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Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller "The Thing," paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they're infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet.

Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up.

When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew's pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.

"The Thing" serves as a prelude to John Carpenter's classic 1982 film of the same name.

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[YakuArekus]

I don't get why the hipsters always have to complain about a well-constructed film. It's obviously a great prequel. This is why we never get to see the continuation of things that we don't want to end; because people with a overly opinionated attitude always find something to shred apart the films with. Just thank the Greek GODS that most people aren't as close-minded as some of you "all-knowing" movie critics. Judging by the like bar, most people can enjoy a film that took hard work.

[techlova]

ditto

[Peter Kuzmin]

I hate you so much

[drsoe08]

in the end... they all died

[Johnlindsey289]

I mean, not am, sorry

[Johnlindsey289]

I agree, i am John Carpenter is a Hawks fan but he's a bigger fan of the original novella. The 1951 film is a very good one but it is a terrible terrible adaptation that was nothing like the story and the monster wasn't even the shapshfiting imitator from the story. Carpenter did Campbell justice on film and it was the first time it was faithfully adaptated.

[Mr22thou]

This is what I think the novella does very well. First, it establishes an isolated all male environment in which the men know & trust each other. Second, the alien threat develops slowly until the men realize that any one of them could be the deadly enemy. Lastly, there's the paranoia & claustrophobia. No one can be trusted and there's no escape. Carpenter's versions recaptures that the best, especially the paranoia. The monster freak show was added & it's fun. The women in the new one are OK.

[Johnlindsey289]

Both 1951 and 1982 movies are adaptations of John Campbell's scary 1938 novella "Who Goes There". I mean the 1951 movie is a good one but it ranks as one of the worst book to film adaptations of all time. Carpenter's film is a standalone film that is very loyal to the original source known as the Campbell story and is by far the TRUE original as it actually was a very faithful adaptation which was something the previous adaptation ignored.

[Johnlindsey289]

Continue...the origin of the spaceship, the nature/methods of the alien (one being a dumbed down killer Frankenstein vegetable monster that sucked blood and could reproduce itself but it wasn't the imitator from the story while the other has the shapeshifting parasite that could imitate other lifeforms by celluar structure), ways to kill the monster (one by fire and one by electricity), the discovery of the alien, the situations of the humans etc. are both very different from each other

[Johnlindsey289]

YES John Carpenter's film IS the original and is NOT a remake of the 1951 "Thing from Another World" film other than the name, they have little in common with each other i mean sure there are 2 homages to the 1951 film in Carpenter's film since he grew up with it with circle of men and opening titles and the only thing they have in common is alien and snow, that's just it. They share a name but the locations (one in the north pole, the other in the south pole), the characters...

[Johnlindsey289]

Do you think Carpenter's film is by far the quintessential more faithful adaptation?

[SuperANGrypoop]

AT LEAST this movie isnt pg 13 ...good shit makin it a respectable rated R