Morbid Minute - THE THING (2011)

Savor the flavor of another Morbid Minute. eerieTube hostess Lisa Cullen is back with a peek inside of THE THING, the prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter film.

THE THING, from Universal Studios, is now playing in theaters.

"Morbid Minute" is produced by Cinerebel Media.
eerieTube hostess: Lisa Cullen
eerieTube newsroom designer: Mariano Villalba

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• The Thing 2011
• Prequel
• The Thing (1982 Film)
• alien

[NinjaCthulhu]

I am glad the director realize not to mess with the original with a remake and instead did a prequel and made sure the original was respected. In the end, I hope it works.

[eerietube]

@NinjaCthulhu you bring up a good point, the prequel crew did though make an effort to respect the original

[Zipst700]

@eerietube It's not the original you retards. The thing 1982 is a REMAKE of the ORIGINAL thing that was released in 1951.

[eerietube]

@Zipst700 We never said the 1982 film was the original. In fact Carpenter's 1982 film was not necessarily a remake of the Howard Hawks 1951 classic film it was closer to the novella WHO GOES THERE? by John W. Campbell Jr.

[wrght9185]

I saw The Thing last night. I am very pleased. They got it right!

[eerietube]

@wrght9185 They sure did, glad you dug it too.

[bmgetinawywithmurdr]

an experiment didnt free it!(wich it should have)it busted out under its own power,wich was fukin bulshit

[GhostVenom051]

@Zipst700 No, John Carpenter's The Thing is a sequel to The Thing From Another World, they remade the 1951 Thing to make it more based off the novel Who Goes There? by John Campbell Jr, which was the inspiration to all three films.

[MrGalaxyPictures]

There was only like one practical effect in the movie!!! I bloody hate this version because of the thing! The original it would be sly and infect people with out turning or alerting people of it. In this movie there was no point in it even turning into people because it would just tear its head open and scream at random. Ergo I hate this lousy prequel to the best Sci-fi film ever made.

[TwigsInc]

@degree7

I rewatched the film last night after knowing what was practically made and you CAN tell. certain shots of the siamese twin thing, the insect legs and such when they first burned the thing. There was a decent amount in the film if you look close enough. They just went a bit over board augmenting the practical effects with cg.

[degree7]

@TwigsInc

The Film Studios just remade it all on the computer in post production.

The practical effects were unnoticeable.

[LatinoBadass]

@TwigsInc if thats true then they overused it cus all i see its pure CGI

[KingNothing9764]

To the two people who were arguing earlier, you both forgot that Palmer, Norris and Blair could have succumbed to infection indirectly. Fuchs made a note to MacReady saying even a small particle of The Thing could subvert an entire creature, someone could have passed bad guacamole behind the scenes.

[TwigsInc]

@LatinoBadass

They actually did. If you did some research you'd find a while 5-6 minutes video of behind the scenes in the monster workshop. They added CG to enhance the practical fx.

[NuttyButties]

@Zipst700 To me I refer to Carpenter's film (1982) as The Original. And the Christian Nyby's film (1951) movie as The Classic. Carpenter definitely caught the imagination of the naval 'Who Goes There?' more so than the classic Thing From Another World showed on screen.

[briobio]

Just show the fucking clip GODDAMN IT.