Just subscribed because of your interest in horror. Would you consider reacting to a series like Haunting of Hill House or American Horror Story, or have you already seen them?
@BattleAngelFan There was a video game sequel in 2002 in which you investigate the two camps and then get caught up in a military plan to weaponize the virus. I hear mixed things about the game, a certain Spoony really hated it but others, even Carpenter, liked it and Carpenter even considers it canon to the film.
Antarctica's population is comprised mainly of scientific research staff. The number of residents varies, from around 1,100 in the harsh Antarctic winter to around 4,400 in the milder summer months of October to February, plus an additional staff of 1,000 in the nearby waters. Antarctica has no indigenous inhabitants, only permanent and summer-only staff at its many research stations. Along with the 1,100 to 4,400 research staff, there is usually an additional 1,000 personnel, including ship's crew and scientists performing on-board research in the waters of the treaty region of Antarctica. The CIA World Factbook maintains an updated breakdown of Antarctica's population. A full list may be viewed through the CIA World Factbook, but these are the countries with at least 100 people in Antarctica during the peak summer: Argentina: 667 Australia: 200 Chile: 359 France: 125 Italy: 102 Japan: 125 Russia: 429 UK: 217 United States: 1,293
We are talking 40 years ago. In retrospect, the camp seems a bit lightweight for a number of people to survive an antarctic winter. It's significantly colder there than the Arctic.
I love this movie, it's one of my favorites of all time. The thing in it that chills me the most is actually Blair's line "You think that thing wants to be an animal? No dog is making it a 1000 miles to the coast. That thing wants to be US!"
Yes the music is amazing. Done by Ennio Morricone. He's one of my favorite film composers. Known for spaghetti western film scores, but he did amazing in this.
Ennio Morricone produced a score of approximately one hour that was largely unused but was later released as part of the film's soundtrack. Carpenter and his longtime collaborator Alan Howarth separately developed some synth-styled pieces used in the film. Both Morricone and Carpenter have said this to the press. Carpenter said: [Morricone] 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 realized that there were places, mostly scenes of tension, in which his music would not work... 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.
In the beginning when the Norwegian is yelling at the Americans and shooting at the dog, what he's saying is "That's not a dog! It's a thing!" so anyone who understands Norwegian watching this would immediately know the twist.
Definitely my favorite horror film for it's use of an unpredictable monster and overwhelming paranoia. I keep coming back to it. Seen it lots of times. FYI: the shadow the dog walked up to wasn't any of the actors, it was the stunt coordinator Dick Warlock (he's in a lot of stuff, acting and stunts). But, if it was, could only be Norris or Palmer (no one bald, and no one we knew wasn't assimilated). It was supposed to be Palmer, but Carpenter thought the shadow looked to telling. Also FYI: the dog is Jed, he was part malamute and part wolf, he has his own wikipedia page... see Jed (wolfdog), pretty good acting career and long life.
It's shocking how many people miss the fact that Blair was trying to stop the thing from escaping into the world, even though it happens right after he sees the computer projections and then he explains what he's doing while he's smashing the radios.
Greatest horror film ever made and one of the greatest in general. Not just because of the great cast, ambience, plot etc but because of the concept. Can you imagine anything more frightening? You're on a desolate continent, you're battling an extremely intelligent creature, that is almost indestructible besides against fire/acid, can imitate all life forms and you won't know the difference without a specific test, you have no idea if it's malicious or simply trying to survive, you're dead if it touches you and if it gets to transportation, water or civilization the whole planet is doomed, not only humans. Only thing worse I can think of is utter atomic annihilation. Could you imagine getting to lock away The Thing into a room it can't escape or hurt anything and you could try to talk to it I'd have so many questions! Let's hope something like this doesn't exist out there in the universe, or if it does it's friendly lol
The 'crazy' doctor worked out what was going on, and took the necessary steps to ensure the Thing could not escape. He destroys all the transport, and communication, the rest of the crew don't get it, and put him in the hut where he gets assimilated. There is a prequel made in 2015 also called The Thing, set in the Norwegian camp, it's ruined by ineffective CGI, but is still worth a watch. You also might like to try the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
"Somebody in this camp aint what he appears to be. Right now that may be one or two of us. By Spring it could be all of us. Just remember what ol' Jack Burton does when the aliens fall from the sky and take on the appearance of co-workers. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol' alien right square in the mouth-claw-eye and he says, “Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it." -Jack 'Mac' Burton
@@verkpunk Totally agree. It's funny to think that the practical effects from 1982 look so much better than the cgi from 30 years later. Special effects have really gone backwards, when it's cgi over cgi in every movie, it all becomes rather meaningless.
FYI ...its ALWAYS "Winter" in Antarctica . Thanks for reaction :) also FYI : he Thing went through several directors and writers, each with different ideas on how to approach the story. Filming lasted roughly 12 weeks, beginning in August 1981, and took place in Juneau,Alaska, Stewart, British Columbia and on Refrigerated sets in Los Angeles :)
Great movie! Another outstanding reaction. I know it’s super hyped by super fans, so it’s tough when you first watch it after hearing folks gush about it. Heck, I’m guilty of gushing about it too. Totally agree, it’s tough to keep track of who is who among the minor characters at points in the film, but I think Carpenter may have done it on purpose to help disorient you about who you can and cannot trust. Gosh, the environment, the atmosphere, the practical fxs, the music, the cast . . . just a darn good and tense monster movie. Rock on!!!
Rob Bottin did the effects in The Howling as well, I can highly recommend that movie if you haven't already seen it. In my opinion The Thing is the peak of practical effects, maybe only The Fly might challenge it in that regard.
They actually made a Prequel (which is also called "THE THING") to this Movie back in 2011. It also takes place in Antarctica in 1982 and 3 days before the events of the John Carpenter Movie and it is the story of what happened at the Norwegian Base (the base where the Dog-Thing came from). The Prequel stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton. I myself actually like the 2011 Prequel although it has got a heck of a lot of really bad CGI in it. If that sort of thing (really bad CGI) is not something that bothers you then you should check the Prequel out whenever you have the chance. It is not anywhere even close to being as good as the John Carpenter Movie but still, I myself liked it.
Honestly I didn't mind the CGI, my problem was how badly the script failed to live up to the 1982 version. They try to set up questions and mysteries the way the 82 version does but they just end up with plot holes, maddening character decisions, and deus ex machina. Half of the characters died because one guy lost his shit and got them all killed and then that guy gets treated like the hero, because he's the handsome male lead.
That was a great honest reaction. This film is a classic for many reasons and in fact was not popular when it first hit cinemas and then gradually gained cult status, when shown on late night telly and video rental. It must be difficult to watch a film and comment continuously, as opposed to just watching it and absorbing all the elements, especially the interaction between the characters. I've seen it several times and love it more each time and please Norwegians, get some shooting practise.
I basically just say out loud what I’m thinking, it’s not too difficult. But my favorite movie watching experience is definitely in a quiet theatre, dark, no distractions :) Thanks for the comment
Great reaction and fantastic movie! I first watched this movie properly a few years ago and it's become one of my favourite horror films, it blew me away and the story is so well written and acted, the special effects still look spectacular and love the dark, hopeless ending those type of endings always appeal to me more because it allows the audience to speculate and come up with their own thoughts about what happened!
Hahaha I was watching this film during a snowstorm last year after my father recommended it to me and it was a good time. Some fun nasty practical effects 🤢😂🤘
The story was written by John W. Campbell. The book is called Who Goes There? and was published in 1938. In 1951 the movie The Thing From Another World was loosely based on the book. Carpenter's movie more closely follows the book but for obvious age reasons he had to change some things. I love the ambiguous ending. I like to think they sat there, got drunk and froze to death. Great story and great movie. The 2010 movie is a prequel. I liked your reaction to the movie.
Great reaction 👍 the ending of this classic sets up for you to search for answers by replaying the movie because once you watch this again and again you notice subtle moments and clues you missed before. It's not just a science fiction movie, it's a murder mystery that you the viewer have to work out and piece together. When was Blair assimilated? Was Child's telling the truth at the end? If both Norris and Palmer were both first to be taken, why did they not turn on Macready at the UFO ruins? There are a ton of questions that the movie does not answer for you, it basically gives you a blueprint to go back and make your own mind up as to what really happened and when. Btw, the shadow was Norris, he was targeted by the dog thing because he was a loner who kept to himself away from the others, he slept in a room isolated at the end of the hall. Palmer shared a room in the main dorm corridor with Childs who was not a thing at the blood test which means Palmer wasn't a thing at the dog kennel attack, because he had ample opportunity to also turn Childs and didn't.
I say Norris got hit through the food. Stomach pains, and then heart attack. The progression sped up when Norris died. Then the defibrillation scene extracted a Norris "embryo" and then the head escaped.
Hey, Sydney! This John Carpenter classic is a masterful exercise in paranoia and practical effects! I discovered "The Thing" during my junior high school years on VHS when going through a Carpenter phase. Originally a 1938 pulp novella written by John W. Campbell called "Who Goes There?", the story was first adapted to film as a 1951 Howard Hawks production called "The Thing From Another World". A '50's-era sci-fi classic in its own right, the original was taken to a whole new level by John Carpenter abetted by the incredible practical effects wizardry of Rob Bottin. A prequel was made in 2011 chronicling what happened at the Norwegian base but wasn't nearly as good. Led by a world-weary Kurt Russell, Carpenter assembled a cast of terrific veteran character actors including Keith David, Richard Dysart, Wilford Brimley, David Clennon, Charles Hallahan, Donald Moffat and Richard Masur who believably inhabit their roles and ratchet up the tension by degrees. Carpenter would direct Russell in five films including "Elvis", "The Thing", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Escape From New York" and "Escape From LA". He would direct Keith David again in "They Live!" John Carpenter is a one-man band who writes, directs, edits and scores all his films. In a rare exception, the score for "The Thing" was provided by composing great Ennio Morricone. Carpenter's body of work includes a number of pulpy classics and B-movie greats like "Assault on Precinct 13", "Halloween", "Someone's Watching Me!", "The Fog", "Escape From New York", "The Thing", "Christine", "Starman", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Prince of Darkness", "They Live!", "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", "In the Mouth of Madness", "Vampires" and "The Ward". His first film, "Dark Star", was a sci-fi horror-comedy that partially inspired "Alien"! He also wrote the screenplays for "The Eyes of Laura Mars" and "Black Moon Rising". His scores are instantly recognizable with their throbbing notes and he expertly uses silence and stillness to generate unbearable tension. Wilford Brimley's Blair sabotaged the vehicles after making the discovery that there was a high probability of someone being infected and seeing the grim projection that three years would be all it would take for the Thing to spread over the Earth! He was determined to trap them there which is the same realization Macready comes to at the end. He's taken to the shack a human but, the second time they check on him, he's probably a Thing because his demeanor is so calm. The funny noises he says he was hearing must've gotten to him before he could avail himself of the noose he fashioned as an escape from its clutches! As a Thing, he was building a craft under the shed to travel to the mainland. My favorite non-horror moment in "The Thing" is Donald Moffat's slow-burning explosive outburst while bound to the sofa. "I know you gentlemen have been through a lot but, when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS F**KING COUCH!" It gets me every time. The ambiguous ending leaves you with four possible outcomes and they're all bleak. Lol. The best case scenario is that both Childs and Mac are human, the Thing was destroyed and the survivors die of hypothermia. The other three options are that one or the other or both survivors are Things who will copy the remaining human and the rescue party as well eventually dominating the Earth. There is a popular fan theory that Things lack eye gleam and Childs doesn't have it in that last scene. It could also be a trick of light. There is another popular fan theory that claims Mac tests Childs by giving him a flask of kerosene instead of liquor which Childs consumes! Mac chuckles with fatalistic resignation realizing he has failed and humanity is doomed. That is, unless, he has a spare stick of dynamite he can use to blow himself up along with a now very flammable Childs! Lol. The only sequels exist as a series of Dark Horse comics and a video game featuring John Carpenter himself as a Dr. Faraday! Antarctica is inhabited by more penguins than humans but many nations have inland research stations and McMurdo Station on the coast hosts about 1200 people in the summer and 300 in the winter. In the 19th-century, there used to be whaling ports along the coast that operated for part of every year. The deep interior is uninhabitable for any kind of extended stay and claimed the lives of many explorers excepting Ernest Shackleton most famously.
It was filmed in Canada. Carpenter picked a very isolated spot that getting to and from as just as hard as staying there. The scenes of the Norwegian camp were filmed last after all other filming was completed because Carpenter used the destroyed sets of the American camp as the Norwegian camp.
I love your reaction to this, especially since you didn't freak out over the dogs being killed, like so many other reactors do without thinking about why it's happening.
I typically thought the winter crew was just there as a sort’ve skeleton crew to make sure the equipment was maintained and the place didn’t get destroyed by the elements.
I was thinking they were a weather station doing research on fauna or something given that 1/4 of the team was biological engineers, 1/4 was pilots and drivers, 1/4 was electrical operators and last quarter was miscellaneous.
if you haven't seen it, Bone Tomahawk(2015) is a fantastic horror movie. Very different from any that I've ever seen, yet the anxiety and fear is top notch. Kurt Russel and Patrick Wilson are the stars but the cast is packed with well-known talent. Not gonna say more, it just needs to be experienced.
If you ever wonder what paranoid claustrophobia is like, just watch this movie. One of my all time favourite horror/suspense movies on par with Alien with some amazing practical effects that still hold up so well. :)
I wonder if the transitions were a homage to the super old, original concept for this movie. "The Thing from Another World" I believe was the original, original film. And perhaps the older style transitions were a throwback to that? Just speculating.
@@ScaredPale Ok first off filming with the air off and a ring light or two in my case in your face sucks. I feel your pain. I finally upgraded my microphone so I can run may air without it being picked up and man does it help with my reactions. The Thing does have a lot of hype around it and that can inflate expectations. I love it but you are right the story is fairly simple and on my re-watches I do tend to only really pay attention to the cool monster scenes so I get it. Glad to see a honest reaction with some valid points. Mandy has got to be on your watch list . A Nic Cage art house meets grind house revenge flick that is visually stunning. One of my favorites movies of all time and I am on a personal mission to get every reactor to watch it.
Mandy, you got it! I love Nic Cage just going full in Nic Cage. Thanks for the filming sympathy haha sounds like you got a great set up going! What microphone do you use?
@@ScaredPale Yeti Professional Multi-Pattern USB Microphone. Best in my price range and the ability to set the polar pattern to only pick up sound coming from the front of the microphone keeps my air conditioner sound from being picked up. Makes filming in the summer tolerable.
Rob Bottin apprenticed under Rick Baker - he was part of the American Werewolf in London Effects crew. Rob Did The Howling, Robocop, Total Recall - to name a few. :)
Based upon the creepy novella "Who Goes There?" it is a faithful adaption capturing the terror of isolation in freezing conditions...Carpenter ruled the 80's Horror genre with this and "They Live" plus "Big Trouble in Little China"!
At timestamp 6:38 That is one of John Carpenter's signatures . He composes the music and scores of almost all of this films. Another signature of Carpenter is that when you reached the end of the movie, it is not the end!! And, in John Carpenters movies, the Black man makes it to the end of the movie!
There are around 66 scientific bases in Antarctica, of which about 37 are occupied year round, the remainder are open during the summer and closed down for winter. There are about 4,000 people through the summer months and about 1,000 overwinter each year.
I remember watching this as a kid when the days of the VHS was in fashion. Lol. This movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid but watching it as an adult makes me smile because of the effects. But it’s still a good movie though!!!
Fantastic special effects by Rob Bottin, but also credits to Stan Winston who didn't want credit for it but did the first transformation because Rob Bottin was already overworking on other effects.
At time stamp 26:18 Have you noticed that the music for this movie has the temple similar to a heartbeat? In my opinion, I believe John Carpenter did that on purpose. As you said, the music is not overwhelming and whenever the music does come out in a scene, is it always very low volume and at the same rhythm of a heartbeat, slowly increasing in tempo and I believe that it has a subconscious effect on the heartbeat, causing your heartbeat to raise because you're so involved in what scene is. Therefore, by the time the revealing/scare scene jumps out at you, you're not aware that your heart is already racing in sync with the background music.
The Things my fav and I’ve been watching other first timers get nauseous and threaten to turn it off at the dog scene and the spider head. YOU are one tough lady. Respect. 🤟
Blair was likely still normal until the night Fuchs died because we see one of the things moving around. They likely don’t need sleep or eat cooked food. Also they did make a prequel in 2011 about the Norwegian base.
Huge fan of this movie. While it's beloved for it's practical effects, and of course the iconic working relationship of Carpenter and Russell, my favorite thing about it is the constant paranoia and tension that comes from that. "Workplace" horror is always an interesting setting for the genre because it doesn't rely on family and/or friend relationships, so you get a lot of varying personality types, and this movie is a great reflection of that. While I absolutely love this movie, I can understand your reasons for not enjoying it quite as much. I would recommend the 2011 "sequel" to you. I don't enjoy it nearly as much as this one, but it's a solid enough movie, and the pacing and aesthetic might better match your tastes. Not to mention, there's actually women in it, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead is a solid lead.
Rob Bottin is legendary for monster/robot special effects, not only for this but also Robocop, Total Recall, The Howling, The Fog, Legend, etc. The Thing is his best work by far!
I saw thIs in an almost empty theater. When they found the Thing's escape vehicle in the tunnel under the shed some guy in the theater yelled out "ET go home!!!" Very, very funny😀😁😂😃😄😅
the time from first contact to the end of the film is approximately 6 days ! and everyone questions the ending , wondering if childes or macready are the thing , forgetting that , half of the dog creature escaped through the roof , and we never actually see blair , garry ,or nauls die ! chances are mac and childes are human , and that the others have gone into hibernation , to await the rescue team that will show up eventually !
The shadow was actually one of the set crew, it was done intentionally so it was ambiguous on who it was. I tend to think it was Palmer (stoner guy) or Norris (the guy who had a heart attack). You should watch the Hitcher next, the original one its on HBO Max and its VERY good.
I kind of looked around and didn't really see it, so I figured I'd throw this in: A lot of people believe Childs at the end is a thing. Reason being, MacReady handed him a bottle to drink from, and Child drank from it as if there hadn't been a problem. If he was human, he would have probably taken serious precautions before drinking, or outright rejected it, since one molecule of the thing is enough to turn you. Sharing a bottle with someone would lead to instant infection, hence why MacReady handed it to him as a test, and laughed at the end, knowing he was turned. Just one of the many thoughts fans of the film have.
I have a really long answer, but I'll keep it short. This is considered a SciFi horror film, but it's a paradigm in what's called the "professional" and what they do in challenging situations and was originally brought to the screen by Howstd Hawks in the 1951 film The Thing ( from another world) and the themes of a lot of his films is this kind of isolated professionalism and the roles charscyrrd play, his film Rio Bravo being probably one of his most famous. And it's based on a novel called Who Goes There? which interestingly follows well with your comment of It's not a who done it? but Who is it? about collective paranoia. Also I like those sudden fadeouts between scenes.
PS: i was thinking: she's in sweltering heat watching a movie that takes place in Antarctica! "Jaws" might have been a better choice for that day, lol! Yeah, definitely: air conditioning pretty much started in movie theaters in the early 1900s; theaters used to close for the summer. Air conditioning was itself an early attraction to going to the movies. So definitely make sure you're comfortable for any reaction!
You mentioned the music creating a lot of drama and that's because Carpenter is also a musician. He created the Halloween theme and I believe "thumb thumb" theme to this movie as well.
one of the scariest things about this is you can be infected , and not know it ! at least not until it reacts to a threat ,or has the chance to infect another person ! it also absorbs the memories of the infected , so your sister could be it , and you would never know !
The first time I saw this, I didn't keep everyone straight either, it was kinda guy heavy and it was really only the effects that I liked. (I was already a fan of the original "The Thing" from the 50s, which played on TV all the time in the 70s, and everybody knew). But upon repeated viewings, this movie really grew in stature for me, although there are many little plot points and holes that I just overlook (some of which you pointed out in your video!). It flopped at the box office, partly due to lukewarm reviews, and also it was the summer of "Poltergeist" and "E.T.", which people went to see over and over again. It found a second life immediately on cable, along with the previous year's flop, "An American Werewolf In London", lol. Both - especially "The Thing" - were staples of late night cable in the 80s and 90s and their stature grew. The movie this most resembles to me is "Alien" (1979). PS: The original "The Thing" (actually "The Thing From Another World", but somewhere along the way everybody started calling it "The Thing"!) is really good for early 50s horror, some great scenes. The monster isn't a shape shifter and is a completely different story pretty much, other than it taking place on Antarctica. There are a couple of homages in the '82 version.....and although fans of the 1982 "Thing" seem to ignore it, saying that this version is closer to the source material (the story "Who Goes There?"), the fact is it was marketed as a remake, (it was called "The Thing" for a starter!) and it was that 50's movie that was the impetus for Carpenter to make this movie, not by reading "Who Goes There". Great reaction, video, Cinema Sister! I thought every thing you said was right on the money for a first viewing. :D
@@AJRabies Ah yes, you are correct. Different cut-off-from-civilization-snowy environment. By the way, nobody called it "The Thing From Another World" during the 70s and 80s: it would be listed in the TV Guide as "The Thing". I have no idea why. I had a book about monster movies when I was a kid, and that also listed it as "The Thing". I had assumed for years that "The Thing From Another World" was an alternate title, not the original one! So funny, very weird. Do you know when (and why) that came about?
@@TTM9691 As a general guess... I would say the change was made because "The Thing" is simply a shorter title than "The Thing from Another World." And back in the day when printing costs were based on the # of words printed.... a shorter title saves money. ?
@@AJRabies That's all I could think of, too, although it didn't stop them from printing longer titles like "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", "It Happened On The Way To The Forum", "Who Is Harry Kellerman And Why Is He Saying All Those Terrible Things About Me?", or tons of other movies with longer titles. Alas, we'll probably never know! But I can tell you, if you would have said to half the people back in the day "Have you seen "The Thing From Another World"?, they wouldn't have known what you were talking about. I sure wouldn't have. PS: My Grandfather saw the original on an Army base during the Korean War, and said it scared the bejesus out of him and his friend. :D
Antarctica is an isolated continent surrounded by the Southern Ocean, which has an incredibly powerful current which circles the continent completely. It is divided up by a handful of countries (US, Russia, Norway ect.) where it was agreed upon that these territories are for research and exploration only. No military occupation or settlements. Normally research teams rotate every 6 months, but when you're there, that's it. You're stuck all winter. No help for thousands of miles.
THIS is one of the very few remakes that I like (a rarity). Others being Invasion of the Body snatchers (1978), Cat People (1982), Nosferatu The Vampire (Werner Herzog & Klaus Kinski version 1979), Scar face (1983) and The Blob (1988).
My biggest question what was the planet the Thing came from what was the atmosphere like on it’s planet and how many more thing aliens are their besides the one that crash landed on earth?
Great movie. I'm always amused by the fact that not many people pick up on the fact that Antarctica in the winter is always dark. I think John knew this but having it dark all the time might be to overwhelming/depressing.
This movie hits you at your first viewing best, when you have no idea what the monster looks like. With seeing the picture of the headcrab you might have spoiled yourself there.
Have you seen The Thing 2011? It's actually the prequel you mentioned. They used practical effects but the studio decided to use CGI instead, unfortunately. It's not bad, but the effects are a bit off.
I sometimes forget about leaving my thoughts on the movies you're reacting to and I just ask questions about other stuff... The Thing is a masterpiece. I love it. I understand your thoughts regarding the edits. Not sure you have seen the Harry Potter series but Deathly Hallows part 1 has similar edits where the characters are just standing there and the camera pans away a little and fades to black. I always felt that was an odd choice for a Harry Potter movie. I find it interesting that John Carpenter didn't do the score for this one. I do believe it didn't do well in the theater. I don't actually remember the names of the characters either. What was interesting about the one guy who's torso rips open and eats the guy's arms who was using the defibrillator paddles didn't seem to want to be the leader. I've always wondered if once the thing is part of them does the mind of the person stay in it? Or did it simply think to stay discreet it shouldn't be in control of the group? Anyway, I'm sure on subsequent viewings you'll enjoy it more. Try watching it in the winter when it's below zero. That'll probably help:)
There is a prequel to this movie. It came out in 2011 and was also called The Thing. I think a lot of people think it's a remake, so don't bother watching it. The lead character is an American women, though I can't remember her name. Great reaction 👍👏.
Funny you mentioned Gary shooting the Norwegian and killing him vs wounding him so they could get information. The book specifically laments this action as well for that very reason.
Last comment I swear haha, but you should RUclips the alternate ending for this. It’s not much, but after the fade to black there’s a brief scene of the dog running away from the camp as the sun is coming up.
Ah, so you wanna see what happened in the Norwegian camp before it got to MAcready's research station? You'll have to watch 2011's The Thing, its basically the lead up to why they were chasing the husky at the beginning. I think its a great movie, but a lot of others were not convinced because it overuses CGI effects, but it does have some good practical creature effects as well, and it retained sort of the same freaky designs while showing us something horrifically new. Also fun fact that not many people know: this film is actually a remake of a 1951 B-movie. I saw it when I was a kid, and 2 moments stand out to me the most, one of them being a pretty effective jumpscare that made me scamper across the room (I was eight at the time, and I loved classic horror films), and the fact that one of the stuntmen playing the monster did a full 3-minute fire burn stunt in one continuous shot. Pretty cool, even for the 50's!
"It's weird and pissed-off, whatever it is" Good job, good reaction. I wish you could take down the light value in your image bubble; so much of this movie is shot in the dark or low light. It's like looking into high-beams and still trying to see the road. Our pupils can't dilate enough to see the film's details in the comparative dark. Thanks for saving your thoughts for after the movie rather than talking over the dialog. I enjoyed this. So you've won my subscription. I get the sense that you're doing sci-fi or horror films exclusively (i just found you, but it seems that way), so i have requests/recommendations; Have you seen FALLEN (1998) Denzel Washington, John Goodman? INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978) Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum UNDER THE SKIN (2013) Scarlett Johansson (i love this film).
hey glad to see u took me up on some john carpenter movies and i hope u dive deep into him so many more movies that dont get reacted to and i hope u will start the trend
Kurt Russel is still going strong! He's in the last 3 installments of the _Fast & Furious franchise, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood,_ et.c. But the ones you really need to add to your list are _Escape From New York_ and _Big Trouble in Little China,_ if you haven't seen them already. Two absolute fan favorites from the 80s, and both directed by John Carpenter as well!
@@ScaredPale While I like _Death Proof_ more than most people, it's still one of Tarantino's weakest movies. _Big Trouble in Little China,_ on the other hand, is perhaps the best movie Russell or Carpenter ever made. Although your assessment might vary, depending on your particular sense of humor, and appreciation of camp and kung-fu...
@@egodreas I can't wait to watch Death Proof for the stunts alone after having listened to a few interviews about the movie knowing I guess one of the women is the stunt artist from all his movies.
If you're not happy with my reaction....WATCH TILL THE END.
The shadow in the room (when the dog enters) wasn't a cast member. Carpenter didn't want the audience to have any clue who it was. ☺
Just subscribed because of your interest in horror. Would you consider reacting to a series like Haunting of Hill House or American Horror Story, or have you already seen them?
@@ahenze85 I actually shockingly haven’t seen haunting of hill house!!! So that’s a great idea thanks!
@@wesleyrodgers886 ahhh thank you! No wonder I was confused
@@wesleyrodgers886 I've always assumed it was Norris anyway because it is basically his profile.
Sunglasses can be quite useful in Antarctica, since it protects against snow blindness (excessive UV light damaging the cornea).
My favorite thing about this movie is how all the characters are smart and not in denial like every other horror movie
You 100% described the 2011 "The Thing" which, yes (minor spoiler), ends with them going after the dog.
@BattleAngelFan There was a video game sequel in 2002 in which you investigate the two camps and then get caught up in a military plan to weaponize the virus.
I hear mixed things about the game, a certain Spoony really hated it but others, even Carpenter, liked it and Carpenter even considers it canon to the film.
It was almost as if she was pitching the idea directly to a universal studio execs lol
Antarctica's population is comprised mainly of scientific research staff. The number of residents varies, from around 1,100 in the harsh Antarctic winter to around 4,400 in the milder summer months of October to February, plus an additional staff of 1,000 in the nearby waters.
Antarctica has no indigenous inhabitants, only permanent and summer-only staff at its many research stations. Along with the 1,100 to 4,400 research staff, there is usually an additional 1,000 personnel, including ship's crew and scientists performing on-board research in the waters of the treaty region of Antarctica. The CIA World Factbook maintains an updated breakdown of Antarctica's population. A full list may be viewed through the CIA World Factbook, but these are the countries with at least 100 people in Antarctica during the peak summer:
Argentina: 667
Australia: 200
Chile: 359
France: 125
Italy: 102
Japan: 125
Russia: 429
UK: 217
United States: 1,293
We are talking 40 years ago.
In retrospect, the camp seems a bit lightweight for a number of people to survive an antarctic winter. It's significantly colder there than the Arctic.
I love this movie, it's one of my favorites of all time. The thing in it that chills me the most is actually Blair's line "You think that thing wants to be an animal? No dog is making it a 1000 miles to the coast. That thing wants to be US!"
Yes the music is amazing. Done by Ennio Morricone. He's one of my favorite film composers. Known for spaghetti western film scores, but he did amazing in this.
I remember watching this as a kid and how that music score scared the shit out of me!!! It is great how they did that!!!
Ennio Morricone produced a score of approximately one hour that was largely unused but was later released as part of the film's soundtrack.
Carpenter and his longtime collaborator Alan Howarth separately developed some synth-styled pieces used in the film.
Both Morricone and Carpenter have said this to the press.
Carpenter said:
[Morricone] 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 realized that there were places, mostly scenes of tension, in which his music would not work... 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.
That husky is one of the best actors ever to take a spot on camera.
Half wolf, too.
In the beginning when the Norwegian is yelling at the Americans and shooting at the dog, what he's saying is "That's not a dog! It's a thing!" so anyone who understands Norwegian watching this would immediately know the twist.
Wow that’s amazing! That’s great the dialogue is authentic
I know this is a late comment but you do realize they did make the 2nd film about what happened to the Norwegians in mid 2000's.
Definitely my favorite horror film for it's use of an unpredictable monster and overwhelming paranoia. I keep coming back to it. Seen it lots of times.
FYI: the shadow the dog walked up to wasn't any of the actors, it was the stunt coordinator Dick Warlock (he's in a lot of stuff, acting and stunts). But, if it was, could only be Norris or Palmer (no one bald, and no one we knew wasn't assimilated). It was supposed to be Palmer, but Carpenter thought the shadow looked to telling.
Also FYI: the dog is Jed, he was part malamute and part wolf, he has his own wikipedia page... see Jed (wolfdog), pretty good acting career and long life.
It's shocking how many people miss the fact that Blair was trying to stop the thing from escaping into the world, even though it happens right after he sees the computer projections and then he explains what he's doing while he's smashing the radios.
My thoughts exactly.
Look up the 2011 version of THE THING. It's what you mentioned. It's about what happened at the Norwegian camp and it ties into the orginal...
Greatest horror film ever made and one of the greatest in general. Not just because of the great cast, ambience, plot etc but because of the concept. Can you imagine anything more frightening? You're on a desolate continent, you're battling an extremely intelligent creature, that is almost indestructible besides against fire/acid, can imitate all life forms and you won't know the difference without a specific test, you have no idea if it's malicious or simply trying to survive, you're dead if it touches you and if it gets to transportation, water or civilization the whole planet is doomed, not only humans. Only thing worse I can think of is utter atomic annihilation. Could you imagine getting to lock away The Thing into a room it can't escape or hurt anything and you could try to talk to it I'd have so many questions! Let's hope something like this doesn't exist out there in the universe, or if it does it's friendly lol
there ate actually 3 movies in the series. The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (1982), and The Thing (2011)
No, just two. The 82 movie is a remake of the 51 movie, not a sequel.
There's also *Horror Express* from the 1970s, an adaptation of the story set on a train -- and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
The 'crazy' doctor worked out what was going on, and took the necessary steps to ensure the Thing could not escape. He destroys all the transport, and communication, the rest of the crew don't get it, and put him in the hut where he gets assimilated. There is a prequel made in 2015 also called The Thing, set in the Norwegian camp, it's ruined by ineffective CGI, but is still worth a watch. You also might like to try the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
2011 not 2015
@@jonathansmith546 Longer ago? Time flies Thanks!
@@portland-182 no worries 😁
"Somebody in this camp aint what he appears to be. Right now that may be one or two of us. By Spring it could be all of us. Just remember what ol' Jack Burton does when the aliens fall from the sky and take on the appearance of co-workers. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big ol' alien right square in the mouth-claw-eye and he says, “Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it." -Jack 'Mac' Burton
The crossover we need, but don't deserve right now.
Richard Mazur (Clark) has been in a million movies. Great character actor.
The exact scenario of a prequel you mentioned was made in 2011 ending with the helicopter chase. Also called The Thing. I recommend it.
The only good thing about the prequel is that it really shows why practical effects are better than cgi.
@@verkpunk Totally agree. It's funny to think that the practical effects from 1982 look so much better than the cgi from 30 years later. Special effects have really gone backwards, when it's cgi over cgi in every movie, it all becomes rather meaningless.
FYI ...its ALWAYS "Winter" in Antarctica . Thanks for reaction :) also FYI : he Thing went through several directors and writers, each with different ideas on how to approach the story. Filming lasted roughly 12 weeks, beginning in August 1981, and took place in Juneau,Alaska, Stewart, British Columbia and on Refrigerated sets in Los Angeles :)
Great movie! Another outstanding reaction. I know it’s super hyped by super fans, so it’s tough when you first watch it after hearing folks gush about it. Heck, I’m guilty of gushing about it too. Totally agree, it’s tough to keep track of who is who among the minor characters at points in the film, but I think Carpenter may have done it on purpose to help disorient you about who you can and cannot trust. Gosh, the environment, the atmosphere, the practical fxs, the music, the cast . . . just a darn good and tense monster movie. Rock on!!!
That actually makes a lot of sense!!!! Not knowing the characters adds a lot of sense of disorientation/ distrust. Love it
How do you define a great reaction from a poor reaction?
Rob Bottin did the effects in The Howling as well, I can highly recommend that movie if you haven't already seen it. In my opinion The Thing is the peak of practical effects, maybe only The Fly might challenge it in that regard.
The Howling was scary and sad...the book is very good
@@traceyreid4585 I read it right before the film came out. I agree!
Stan Winston was called in after Rob was hospitalized from exhaustion. Not a bad artist to come in and touch up your little scary bugs.
Bottin was also the man responsible for RoboCop's costume and makeup design, which I'd argue is probably his most famous work.
@@reidmason2551 And you will argue that often. 😁🤘
They actually made a Prequel (which is also called "THE THING") to this Movie back in 2011.
It also takes place in Antarctica in 1982 and 3 days before the events of the John Carpenter Movie and it is the story of what happened at the Norwegian Base (the base where the Dog-Thing came from).
The Prequel stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton.
I myself actually like the 2011 Prequel although it has got a heck of a lot of really bad CGI in it. If that sort of thing (really bad CGI) is not something that bothers you then you should check the Prequel out whenever you have the chance. It is not anywhere even close to being as good as the John Carpenter Movie but still, I myself liked it.
CGI ruined that movie. The movie was initially supposed to have practical efforts but the studio scrapped it.
@@DirtMaguirk Yeah, That is true.
I still like the Movie though.
Honestly I didn't mind the CGI, my problem was how badly the script failed to live up to the 1982 version. They try to set up questions and mysteries the way the 82 version does but they just end up with plot holes, maddening character decisions, and deus ex machina.
Half of the characters died because one guy lost his shit and got them all killed and then that guy gets treated like the hero, because he's the handsome male lead.
That was a great honest reaction. This film is a classic for many reasons and in fact was not popular when it first hit cinemas and then gradually gained cult status, when shown on late night telly and video rental. It must be difficult to watch a film and comment continuously, as opposed to just watching it and absorbing all the elements, especially the interaction between the characters. I've seen it several times and love it more each time and please Norwegians, get some shooting practise.
I basically just say out loud what I’m thinking, it’s not too difficult. But my favorite movie watching experience is definitely in a quiet theatre, dark, no distractions :)
Thanks for the comment
From what I heard John Carpenter used a stand-in for the silhouette scene when dog entered the room. Basically to throw audience off
Yes...he wanted to make sure nobody would guess who it was from the silhouette, so don't feel bad if you didn't recognize the profile...nobody did.
David Keith was great in this one and Carpenter's They Live.
They Live, bloody brilliant 🤩
Keith David*
One of the best supporting actors. He played in so many movies. One of my favorites was his role in Men at work
Great reaction and fantastic movie! I first watched this movie properly a few years ago and it's become one of my favourite horror films, it blew me away and the story is so well written and acted, the special effects still look spectacular and love the dark, hopeless ending those type of endings always appeal to me more because it allows the audience to speculate and come up with their own thoughts about what happened!
Agree! I love dark hopeless endings haha. Like don’t even get me started on The Mist.
I love that you admit that you know things about the film. You might be my favorite reaction video channel.
Wow thank you! Let me know if there’s any specific movie you want me to watch!
@@ScaredPale It is a old film and it might bore you "The Black Stallion, 1979". I love the film for some reason I really don't understand.
Now you gotta complete Carpenters end of the world trilogy, next up is “Prince of Darkness”, then wrap it up with “in the mouth of madness”
The Fog
Hahaha I was watching this film during a snowstorm last year after my father recommended it to me and it was a good time. Some fun nasty practical effects 🤢😂🤘
Haha that’s awesome
@@ScaredPale Did you spot the sub plot of the movie ??
"Childs, what if we're wrong about him?!?"
"Well then we're wrong!"
The transitions are the best part, as it shows the passage of time, and IMO really adds to the feeling of isolation and dread.
The story was written by John W. Campbell. The book is called Who Goes There? and was published in 1938. In 1951 the movie The Thing From Another World was loosely based on the book. Carpenter's movie more closely follows the book but for obvious age reasons he had to change some things. I love the ambiguous ending. I like to think they sat there, got drunk and froze to death. Great story and great movie. The 2010 movie is a prequel. I liked your reaction to the movie.
The freeze frame during the fadeouts feels like a mistake they had to leave in and it's always bugged me too
my question is, in general, if you see a head spider thing, how do you know if it's a good head spider thing or a bad head spider thing?
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Great reaction 👍 the ending of this classic sets up for you to search for answers by replaying the movie because once you watch this again and again you notice subtle moments and clues you missed before. It's not just a science fiction movie, it's a murder mystery that you the viewer have to work out and piece together. When was Blair assimilated? Was Child's telling the truth at the end? If both Norris and Palmer were both first to be taken, why did they not turn on Macready at the UFO ruins? There are a ton of questions that the movie does not answer for you, it basically gives you a blueprint to go back and make your own mind up as to what really happened and when.
Btw, the shadow was Norris, he was targeted by the dog thing because he was a loner who kept to himself away from the others, he slept in a room isolated at the end of the hall. Palmer shared a room in the main dorm corridor with Childs who was not a thing at the blood test which means Palmer wasn't a thing at the dog kennel attack, because he had ample opportunity to also turn Childs and didn't.
This what The Thing pulled off like no other movie, and what the prequel failed so badly at when it tried.
I say Norris got hit through the food. Stomach pains, and then heart attack. The progression sped up when Norris died. Then the defibrillation scene extracted a Norris "embryo" and then the head escaped.
According to a video game of the same name released in 2002 that John Carpenter has said is canon, McReady is rescued, while Childs froze to death.
WOW! THAT IS HUGE. So cool, I gotta check out this game
Hey, Sydney! This John Carpenter classic is a masterful exercise in paranoia and practical effects!
I discovered "The Thing" during my junior high school
years on VHS when going through a Carpenter phase.
Originally a 1938 pulp novella written by John W. Campbell called "Who Goes There?", the story was first adapted to film as a 1951 Howard Hawks production called "The Thing From Another World". A '50's-era sci-fi classic in its own right, the original was taken to a whole new level by John Carpenter abetted by the incredible practical effects wizardry of Rob Bottin. A prequel was made in 2011 chronicling what happened at the Norwegian base but wasn't nearly as good.
Led by a world-weary Kurt Russell, Carpenter assembled a cast of terrific veteran character actors including Keith David, Richard Dysart, Wilford Brimley, David Clennon, Charles Hallahan, Donald Moffat and Richard Masur who believably inhabit their roles and ratchet up the tension by degrees. Carpenter would direct Russell in five films including "Elvis", "The Thing", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Escape From New York" and "Escape From LA". He would direct Keith David again in "They Live!"
John Carpenter is a one-man band who writes, directs, edits and scores all his films. In a rare exception, the score for "The Thing" was provided by composing great Ennio Morricone. Carpenter's body of work includes a number of pulpy classics and B-movie greats like "Assault on Precinct 13", "Halloween", "Someone's Watching Me!", "The Fog", "Escape From New York", "The Thing", "Christine", "Starman", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Prince of Darkness", "They Live!", "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", "In the Mouth of Madness", "Vampires" and "The Ward". His first film, "Dark Star", was a sci-fi horror-comedy that partially inspired "Alien"! He also wrote the screenplays for "The Eyes of Laura Mars" and "Black Moon Rising". His scores are instantly recognizable with their throbbing notes and he expertly uses silence and stillness to generate unbearable tension.
Wilford Brimley's Blair sabotaged the vehicles after making the discovery that there was a high probability of someone being infected and seeing the grim projection that three years would be all it would take for the Thing to spread over the Earth! He was determined to trap them there which is the same realization Macready comes to at the end. He's taken to the shack a human but, the second time they check on him, he's probably a Thing because his demeanor is so calm. The funny noises he says he was hearing must've gotten to him before he could avail himself of the noose he fashioned as an escape from its clutches! As a Thing, he was building a craft under the shed to travel to the mainland.
My favorite non-horror moment in "The Thing" is Donald Moffat's slow-burning explosive outburst while bound to the sofa. "I know you gentlemen have been through a lot but, when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS F**KING COUCH!" It gets me every time.
The ambiguous ending leaves you with four possible outcomes and they're all bleak. Lol.
The best case scenario is that both Childs and Mac are human, the Thing was destroyed and the survivors die of hypothermia.
The other three options are that one or the other or both survivors are Things who will copy the remaining human and the rescue party as well eventually dominating the Earth.
There is a popular fan theory that Things lack eye gleam and Childs doesn't have it in that last scene. It could also be a trick of light.
There is another popular fan theory that claims Mac tests Childs by giving him a flask of kerosene instead of liquor which Childs consumes! Mac chuckles with fatalistic resignation realizing he has failed and humanity is doomed. That is, unless, he has a spare stick of dynamite he can use to blow himself up along with a now very flammable Childs! Lol.
The only sequels exist as a series of Dark Horse comics and a video game featuring John Carpenter himself as a Dr. Faraday!
Antarctica is inhabited by more penguins than humans but many nations have inland research stations and McMurdo Station on the coast hosts about 1200 people in the summer and 300 in the winter.
In the 19th-century, there used to be whaling ports along the coast that operated for part of every year.
The deep interior is uninhabitable for any kind of extended stay and claimed the lives of many explorers excepting Ernest Shackleton most famously.
The ending of The Thing has been quite the debate. Childs and Max, was 1 of them a Thing?
It was filmed in Canada. Carpenter picked a very isolated spot that getting to and from as just as hard as staying there. The scenes of the Norwegian camp were filmed last after all other filming was completed because Carpenter used the destroyed sets of the American camp as the Norwegian camp.
I love your reaction to this, especially since you didn't freak out over the dogs being killed, like so many other reactors do without thinking about why it's happening.
I typically thought the winter crew was just there as a sort’ve skeleton crew to make sure the equipment was maintained and the place didn’t get destroyed by the elements.
I was thinking they were a weather station doing research on fauna or something given that 1/4 of the team was biological engineers, 1/4 was pilots and drivers, 1/4 was electrical operators and last quarter was miscellaneous.
if you haven't seen it, Bone Tomahawk(2015) is a fantastic horror movie. Very different from any that I've ever seen, yet the anxiety and fear is top notch. Kurt Russel and Patrick Wilson are the stars but the cast is packed with well-known talent. Not gonna say more, it just needs to be experienced.
OMG Bone Tomahawk is SOOOO damn good. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!!!
I've been watching reaction videos and sometimes drinking tequila and this is the first time your channel has come up. Thumbs up button pressed.
Wow thanks! I appreciate it
If you ever wonder what paranoid claustrophobia is like, just watch this movie. One of my all time favourite horror/suspense movies on par with Alien with some amazing practical effects that still hold up so well. :)
I wonder if the transitions were a homage to the super old, original concept for this movie. "The Thing from Another World" I believe was the original, original film. And perhaps the older style transitions were a throwback to that? Just speculating.
23:12: They already made that movie. Watch "The Thing" (2011). :)
Excited to watch this reaction. One of my favorite movies ever. Carpenter at his best.
Thanks! Watch till the end to see why my reaction is.....well the way it is haha.
@@ScaredPale Ok first off filming with the air off and a ring light or two in my case in your face sucks. I feel your pain. I finally upgraded my microphone so I can run may air without it being picked up and man does it help with my reactions.
The Thing does have a lot of hype around it and that can inflate expectations. I love it but you are right the story is fairly simple and on my re-watches I do tend to only really pay attention to the cool monster scenes so I get it. Glad to see a honest reaction with some valid points.
Mandy has got to be on your watch list . A Nic Cage art house meets grind house revenge flick that is visually stunning. One of my favorites movies of all time and I am on a personal mission to get every reactor to watch it.
Mandy, you got it! I love Nic Cage just going full in Nic Cage.
Thanks for the filming sympathy haha sounds like you got a great set up going! What microphone do you use?
@@ScaredPale Yeti Professional Multi-Pattern USB Microphone. Best in my price range and the ability to set the polar pattern to only pick up sound coming from the front of the microphone keeps my air conditioner sound from being picked up. Makes filming in the summer tolerable.
Rob Bottin apprenticed under Rick Baker - he was part of the American Werewolf in London Effects crew. Rob Did The Howling, Robocop, Total Recall - to name a few. :)
Based upon the creepy novella "Who Goes There?" it is a faithful adaption capturing the terror of isolation in freezing conditions...Carpenter ruled the 80's Horror genre with this and "They Live" plus "Big Trouble in Little China"!
There is the prequel version. Done in 2012. It takes place in the Norwegian camp. And it ends where this one begins
"It must be pretty cold there" lol
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That is one of John Carpenter's signatures . He composes the music and scores of almost all of this films. Another signature of Carpenter is that when you reached the end of the movie, it is not the end!! And, in John Carpenters movies, the Black man makes it to the end of the movie!
There are around 66 scientific bases in Antarctica, of which about 37 are occupied year round, the remainder are open during the summer and closed down for winter. There are about 4,000 people through the summer months and about 1,000 overwinter each year.
Clark was on a late seventies tv show called One day at a time...starring Valerie Bertinelli.
I remember watching this as a kid when the days of the VHS was in fashion. Lol. This movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid but watching it as an adult makes me smile because of the effects. But it’s still a good movie though!!!
Fantastic special effects by Rob Bottin, but also credits to Stan Winston who didn't want credit for it but did the first transformation because Rob Bottin was already overworking on other effects.
Thought Curt Russell did an incredible acting job. Loved him in this!!!
You hit the nail right on the head. A prequel also called The Thing about the Norwegian camp was made in 2011. It's good actually.
Filmed in The Canadian Rockies. Based on a story called Who Goes There. This version of the film follows it pretty closely.
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Have you noticed that the music for this movie has the temple similar to a heartbeat? In my opinion, I believe John Carpenter did that on purpose. As you said, the music is not overwhelming and whenever the music does come out in a scene, is it always very low volume and at the same rhythm of a heartbeat, slowly increasing in tempo and I believe that it has a subconscious effect on the heartbeat, causing your heartbeat to raise because you're so involved in what scene is. Therefore, by the time the revealing/scare scene jumps out at you, you're not aware that your heart is already racing in sync with the background music.
"The Thing" (2011) is the prequel to this film, which shows the events at the Norwegian camp and their attempts to destroy the alien.
The Things my fav and I’ve been watching other first timers get nauseous and threaten to turn it off at the dog scene and the spider head. YOU are one tough lady. Respect. 🤟
The Blood test scene was on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.b
That's cool, definitely a suspenseful moment!
Blair was likely still normal until the night Fuchs died because we see one of the things moving around. They likely don’t need sleep or eat cooked food.
Also they did make a prequel in 2011 about the Norwegian base.
Huge fan of this movie. While it's beloved for it's practical effects, and of course the iconic working relationship of Carpenter and Russell, my favorite thing about it is the constant paranoia and tension that comes from that. "Workplace" horror is always an interesting setting for the genre because it doesn't rely on family and/or friend relationships, so you get a lot of varying personality types, and this movie is a great reflection of that. While I absolutely love this movie, I can understand your reasons for not enjoying it quite as much. I would recommend the 2011 "sequel" to you. I don't enjoy it nearly as much as this one, but it's a solid enough movie, and the pacing and aesthetic might better match your tastes. Not to mention, there's actually women in it, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead is a solid lead.
Rob Bottin is legendary for monster/robot special effects, not only for this but also Robocop, Total Recall, The Howling, The Fog, Legend, etc. The Thing is his best work by far!
I saw thIs in an almost empty theater. When they found the Thing's escape vehicle in the tunnel under the shed some guy in the theater yelled out "ET go home!!!" Very, very funny😀😁😂😃😄😅
the time from first contact to the end of the film is approximately 6 days ! and everyone questions the ending , wondering if childes or macready are the thing , forgetting that , half of the dog creature escaped through the roof , and we never actually see blair , garry ,or nauls die ! chances are mac and childes are human , and that the others have gone into hibernation , to await the rescue team that will show up eventually !
This film portrays a perfect slow sense of doom, music score, camera shots, cast, location etc...
There is a prequel (also called The Thing) which deals with the Norwegian base and what happened to them.
The shadow was actually one of the set crew, it was done intentionally so it was ambiguous on who it was. I tend to think it was Palmer (stoner guy) or Norris (the guy who had a heart attack). You should watch the Hitcher next, the original one its on HBO Max and its VERY good.
Special effects Rob Bottin did effects on Robocop,The Thing,The Howling, Mission Impossible ,Legend with Tom Cruise, The Fog and many more films.
I kind of looked around and didn't really see it, so I figured I'd throw this in:
A lot of people believe Childs at the end is a thing. Reason being, MacReady handed him a bottle to drink from, and Child drank from it as if there hadn't been a problem. If he was human, he would have probably taken serious precautions before drinking, or outright rejected it, since one molecule of the thing is enough to turn you. Sharing a bottle with someone would lead to instant infection, hence why MacReady handed it to him as a test, and laughed at the end, knowing he was turned.
Just one of the many thoughts fans of the film have.
I have a really long answer, but I'll keep it short. This is considered a SciFi horror film, but it's a paradigm in what's called the "professional" and what they do in challenging situations and was originally brought to the screen by Howstd Hawks in the 1951 film The Thing ( from another world) and the themes of a lot of his films is this kind of isolated professionalism and the roles charscyrrd play, his film Rio Bravo being probably one of his most famous. And it's based on a novel called Who Goes There? which interestingly follows well with your comment of It's not a who done it? but Who is it? about collective paranoia. Also I like those sudden fadeouts between scenes.
The original was 1951. Also a great movie.
@@Antman-cy8ch , total typo on my part
Thanks for pointing that out.
PS: i was thinking: she's in sweltering heat watching a movie that takes place in Antarctica! "Jaws" might have been a better choice for that day, lol! Yeah, definitely: air conditioning pretty much started in movie theaters in the early 1900s; theaters used to close for the summer. Air conditioning was itself an early attraction to going to the movies. So definitely make sure you're comfortable for any reaction!
You mentioned the music creating a lot of drama and that's because Carpenter is also a musician. He created the Halloween theme and I believe "thumb thumb" theme to this movie as well.
one of the scariest things about this is you can be infected , and not know it ! at least not until it reacts to a threat ,or has the chance to infect another person ! it also absorbs the memories of the infected , so your sister could be it , and you would never know !
One of my favorite monster movies seen this flick in the theater back in 82.
Ahh this one is a doozy with some of the most bizarre creature effects.
The first time I saw this, I didn't keep everyone straight either, it was kinda guy heavy and it was really only the effects that I liked. (I was already a fan of the original "The Thing" from the 50s, which played on TV all the time in the 70s, and everybody knew). But upon repeated viewings, this movie really grew in stature for me, although there are many little plot points and holes that I just overlook (some of which you pointed out in your video!). It flopped at the box office, partly due to lukewarm reviews, and also it was the summer of "Poltergeist" and "E.T.", which people went to see over and over again. It found a second life immediately on cable, along with the previous year's flop, "An American Werewolf In London", lol. Both - especially "The Thing" - were staples of late night cable in the 80s and 90s and their stature grew. The movie this most resembles to me is "Alien" (1979).
PS: The original "The Thing" (actually "The Thing From Another World", but somewhere along the way everybody started calling it "The Thing"!) is really good for early 50s horror, some great scenes. The monster isn't a shape shifter and is a completely different story pretty much, other than it taking place on Antarctica. There are a couple of homages in the '82 version.....and although fans of the 1982 "Thing" seem to ignore it, saying that this version is closer to the source material (the story "Who Goes There?"), the fact is it was marketed as a remake, (it was called "The Thing" for a starter!) and it was that 50's movie that was the impetus for Carpenter to make this movie, not by reading "Who Goes There".
Great reaction, video, Cinema Sister! I thought every thing you said was right on the money for a first viewing. :D
Actually, 1951's The Thing from Another World, took place in the Arctic, not Antarctica. So, they changed that too.
@@AJRabies Ah yes, you are correct. Different cut-off-from-civilization-snowy environment. By the way, nobody called it "The Thing From Another World" during the 70s and 80s: it would be listed in the TV Guide as "The Thing". I have no idea why. I had a book about monster movies when I was a kid, and that also listed it as "The Thing". I had assumed for years that "The Thing From Another World" was an alternate title, not the original one! So funny, very weird. Do you know when (and why) that came about?
@@TTM9691 As a general guess... I would say the change was made because "The Thing" is simply a shorter title than "The Thing from Another World."
And back in the day when printing costs were based on the # of words printed.... a shorter title saves money.
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@@AJRabies That's all I could think of, too, although it didn't stop them from printing longer titles like "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", "It Happened On The Way To The Forum", "Who Is Harry Kellerman And Why Is He Saying All Those Terrible Things About Me?", or tons of other movies with longer titles. Alas, we'll probably never know! But I can tell you, if you would have said to half the people back in the day "Have you seen "The Thing From Another World"?, they wouldn't have known what you were talking about. I sure wouldn't have. PS: My Grandfather saw the original on an Army base during the Korean War, and said it scared the bejesus out of him and his friend. :D
Antarctica is an isolated continent surrounded by the Southern Ocean, which has an incredibly powerful current which circles the continent completely. It is divided up by a handful of countries (US, Russia, Norway ect.) where it was agreed upon that these territories are for research and exploration only. No military occupation or settlements.
Normally research teams rotate every 6 months, but when you're there, that's it. You're stuck all winter. No help for thousands of miles.
So wild
Is that Kate Winslet?
THIS is one of the very few remakes that I like (a rarity). Others being Invasion of the Body snatchers (1978), Cat People (1982), Nosferatu The Vampire (Werner Herzog & Klaus Kinski version 1979), Scar face (1983) and The Blob (1988).
My opinion the thing is one of the best horror movies ever made.
It is a spin off movie made in 2011. A prequel with the Norwegians.
My biggest question what was the planet the Thing came from what was the atmosphere like on it’s planet and how many more thing aliens are their besides the one that crash landed on earth?
Great movie. I'm always amused by the fact that not many people pick up on the fact that Antarctica in the winter is always dark. I think John knew this but having it dark all the time might be to overwhelming/depressing.
Like 30 days of night the movie! Good point!
This movie hits you at your first viewing best, when you have no idea what the monster looks like. With seeing the picture of the headcrab you might have spoiled yourself there.
Have you seen The Thing 2011? It's actually the prequel you mentioned. They used practical effects but the studio decided to use CGI instead, unfortunately. It's not bad, but the effects are a bit off.
I sometimes forget about leaving my thoughts on the movies you're reacting to and I just ask questions about other stuff...
The Thing is a masterpiece. I love it. I understand your thoughts regarding the edits. Not sure you have seen the Harry Potter series but Deathly Hallows part 1 has similar edits where the characters are just standing there and the camera pans away a little and fades to black. I always felt that was an odd choice for a Harry Potter movie.
I find it interesting that John Carpenter didn't do the score for this one. I do believe it didn't do well in the theater.
I don't actually remember the names of the characters either. What was interesting about the one guy who's torso rips open and eats the guy's arms who was using the defibrillator paddles didn't seem to want to be the leader. I've always wondered if once the thing is part of them does the mind of the person stay in it? Or did it simply think to stay discreet it shouldn't be in control of the group?
Anyway, I'm sure on subsequent viewings you'll enjoy it more. Try watching it in the winter when it's below zero. That'll probably help:)
There is a prequel to this movie. It came out in 2011 and was also called The Thing. I think a lot of people think it's a remake, so don't bother watching it. The lead character is an American women, though I can't remember her name. Great reaction 👍👏.
Haha. A lot of people jokingly said the Dog should have won the Best Actor Oscar for this role. lol
Funny you mentioned Gary shooting the Norwegian and killing him vs wounding him so they could get information. The book specifically laments this action as well for that very reason.
Interesting but with one major flaw, he only spoke Norwegian, and the American camp, yes you guessed it, only spoke English.
@@PlanetNeo I didn't write the book dude. I only pointed out that the original novel also made the same point she did.
Last comment I swear haha, but you should RUclips the alternate ending for this. It’s not much, but after the fade to black there’s a brief scene of the dog running away from the camp as the sun is coming up.
Ah, so you wanna see what happened in the Norwegian camp before it got to MAcready's research station? You'll have to watch 2011's The Thing, its basically the lead up to why they were chasing the husky at the beginning. I think its a great movie, but a lot of others were not convinced because it overuses CGI effects, but it does have some good practical creature effects as well, and it retained sort of the same freaky designs while showing us something horrifically new.
Also fun fact that not many people know: this film is actually a remake of a 1951 B-movie. I saw it when I was a kid, and 2 moments stand out to me the most, one of them being a pretty effective jumpscare that made me scamper across the room (I was eight at the time, and I loved classic horror films), and the fact that one of the stuntmen playing the monster did a full 3-minute fire burn stunt in one continuous shot. Pretty cool, even for the 50's!
"It's weird and pissed-off, whatever it is"
Good job, good reaction. I wish you could take down the light value in your image bubble; so much of this movie is shot in the dark or low light. It's like looking into high-beams and still trying to see the road. Our pupils can't dilate enough to see the film's details in the comparative dark.
Thanks for saving your thoughts for after the movie rather than talking over the dialog. I enjoyed this.
So you've won my subscription.
I get the sense that you're doing sci-fi or horror films exclusively (i just found you, but it seems that way), so i have
requests/recommendations;
Have you seen FALLEN (1998)
Denzel Washington, John Goodman?
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978)
Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum
UNDER THE SKIN (2013)
Scarlett Johansson (i love this film).
hey glad to see u took me up on some john carpenter movies and i hope u dive deep into him so many more movies that dont get reacted to and i hope u will start the trend
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Well I cant imagine the bright daylight and constant noise from outside helping in setting the mood for you.
Fair. I’d prefer to watch it at night too. Need to figure out my lighting setup to make that possible :)
JC soundscapes are something special.
Kurt Russel is still going strong! He's in the last 3 installments of the _Fast & Furious franchise, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood,_ et.c. But the ones you really need to add to your list are _Escape From New York_ and _Big Trouble in Little China,_ if you haven't seen them already. Two absolute fan favorites from the 80s, and both directed by John Carpenter as well!
I haven’t seen Big Trouble in Little China! I always love Kurt Russel in everything I’ve seen. My next to watch of his is Death Proof!
@@ScaredPale While I like _Death Proof_ more than most people, it's still one of Tarantino's weakest movies. _Big Trouble in Little China,_ on the other hand, is perhaps the best movie Russell or Carpenter ever made. Although your assessment might vary, depending on your particular sense of humor, and appreciation of camp and kung-fu...
@@egodreas I can't wait to watch Death Proof for the stunts alone after having listened to a few interviews about the movie knowing I guess one of the women is the stunt artist from all his movies.