ACTRESS REACTS to THE THING (1982) *MOST DISGUSTING THING I'VE SEEN* first time watching
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In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot (Kurt Russell) and the camp doctor (Richard Dysart) lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.
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For everyone who’s commented, in editing I realized that I missed Macready checking his own blood which I see now. Thank you for the insight! Also for those of you complaining in regards to the censoring of this video, this is not for the viewers, it’s to protect this video from potentially being flagged. It occurred to a previous video, at times RUclips flags and demonetizes videos that show blood or gore as well as protect it from copyright claims.
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Yes, you missed a lot. For some reason almost all reactors miss these things: (1) After infecting more than one dog, one Thing escaped through the roof of the dog lockup. This is the one on the loose who deposited some dirty drawers in the kitchen garbage can, which Nauls complains about. (2) Blair was not a Thing when he was on his rampage; his behavior alone should make that obvious. Blair saw the infection statistics and decided he would isolate the Thing at the station, because he could not trust any of the others, so he focused on destroying the means of escape. Also, Blair told Mac to watch Clark (the dog handler) because Clark had been in close lone contact with the new dog for a long time). Blair became infected after he was isolated in the shack. The Thing on the outside got to him then. This is proven because when they go back to him the second time, they discover that the lock on the OUTSIDE of the door was broken. (3) You missed when MacReady tested himself. He even said something like “Now I’ll show you what I already know.”
Never without fail in any reaction: "Don't hurt the doggy" and awhile later "KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!"
It's seriously my favorite part of every reaction to the thing I've ever seen 🤣
They're so quick to get attached to it. It's so fucked up but John Carpenter knew how to sew paranoia into people.
@@lukekelly5075 thought it was just me ☺️
That's what the Swedish guy was saying on repeat, "It's not a dog!"
@@ransselthkaen They’re not Swedish. They’re Norwegian, Mac
Yeah, it’s always an initial female reaction. You think you would’ve figured that out after the opening title & then the attempted shooting of the husky.
One thing that amazes is that when this movie came out critics savaged it. They were incredibly brutal. It wasn’t until it came out on home video that people started to appreciate it. Today it’s regarded as a masterpiece of horror.
Sometimes you think something was a total failure, when in reality it was a success.
Also, the soundtrack was done by Ennio Morricone. He’s the same guy who did the score to The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
What does that tell you about "film critics"?
@@hussmoosbally8929 I’ve long felt that sometimes movie critics watch too many movies. I think it inevitably distorts your perspective.
He reused basically the same music for The Hateful Eight, and it won an Oscar.
@@wackyvorlon Definitely. It's a pity really as back then - I saw this movie at the cinema after sneaking in to the theatre - critcs had less of an agenda to push than certain areas of current genres, so were free to reward creativity with positive reviews, but chose not to in this case as it fit into the "horror film, with plenty of gore" niche slot, so were already predisposed to a negative slant.
They were just as brutal to "Big Trouble in Little China", "Blade Runner" and many movies that are classics. Then look at a lot of the movies they liked that no one remembers now.
Macready was the second one tested. Also, Blair was human until he got locked away. Truthfully, he knew what needed to be done before all the others. Everything had to be destroyed.
"I'm OK now, I want to come back inside!"
No, when you were OK, you were *flipping TF out,* and *with good reason.* Calm, nice Blair is the f*cking monster!!!
@@chrisleebowers There’s also a noose hanging in the background of that scene, strongly implying Blair was planning to take himself out before the Thing got to him
@@noahmoran7605 That's true. The Thing wouldn't have done that unless it was intelligent enough to know that's a human thing to do and was trying to trick whoever saw the noose. But I think you're right in deducing that Blair was still human at that point.
Not to mention the fact that the others had to bring Blair his food. If the Thing brought his food and put a bit of itself in there, voila...instant assimilation. Another theory is that Blair infected himself when he put his pencil on the alien he autopsied then put it on his lips. But I think that was just Wilford Brimley trying to be dramatic and they left it in the movie. He would have converted way sooner if he was infected so early. I agree with the commenters above.
Blair may have changed in the shed but he was infected long before then.
He touched the first corpse with his pen then put the pen in his mouth.
His transformation started then but fully turned while in the tool shed.
Blair is also assimilated after he's locked in the storage shed. That's why the door is opened despite the tunnel at the end.
Blair was alright. At first. But when they locked him away the thing got to him. If you noticed while he was yelling in his freak out he was yelling "nobody knows what's going on around here, none of you." Right after getting projections that if the thing got to the main land in about three months it would infect 75 percent of the world. So Blair destroyed the chopper so they couldn't spread it across other outposts, and data and communications so they couldn't get out. The thing doesn't use weapons. It is a weapons. So when Windows glasses boi went for the shotgun he wanted to protect himself because he couldn't trust anyone. He was in panic mode. As soon as Blair stopped trying to be helped on trying to identify it and became more non chalant. I'm pretty sure that's when he was infected. It might have been in the opened contained he was drinking out of. This movie becomes a mystery movie of after your first time trying to pinpoint exactly when and where people got infected. Also, one thing I noticed the alien usually is the calmer non helpful one because it tries to hide among them. To be as inconspicuous as possible. Also Macready tested himself, that was his line of, "now I'll confirm what we already know" that was his blood. Childes didn't trust Macready, so he said directly after no reaction "it's a crock of sht" I believe directly after. Yeah so he tested himself already. Great reaction it's always great to see an original thing reaction.
Not to say that the Things don't use weapons. Rather, that using weapons and killing is actually counter to their best interests. We of little use to them dead. They need our biomass alive to assimilate. That's why Doc wasn't infected. The Things had likely learned early on when dealing with some other intelligent life who knows how many millions of years ago that "dead entity walking around = instantly outed/attacked". Possibly, Norris-Thing was planning on "playing possum" so it could be left alone to go sneak out and help Blair-Thing. But, it didn't count of the defib.
Correction: it was 75% chance that one or more of the crew were infected. If it gets out into the world, it will take 27,000 hours (3 years) until the whole world will be infected.
One of the few movies that actually does its job and disgusts me. I think the other was the Evil Dead. I can't stand how dull horror movies are. This is why horror movies today usually aren't as scary. Too dependent on CGI for terrifying stuff. Practical effects will always be more terrifying.
Effects don't make the film Scarry or great. CGI or practical
Literally, my favorite Horror movie. The atmosphere, the tension, the isolation, the FX. It's all so damn good.
The practical effects were grotesque. But it kind of reminds me of HR Geiger's artwork, which I would call beautifully grotesque.
The Norwegian pilot chasing the dog at the beginning pretty much spoils the whole movie.
(In Norwegian): "Get the hell away from that thing. That's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! GET AWAY YOU IDIOTS!!"
Every reactor at the start of this movie: "A dog being pursued with gunfire? Surely it did nothing wrong!"
The scene after the blood test where the Palmer-Thing jumps from the couch to the ceiling was done by filming the body hitting a floor "ceiling" and inverting the camera! The one little blooper that gives it away is a piece of ceiling that jumps up when he hits the ceiling and then falls back into place from gravity.
This movie has two unofficial sequels: One is a comic series published by Dark Horse, the other is a video game released for the Xbox and PlayStation 2 in 2002.
I always check to see if more people react to this movie. It’s probably my favorite horror movie of all time.
Clariss,
The Norwegian Camp set was actually the American Camp set after they blew it up at the end and thus they filmed those scene last.
The Thing can seem disgusting, sure, but I consider this movie a romance deep down... about humanity's natural, normal love for fire and dynamite, and why at the end of the day we should never part ways. It's beautiful. Truly, it's the heart-warming message that really sticks.
And dinae forget Boom Sticks.
Just to answer the question about the ending, In the thing video game, it shows that Childs froze to death, while Mcready survived. Neither of them were things, but the thing was infact still alive, Mac is rescued at the end of the game and its a good ending.
Palmer's transformation and eating half of Windows....could honestly be a top ten all time film scene, for amazing, disturbing, shock value, effects, etc.
"We didn't check MacReady." He was the second person checked, right after Windows.
Because ambiguity was key to the horror, Carpenter never had answers (even in his own head) for when and how (and if) some characters were infected, so there aren't "official answers" for you. The novelization by SF writer Alan Dean Foster said that the bottle Mac gave to Childs at the end was actually full of gasoline, and the fact that Childs didn't notice told Mac that Childs had been replaced. There's an award-winning short story you could find on line called "The Things" by Peter Watts that tells the story from the alien perspective. But Carpenter wanted the only true answer to be the one in your head.
Fun fact! During the opening sequence, when the Norwegian survivors were trying to kill the dog? In that brief moment where the one dude is shouting at the Americans, he's actually shouting in legitimate Norwegian. I don't remember the exact wording of what he's saying, but it's essentially "Get away from it! It's not a dog, idiots, get away from it now!"
The title card was done by placing a garbage bag behind a black board with the words "The Thing" already cut out of it, and then the trash bag was set on fire, with a light coming in from the back.
I have a decent beard but I stick with a fade. A particular scene terrified us as kids and we took a break from watching it to calm down. This movie still holds up. There is a direct sequel comic book for this movie and they made a prequel with Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Everton about the Norwegian team. Overall I remember enjoying the prequel, just not as much as this one of course, but sadly the incredible practical effects and puppets they filmed with were covered completely in post at the direction of the studio. There is great behind the scenes footage on RUclips from the special effects people that made the practical effects.
Blair was a little smarter than the others and understood more quickly that the real issue was to keep the thing from reaching civilization. That's why he destroyed any means of doing so. If you listen to his dialog carefully, he even says this.
This movie was HATED when it was released. Now it’s considered one of the best in the business. A real life case of back to the future “I guess you guys weren’t ready for that, but your kids are gonna love it”.
I see that someone already covered the book it's based on and the original film. As for the ending, the theory is that Childs is a Thing. The reason Mac laughs is because he handed Childs a bottle of gasoline and, when Childs doesn't react because the Thing wouldn't know the difference in drinks, he knows he can't do anything about it.
In reality, the best way to know is that the lighting director went through in editing and darkened the eyes of anyone who was a Thing. By the end of the film, there's no light reflected in Childs' eyes.
Also you can see that Mac's breath in the air but Childs through out that whole scene didn't take a single breath.
@@nearzero3806 Yes! I love the little details that Carpenter put in to let us know. It's crazy.
Ennio Moricone did orchestral music, John Carpenter & Alan Howarath did the synth music/theme
YAAAY!
One of my top 10 movies. I hold this up with RoboCop, Predator, Jurassic Park as my interchangeable Top 4.
Weirdly, it tanked in cinemas in 1982, but mainly because it was overshadowed by E.T which was a friendly alien movie.
Over the years though it's become regarded as one of the greatest sci-fi movies, and one of the greatest horror movies, of all time.
I first saw this when I was about 4 years old on VHS (remember those?) in around 1986.
(My parents would let me watch anything. Ah, the old days)
I didn't remember much about it until I was around 10 or 11 when I watched it again on TV and it blew me away at how good it is.
Obviously the effects are talked about a lot... but I think the next best thing in the movie is the wolf, who was called Jed.
The way that wolf moved around without needing direction was insane.
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The debate on the move after all these years is whether or not Mac and Childs... are not human.
I think Mac is a Thing.
Blair goes apesh*t... and gets locked away in the toolshed.
Mac talks with him for a minute... takes a swig from a vodka bottle, and leaves it on the table for Blair.
Just as the scene ends, Blair looks at the bottle.
Could just be a look.
Like, ok, I'm here. I'll have a drink and calm down.
Or it could be foreshadowing.
Did Mac take a swig from the bottle so he could infect it?
As in, get some "Thing Stuff" on the rim of the bottle so Blair would be infected when he then took a drink?
I think he did. I think Mac, acting as the most "even tempered" of the group (as he says to Childs in front of the entire group), and the fact that even when alone, he plays that same role of calm, collected and sane...
Talking Windows down when the shotgun situation comes up, and Gary gives up his gun... shows Mac as a cool, calm leader too...
... and this is what allows him to move about the group unsuspected.
When Fuchs questions the fact that Blair is being locked away, and that he needs Blair's help for blood tests... Mac immediately puts him down saying "He's too far gone, Fuchs"
Leaving Blair alone, with an infected bottle... is the perfect situation to take Blair over.
Mac also speaks to the group after the blood storage is sabotaged.
"I know I'm human, and if all you were all these Things then you would 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."
If Mac is a Thing... he just totally and utterly exposed his vulnerability and exposed his entire plan.
But, as far as the others in the group go... they would be thinking subconsciously: What kind of creature would do such a thing? Expose its own weakness? Its own vulnerabilities? Mac must be a human.
The entire thing is a ploy to get the group under his control. Cleverly, the Thing, Mac, is simply playing a role.
Ok, the argument can be made for the hot needle blood test... but Mac is the only one who touches any blood samples.
It's Mac that does the needle test... and Mac is the one who calls the shots on who gets tied up, and who doesn't.
As leader, sure, he has to make those decisions... but making certain choices, even so far as tying up a Thing (Palmer)... makes the others trust him.
Sacrificing one Thing... still means Mac goes unnoticed by the others.
Also, the only other contact anyone has with Blair, is when Mac, Nauls and Windows go out to him during the storm and ask if he's seen Fuchs... and yet it's only Mac who talks directly to Blair.
Going by what Blair says to Mac about Fuchs... Blair isn't fully taken over yet.
So Mac was just making sure. Having a check kinda thing.
Mac and Nauls then head to Mac's cabin... without Windows.
Mac sees the opportunity to get himself, and one other, alone.
Immediately afterward though, Nauls cuts Mac loose because of the ripped clothing... and Mac still manages to get back to camp too.
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The Blair thing though... Mac drinking from the bottle and leaving it with Blair just set off my entire chain of thoughts on this.
... if Mac is discovered, and even killed... his sacrifice is ok.
Just like Palmer's sacrifice is ok.
Because Blair is still unaccounted for. Alone. In a shed.
Blair is a backup plan. If the Thing that is within the group fails, then Blair is still there to build a ship and escape.
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Just sitting here now watching again for the umpteenth time...
... and I've spotted a new one.
"It cut the power"
"That's suicide!"
"Not for that Thing. It wants to freeze now. Fall asleep in the cold until the rescue team finds it"
"Whadda we do?"
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I've just realised... Mac's response is nonsensical:
"Whatever happens we can't let that Thing freeze again. Maybe we'll just warm things up a little around here"
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Mac says it wants to freeze until its found. Ok, the argument is that Mac and the other know this is how it can survive... freeze, wait, then respawn.
Mac uses that double negative to knock the survivors (Nauls and Garry) off track.
Warm things up a little? As in... destroy the base?
What for? So The Thing can't freeze?
It makes no sense.
He uses the case of "attack is the best defence"... and Garry and Nauls fall for it.
This "attack", will allow The Thing to friggin' freeze and await the rescue team... and everyone human, everyone who knows what The Thing is and how it works... will die.
The Thing has learned to play mind games.
It knows freezing solid and awaiting a rescue team is its way out.
Mac, The Thing... basically goads the others into destroying their own only hope of survival.
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Mac is a Thing.
No doubt in my mind.
don't know where you are , but this is the only censored " the thing " reaction video I`ve seen , and I`ve seen dozens !
You don't have to censor those guts.
I have seen many reactions to this movie, and none of them censored the guts.
2:38 Fun thing about this moment is that the computer did actually cheat. This might have just been production irregularities, but the two times we see the game, the board is very different. Even so, the move the computer makes wouldn't work because the Room wasn't in the right position. It is meant to show MacCready's temper, but it's also unintentionally correct.
McCready checked his own blood prior to finding the "positive" person's sample.
It really doesn't prove it. It leaves it completely ambiguous.
MacReady's torn shirt was meant to be found, left by the Same "Person" that Left MacReady's Lights on. MacReady DID check his blood, right after he did Windows but before checking Clarke's.
The Movie's whole Premise was "Can You Trust Anyone or Anything"... And that's how they left us in the Theaters. Intentionally not giving Closure... PERFECTION!
The guy trying to shoot the "dog" at the beginning was yelling "Get the hell away! It's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! GET AWAY, YOU IDIOTS!"
If any of the main characters spoke Norwegian, the whole situation might've been avoided
everybody wonder if childs and macready are human at the end , what they all forget , is half of the creature in the kennel escaped through the roof , and later on we never actually see blair , garry ,or nauls die ! so there `s likely at least 4 surviving aliens at the end of the film , who unlike mac and childs can go into hibernation until the relief crew arrives ! plus it`s unlikely that any of them ruined the blood supply , the thing can assume any form it has ever copied , so it likely changed it`s form and oozed into and back out of the fridge !
In the end, was that a drink he gave him, or a molotov cocktail? Would a mimic know the difference? Also only one of their breath was misting in the cold air. That ending has been debated for ages!
It looked like MacReady was about to drink from that bottle just before Childs appeared in that scene.
You gotta check out the Jeff Goldblum version of The Fly for another Oscar winning makeup/practical effects movie
When 2 masters collaborate: John Carpenter and Rob Bottin you get magic. Well 4, with a some Dean Cudney and Ennio Morricone in the mix. Oh and Macready did the test too, you missed that.
This is crazy for 1982 they never made the second movie
CLARISS: You are NOT shooting at that dog?!?!?!?!?
20 MINUTES LATER: BURN IT!!!!! BURN IT!!!!
A masterpiece. 1 of my all-time fave films. Uncompromising, grim, gory and a helluva cast led by an iconic Kurt Russell. Hats off to makeup wiz Rob Bottin who was like only 24 when he made the film - he worked 24/7 for weeks on end and finally was hospitalized for exhaustion which led to the late, great Stan Winston to step in for the dog sequence - Winston did it as a professional favor and even REQUESTED not to be credited (unheard of!) but Bottin & Carpenter indeed saw to it that he got a end title credit. So much speculation about the final scene - conspiracy theory is that Childs was infected (supposedly the drink Mac offers him is not whiskey but gasonline which had no effect on him as he drank it!) Carpenter was even forced to film a lame false happy ending where Mac is the sole survivor and rescued back to the mainland - he showed Universal the cut and then promptly excised it - the footage to this day still remains unfound/seen! Cinematographer Dean Cundey lit the actors to show light in their eyes and if they glowed they were shown to be infected. BTW you are drop dead gorgeous Clariss xoxo
there was a video game endorsed by Carpenter as to be canonical according to him, there is a prequel, but they did it with all practical effects but the Powers that be made them into CGI, yeah.. it doesnt feel real so where as practical is THERE
Great reaction..........but you missed a lot both in terms of dialogue and clues/shots that would answer your questions. Also, the ending was intentionally meant to leave you hanging. In doubt. Unsure of who's who. The same uncomfortable, mistrusting paranoia that the characters felt throughout the film. It really is a masterpiece. 👍🏿
You'll appreciate the very best parody ever done of this film! Watch: ruclips.net/video/TFASxXsm-F0/видео.html
You want to attack the Spider-head with a Giant Chancla? LOL! Maybe it might be better to tie a chancla onto a BIG ASS NUKE and drop it onto the monster from orbit!
Mac was still human as his breath is still visible Childs was The Thing now as he is in the cold but his breath wasn't visible
That's not true though as when Bennings became a Thing you could still see his breath when he let out that weird moan just before they burnt him.
At the end only Chiles and Mac are left.
You can see Mac's breath because of the cold. You can't see Chiles breath.
So Chiles is the thing.👍
One of my favorite movie
On behalf of Norwegians, I apologize for us digging that thing up.
McCready gives him a bottle that's full with gasoline an he drinks it
The sets are grim and scary. As it should be for a grim and scary film.
"Who thought of this stuff?"
John Carpenter, one of the greatest masters of the horror genre. :)
Such a cool movie. Its intriguing scary and if your a movie lover/buff its very technically impressive. I didn't grow up with this movie, I finally watched it in 2014 and I love it.
I get why you have to censor but it also ruins the movie as you had to cut out all of the amazing practical effects.
You were saying in your reaction that it was sort of getting to you and havent had a reaction to this in a long time.......and simply put....its because it's all really there. The grossness of the alien and the blood feels so visceral because its actually there......not a cgi explosion of things happening lol.
My fav practical effect is definetly the head falling off the table. When I watched this the first time I was blown away by how good it looks and wondered how they did it.
One last thing (sorry this is long) but I never noticed in the ending that Kurt Russel is breathing out the cold Air and Keith David isn't......I guess that has to mean that Kurt was human and Keith was alien.....Idk..just something I noticed.
Yeah you should definitely do some stuff for Halloween your innovative i can tell I know you can think of something.💯
Check out the other entries in the John Carpenter Apcolypse Trilogy: The Prince of Darkness and The Mouth of Madness
Greatest horror in my opinion, mostly due to the concept. I can't think of anything more bleak 😅 love your makeup and hair btw 👌
Practical Effects....
American Werewolf in London
ALIEN
A practical effects masterpiece.
Every time you cringed at a scene I'd say to the TV "Just wait".
Kind of relevant but a mouse was just running in front of me, hit a corner, and started coming straight at me. I never understood womens irrational fear of rodents until that moment. And after watching the thing, anything running toward you becomes 10x scarier. I think my father introduced me to this movie when i was around 5 so im desensitized to like all scary movies now
What people don't think about is somewhere in that camp lived a cockroach and cockroaches never die, lol
When you said "I can't with the spidery thing" I thought "heads up", then realized my subconscious is funnier than I am😂
Always love this movie. I've noticed that a lot of reactionist immediately get attached to the husky. It's a perfect way to teach your audience paranoia.
Yes!
Then you see the other huskies reacting to it. He was acting sketchy pretty much the whole time once he gained access to the compound.
When one person is trying to hurt an animal, I want to stop them. When multiple people want to hurt an animal, I want to know why.
@@richardrobbins387 also that husky was a fantastic actor. Just phenomenal.
@@LordVolkov and when that husky mutates into a horrible blob of mutant flesh and eat the guy next to you...
You'll probably be a little jumpy around the next husky you see. I just love that in a movie about paranoia John Carpenter knows how to make the audience immediately come to distrust. 👏👏👏
@@richardrobbins387 He was sketchy even before that. When he ran up to Clark while the Norwegian was shooting at the dog, he tried to lick Clark in the mouth.
Also around 3:40 you asked him to explain and he actually did. Apparently if you speak Norwegian he actually is shouting:
"get away from that thing it is not a dog it is some kind of thing!!"
THANK YOU, I ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW WHAT HE WAS SAYING!
"GET AWAY, IDIOTS!"
The whole reason the movie ended the way it did. Was to create paranoia in you, the viewer. That was John Carpenter's whole point.
That's true for paranoia,but also for posible sequals .
@@joskokrstulovic1258Which would come as a videogame, in which we see its new host
The end credits you'll see a Thing dog running from the burning camp. The video game is canon and sequel to the movie since John Carpenter wrote it and said it himself it is a sequel.
@@joskokrstulovic1258 Not back then. Sequels were far less common, and Carpenter wasn't a fan of them - just look at his thoughts on Halloween 2 a year earlier.
Original ending had Mac and Childs rescued via helicopter from McMurdo and tested, and both being human. It was felt that that ending was too upbeat, so the axed it, in favor of the more ambiguous ending. So, it was intended that both are human.
It's not subtitled for obvious reasons, but at the beginning of the movie when the Norwegians are shooting at the dog, one of them is yelling "Get the hell outta there. That's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real!"
I was watching a reactor who spoke Norwegian and she picked it up at the beginning.
@@jd190dyeah I saw that same reactor. I was bummed it spoilt that beginning bit of the film.
It's not the Thing that makes people hysterical. It's the paranoia.
It's also the distrust the science team members exhibit toward one another as the movie progresses, Mr. Osuna
@@michaelvaughn8864 Which is subsumed in "paranoia."
@@danieldickson8591 That's 1 way of looking at it, I suppose, Mr. Dickson
What I like about this movie is how all the characters are smart
True, no real idiots that did something to get themselves killed, relatable [people for once!
Though I was a little annoyed that the doctor didn’t think of cross-checking. You don’t necessarily need a known-human blood sample. You take a sample at random to compare to the others. If there’s a reaction then you know that at least one of them is an alien. No reaction, and they’re either both human or both alien.
It’s not as good as having a known good sample to work with, but it’s better than nothing. I think that part specifically is handled better in the book.
Here's a fun fact: The Norwegian base that they explore early in the film that's completely ruined?
It was actually the same set. They filmed that scene after they blew it up for the finale and then just used the wreckage for the "new" base.
So few people give credit to the real hero of this movie: Blair. Blair saved the entire world by destroying the chopper and radio, effectively ensuring the thing remained isolated, even though he pretty obviously knew what was gonna go down. Also Clariss ya gotta now watch John Carpanter’s “They Live!” More young Keith David and an iconic performance from “Rowdy” Roddy Piper. The first horror/comedy I ever saw and also contains, in my opinion, the greatest fist fight in the history of film.
Piper was great. Surprised he didn’t get more roles. Have to agree about the fistfight.
Overall, though, I thought that movie was ok.
The Thing is his best with Halloween trailing by a razor thin margin (IMHO).
Facts
Blair was the first thing. No really. Palmer Shared a Joint with Childs after the infection so he can't have been the first infection, and Norris was left in charge of Guarding Clark, Gary, and Copper, while completely alone, plus he was the guy who shot them up with Morphine, giving him ample opportunity to infect them. Which none of them were.
So the only person who could have been infected first was Blair. He wasn't saving the outside world, he was manufacturing a pretext for stealing the parts for his ship, and getting him self isolated so he could work in peace without anyone noticing.
@@PerspectiveEnd an interesting thought, but the flaw in it is this: the thing would’ve had access to the chopper if it was Blair. It could’ve just flown off into a completely unsuspecting world. Surely that would’ve been easier than building a ship. Or, it could’ve sent out a SOS and called more people and more potential methods of escape to the outpost. But instead, Blair destroys the chopper and the radio, ensuring no one gets out and nobody new comes to investigate.
@@derekdecker555 Well Blair didn't know how to fly a Chopper. The Thing knew how to fly a space ship.
Also those choppers can't get off the continent. They have a very limited range. So at best he could have made it to another outpost.
Pluss he doesn't have knowlege of the local geography, so he'd get lost.
Best to have a ship that can go, higher, further, and faster.
What do you mean no one is going to come investigate? Of course someone is going to come investigate. We know where all our bases are, and if no one responds to hails for a whole season when they can contact other arctic outposts, people will come.
The simple fact of the matter is that it by PURE requirement can not be Norris or Plamer because they would have infected people we know aren't.
Besides the first thing Blair does is get COVERED in blood from the Autopsy of Split face, and if he weren't already infected would have become so there.
Clariss, have you seen "An American Werewolf In London"? Another amazing movie with a killer transformation using practical effects!👻👍
Rob Bottin's mentor, Rick Baker's masterpiece practical special effects.
very few people ever mention the noose that Blair made but never used
They checked McCready's blood when they were checking the petri dishes. That's how we knew it wasn't him
The ending is kept purposely vague. Did they kill it? Are Child's or Mac infected? Do they flame thrower each other before they succumb to hypothermia? The paranoia continues past the end scene and I find the ambiguity awesome. It should be noted this movie bombed at the box office and wasn't appreciated until years later, but my friends and I saw it multiple times at the theater. It's nice to see it so popular as a cult classic.
I think it came out around the same time as E.T as well and that hurt it.
@@daveb947 It did come out a couple of weeks after ET. Which really did hurt its box office. People had warmed up to the sweet, lovable alien, and didn't know that they really wanted the awesome hyper-evolved slime mold alien until it hit VHS release.
You did miss something, Mac took the test first. I like the ending you make up your own ending. This was first published in 1938 as a short story called "Who Goes There" by John W Campbell. It was first made into a movie in 1951 called "The Thing From Another World". Which is considered a great film too and worth watching. That movie only kept 2 things from the original story, an Alien & it takes place in the cold. When Carpenter went to make his version he took right from the original story.
Not enough people who see it and want to know more bother to go read the story... and they should!! It's amazing!!
Carpenter's film also drew from Lovecraft's story "At the Mountains of Madness."
@@gmchris3752 Love me some Lovecraft!
The 1951 movie had one of the greatest fire stunts ever committed to film. You can definitely see where Carpenter paid homage to the earlier film with the title sequence and the fire stunt.
@@megabsupreme Too funny I just rewatched the 1951 version 2 nights ago.
As I watched I thought that is one impressive fire stunt for 1951.
This was filmed in Northern BC Canada. The dog in the movie his name is JED. He was a wolf half, half husky. Jed is was amazing animal actor. To anyone please watch Jed in "The Journey of Natty Gann"(1985). A beautiful film about a young girl crossing the country with her wolf protector in the 1930s. Another great Jed movie is "White Fang"(1991) from the famous book starring Ethan Hawke and Jed.
Greatest animal performance of all time
I didn't know it was the same dog from White Fang! Nice! What a good boy.
That dog is such an incredible actor tbh, it fully acts like a creature that isn’t a dog pretending to be a dog, it’s awesome
@@LordVolkov Watch him in The Journey of Natty Gann.
@@noahmoran7605 Watch him in The Journey of Natty Gann & White Fang.
Check out the 1951 version "The Thing from another world" :)
Another film to check is "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978)
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This is by far one of my favorite horror thrillers. It is so well written and well acted. No other horror has come close.
The Exorcist ?
It you're a gamer, you'll love the Thing video game, John Carpenter himself said it's a canon sequel and you find out who lives at the end of the Thing.
Reason for the sequel is because during the credits you see a dog Thing running from the burnt camp.
The part at 17:17 where it roared. A fact i read somewhere: The sound of the roar is actually the screams of all the alien species the "Thing" has consumed, so it must have been traveling to other galaxies and planets, feeding and imitating them... pretty scary to think about...
And that whole scene creeps me out - with the whole eyes and mouth wide open and just expressionless and ofc the sound of the roar/scream is so demonic/otherworldly
My #1 favorite John Carpenter movie!
The film received mixed reviews by Critics who called it, "Boring Dull and a wretched excess." Film critic Roger Ebert called it "a great barf bag movie."
However it's gained a cult following overtime and has been regarded as one of John Carpenter's best movies.
It bombed at the box office,making $19 million dollars against a $15 million dollar budget.
The Dog Kennel Sequence was done by Stan Winston Studios, while parts of the alien transformation sequences were done by Rob Bottin.
I was favorably impressed on first seeing it in the theater.
It is why not read or listen the clown critics !
This was actually a remake. The original "The Thing from Another World" was directed by Howard Hawks. The opening title from that version is seen in Carpenter's "Halloween" when the kids are watching TV.
The ambiguous ending is something I feel stories today have forgotten about. Part of what’s kept this film alive for me, certainly not the only thing, is the question of how it went down after the credits rolled. The answer is likely not nearly as satisfying as the many theories many have come up with over the decades.
The original cut of Paranormal Activity had a really interesting ambiguous ending but they had to change it for the theatrical release of the film.
The original ending would’ve had both main characters dead, so there wouldn’t really be a way to make a sequel with them. But in the original cut it kinda leaves things more up to the imagination as to what actually caused it. I think it’s sad that they had to change the ending for sequel bait, but I can’t argue that it was a bad idea, because those movies made SO MUCH money.
@@julesking1303 That’s a good point, and it speaks to another unfortunate thing that’s become more of a focus over the past 15-20 years: IP. These days if it’s not established IP, it’s a lot less likely to get made. Very understandable when you look at the business side of things, but still unfortunate. The 80s was a unique time of new material and risk taking.
But as Bob Sugar said: it ain’t show friends, it’s show business.
The end credits you see a dog Thing running from the burnt camp, which is reason for The Thing video game, John Carpenter said it himself that the Thing video game is the sequel and canon, you'll see who lives at the end of the Thing.
@@Holy_Wraith You're the only person I've heard say this in my 30+ years of talking with people about this movie. None of us have seen a dog running from camp in this movie. It's never been mentioned by anyone who worked on the movie. It's never been mentioned anywhere by fans. Are you sure you aren't confused with the 2011 prequel? Or maybe you've got some pareidolia going on? Or maybe you hit your head or something?
@@vladyvhv9579 Hi, back in the day when Showtime and HBO were big hit we saw a wolf dog running from the camp during the credits. The VHS and a couple unedited DVDs has the dog running away in plain daylight during the same credits.
People like to say Childs was the thing at the end, because of the breath but clearly when they chase The thing imitating Bennings it screams and you can see it's breath. Plus Child's has a flame thrower if he was the thing he could just burn Macready. It is ofc up to the individual which makes the movie that much better. Great reaction to an iconic movie!
Yes, the breath or gasoline/molotov bottle theories are easy to debunk, just like the light in the eyes one.
But a Childs-Thing wouldn't necessarily burn MacReady, why would it if it can assimilate him later? The Thing isn't just a killing machine, it's cunning, extremely intelligent and advanced, and wants to assimilate other lifeforms, not just kill them.
Norris-Thing was alone with Mac when they checked the spaceship, could've attacked him but it didn't. Or maybe it did and Mac himself is an imitation. We'll never know, masterpiece.
@@livingbeing1113 Lol true, and all good points, some also say the fact Childs is still wearing an earring proves hes human, but ofc the counter is that The Thing learned from the Norwegian camp. So many people hated the 2011 prequel, but tbh I welcomed a deeper dive into this horrific universe
I always suspected childs was the the thing because he wasn't worried about mac's saliva on the bottle
My all-time favorite practical SFX shot ever is when the severed head sprouts legs and antenna eyes and scuttles away like a crab. That whole sequence was epic, but the crab-head was masterful.
The blood test; McCready tests Windows first, gives him the flamethrower, then tests himself second. The petri dish is well labeled onscreen.
absolutely love the effects in this and really inspires me to do more drawings and stuff especially since Rob Bottin was only 22 when he started working on this movie and one of my favs glad you enjoyed it fam
Rob 1st worked with iconic special makeup artist, Rick Baker. Rob submitted illustrations to Rick at the age of 14. Rick hired Rob.
Rob nearly worked himself to death. Besides exhaustion, Rob suffered double pneumonia during filming.
@@MrTech226 holy shit didnt know that stuff l love it ty ty
They created the opening title card by setting alight a black plastic sheet that was in between a spotlight and a stencil.
One thing people overlook is the fact that they had trouble getting hold of anyone for weeks... could it be that some of the thing already got out and infected the world? And they were merely survivors who ran into the remnants of the thing?
That moment when most of the shots where you saw the whole ship was a matte painting
*Literally shows Macready checking himself and even comments on it*
5 mins later: “how come we didn’t check Macready?” lol
In all seriousness though this is a great reaction overall, I just found that part a bit funny, I can’t really blame you for forgetting though since a lot of stuff goes down in that particular scene.
New, all-time record for "Oh my god!" in a single film for Clariss? I'm thinking yes. 😂
The breakdown of the "Oh my god/gosh" is as follows:
"Oh my..." = 3
"Oh my g" = 1
"Oh [my] god!" = 60
"Oh [my] gosh!" = 8
20:50...I think you've missed a few pointers mate. Why think Blair's infected when he's the one who ran the computer simulations to see whether anyone might be infected? Also he was the one who proactively tried to isolate the camp by destroying the chopper and tractor and any useful tech that the Thing could use to aid it's escape.
McCready checked his own blood when he said 'Now I'll show you what I already know', and his blood past the test. Blair was still human until near the end.
Props from this movie are probably rare as this wasn't a big hit in theaters, it gained it's status through word of mouth🙂
Oddly enough, in 2003 a couple of fans went to Stewart, BC (the 500-person town nearest the glacier used for filming) and found the remains of Outpost #31 including the Norwegian helicopter. The rotor blade was recovered and taken home by one of them. Current status of the site is unknown.
It is much better for the video when the movie is in the big picture and the reactor is in the small picture. Always really fun to see newbies watch this film for the first time.
If you like Disney you should check out "FROZEN - BLOOD TEST SCENE | a Stop motion Animation". It's on RUclips. You might like Elsa, Olaf and others participate in that scene ;)
And as for MacReady, the blood test scene showed him using the hot wire against his blood. So, he was clean at that point in time.
There’s also a Pingu #thingu version of this
He's older should be able knock him over .... in real life he had been labourer, Military and a bodyguard. He was the tough guy on set !
This, the Predator series and the first Terminator movie are sort of the "Hollywood's Weird Uncles" era. Like, Spielberg and Lucas are Hollywood's classic dads who tell good stories that make you feel warm and fuzzy, but John Carpenter, John McTiernan and early James Cameron are your uncles who sneak you beers.
What’s great about the ending is that it makes the movie so rewatchable. You can see it ending with both of them human, Childs as the thing, Macready, or even both if you want to assume that a person as the thing mimmicks them so well it doesn’t even know it’s the thing until it instinctively reacts to danger.