.) so phoned him up next day, hung out for a bit during day, dropped off the movie (no streaming and only dial up, so 'lucky' he was around or I wouldn't have seen it for years probably) but his sister was in town so had head home for the evening.
Like mid January. -30 celsius, so real fucking cold, no jokes middle of a blizzard.
Watched whole thing, still don't know how, thinking back I was like petrified in fear legit. Didn't sleep until the sun came up next day. Like half way through movie heard a noise outside (100% just the wind, especially there and old farm house), so had shotgun loaded sitting beside me for entire night after that(watching on big tv in parents bedroom, and gun cabinet was literally in their attached study so like hopped up, loaded it few shells, carefully put beside the bed and resumed watching xD), think dog starting getting spooked too cos I was so spooked so that just added to it eventually, and very unlike him he slept in my room while I stayed up and played games (kennel trained, rarely wouldn't sleep in "his room" downstairs by back door.)
Yeah...movie is fucking creepy and how it so realistically depicts that sense of isolation and like fear of unknown, you'd have be a psychopath to not be effected by this movie when first watching it haha.
You watched it at 15? Me at 9
@@balls2937 first time my dad showed me it I was 4. Still my favorite movie to this day.
You thought it was supposed to be a heart beating ? No...
It's just... a imitation.
the original score is the same as a heart beat in time to a elevated time /plus four chambers 2 the heart 4 beats 2 the bar ,i could be wrong im smashed !:))
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Trailer Hut Media ok but make better in a movie
you r just covet their speechin :)
Best horror film ever made
It captures isolation perfectly
this song did not deserve to be nominated for the golden raspberry award of 1982, it is quite good in my opinion.
"quite alright??? its genius. the fact that its simple and absolutely efficient in itspurpose has nothing to do with rasperryness
Wow really, that's pretty cool
minimal beat and sounds.masterpiece by itself. simply,way ahead of its time
It's quite good in everyones opinion... I don't know what these guys were taking or injecting..
Just remember et came out the same year basically killing the thing's push
41 people need their blood tested. :(
jason scade 100 now
@@YoToberLoL Hahahahaha 101 now...shit!
110
Now 113
The thing
Spreads...
117 FUUUUK
Where I live in Texas:
Winter storm hit us, below freezing temperatures, no power or heat is in our home, snow up to knees yet, tonight we saw footprints that wasn’t ours walking around our house...some thing is going on.
This was really nominated for the golden rapbserry? Jeez, cant believe it. This creepy and scary masterpiece is one of the best themes i have ever listened.
Ikr! Wth??😡
This proves that the academy doesn't watch the movies they nominate.
@@mickroyster6442 the academy has nothing to do with the razzies
@@mickroyster6442 And that majority of people, well...let's just say have no appreciation for real artwork or storytelling.
The Shining too, such a lame critics back then.
This is more than a horror. It is an amazing combination of horror, sci-fi, thriller with heavy emphasis on paranoia. AMAZING movie.
+cosmic horror.
That it resembles a topic among us. You have to review the game music and you will know that it is similar to the same heartbeat
Correct...
Also atmospheric
The thing remastered is coming out. By nightdive studios.
I'm so excited, I've always wanted to play that game but never got around to it.
52 People are TIED TO THEIR FUCKING COUCHES!!!
Edit after 4 years: We're gonna need awful lot more couches...
2022 Edit: That's no longer an issue...
+1
if yve got the time can you get me untied from this fooking couch !
I don't know about those 54 viewers, but I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter *TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!*
i seen it many at the beginning it only kisses the upper atmosphere ,check it ,it a shuttle that hits the ice
54 People were asimilated
I actually never knew this was a Morricone theme. I always thought Carpenter composed it himself since he composed most of his own music for his movies.
It is. Morricone made the other parts of the soundtrack, but the theme was composed by Carpenter, as usual
Turns out I was wrong. Morricone did write the main theme in a style he knew would've been appreciated by Carpenter, which did score some parts, but not the main theme
Godzilla52 I was the same way. I flipped when I found out Ennio Morricone composed "The Thing" because before I watched it for the first time, I spoke of him earlier that day to a friend. We also watched "The Last Starfighter" directed by Nick Castle whom also worked with John Carpenter. Interesting universe we live in.
@@WondrousLanternProductions Nick Castle was the original Michael Myers.
This theme is also in the game called "among us"
Anyone here after the news? RIP Morricone.
If I didn't know better I would have thought this music was written by Carpenter himself. It's definitely of his style. That's not to take anything away from the great Ennio Morricone.
It has the "Carpenter Sound" all over it.
Also, its supposed to have been Morricone`s first step into ambient\Electronic score. He never did anything like this again,
There are few Places I can hear Morricone in the soundtrack,
but I believe most of it was written in collobration With John.
MantiaRyche Probably because this got nominated for a razzie.
And people say they had better taste back then, bullshit.
Just struck me with surprise to read in the title this was made by Morricone, I always assumed it was from Carpenter himself
Carpenter told Boulenger: “[Morricone] had written several pieces for The Thing, and I told him that he was using too many notes for the title track and that he should simplify it. He did simplify it, and the title track that you hear is his. He did all the orchestrations and recorded for me 20 minutes of music I could use wherever I wished but without seeing any footage. I cut his music into the film and realised that there were places, mostly scenes of tension, in which his music would not work.
“Since we needed something, I secretly ran off and recorded in a couple of days a few pieces to use. My pieces were very simple electronic pieces - it was almost tones. It was not really music at all but just background sounds, something today you might even consider as sound effects. I used these pieces as unifying moments because structurally we had to redo The Thing at one point in the centre. I put them in there to glue together the film, but in no way was I trying to compete with Ennio’s score. The score is his.”
Ironically it's his "just sound effects" that sticked :D
Speaking as a non-musician, I find it incredible that such a simple, stripped-down piece of music can sound so stunningly effective.
Morricone understood the way emotions and environments sound like no other.
damn right!
The most terrifying movie ever.
+skpknight Same: your opinion, but 140 people agree with me!
I saw this when I had 14, I didn't sleep at night for 4 nights in a row, only sleeping at day. LOL :) :) :)
Edsel 0201 Wrong, Ju on the grudge is
Sorry, I haven't seen it. Thanks for the tip!
Its good, not scary
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Childs be acting kinda sussy 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😱😱😱😱🤯🤯😵🤯🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵😳😳😳😳😳😱😭😢😰😨🥺😟🙁😮👿😫😢😧😖😧☹😰👴👴👴👴👴👴
Naul : guys i think Macready is pretty sus
Finally found it, the song that plays whenever the pimp WingsOfRedemption gets exposed
Among Us video game got their inspiration for the game and lobby music from this movie
Among us has to be inspired off the thing
It was, even the main theme of among us was inspired by this one.
„I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but if you‘d find the time, I‘d rather not spent the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!“
Damn I love that movie.
I will find out which of you 48 disliked people is The Thing.
There's only one way to be sure. I'll go get the flamethrower.
You think you can suspect other, being yourself less suspect? @afrowolf give me flamethrower
It is up to 55...and spreading.
OOOR....
The one who liked have The Thing in their bodies, and wants to looks like normal.... :(
(paranoid)
They became infected by the thing.
Still gives me nightmares after 40 years.
I always praised the score of this movie, and only now realized the legendary Ennio Morriccone is behind this. No wonder it's a masterpiece.
What's weird to me is how different it is from some of his other scores. It's almost like he listened to to some of Carpenter's own scores for some of his previous films he did himself and tried to channel a bit of that feel.
Being nominated for a razzie is appalling, whenever I hear the two drum beats in this song or think about them I pause with both a feeling of dread and the feeling of a kind of solitude, like everything around me just disappears, and I'm not making that up
Short Changed Hero Inchon´s soundtrack was much more horrible.it wasn´t nominated...
Jerry goldsmith should have been ashamed...
Short Changed Hero Actually it's not the drum that ticks me off, it's the pulsating noise, it make me feel like there is an alien heart pounding. And that scares me especially when I'm trying to concentrate in typing my school assignment.
A lot of John Carpenter's movies have moments of the heartbeat effect with the synth bass. The disquieting beat is relentless which adds to the perfect pace of the movie.
Short Changed Hero The razzy award are shit. If they were accurate the worst movie would be a movie nobody know, a composer nobody know etc, and nobody would care. The objective of the razzy is to make money, and polemic. That’s all.
Dude, these fuckers nominated Stanley Kubrick for the worst director (for The Shining) on the very first year of their pathetic existence. No matter how I try, I can't think of a better way for them to show right from the beginning how much of a laughable joke their "award" is. For that fact alone they themselves deserve an award as the goofiest clowns in Hollywood.
"You got to be fucking kidding" - Palmer
-"Palmer"
One of the best movies of all time. I actually watched this movie on a research ship heading down to do field work in Antarctica for my masters degree! It was amazing. And terrifying.
That had to be the ABSOLUETLY WORST STIME to watch that movie! lol
[last lines]
Childs:"Fire's got the temperature up all over the camp. Won't last long though." MacReady:"Neither will we." Childs:"How will we make it?"MacReady:"Maybe we shouldn't."Childs:"If you're worried about me..." MacReady:"If we've got any surprises for each other, I don't think we're in much shape to do anything about it."Childs:"Well, what do we do?"MacReady:"Why don't we just... wait here for a little while... see what happens?"
Haunting I was 12 when this came out scariest movie ever
At the end The keyboard plays the same pattern in different scales I think. The creepy melody splits in two like the copy of humans that the Thing does.
Great observation
Mind blown
Shout out sean ranklin
Best horror movie i ever seen!
*****
I agree. I think that the fact that it was not CGI worked . Some of the older, cruder effects often seem somehow more real. Too many modern movies seem too ultra-realistic, too polished and clean to seem true. Some things are really better done the old way.
***** I don't like this movie for the special effects, as good as they are. I like it for the plot, the characters, the concept of the Thing (though it was taken from the original short story by John Campbell Jr.) Do you watch science fiction mostly for its cool special effects?
BornToDie90
You haven't lived
Denis Maher What? He was correcting his grammar, I believe.
The first week of the Winter always freaks me out.......
This is probably the best horror movie soundtrack to ever exist
Goblin soundtrack of Suspiria IS The best?!
The Shining soundtrack is also very good
Silence of the lambs
I don’t think any horror theme tops “Laurie’s theme” from the original 1978 halloween
@Thomas Jefferson No, even carpenter said that this is his best film and theme.
When Wings confronts the trolls.
It could have imitated a million life-forms on a million planets. It could change into any one of them at any time. Now, it wants life-forms on Earth....
Shit....
get back in/our box :)) ,their is a cold beauty about the organism
If the ClarksWorld short story is to be believed The Thing actually thought of humans as living cancer due to our brains being so large.
In the story it's implied the one thing that scared it more than anything else during the events of the movie is MacReady himself.
It even says in reflection about the blood test that "THAT'S NOT HOW THE WORLD WORKS". It's a pretty interesting read, but it's canon status is debatable.
all r infected at the end ,mcready uses the same scalpel in the blood test ;
Funny how a movie i hated as a child ended up being my favourite movie ever 😂
Not my favorite but lol I agree as a kid this was beyond horrifying but I enjoy it now 😂
One of the best movies in film history.
Great soundtrack
RIP Ennio Morricone
Among Us - Theme Song
Among us is inspired by the thing
Anya M yeah plus very similar themes
Man they really need to make a Thing game with Among Us’s formula. It would need to be triple aaa game with scary and realistic graphics of course but the gameplay would be same with one player being The Thing and trying to kill and sabotage the others while they work to survive and expose it. All sit in a run down base in he Antarctic
One can only hope lol but if they can make these Predator and Friday the 13th games I don’t see it as too much of a stretch.
Among Us.
R.I.P. Legend
This theme has always stood with me. It was absolutely perfect for the movie. Eerie and unsettling, just as with the premise of the entire movie. The Thing - a timeless masterpiece. Ennio Morricone - a timeless talent. Coupled together - pure magic.
Agreed 💯
"How will me make it?".....
"Maybe we shouldn't"
From westerns to horror, Ennio never let us down with his music. RIP.
The Thing theme: Dun Dun
Among Us menu music: Dun Dun
And if you listen closer,you can hear the ''ring around the rosie'' theme.
@@Ganondorf98 I can’t believe they made among us into a movie!!
Dun dun dun da dun hay....da da daaaa dun dun dun da daa hay....da da
PLOT TWIST:
The crewmates are not in fact, and earthlings, but aliens themselves...
When the crewmates returned to Mira HQ, they took the dropship home and they abandoned the Skeld. Unbeknownst to any of them, a few Crewmates and impostors were left behind on the Skeld. The remaining impostors on the Skeld attacked the abandoned Crewmates. In a last ditch effort, the abandoned Crewmates flies the Skeld into a solar system with 8 planets and a G-type main-sequence star. They then crash land on a snowy continent on a strange planet, however, all the crewmates died in the crash, and the remaining imposter freezes into a block of ice. 100,000 years later, a Norwegian research team finds the ruined Skeld and a frozen impostor. It's time for the Things to shine again.
@@AndyHappyGuy oh shit that would be dope but idk if that is going to happen Bc among us in the same universe as Henry stickman. Idk when that takes place but I imagine it’s after 1982
After hearing the sad news of the passing of Ennio Morricone, I thought it was only fitting that I listen to one of my favourite pieces of music.
"There is 1 impostor among us"
SUS
The Thing is the original Among Us
There's someone here who isn't what he appears to be.
I hate all of you
Among Us anyone?
There is a thing amoung us
We can be happy that we don't have THAT kind of virus.
True
How do you you know we DON’T have the virus?!?
@@planetcemetery3126 you're damn right.......
It's not even. Virus. It's an alien.
I like how Carpenter’s style is so unique and indispensable that even Morricone has to intentionally ape it when composing for one of his films. He’s obviously going for that.
"Then Clark was human... that makes you a murderer doesn't it?"
gary:this is pure nonsense, doesn't prove a thing
inuyashason81 I thought you’d feel that way...you were the only one with access to the blood. We’ll do you last...
@@AndyCigars **ALIEN SQUEAKING**
But we all thought is was Clark didn't we
I was tied to a fucking couch when I read this!!
The beating sounds like a human heart, but slightly off. Almost like it's imitating a heart beat, but not getting it quite correctly.
Among us
"Cheating Bitch!" - R.J. Macready 1982
The song that plays when WingsOfRedemption is getting exposed for something.
"Hey Sweden!"
"They're Norwegian, Mack."
am i the only one who didn't want windows to die?
William Wright i was wondering when El Capitan got a chance to use his popgun
and Morricone got a razz for this!!! unbelievable
The person next to you! Is the thing! Watch out!
Among us from the 80s
LOOK HERE, LOOK LISTEN, TO THIS SONG.
Watching Wings just fall down a hole to the shoe baron
Probably the best horror movie of all time
Can you believe this soundtrack was nominated for a razzie? Ridiculous.
MAC WANTS THE FLAMETHROWER!!!
You know a theme song is bloody amazing when it brings out so many emotions in you.. In this case I feel like that alien spider head is lurking around the corner...shit Wheres my blow torch!
One of my favorite film composers. The Thing (1982) score is such a masterpiece and one of my all time favorite scores. The score is very atmospheric and feels creepy and sinister and it gets under your skin in a good way. R.I.P. Maestro
Yet strangely soothing too, there's an inevitability to it like the cold universe looks at the folly of man in the face of it.
@@Shugg-Goff-HHoffical Yes definitely.
amog us
"Yeah, well, F**K You too!!" Best part ever.
This movie is SUS
This music is similar to the music of Among Us
the movie was inspired by it, even director said so in the interview
@@Greedisgood-qy2edSarcasm I hope? 😂
you can feel the claustrophobia
Jedna z najlepszych i jedna z moich ulubionych ścieżek filmowych ;)
Z mých taky 🙏‼️❤️🌹👍
This is the theme at the end of the movie . I like the original film as well and the music for it . 6,7 James arness was chosen to play the thing in the original , someone knew what they were doing when they chose him for the part . He,s a big bugger . I saw a picture of him standing next to 6,2 Dennis weaver and poor old Dennis looked like a midget standing next to James .
No doubt about. The 80's were a great time to be a kid. Everything was of such quality back then
true that
I can't believe this was nominated for a Razzie. Wtf were they thinking?
TUN TUN
best horror ever? yep, I think so.
Sci fi/horror
Yes, and Ennio Morricone spent all of twenty minutes composing this theme...
Carpenter had been told by friends that he would never be able to obtain Morricone's services to compose a score for his 'The Thing' movie. "We don't know that, do we ?" Carpenter replied and approached Morricone.
The latter talked to Carpenter, looked at several of his movies and agreed upon reading the script. I believe he also informed Carpenter that he admired his scores for several of his movies.
To me it sounds like Morricone's score is influenced by Carpenter's scores ? Because it suits his way of directing.
The sleeve notes by Leo Nichols in the Silva Screen CD booklet says:
"Usually, director John Carpenter provides the music for his own films, but, with The Thing, big-budget studio politics prevailed and Carpenter brought in a more recognised 'name.' Morricone was Carpenter's own choice and scored the film in much the same way that Carpenter would have done. The desolate snowscape with its lone inhabitants under alien siege is mirrored in the bleak, cold and unemotional theme."
As an inhabitant of finland, this track describes the feel of the winter of this country quite spot on.
Rest in peace, Enio Morricone. You did a great job