The Thing (Part 3)

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~~~~Brings back old memories~~~


~~~~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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[joujou264]

I think the prequel was awesome.

[RickinHK]

The original movie is (IMO) better but I appreciate the efforts that the design team (of the recent movie) went to in order to keep to the 1982 version.

[AsianMogul12]

poor adam and edvard......



[Responsetoignorant]

@Japaneseanimeguy MMM, I'm not finding anything about these places having flamethrowers, send me a link please, but there is one problem with this. Flamethrowers throw gasoline jelly all over the place fucking up anything it touches including machinery. You see childs holding an m7A1 flamethrower WWII style. Industrial torches on the other hand, would've made more sense, I don't know, maybe they modified em.

[Japaneseanimeguy]

@Responsetoignorant It's an outpost out in Freezing arctic temperatures. If there's a bad storm and they get trapped inside by snow and ice those flamethrowers are needed. It's a rather common thing to find in outposts in the Arctic and Antartcic

[Responsetoignorant]

What.....The....Fuck..... are they doing at a research outpost with a flamethrower?

[Responsetoignorant]

@joujou264 It was alright as a stand alone movie, but as a prequel, blows the ass of a donkey. So many inconsistencies.

[tk894gtvk1]

dose ever body know the 2011 thing movie I think that was prequel of this movie.

[Dueville7777]

btw- nothing against Rob Bottin, but I think Stan Winston did the best job with the dog out of all the thing transformations. The dog..coupled with ennio's music..is just freakin badass looking.

[Dueville7777]

Im willing to bet in 1982 when this was shown in theaters- the trash bins were overflowing with popcorn, candy and any other consumables they might have been eating.

[ThePredatordark]

@aserta Well believe it or not "friend"

Actually alot of people are watching it

But i'm not talking only about Friday the 13th

These days horror movies suck

but this wasn't too bad

that's what i'm trying to say...

[aserta]

@ThePredatordark Let me go ahead, friend and ask you who the fuck would watch Friday the 13th anyways. It's straight up boring US crap. As for remakes. Just because a select amount of morons like riding on glory that does not mean it's true for all. Just like it's true that not all apples are green, cars red and pigeons white.