The Thing (Part 5)

The thing 5/10

~~~~Brings back old memories~~~
The Thing Part 6/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ACtyOAmDK4&feature=related

~~~~This is not my movie and i did not modify it in any way all right go to The Thing (1982) - Universal Classic Revisited~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Story

The Thing starts with a chase. A Norwegian helicopter pursues a lone dog across frozen Antarctic wastes, ending up at Outpost #31, crewed by a dozen Americans. The Norwegians seem intent on killing the dog, but manage to off themselves instead. The dog moves in with the Americans, but when placed in kennels, we get the feeling those Norwegians had the right idea about putting it down.

This is where the groundbreaking work of Rob Bottin, visual effects supremo, kicks in. Watch in astonishment as the dog turns itself inside-out, blooming a flesh-petalled orchid. Before the eye has time to take it all in, the beast then sprouts tentacles, throbbing like exposed nerve-endings. As it transforms, the creature attacks the surrounding dogs caged in with it. The assembled crew watch with jaws agape as the audience screams 'kill it!' they do, with fire.

The plot moves at speed, taking us to the remnants of the Norwegian base camp, revelations in the ice (some stunning visual effects shots of a partially uncovered saucer), then back to the American base, just in time for the winter storm to kick in, severing the team from the rest of the world.




Director:
John Carpenter

Writers:
John W. Campbell Jr. (story)
Bill Lancaster (screenplay)

Contact:
View company contact information for The Thing on IMDbPro.
Release Date:
25 June 1982 (USA) more

Genre:
Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller more

Tagline:
Man is The Warmest Place to Hide. more

Plot:
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills. full summary | full synopsis

Plot Keywords:
Dog | Helicopter | Alien | American | Scientist

Awards:
3 nominations

Actors to Characters

Kurt Russell ... R.J. MacReady

Wilford Brimley... Dr. Blair (as A. Wilford Brimley)

T.K. Carter... Nauls


David Clennon... Palmer


Keith David... Childs

Richard Dysart... Dr. Copper

Charles Hallahan... Vance Norris

Peter Maloney... George Bennings

Richard Masur... Clark

Donald Moffat... Garry

Joel Polis... Fuchs


Thomas G. Waites... Windows (as Thomas Waites)


Norbert Weisser... Norwegian

Larry J. Franco... Norwegian Passenger with Rifle (as
Larry Franco)

Nate Irwin... Helicopter Pilot

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[pimpninja1985]

5:54 to 6:24 This one scene is more chilling and terrifying that the whole new prequal that just came out. It's amazing to think that a movie that used no CGI efects and was made almost 30 years ago is 100 times more frightening than a movie that was made with state of the art CGI effects. If you think about it, the new film showed the actual "Things" so many more times than in the original in full form and yet, could not scare me half as much as this film did.

[Sphereal]

Kill it kill it Kill it kill it Kill it kill it Kill it kill it Kill it kill it Kill it kill it Kill it kill it Kill it kill it

[sixstringfretter]

@pimpninja1985 That's because a good cast, a good story, good writers and excellent directors will trump CGI everytime.

[ShaggyTheClown17]

dude first thing I woulda done the second I found out some shit was going down, I'd take the flamethrower and guard that fuckin helicopter.

[bakhtn]

@dinotles lol a computer cant do that even nowadays

[genraltcj]

Blair sappen my helicopter !

[BaNNshEy]

@hunk84 Antarctica is a cold place to sleep without shelter... especially if it burned down...

[sixstringfretter]

I used that model computer in high school, using ForTran programming language. ForTran is great for any type of complex number crunching on a large scale, like weather patterns, population and demographic shifts and stuff like that. It would be perfect for what they're doing here, trying to predict the speed of infection. But the program would be very complex and take a skilled programmer quite a bit of time. But not Hollywood! It's like they already had it written LOL

[dinotles]

Pretty high tech AI on that computer in the beginning.

[hunk84]

Why do they put the fires out. Let those damn things burn till there is nothing left. May take some time but hell, keep the flames going at least.

[420goossens]

@JourneyRocks81 haha no doubt eh