Alien and the Thing are the two best science fiction horror movies of all time. What makes them both great is the characters are (all) relatable, they’re both set in claustrophobic environments, and the movies depend on great acting and not CGI. Both are also over 40 years old and still stand the rest of time, even the effects.
I would prefer to be assimilated by the Thing, than facehugged and give birth to a Xenomorph. At least when you are assimilated, it takes control of your brain the first seconds its cells are in. Feeling a Xenomorph embryo move in your stomach, knowing that nothing in the World can save you and just helplessly waiting for an excruciatingly painful and gruesome death, no thanks.
The most infuriating part is, they actually did some real practical effects for that movie and they were genuinely good - then the studio execs came in and insisted they basically pain over it with CGI trash. There’s still some videos of the original effects on studioADI’s channel, showing what could have been...
The thought that it's "sneaky" is significant. It didn't care revealing itself to the dogs, but it hides upon humans. This "Thing" isn't stupid and totally parasitic. I love this movie.
It didn't attack them because they're dogs. It attacked them, because they felt something was wrong with it. They didn't come near, they growled. So it couldn't blend in with them.
@@theeldritchcollection Because it has the atmosphere of isolation and constant threat, just like Alien, although I prefer Aliens with the marines who I've fallen in love with - especially Hudson and his sarcastic comments.
27000 hours... Little less than four years. That is terrifying, considering that it could conquer a species without anyone even knowing they were under attack.
You won't even know you're already a thing until you get hungry and start craving for living creatures and start to hear voices in your head from previous victims.
The prequel Thing failed because it lacked sufficient ick factor. It was not gross enough. Yes the transformations were bizarre but they looked too dry and clean. Compare it to the 1982 version where the Thing's transformations consists of explosive white-yellow mucus discharges, bubbling pustules, ooze, along with green and yellow bile. It's the difference between a snake shedding it's skin and an animal giving birth.
Yes. Humans have a built evolutionary fear of things that look sick or infected, especially skin disease. This played with everyone's fear on a subconscious level.
Tho the prequel had almost all of its effects being practical and filmed already before the actual release but for some shady reasons from the producing company if i remember right, they decided to change it to cgi. Wich makes u think really, how freakin good the practical effects would have been for todays standards. Its a shame really to think that how the big companys think practical effects are a dying breed of a lesser visual effect of entertainment for films than computer simulated pixel mass... the cringy nostalgic "yäkh" factor with those older horror and thriller movies is fading away, wich is a sad thing cause everyone whose seen the Carpenter legendary adaptation, usually, loves and praises them for all of its deserved glory.
I don't disagree neccessarily and obviously the prequel can't touch Carpenter's version but as Roope said, they actually had quite a few practical effects for a 2011 movie that the studio forced them to gloss over for more cgi. Even then, I don't think most of the cgi was bad until the final version of the Thing on the ship, that one did look awful.
I was always curious how the Thing would react if it was successfully trapped. If left in a room that it couldn't possibly get out of and given threats of incineration should it attempt to escape...does it take any interest in discussion or does it just go into sleep mode? I think a very compelling movie could be made from whether or not the Thing considers itself a conscious being. And what value/s has it learned or done away with through assimilating with a potentially limitless amount of lifeforms across the Universe. The philosophical and psychological implications could be terrifying. Yes, these are things I think about in my spare time away from work.
I always got the impression that the Thing itself must surely recognize that it's a "thing" - in other words, it has literal self-awareness and sees itself as different from the others (Humans, Dogs, etc) - given that it can speak, has the thoughts (and thus thinking capacity we'd presume) of things it absorbs. My question (sort of along the lines of your own) has always been, if you could speak to a Thing in such a setting that you were protected from it immediately attacking you - would it actually explain why it is hurting / killing your friends, etc - would it be like "sorry, I have to do this to survive" - or would it have no human concept of "right / wrong" and merely see us as insects / pests (with it as the 'superior being') ? // The fact that every time a Thing is revealed, it immediately goes hostile and attacks (or flees), in both films, means you never get to see anyone "reasoning with it" - or whether it's actually capable of such discussions. Interesting ponderings, eh ?
Through the movies, the thing is presented as non-sentient. it can -mimic- sentience, but that's no different than a cordyceps fungus making an ant move around; the fungus isn't actually smart, it just makes the ant's nervous system move in a particular way. but then Blair has his little golf cart-sized spaceship. Which is very incongruous; not only is the thing suddenly sentient, but actually sentient beyond its hosts. Further, why does it want a spaceship, when a helicopter would be way more useful to reach more prey? The spaceship part always felt weird to me because of this, like a scene that shoudl have bene trimmed off, but stuck.
@@TheRusty Hmmm, a good point, Punk. One possible explanation for the Blair-Saucer being created (as opposed to a Chopper, or something else from Earth), is that it is thought the Thing only has the "knowledge" and "memories" (to a point) of the being it consumed. Since Blair was a scientist and not a mech-engineer, etc - in other words, because Blair lacked the prior knowledge of how to build a Car, Truck, Chopper, etc - the Thing was unable to do that too. BUT...The Thing itself would have had the absorbed knowledge of the Aliens that were piloting the Ship it was originally on (it's semi-confirmed in the cut-scenes from the Prequel, that the Thing escaped some kind of confinement there, and killed the crew / caused the crash during its rampage through the ship). So it was presumably not Blair's human mind that it was using to build the make-shift saucer, but the mind of the Alien pilots. At least, that seems to make a decent amount of sense, given what we know of the beast. * that said, I agree with you that it would have been better (less logically problematic) had Carpenter perhaps kept the Thing ENTIRELY "non-sentient / beast-like" - more like the Blob ... then how it is depicted here. The sudden / random changes from "I'm just an Animal / non-sentient" - to "no, I'm actually fully sentient and COULD have a conversation with you, presumably, about why I'm eating you and your friends, but I just find it a waste of time to talk to inferior beings" - or some such "oh, and I'm going to make a Warp Drive now, please excuse me !" - lol ....yeah...that kind of transition is hard to absorb (no pun intended).
This is still probably the best horror movie ever made. Everything just came together SO perfectly. The desolate setting with no hope of rescue, the tension and paranoia, an unknowable and implacable monster that hides in plain sight. The use of gore was perfect, only being used when it made sense, and the effects are still absolutely stunning. You had memorable characters played by excellent actors, slow, deliberate pacing, and a real sense of claustrophobia and isolation. As a connoisseur of horror movies, starting with the Universal monster movies, this is one movie I go back to time and time again to remind me just how good the horror genre can be when done right.
lol i watch this movie when i was 11years old. my mum bought a disc from her office and bunch collection of others movies. oh boy i dream this thing under my bed waiting to suck out my stomach..ewww
Those screams/cries from the assimilating dogs...my god it’s horrifyingly heartbreaking. The truth is it’s ‘roar’ is the screams and cries of all its assimilated; listen carefully to Bennings Thing, you can hear him in there.
Great point at 2:52 I had always assumed the various tentacles, gaping maws, and claws were the Thing’s true form. It never occurred to me that it was just taking on various forms of previously assimilated organisms.
At the end of the movie, before MacReady blows up the Thing with dynamite, it appears to take on a multitude of forms at once, with the main one (the head) resembling a T Rex, as if it had been on earth since the age of Dinosaurs.
@@BackwoodsFilms Nah the ship it came on crash landed in Antarctica around 100 thousand years ago and the thing froze after a few hours. Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago.
I think a new "Thing" game would be awesome. It could be like a multiplayer game where one player is secretly the Thing and the others must try to deduce who it is while the Thing trys to wipe them out one by one. The more people it kills, the stronger it gets and the harder it is to kill, while simultaneously becoming harder to remain hidden with a shrinking population. EDIT: I know Among Us is a thing. I didn't when I wrote this years ago.
What I love is how much of a damn mess it makes every. single. time it gets exposed. It's so chaotic and violent, both in its form and mannerisms, that it really just poses the biggest existential threat to anything. It's like the opposite of any other shape-shifter in that it just explodes into an animal-cancer that can't really be dealt with so well.
The Dog Transformation Creature still today is one of the most grotesque nightmare-fuel practical effects ever filmed. It makes sense how everyone was stunned into inaction upon encountering it. I wonder if the cast got to see it before filming or saw it for the first time in that take, revealing real reactions of shock.
@purelifeforever It’s pretty simple it’s just two methods 1. A thing catches you and is able to kill and start taking over your body very quickly due to the extremely high concentration of its cells touching yours 2. The thing doesn’t stay and assimilate you directly, but rather some of its cells are in contact with yours (such as eating food with its cells on it, or getting slashed, bitten or some other damage), in this case the assimilation speed just depends on how many cells it has on you, for example Windows who died by getting his head bitten, started transforming really quickly because he got a massive dose of thing cells to his head The thing “consumes” your cells and replicates them, so if it absorbed your brain for example, it would perfectly replicate your brain, same for every other bit of your body. That’s why it gains human memories and intelligence too because that’s all contained in our neurons
Yep, first time I saw it I had NO idea what i was in for, just a kid watching scifi at the right time to see the dog kennel part. I had to change the channel. Great stuff! Haunted me enough that when I found out what the hell movie it was in college we watched it and turned out it was a great movie!
Lmao same. This movie actually gave me an anxiety disorder (or triggered it rather, I was 8 when I watched this movie for the first time.) Today, over ten years later, its my favourite movie.
I JUST realized after over 10 years of first seeing this movie the term “kill it with fire!” applies PERFECTLY to The Thing(s) since they are conscious and individual on a cellular level. If these things just so happen to be anywhere else or they didn’t have flamethrowers it definitely would’ve been WAY more easy, and all of them would’ve been assimilated prolly within the 4th hour of their imprisonment (because of the weather keeping them trapped with that thing)
I'm all for practical effects, but I don't agree with this one. The cg effects were definitely better for the thing, the practical effects are just too dated now and just don't quite hold up anymore
I really enjoyed how particular they were with the prequel to make sure all the damage and evidence lined-up with the '82 movie. The only MAJOR error was that the two snow cats (one burned with a body in it) were not found at the excavation site where the alien ship was found. We never know what happened to the lady who survived...?
2:00 Here's a fun thought: The Thing that crashed had less than a human's worth of biomass. How many forms, how many shapes, do other, _larger_ piles of shapeshifting goo have? It was only capable of bringing so much biological data to Earth. *Even the DogThing's proboscis is made of dog tongues in a flower pattern; it's patching what little pre-crash data it has with more recent DNA samples.*
This creature is far more terrifying than alien xenomorph or predator for me. I think we're still so far away from xenomorph and predator but the thing got me constantly worried and suspicious. The fact they can assimilate any living creature without us knowing, got me some paranoia 😟
I remember watching the prequel for the first time, I didn't see from the beginning (just channel flipping pretty much). The Thing was in the helicopter and dudes face just started splitting. Freaked me the hell out, I knew I needed to watch the original and remake/ prequel properly
I'll say, Kale Mercer. This video was more informative than the other videos on this movie I've seen so far. Thanks, FilmComicsExplained! I didn't know that the Thing had a true form as well.
Indeed it was two species the species that build the ship were basically scientists collecting different species in the solar system, they picked up the thing not knowing what it was capable of, it broke out of whatever they had it contained in and assimilated the other alien pilots which is why it crashed 9n earth
There was no other species. Just the Thing in the UFO which crashed for unknown reason. Maybe because UFO was damaged by a solar flare, maybe because it ran out of fuel, energy, who knows.
The thing could be some kind of advanced alien biological warfare technology that had accidentally gotten loose or were no longer able to contain it, so the entire alien weapons project was jetissoned out into deep space in the hopes it would stay lost forever in space but was unfortunately found or attached itself to some other travelling exploring alien race😞⁉
This movie genuinely terrified me when I first saw it. I was 11 or 12 and was not prepared for what came. The paranoia and suspense scared me far more than anything like a xenomorph or predator. I remember not even wanting my cat or fish in my room at night while I slept for at least a good week. Paranoia is by far the strongest fear and this movie portrays that so well
The Thing and Terminator would be a cool crossover. Terminators would be the most dangerous for for the thing, unable to assimilate or sufficiently damage the robotic menace. Humans develop terminators to help them kill, but then they turn on us.
I enjoyed your analysis. In my opinion, John Carpenter's iteration of the creature is vastly more horrific, and more formidable a challenge to the survival of the human race than those going before it in the novella and the 1951 film.
Jon Bourgoin The Thing is (ha!) that the prequel was actually going to use practical effects that looked pretty decent, but the studio at the LAST minute swapped all of the practical effects with CGI. Needless to say, the director was pissed.
Totally agree. Not only were the effects, shit.. Inserting an American cast to then outshine the Norwegian scientist?? D'fuck?! Would have been happy with subtitles. Like many to comment, i LOVED the Original.. to be left WONDERING what happened?.... was EPIC! ! The prequel? A let down in EVERY way.
@@The_Chosen_Heretic Yeah, and it's a fucking travesty. There was no way that it could live up to the original, but practical effects would have made it at least a respectable installment.
AMAZING JOB Niyat!!! You do this film justice with your explanation. You touched on it but would of love to see you of gone into more detail on the "Genetic memory" aspect of the Thing. It's clear the Thing has a way to store the knowledge and maybe the memories of those it consumes. Would love to see a full video on this form you!
Yes i would like that too, in one of the comics the reader sees the process of assimilation as one of the things & well its horrific as it hints that your consciousness is still somewhat alive & preserved as a part of it in order to more closely imitate & recall specific memories.the one character whos assimilated in the comics seems in an inescapable organic agony as they are used by things instinct to survive & spread .especially when she assimilates her lover.both become one & part of this alien thing .ugh HORRIFING.
A thing everyone seems to gloss over about The Thing is that after a takes a host over it doesn't intake things that damage a body. Like Alcohol, pot and such things. In the 80's The Thing every time Palmer is shown he is smoking pot and drinking alcohol. All of the sudden he just doesn't anymore period. Unlike McCready who always has a bottle of Jim Bean near him. Even in the last seconds of the film.
Well considering the amount of serious shit that's going on, even if I was a avid pothead I'd avoid the bud so I could keep a level head. But that is still a good point.
"Alright lads, we know one of us is infected, so everyone, and i mean EVERYONE has to smoke a joint and down a bottle of whiskey, right now!" Goes through 9 out of 10 people, everyone is high and drunk and then the infected is revealed. Yeaaaah.. perhaps not the best way to find out.. xD
The Thing is possibly the scariest movie monster to have ever been put on film and let’s be honest they couldn’t have cast a more badass lead for this movie, great video 👍🏻 btw is anything from Child’s Play or My Bloody Valentine on the list?
I was 16 when this movie came out. It is one of my all time favorite movies. I can't tell u how many times I've watched it. But everytime i do watch it, it's almost like its my first time. The thing is one of those movies, i can watch over and over again...
The Thing essentially represents the primal need to survive at any cost. This is why the theme of paranoia is so prominent in both movies. The biological characteristics of the creature perfectly mirror the spread of fear within a culture/society. Spreading outwards exponentially from it's source. Ever changing, ever consuming, and recreating whomever it touches. A perfect metaphor for the dangers of allowing oneself to be governed by fear.
My all time favorite movie. I've often wondered about killing it with fire. If even the smallest sample can infect, couldn't a viable sample possibly ride the airborne ashes? Like if you throw newspaper in a campfire, some of the paper can waft up into the air un-burned...
I think it could survive fire as well. I heard the virus that causes mad cow disease is so tough it was tested and found that even after complete incineration its ashes are dangerous. It was explained to mimic an intelligent protein
Perfect Chaos , mine too. Both movies centers around assimulation: the first one is on the principal of osmosis, and the other one is based on gestation. To grow inside a person and come busting out of a person's chest is much more painful than osmosis. But both are equally terrifying.
Thank you so much for this video!! It's one of the greatest sci fi-horor films from the master of terror and suspense, John Carpenter. This film scared me when I was 12. I'm 27, and It's still pretty terrifying to this day. With an impressive cast and special make up effects by Rob Bottin, it's unforgettable. It holds 87% on rotten tomatoes.
I honestly love creatures like The Thing, The Flood, etc. ever since I was a little kid I've been fascinated by them. I remember playing Halo for the first time on my older brother's xbox and when I got to the flood level I was terrified, but also really interested in observing the infected elite bodies that had undergone transformation. Kind of morbid I know. When I saw The Thing for the first time I had a similar reaction. The idea that an organism can take over someone's body and transform into them, and do stuff like create teeth and tendrils and stuff with the raw biomass, has always been such an interesting concept, and it's a shame it isn't explored more in games because I'd love to play as a creature similar to The Thing. Closest I've seen a game come to this concept is the PROTOTYPE series of video games. I always loved transforming into military guys and sneaking around, covertly assimilating all the military personnel inside of a base until it was just me and one other guy, whereupon I'd instantly burst into the armored form with the tendril hand and just destroy everything in sight including the last remaining guy.
Carpenter was so ahead of his time. His work here was brilliant and blew me away when I saw it in its theatrical release. It still holds up to this day.
Of all the interesting theories I’ve read over the years about The Thing, including its origins, the one thing that surprises me is why no one has postulated a theory that is more biologically accurate. As an evolutionary biologist and a sci-fi fan, I have always loved this movie. The creature is so alien to anything that has ever been depicted on the screen before or since. It’s clear to me that this organism IS NOT a natural product of evolution. The reason is quite obvious. All organisms need a vast amount of time to evolve. Even if you factor in mutations, several in fact, you still need a lot of time. If The Thing did evolve naturally on its home world, it would have infected all other life forms very rapidly. If there were no sentient and space faring species on its home world then it would never be able to get off world and proliferate. It would eventually die out, due to starvation as it had no new bio mass to infect, absorb and assimilate. Given how quickly the organism spreads, any world it evolved on would very rapidly become overwhelmed. Logically it follows that The Thing was an artificial life form that was cooked up in an alien lab. Not a virus 🦠 or bacteria 🧫 to be used as a biological weapon but merely an experiment 🧪 to perhaps create life itself or a life form that can mimic other life forms. The Thing was most likely cooked up by a hyper advanced alien race that had extensive knowledge of biology and genetic manipulation. The alien race was also presumably a space faring culture able to traverse the stars at FTL speeds. In the movie we can see that The Thing assumes many different forms and it is even suggested by Blair that it could have infected countless organisms on countless worlds. If this is the case then its DNA 🧬 matrix must be incredibly dense and heavily coded. If The Thing can change biological form at will then it has to be able to store the distinct genetic traits of several species. The DNA 🧬 therefore has to be stored in much the same way as an advanced computing system. This is theoretically possible if an alien race is able to store multiple genetic blueprints at the molecular level. Now there is one other thing that has always puzzled me. In the movies we learn that The Thing absorbs its victims. What isn’t clear is if the original alien cells take in any actual nutrient from the host or merely infect it like a pathogen?! If a single cell is enough to infect another organism then I contend that The Thing has a dual operating system. It spreads like a bacterial or viral infection for definite but it’s behaviour once inside the body after assimilation is like that of a parasite. In any event one thing I must make absolutely clear to everyone is that The Thing is NOT a naturally evolved organism. Irrespective of its creation, it is nevertheless the most frightening creature that exists in the world of science fiction. It is in order of magnitude far deadlier than the xenomorphs from Alien. They can be contained and destroyed much more easily than The Thing.
Considering that the xenomorphs have acid blood, wouldn't they be a match against the thing since it has been established that acid and fire only harm the thing?
I mean, we don't know much about alien evolution. It very well may be a natural organism. One theory suggests that the speaceship was manned by alien scientists who picked up from ANOTHER planet in a frozen state. Maybe these organisms drink a milk like substance or live off primordial substance on their own planet. There are many theories which suggest that its a natural being.
@@biglez9054 a lot of the predators weapons have high temperatures and I don't think the thing would be able to get a drop on suitably skilled predator actively looking for the thing
i dont think so. assimilation doesnt work like that. when u r completely assimilated, u no longer human. u r actually an alien that looks/behave like a human.
Lol the bfg would fucking annihilate the thing. Doom slayer is on an entirely different scale, couple of humans with bombs and an old ass flamethrower almost killed it.
It's been many decades since I have seen the Blob. It was based on an amoeba. If the Blob has a genetic code, and the Thing can restart and operate at the level of blood then all would be needed is a few drops of blood. If the sensor that reads the prey's DNA is area specific, in principle stopping the addition of genetic code is possible. The Thing is faster, and if the Blob's abilities, and mind was copied it would be on an equal level plus its previous copies. My bet is on the Thing.
Blob dissolves cells. Thing could try to assimalate it, but most likely would die trying. So streght wise the blob wins. Horror wise the thing wins. In conclusion...both monsters are friggin' awesome, and i hope that i never face neither of them😅
After all the countless horror movies I watched, this is the only one that keeps me looking behind my back in fear and seeing things in the corner of my eye in my own house. And I still cant get enough of this classic
I saw this movie about 6 years ago for the first time and I was blown away by how great the monster looked (obviously not CGI) and just how incredibly it held up with time. Truly a terrifying movie... I now own this film on Blu Ray I loved it so much
I was still in high school when this came out. I have to say that this was one of the most original and terrifying sci fi horror films I had ever seen. I still think it's one of the most original. Special effects have gotten a lot better but the concept remains solid even today. Loved this movie. The theme still gives me the creeps lol.
reaction to it assimilating the dogs: “KILL IT KILL IT WITH FIRE BEFORE IT LAYS EGGS!!!” Ps Love your videos since they teach me things I didn’t know about some of my favorite subjects so keep it up pal.
Something I've always wondered about. When The Thing takes over a dog, it barks like a Dog. When it takes over a human, it can talk, and can use reason and logic like a human. It will practice deception which indicates it knows what it really is, and it knows it is not human, but it seems just as smart, if not more so, based on the fact it was building an actual space ship. Does this mean that the more organisms it takes over, the more knowledge and abilities it gains?!? By taking over a human does it now have the capacity to be as smart as a human? If it had taken over advanced species from other planets, it would surely be a most formidable foe, even from a purely intellectual pov.
Yeah I think you’re completely right. If something like this was encountered it’d be smart to set up something right away as plan b because I’d be thinking it’s far more intelligent then anyone on sight and it can play dumb at moments for distraction as it did in the movie and get little advantages such as destroy the blood and personally if I was in the camp right away I’d be firing up the chopper to get away even if it meant crashing in the frozen tundra it’d be obvious this thing is far ahead if it made it from space to the middle of Antarctica and you can’t even see it until it’s trying to kill you.
@@Armbender1085 Wow I had completely forgotten i'd even made this comment. 4 years ago and so much has happened that it feels like a lifetime ago. I'm glad you replied to it in order to remind me.
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*Y'all laughed when i said i was gonna bring a flamethrower to an arctic base. Looks who's laughing now*
- Macready, 1982
Guess he's always MacREADY
ALWAYS HAVE A FLAMETHROWER!!!
_"lmao I have a flamethrower alien weebs"_
Not a lot of problems a flamethrower can't solve
McReady is allways ready
1982 Thing pushed practical special effects to supreme levels.
And it still looks awesome even today. love this movie
That was in 1982 imagine how good practical effects could be on a big movie budget. Horror movies could actually be scary again.
@@adammalakiI disagree, this shit still looks pretty horrific
I’d take practical effects any day of CGI
And now we have garbage cgi and piss poor remakes. The thing, the exorcist, and suspiria did it right
Alien and the Thing are the two best science fiction horror movies of all time.
What makes them both great is the characters are (all) relatable, they’re both set in claustrophobic environments, and the movies depend on great acting and not CGI.
Both are also over 40 years old and still stand the rest of time, even the effects.
I would prefer to be assimilated by the Thing, than facehugged and give birth to a Xenomorph. At least when you are assimilated, it takes control of your brain the first seconds its cells are in. Feeling a Xenomorph embryo move in your stomach, knowing that nothing in the World can save you and just helplessly waiting for an excruciatingly painful and gruesome death, no thanks.
Yes
Add the first terminator in with those two.
Completely agreed! They’re two of my favourite films of all time, and extremely re-watchable!
Aliens too is a great film. One of the best sequels ever made
I fear no man
But that *thing*
It scares me
Billy? Is that you?
Thing vs Predator
Myufon The Cupcake can’t agree more, Heavy
Lucky for you. It's no man
Don't worry Heavy. You got Pyro!
Oh wait they scare you too...
Figure something out buddy.
We also learned from the 2011 prequel that the Thing has the power to imitate a bad CG effect.
The most infuriating part is, they actually did some real practical effects for that movie and they were genuinely good - then the studio execs came in and insisted they basically pain over it with CGI trash. There’s still some videos of the original effects on studioADI’s channel, showing what could have been...
I love the Kurt russel one. But i enjoyed the new one too.
Man the split face scene's effects were so poor, but at the same time I loved the concept of it, it's so infuriating.
😂😂😂😂😂
LMAO
The thought that it's "sneaky" is significant. It didn't care revealing itself to the dogs, but it hides upon humans. This "Thing" isn't stupid and totally parasitic. I love this movie.
It didn't attack them because they're dogs. It attacked them, because they felt something was wrong with it. They didn't come near, they growled. So it couldn't blend in with them.
In other words
The thing doesn't understand dog social structure so the thing just becomes the weird kid
Best horror movie of all time in my opinion. A little dated here and there but it still holds up and I can't stop watching it.
Best of all time? Hmm the monster is great but I wanted a bit more out of the story I guess. Why do you like it so much?
@@theeldritchcollection Because it has the atmosphere of isolation and constant threat, just like Alien, although I prefer Aliens with the marines who I've fallen in love with - especially Hudson and his sarcastic comments.
Halloween is best Carpenter movie
Jason Nesmith it is
Jason Nesmith yeah I agree, great movie to watch when you smoke weed.
27000 hours... Little less than four years. That is terrifying, considering that it could conquer a species without anyone even knowing they were under attack.
And if you consider the comics canon the things actually assimilate organisms faster in warmer climates
27000 hours equates to 1125 days which equates to 3 years and a couple of months.
Dame that's scary
You won't even know you're already a thing until you get hungry and start craving for living creatures and start to hear voices in your head from previous victims.
porpus99 , the camillian strikes in the dark."
"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***ING COUCH!"
I love that scene so much
Oh well if you gonna act that way you can stay tried to the couch a little longer
“You forgot to say please” *sticks hot needle into chest*
@@J0nath0n. that would be a very different scene lol-
I LIKE IT TOO MAN.😅
The prequel Thing failed because it lacked sufficient ick factor. It was not gross enough. Yes the transformations were bizarre but they looked too dry and clean. Compare it to the 1982 version where the Thing's transformations consists of explosive white-yellow mucus discharges, bubbling pustules, ooze, along with green and yellow bile.
It's the difference between a snake shedding it's skin and an animal giving birth.
Yes. Humans have a built evolutionary fear of things that look sick or infected, especially skin disease. This played with everyone's fear on a subconscious level.
Tho the prequel had almost all of its effects being practical and filmed already before the actual release but for some shady reasons from the producing company if i remember right, they decided to change it to cgi. Wich makes u think really, how freakin good the practical effects would have been for todays standards. Its a shame really to think that how the big companys think practical effects are a dying breed of a lesser visual effect of entertainment for films than computer simulated pixel mass... the cringy nostalgic "yäkh" factor with those older horror and thriller movies is fading away, wich is a sad thing cause everyone whose seen the Carpenter legendary adaptation, usually, loves and praises them for all of its deserved glory.
That's a...pretty accurate comparison. As someone who has personally seen both.
not to mention the old thing had build up when transforming and the transformation seemed painful
I don't disagree neccessarily and obviously the prequel can't touch Carpenter's version but as Roope said, they actually had quite a few practical effects for a 2011 movie that the studio forced them to gloss over for more cgi. Even then, I don't think most of the cgi was bad until the final version of the Thing on the ship, that one did look awful.
I was always curious how the Thing would react if it was successfully trapped. If left in a room that it couldn't possibly get out of and given threats of incineration should it attempt to escape...does it take any interest in discussion or does it just go into sleep mode? I think a very compelling movie could be made from whether or not the Thing considers itself a conscious being. And what value/s has it learned or done away with through assimilating with a potentially limitless amount of lifeforms across the Universe. The philosophical and psychological implications could be terrifying.
Yes, these are things I think about in my spare time away from work.
I always got the impression that the Thing itself must surely recognize that it's a "thing" - in other words, it has literal self-awareness and sees itself as different from the others (Humans, Dogs, etc) - given that it can speak, has the thoughts (and thus thinking capacity we'd presume) of things it absorbs. My question (sort of along the lines of your own) has always been, if you could speak to a Thing in such a setting that you were protected from it immediately attacking you - would it actually explain why it is hurting / killing your friends, etc - would it be like "sorry, I have to do this to survive" - or would it have no human concept of "right / wrong" and merely see us as insects / pests (with it as the 'superior being') ? // The fact that every time a Thing is revealed, it immediately goes hostile and attacks (or flees), in both films, means you never get to see anyone "reasoning with it" - or whether it's actually capable of such discussions. Interesting ponderings, eh ?
@@AlekTrev006 I completely agree with you
Through the movies, the thing is presented as non-sentient. it can -mimic- sentience, but that's no different than a cordyceps fungus making an ant move around; the fungus isn't actually smart, it just makes the ant's nervous system move in a particular way.
but then Blair has his little golf cart-sized spaceship. Which is very incongruous; not only is the thing suddenly sentient, but actually sentient beyond its hosts. Further, why does it want a spaceship, when a helicopter would be way more useful to reach more prey? The spaceship part always felt weird to me because of this, like a scene that shoudl have bene trimmed off, but stuck.
@@TheRusty Hmmm, a good point, Punk. One possible explanation for the Blair-Saucer being created (as opposed to a Chopper, or something else from Earth), is that it is thought the Thing only has the "knowledge" and "memories" (to a point) of the being it consumed. Since Blair was a scientist and not a mech-engineer, etc - in other words, because Blair lacked the prior knowledge of how to build a Car, Truck, Chopper, etc - the Thing was unable to do that too.
BUT...The Thing itself would have had the absorbed knowledge of the Aliens that were piloting the Ship it was originally on (it's semi-confirmed in the cut-scenes from the Prequel, that the Thing escaped some kind of confinement there, and killed the crew / caused the crash during its rampage through the ship). So it was presumably not Blair's human mind that it was using to build the make-shift saucer, but the mind of the Alien pilots. At least, that seems to make a decent amount of sense, given what we know of the beast.
* that said, I agree with you that it would have been better (less logically problematic) had Carpenter perhaps kept the Thing ENTIRELY "non-sentient / beast-like" - more like the Blob ... then how it is depicted here. The sudden / random changes from "I'm just an Animal / non-sentient" - to "no, I'm actually fully sentient and COULD have a conversation with you, presumably, about why I'm eating you and your friends, but I just find it a waste of time to talk to inferior beings" - or some such "oh, and I'm going to make a Warp Drive now, please excuse me !" - lol ....yeah...that kind of transition is hard to absorb (no pun intended).
@@AlekTrev006 I think more on an animal level of intelligence. Like lion/shark, etc...I do not think it can talk/communicate beyond the basics.
This is still probably the best horror movie ever made. Everything just came together SO perfectly. The desolate setting with no hope of rescue, the tension and paranoia, an unknowable and implacable monster that hides in plain sight. The use of gore was perfect, only being used when it made sense, and the effects are still absolutely stunning. You had memorable characters played by excellent actors, slow, deliberate pacing, and a real sense of claustrophobia and isolation. As a connoisseur of horror movies, starting with the Universal monster movies, this is one movie I go back to time and time again to remind me just how good the horror genre can be when done right.
Saw this when I was about 8-9 years old. It gave me nightmare for days especially that dog scene.
Yutube SuspendedMyAccount lol! Still pretty disturbing though even as of now.
Poor puppies.
It took me 3 tries over 4 years before I could get past that scene
Same here. Now that I'm older? I'm in awe of the special effects they used back then to bring that alien to life. Crazy good movie.
lol i watch this movie when i was 11years old. my mum bought a disc from her office and bunch collection of others movies. oh boy i dream this thing under my bed waiting to suck out my stomach..ewww
Those screams/cries from the assimilating dogs...my god it’s horrifyingly heartbreaking. The truth is it’s ‘roar’ is the screams and cries of all its assimilated; listen carefully to Bennings Thing, you can hear him in there.
Oh wow, reminds me of that creature in annihilation.
please be quiet..u r scaring me
i know im such an animal lover especially dog's that scene hurts me. i want to turn away every time I see that scene but i just can't..
You don’t feel anything when you are being assimilated
@@jimboonie9885 true but you're still there. You are of the hivemind. You can still feel pain though, hence why it's screams.
Great point at 2:52 I had always assumed the various tentacles, gaping maws, and claws were the Thing’s true form. It never occurred to me that it was just taking on various forms of previously assimilated organisms.
At the end of the movie, before MacReady blows up the Thing with dynamite, it appears to take on a multitude of forms at once, with the main one (the head) resembling a T Rex, as if it had been on earth since the age of Dinosaurs.
@@BackwoodsFilms makes you wonder what the Thing’s original form is if it even has one
@@J0nath0n. The Thing's original form could even just be a few cells, and it has no true form above that
@@firestrike5478 yeah perhaps you’re right
@@BackwoodsFilms Nah the ship it came on crash landed in Antarctica around 100 thousand years ago and the thing froze after a few hours. Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago.
I think a new "Thing" game would be awesome. It could be like a multiplayer game where one player is secretly the Thing and the others must try to deduce who it is while the Thing trys to wipe them out one by one. The more people it kills, the stronger it gets and the harder it is to kill, while simultaneously becoming harder to remain hidden with a shrinking population.
EDIT: I know Among Us is a thing. I didn't when I wrote this years ago.
there’s a game on starcraft 2
theres one as a Warcraft 3 custom map
Hide in seek half life 2
And Half life mod Guess Who
That's just murder ( the game) with a The Thing theme
Did it just kill a dog?
*its a monster alright.*
but if it killed a kitten is it the devil?
eat shit
@Raven's Daily Life hawk?
@@Sinnohy *j e e z u s a l m o n d s . . .*
Yes torch everything to save humanity
I remember when that head started detaching from the body, I almost got physically sick from how real it looked. Good job on Rob Bottin
What I love about The Thing is all the imagination of forms it can take.
What I love is how much of a damn mess it makes every. single. time it gets exposed. It's so chaotic and violent, both in its form and mannerisms, that it really just poses the biggest existential threat to anything. It's like the opposite of any other shape-shifter in that it just explodes into an animal-cancer that can't really be dealt with so well.
and also horrific forms
My favourite horror film ever and possible my favourite film ever. What a masterpiece
I’ve literally watched it every week since I was 12. It’s absolute perfection. Best horror film of all time.
I love that they don't use cgi makes it more impressive
My fav horror film as well. When I played the videogame, it really captured the atmosphere of the film.
@@J_C_CH I miss that game wish they would remastered it
Mike Stark I still play it often on my PS2. Got it set up along with my current consoles 😎
The Dog Transformation Creature still today is one of the most grotesque nightmare-fuel practical effects ever filmed. It makes sense how everyone was stunned into inaction upon encountering it. I wonder if the cast got to see it before filming or saw it for the first time in that take, revealing real reactions of shock.
That dog alien thing is freakishly scary! Props to the team who designed such horrendous creature
Can I please ask because I still don't understand. How does The Thing take someone over? @@Valhalla_Heathen
@purelifeforever
It’s pretty simple it’s just two methods
1. A thing catches you and is able to kill and start taking over your body very quickly due to the extremely high concentration of its cells touching yours
2. The thing doesn’t stay and assimilate you directly, but rather some of its cells are in contact with yours (such as eating food with its cells on it, or getting slashed, bitten or some other damage), in this case the assimilation speed just depends on how many cells it has on you, for example Windows who died by getting his head bitten, started transforming really quickly because he got a massive dose of thing cells to his head
The thing “consumes” your cells and replicates them, so if it absorbed your brain for example, it would perfectly replicate your brain, same for every other bit of your body. That’s why it gains human memories and intelligence too because that’s all contained in our neurons
Thank you.😀@@Yara-cm8mh
This movie is by far my favorite horror film
Prof pic sauce?
@@dreysantillan
It's in his channel description
@@Thebossstage1 oh my bad
Pajamapants Jack what about Simpson season 7 episode 7 exactly better be quit
The Thing (1982) and Upgrade are my favorite horror movies
Ah yes the movie that scarred me as a child. Very nice video.
Repetitive nightmares for many nights. Good ol' days. Not many movies do that to me anymore.
Zach Merson pussy
Ahh a Fortnite player
Yep, first time I saw it I had NO idea what i was in for, just a kid watching scifi at the right time to see the dog kennel part. I had to change the channel. Great stuff! Haunted me enough that when I found out what the hell movie it was in college we watched it and turned out it was a great movie!
Lmao same. This movie actually gave me an anxiety disorder (or triggered it rather, I was 8 when I watched this movie for the first time.)
Today, over ten years later, its my favourite movie.
I JUST realized after over 10 years of first seeing this movie the term “kill it with fire!” applies PERFECTLY to The Thing(s) since they are conscious and individual on a cellular level. If these things just so happen to be anywhere else or they didn’t have flamethrowers it definitely would’ve been WAY more easy, and all of them would’ve been assimilated prolly within the 4th hour of their imprisonment (because of the weather keeping them trapped with that thing)
Literally the best horror film ever made
Jesse Olsen , especially at the end where Macready sees the big one which lets out with a huge roar!
Luther Mcgee the shining would like to have a word with you
@@tyyer I'm sure it would, but it doesn't mean he'd change his mind.
Does anyone else think that the *the thing* would make a great telltale game?
Telltale is dead man
Ya Mum it’s a what if though.
Skeleton Entertainment Interesting idea, the question is how the whole situation would work?
Skeleton Entertainment *would’ve made a great game
Yeah, the Thing has great potential, even though Telltale are no longer around, others may come up with something like that.
"I don't know but it's weird and pissed off"
Best line in a movie ever 😎
You gotta be fkn kidding!
That, and when Garry says "I would not like to spend the entire winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!"🤣
I know Clark was a fun character
“Well I’m a REAL light sleeper Childs… And if anybody tries to wake me, UNH UH!”
Every time I think of the thing (prequel)
I always think about all the practical effect that got scrapped for cgi
I just watched a short about this! The practical looked so much better than the final CGI product, especially that 2 headed creature
NoVa DragonZ yea, the funny part is the fact the cg cost the company millions
Good thing they recycled them for Harbinger Down!!
I'm all for practical effects, but I don't agree with this one. The cg effects were definitely better for the thing, the practical effects are just too dated now and just don't quite hold up anymore
I really enjoyed how particular they were with the prequel to make sure all the damage and evidence lined-up with the '82 movie. The only MAJOR error was that the two snow cats (one burned with a body in it) were not found at the excavation site where the alien ship was found. We never know what happened to the lady who survived...?
The thing was lucky that the dog it kill ain’t John wick’s
*cuts to r/imsorryjon*
That's a good one
Loay Fraih Thanks
@@TougeWarrior93 you welcome 😃😃
Lol
2:00 Here's a fun thought:
The Thing that crashed had less than a human's worth of biomass. How many forms, how many shapes, do other, _larger_ piles of shapeshifting goo have? It was only capable of bringing so much biological data to Earth. *Even the DogThing's proboscis is made of dog tongues in a flower pattern; it's patching what little pre-crash data it has with more recent DNA samples.*
Id prefer not to spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS F****COUCH!
great video cheers!
Mike Pence, Palmer "I Was Wondering when El Capitano, was gonna use His Gun!?" (Quote Accurate!?) Cheers Man
Mike Pence I love that quote so much, as well as “WINDOWS, BLAST EM!!”
@@eddysandland58 "so you are the only one who made it"
Mike Pence, "Well... We'll Just Wait And See What Happens!!??"
@@eddysandland58 "maybe we shouldn't make it outta her"
"Mac wants the flamethrower!" And then it begins
This creature is far more terrifying than alien xenomorph or predator for me. I think we're still so far away from xenomorph and predator but the thing got me constantly worried and suspicious. The fact they can assimilate any living creature without us knowing, got me some paranoia 😟
And now I want to know how the Thing would fare against xenomorphs or predators.
Would they be able to recognize it if The Thing took on their form?
Cell: this isn't even my final form
Thing: HOLD MY MUTAGENS
How did Cell know his final form? What if the Thing sucked Cell dry while transformed into Cell???
@@theeldritchcollection my brain doesn't help.
The Eldritch Collection lol
Keep that trash supervillain out of this
Head of security: Why are you stealing the surgery tools?
Thing: HOLD MY NEUROTOXIN
A timeless classic. I could watch this movie 5x in a row in summer, it never gets old.
Agreed
Me too. I watch the prequel now and then, not because it's any good, but out of nostalgia for the JC version.
@@jeffreyharrison3731 I KNOW, I KNOW!!!! JC stands for John Carpenter!! am i right or am i RIGHT!!??
This is like my comfort movie I just throw it on in the background from time to time. love Kurt Russel.
Dont stop impressing me with your fantastic videos! So entertaining!
As much as i am a lover for gore and grotesque, The Thing still makes me shiver and make my skin crawl every time it goes into defense mode. XD
Yep... it's pretty intense
Love it
I remember watching the prequel for the first time, I didn't see from the beginning (just channel flipping pretty much). The Thing was in the helicopter and dudes face just started splitting. Freaked me the hell out, I knew I needed to watch the original and remake/ prequel properly
I absolutely love the part where they say
"Mac wants the flamethrower"
"Mac wants the what?"
"YOU HEARD ME! NOW *MOVE*!"
I And many others have been waiting for this one for a long time!!!
Same here
Same
Yay
Same
I'll say, Kale Mercer. This video was more informative than the other videos on this movie I've seen so far. Thanks, FilmComicsExplained! I didn't know that the Thing had a true form as well.
Probably won’t be answered but I wonder if the alien controlling the ship was infected by “the thing”. Idk
Did you......did you watch the video to the end?
Koriand'r Of The Stars I did, just wrote the comment at the middle time stamp... sorry I saw it at the end lol
Indeed it was two species the species that build the ship were basically scientists collecting different species in the solar system, they picked up the thing not knowing what it was capable of, it broke out of whatever they had it contained in and assimilated the other alien pilots which is why it crashed 9n earth
There was no other species. Just the Thing in the UFO which crashed for unknown reason. Maybe because UFO was damaged by a solar flare, maybe because it ran out of fuel, energy, who knows.
The thing could be some kind of advanced alien biological warfare technology that had accidentally gotten loose or were no longer able to contain it, so the entire alien weapons project was jetissoned out into deep space in the hopes it would stay lost forever in space but was unfortunately found or attached itself to some other travelling exploring alien race😞⁉
1982 The Thing was a great movie! Definitely one of the best sci-fi / horror movies of all time.
That wasn't the original. There was a 1950s version. But I think the 1982 version is by far the best.
@Jeffrey Harrison right
Sifi?
This movie genuinely terrified me when I first saw it. I was 11 or 12 and was not prepared for what came. The paranoia and suspense scared me far more than anything like a xenomorph or predator. I remember not even wanting my cat or fish in my room at night while I slept for at least a good week. Paranoia is by far the strongest fear and this movie portrays that so well
The Thing and Terminator would be a cool crossover. Terminators would be the most dangerous for for the thing, unable to assimilate or sufficiently damage the robotic menace.
Humans develop terminators to help them kill, but then they turn on us.
There could be a lot of cool effects when The Thing tries to assimilate a Terminator
Funny,the thing cant assimilite with iron and robot
The thing:haha...i'm gonna get into you
Terminator/skynet: *made by metal,nuclear battrey and extream AI*
The thing:well..fuck
Bonus
T-1000: *EXIST*
Terminators with Flamethrowers 0_0
@@theeldritchcollection they could assimilate Terminator's Tissue but couldnt get any deeper because of Endoskelet...
"Childs! What if we're wrong about him?!"
"Well then we're wrong!!!"
I enjoyed your analysis. In my opinion, John Carpenter's iteration of the creature is vastly more horrific, and more formidable a challenge to the survival of the human race than those going before it in the novella and the 1951 film.
My god the CGI in the prequel looks like shit. Especially compared to the practical effects of the original.
Jon Bourgoin The Thing is (ha!) that the prequel was actually going to use practical effects that looked pretty decent, but the studio at the LAST minute swapped all of the practical effects with CGI. Needless to say, the director was pissed.
Same goes for the movie
Totally agree. Not only were the effects, shit.. Inserting an American cast to then outshine the Norwegian scientist?? D'fuck?! Would have been happy with subtitles. Like many to comment, i LOVED the Original.. to be left WONDERING what happened?.... was EPIC! ! The prequel? A let down in EVERY way.
@@The_Chosen_Heretic Yeah, and it's a fucking travesty. There was no way that it could live up to the original, but practical effects would have made it at least a respectable installment.
They did the practical bc there was no cgi back then
The game on PS2 was amazing. We need a new one by the minds behind Dead Space.
No way, Dead Space isn't scary.
@@M12GProductions lol what
@Fedora Man actually more gory tbh
Absolutely!
M12GProductions 1 & 2 were pretty terrifying. It’s after that thengame sold out and became shit.
AMAZING JOB Niyat!!! You do this film justice with your explanation.
You touched on it but would of love to see you of gone into more detail on the "Genetic memory" aspect of the Thing. It's clear the Thing has a way to store the knowledge and maybe the memories of those it consumes. Would love to see a full video on this form you!
Yes i would like that too, in one of the comics the reader sees the process of assimilation as one of the things & well its horrific as it hints that your consciousness is still somewhat alive & preserved as a part of it in order to more closely imitate & recall specific memories.the one character whos assimilated in the comics seems in an inescapable organic agony as they are used by things instinct to survive & spread .especially when she assimilates her lover.both become one & part of this alien thing .ugh HORRIFING.
Edward 6909: I haven't read many of the commics, do you have a name or somthing for this?
@@kalemercer7053 yes i do indeed,comic run 1-4 of "The Thing from another world:Eternal Vows.
You could always read Who Goes There...
The thing is even more unlikely than the xenomorphs. It's shapeshifting to total fantasy levels.
A thing everyone seems to gloss over about The Thing is that after a takes a host over it doesn't intake things that damage a body. Like Alcohol, pot and such things. In the 80's The Thing every time Palmer is shown he is smoking pot and drinking alcohol. All of the sudden he just doesn't anymore period. Unlike McCready who always has a bottle of Jim Bean near him. Even in the last seconds of the film.
Well considering the amount of serious shit that's going on, even if I was a avid pothead I'd avoid the bud so I could keep a level head. But that is still a good point.
"Alright lads, we know one of us is infected, so everyone, and i mean EVERYONE has to smoke a joint and down a bottle of whiskey, right now!"
Goes through 9 out of 10 people, everyone is high and drunk and then the infected is revealed.
Yeaaaah.. perhaps not the best way to find out.. xD
Jason Leon .....CRAP!!!after watching that movie about 500 times.....I NEVER caught on to that.
@@MrBigCookieCrumble lol
Wasnt it confirmed that both of them were infected? Correct me if i am wrong here.
“Mac wants the flamethrower” is the best line in this movie
"MAC WANTS THE WHAT!?"
the assimilated dog is me in the morning
lol
Lol that profile pic makes this even funnier
Make more fallout runs
What we are really gonna find at Area 51
That’s where their hiding all the plastic straws.
Who knows...
Walmart.
Find? I don't know, really...maybe contingency supplies for your President and his top federal advisers now that Coronavirus has struck?
bigman roadman i knew it
There really is no way to describe this alien other than as a "Thing". The pinnacle of Lovecraftian horror in cinema, IMO.
Yeah!! My favorite horror movie ever!!
Thanks for the “explain” video mate!
Palmer: Oh you've got to be f---ing kidding
And he's already the thing at this point too.
@@os1r1s_210 I never new that.dont know why I've never picked up on that
The thing: *Is frozen in the Arctic*
Antarctica: *Is melting*
Elon Musk: We’re going to Mars!
The thing builts its own space ship and arrives to mars, no escape.
@@omegablast The thing is Elon Musk. It's using his wealth to build spaceships to other planets, so it can spread.
Trouble is, The Thing is set in Antarctica, not the Arctic...
Mars has a portal to Hell...
The blob
One of your best videos yet, fantastic work!
The Thing is possibly the scariest movie monster to have ever been put on film and let’s be honest they couldn’t have cast a more badass lead for this movie, great video 👍🏻 btw is anything from Child’s Play or My Bloody Valentine on the list?
I was 16 when this movie came out. It is one of my all time favorite movies. I can't tell u how many times I've watched it. But everytime i do watch it, it's almost like its my first time. The thing is one of those movies, i can watch over and over again...
U know this is one of the best channel ever and no one can change that
Thanks buddy :)
Your welcome
Hey can u do some more video's on silent hill or do a video on the half life game's or the metro games
I feel like Resident Evil movies can learn a few things from this.
They did it with resident evil 4D executor
@@Omar-ok7gd was that a movie that was made in japan and never made it to America or was that a different movie?
That wouldn't be an issue worthy of considering if they were more faithful to the dang source material!
The Thing essentially represents the primal need to survive at any cost. This is why the theme of paranoia is so prominent in both movies. The biological characteristics of the creature perfectly mirror the spread of fear within a culture/society. Spreading outwards exponentially from it's source. Ever changing, ever consuming, and recreating whomever it touches. A perfect metaphor for the dangers of allowing oneself to be governed by fear.
My all time favorite movie. I've often wondered about killing it with fire. If even the smallest sample can infect, couldn't a viable sample possibly ride the airborne ashes? Like if you throw newspaper in a campfire, some of the paper can waft up into the air un-burned...
I've long thought something similar. I mean, was it *REALLY* such a smart move by McReady to lob a fucking stick of dynamite at it? Lol!
@@Turrican60 i think dymanite can chock all cells in a thing so it dies.
I think it could survive fire as well. I heard the virus that causes mad cow disease is so tough it was tested and found that even after complete incineration its ashes are dangerous. It was explained to mimic an intelligent protein
One of the greatest horror films/sci-fi of all time.
The game deserves a remaster it was honestly criminally underrated
The game has alot of cool features, nothing like it for sure
Facts
1982 and still looks great today. What a great movie this is.
Best horror movie and monster ever!
Can't deny that
Its in my top 5 list!
In the monsterverse... do you really think it could assimilate "Alien" with the acid blood? I don't think so....
@ probably not ......... unless some director of the crossover disproves it
ros1tony it’s not outside the realm of possibilities... I mean who knows what it could do if it were to try assimilate the Xenomorph
"There is an imposter among us"
I lowkey wanna hear about John Carpenter’s opinion on Among Us
Yellow is sus
Saw him jump into a vent after killing green
SUSSY SUSSY AMONG SUS DRIP SUS! SUS! SUS! SUS! SUS! SUS! SUS! SUS! AIRPOD SHOTTY VENT
Ew
😐
My number one favorite horror movie next to alien
Seconds dont count
Perfect Chaos , mine too. Both movies centers around assimulation: the first one is on the principal of osmosis, and the other one is based on gestation. To grow inside a person and come busting out of a person's chest is much more painful than osmosis. But both are equally terrifying.
Me too
They use flamethrowers in both, maybe ur a pyromaniac.
YES the original Alien and this are 2 of the best , ever. I cannot think of any others. Event Horizon maybe
Thank you so much for this video!! It's one of the greatest sci fi-horor films from the master of terror and suspense, John Carpenter. This film scared me when I was 12. I'm 27, and It's still pretty terrifying to this day. With an impressive cast and special make up effects by Rob Bottin, it's unforgettable. It holds 87% on rotten tomatoes.
I honestly love creatures like The Thing, The Flood, etc. ever since I was a little kid I've been fascinated by them. I remember playing Halo for the first time on my older brother's xbox and when I got to the flood level I was terrified, but also really interested in observing the infected elite bodies that had undergone transformation. Kind of morbid I know. When I saw The Thing for the first time I had a similar reaction. The idea that an organism can take over someone's body and transform into them, and do stuff like create teeth and tendrils and stuff with the raw biomass, has always been such an interesting concept, and it's a shame it isn't explored more in games because I'd love to play as a creature similar to The Thing.
Closest I've seen a game come to this concept is the PROTOTYPE series of video games. I always loved transforming into military guys and sneaking around, covertly assimilating all the military personnel inside of a base until it was just me and one other guy, whereupon I'd instantly burst into the armored form with the tendril hand and just destroy everything in sight including the last remaining guy.
Hey, there is a game that might fit that description now! It's called Carrion, and it definitely rings of inspiration from The Thing.
@@shenzyreal nah that game is 2d
@@redtsun67 So...?? You didn't specify you wanted a 3D one, lol
@@shenzyreal well I didn't really specify that I wanted anything. I appreciate the suggestion, though. I just don't like 2D games.
@@redtsun67 👍
Long live practical effects!
Down with Videodrome long live the new flesh!
Carpenter was so ahead of his time. His work here was brilliant and blew me away when I saw it in its theatrical release. It still holds up to this day.
You know the thing was a remake right?
That dog scene made me sad and sick. Poor dog :'(
The “roar” was most likely screams for help
Why did they have to include the dog? Jesus
When i saw that scene as a kid , i literally ran straight to my dog to look for him
@@Native722 to make it more impactful, as you can see it worked
Of all the interesting theories I’ve read over the years about The Thing, including its origins, the one thing that surprises me is why no one has postulated a theory that is more biologically accurate. As an evolutionary biologist and a sci-fi fan, I have always loved this movie. The creature is so alien to anything that has ever been depicted on the screen before or since. It’s clear to me that this organism IS NOT a natural product of evolution. The reason is quite obvious. All organisms need a vast amount of time to evolve. Even if you factor in mutations, several in fact, you still need a lot of time. If The Thing did evolve naturally on its home world, it would have infected all other life forms very rapidly. If there were no sentient and space faring species on its home world then it would never be able to get off world and proliferate. It would eventually die out, due to starvation as it had no new bio mass to infect, absorb and assimilate. Given how quickly the organism spreads, any world it evolved on would very rapidly become overwhelmed. Logically it follows that The Thing was an artificial life form that was cooked up in an alien lab. Not a virus 🦠 or bacteria 🧫 to be used as a biological weapon but merely an experiment 🧪 to perhaps create life itself or a life form that can mimic other life forms. The Thing was most likely cooked up by a hyper advanced alien race that had extensive knowledge of biology and genetic manipulation. The alien race was also presumably a space faring culture able to traverse the stars at FTL speeds. In the movie we can see that The Thing assumes many different forms and it is even suggested by Blair that it could have infected countless organisms on countless worlds. If this is the case then its DNA 🧬 matrix must be incredibly dense and heavily coded. If The Thing can change biological form at will then it has to be able to store the distinct genetic traits of several species. The DNA 🧬 therefore has to be stored in much the same way as an advanced computing system. This is theoretically possible if an alien race is able to store multiple genetic blueprints at the molecular level. Now there is one other thing that has always puzzled me. In the movies we learn that The Thing absorbs its victims. What isn’t clear is if the original alien cells take in any actual nutrient from the host or merely infect it like a pathogen?! If a single cell is enough to infect another organism then I contend that The Thing has a dual operating system. It spreads like a bacterial or viral infection for definite but it’s behaviour once inside the body after assimilation is like that of a parasite. In any event one thing I must make absolutely clear to everyone is that The Thing is NOT a naturally evolved organism. Irrespective of its creation, it is nevertheless the most frightening creature that exists in the world of science fiction. It is in order of magnitude far deadlier than the xenomorphs from Alien. They can be contained and destroyed much more easily than The Thing.
Considering that the xenomorphs have acid blood, wouldn't they be a match against the thing since it has been established that acid and fire only harm the thing?
I mean, we don't know much about alien evolution. It very well may be a natural organism. One theory suggests that the speaceship was manned by alien scientists who picked up from ANOTHER planet in a frozen state. Maybe these organisms drink a milk like substance or live off primordial substance on their own planet. There are many theories which suggest that its a natural being.
The thing: *kills multiple people and has strong abilities
*Predator wants to know your location*
Edit: thx for the likess!
Btw they got married
*puro want to transfur the predator*
The predator would get molested
@@biglez9054 no you tripping the predator is bad ass
@@biglez9054 a lot of the predators weapons have high temperatures and I don't think the thing would be able to get a drop on suitably skilled predator actively looking for the thing
The predator wont even know if it had already been assimilated
Watched the 1982 film at age 13. Next to the Exorcist, this was one of the absolute nightmare inducing films I had ever seen.
Just imagine if these things preserve the human conscience while transforming
The conscience of the hostage be like: wtf is going on with my body
i dont think so. assimilation doesnt work like that. when u r completely assimilated, u no longer human. u r actually an alien that looks/behave like a human.
they don't. They just kill the person while assimilating them
The Original was So much better than the Prequel
They used practical effects in the prequel then swapped for cg in post production. Hollywood...
Yes, but many people claim that sequel plain sucked which isn't true. It was still an ok movie
I hate they never showed who was the thing at the end
Nikki Sandz dude that's the best bit about it, but you do as he takes a drink.
@@leewoodrow yea he smiled when childs had the drink cause i think it was fuel in the bottle, end result i definitely think the thing was childs
I never like how it was just called the thing. I call it Steve
'THE STEVE'
I rather call it the 'chuck'
Why not......Tim.
I think they should call it Bob
Maybe I will call it wade
What kind of demon is this?
Finally a challenge for me.
I'm surprised to find you here
Doom Guy be careful it’s nothing you’ve fought before, Hellwalker. Doubt the BFG 9000 alone can save ya
Unfortunately you would face a foe that you have no hope of stopping
@@jeremyallen492 he kills god in the new so yeah....
Lol the bfg would fucking annihilate the thing. Doom slayer is on an entirely different scale, couple of humans with bombs and an old ass flamethrower almost killed it.
Yes! The Thing is what introduced me to your channel in the first place!
Awesome dude!
Same here
Who would win in a fight: The Thing VS The Blob?
I have always pondered that question since I was a little girl
Never ending fight
The Blob, it dissolves/digests its victims to fast for the the thing to adapt. Just my opinion
The blob is basically a walking acid for the thing which would likely dissolve the thing.
It's been many decades since I have seen the Blob. It was based on an amoeba. If the Blob has a genetic code, and the Thing can restart and operate at the level of blood then all would be needed is a few drops of blood. If the sensor that reads the prey's DNA is area specific, in principle stopping the addition of genetic code is possible.
The Thing is faster, and if the Blob's abilities, and mind was copied it would be on an equal level plus its previous copies. My bet is on the Thing.
Blob dissolves cells. Thing could try to assimalate it, but most likely would die trying. So streght wise the blob wins. Horror wise the thing wins. In conclusion...both monsters are friggin' awesome, and i hope that i never face neither of them😅
After all the countless horror movies I watched, this is the only one that keeps me looking behind my back in fear and seeing things in the corner of my eye in my own house. And I still cant get enough of this classic
ive watched a lot of horror movies because of your reviews. thank you
I saw this movie about 6 years ago for the first time and I was blown away by how great the monster looked (obviously not CGI) and just how incredibly it held up with time. Truly a terrifying movie... I now own this film on Blu Ray I loved it so much
This movie still terrifies me
Same here mate!
Bloody heck, I haven't watched the original movie and I get real nervous walking around dark hallways alone after watching a clip or two.
Yes. It fucked me up badly as a kid and still packs a sickening visceral punch today.
I was still in high school when this came out. I have to say that this was one of the most original and terrifying sci fi horror films I had ever seen. I still think it's one of the most original. Special effects have gotten a lot better but the concept remains solid even today. Loved this movie. The theme still gives me the creeps lol.
Thing: *appears*
Me: Omnitrix, activate DNA repair sequence
Bro but what if you turn into the thing like when Ben almost turned to ghost freak permanently
reaction to it assimilating the dogs: “KILL IT KILL IT WITH FIRE BEFORE IT LAYS EGGS!!!”
Ps
Love your videos since they teach me things I didn’t know about some of my favorite subjects so keep it up pal.
I stopped watching the movie as soon as the dog got assimilated. I was like, "NOPE! YOU AIN'T TOUCHIN MY DOG. NOPE nope nope nopenopenope."
No you didn't...
You're right. I RAN
Then you laughed the dog laughed everyone had a good time.
I would have the Thing as a doggo and I would love it and show it affection
I usually skip it or close my eyes and ears at that part. Then I just sit back and enjoy the rest.
0:06
"Mac wants the flamethrower!"
"Mac wants the what?!"
THE best horror film of all-time. In my top 10 films PERIOD. Simply ingenius in the concept of what the alien organism is. Chilling.
Best horror movie ever. Got the blu ray from a year or two ago and it looks so good. Can't recommend enough if you're a fan of the film
Blair was infected by Mac, when they shared a drink, when locking Blair up.
Something I've always wondered about. When The Thing takes over a dog, it barks like a Dog. When it takes over a human, it can talk, and can use reason and logic like a human. It will practice deception which indicates it knows what it really is, and it knows it is not human, but it seems just as smart, if not more so, based on the fact it was building an actual space ship. Does this mean that the more organisms it takes over, the more knowledge and abilities it gains?!? By taking over a human does it now have the capacity to be as smart as a human? If it had taken over advanced species from other planets, it would surely be a most formidable foe, even from a purely intellectual pov.
Yeah I think you’re completely right. If something like this was encountered it’d be smart to set up something right away as plan b because I’d be thinking it’s far more intelligent then anyone on sight and it can play dumb at moments for distraction as it did in the movie and get little advantages such as destroy the blood and personally if I was in the camp right away I’d be firing up the chopper to get away even if it meant crashing in the frozen tundra it’d be obvious this thing is far ahead if it made it from space to the middle of Antarctica and you can’t even see it until it’s trying to kill you.
@@Armbender1085 Wow I had completely forgotten i'd even made this comment. 4 years ago and so much has happened that it feels like a lifetime ago. I'm glad you replied to it in order to remind me.
Awesome analysis to a John carpenter masterpiece.
This must be around the time Ego met Starlords mom.
There's some THING going on here.
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