their is another youtube documentary that debunk all the lovecraft myth as real paranoia and all movies made from behind wasnt representative of the author
I wouldn’t say perfectly, say what you want about the remake/squeal, I did like how they pointed out that it was spitting out the fillings in the teeth because it can’t replicate Inorganic material so it did have a tale
@@omnianti0 but you’re assuming that it has control over the process what if it’s more like when the Doctor regenerates how he can’t control what he will turn I to next ,maybe once the process starts it can only fallow the blueprint of the DNA and human DNA says a mouth of non decayed teeth, just a thought I’m assuming as well
Ah, movies of 80s! When actors weren't just pretty looking models, but had to build personalities we loved, with stories that were believable and interesting, smart decisions and no excess of actions to cover up all the missing logic. The Thing, absolute perfection!
Fun fact: The dog actor at the beginning was half wolf so he was naturally awkward around people and other dogs. This is what happens when you put real thought into casting.
Another fun fact: the temperature was lowered on the set so the actors can feel like they were in the Arctic. The actors hated taking off and putting on their outfits for filming, so they would just leave them on all the time. Cast and crew got sick or suffered from heat exhaustion cause they would leave a freezing set into the summer heat or vice versa during lunch breaks.
My cousin worked a few winters in Antarctica. She told me that every midwinter they have a showing of this movie. One of their favorite lines is _"get the flamethrower!"_
I'd say it's due to a solid lack of creativity and passion. Hollywood has become a factory line of get it out and get the money. The art of great cinematography, special effects, and story telling is definitely almost dead with a few outliers still giving their best.
For me, the most brilliant casting choice in the movie is actually Jed, which Drinker refers to here as "cute dog." Jed does look like a dog, and that's what makes him work so well for this movie. It's not until they put him in the kennel with other huskies, including a Malamute (which, even if you don't know it, you feel instinctively that's what he should look like), that you begin to feel that there's something really wrong here. The moment he steps into the kennel, and they show you the close ups of all the other dogs, you feel something is terribly amiss. This is because Jed is part wolf. His way of moving and the harder lines of his muzzle and face mark him as something different and other from the dogs in the kennel, well before he turns into a special effect. The slow, deliberate way Jed goes about his business earlier in the movie is also inherent to what he is, but you don't notice it until later, in fact you may write it off as a somewhat skittish dog having just been hunted down by some helicopter fools (and, of course, the knowledge that wolves were hunted from helicopters and planes in this way was kind of a big thing at the time, making a large part of the audience instantly sympathetic to the dog). At the same time, the hallway scene is an excellent opportunity to showcase Jed's precise training, and I'm someone who appreciates that kind of thing, when it's done within the plot as it is here.
@@ponetastic "Oh no, somebody talked about something they liked/thought was interesting that I didn't consider important and that wasn't already talked about in the video, however shall I cope with it one year after the fact?"
I would say that most of the time Jed is on screen, you feel something is off with him. His actions are quite un-doglike. He never makes a sound. He stands or lies very still. He stares fixedly at things, which normal dogs almost never do. I found his attitude rather unnerving, even before I knew the truth. But when you watch those scenes after learning it, you can almost feel the "dog" observing, analyzing, planning.
@@danieldickson8591, I'll agree that something seems 'off' from the start, but it's easy to reason away as... well... he did come from a madhouse, and was being chased and shot at from a helicopter. Maybe it's shock or something. And yeah, everything about the way the "dog" behaves serves to build the film, and while it wouldn't "ruin" the film if a lesser dog was in it, I think Jed's casting choice was rather brilliant simply because of what he was and what he was capable of doing.
Second time today I've got to tell this small story. I was stationed as an MP guard at a military detention facility in 1983, South Korea. It was dead winter with deep snow and about 10 degrees below. The nearest structure to us was 2 miles away. The jail housed about 40-50 US Service Members awaiting legal action of some sort. One night a week we played a movie. This film was making the rounds at the base, us included. There we were, frozen and isolated in place. The film began and us guards were catching bits a pieces of the film along with the captive audience. As the film progressed we could hear rumblings and reactions to the film and comparing it to our situation. Our anxieties were raised. When the difibrulator scene hit, chaos ensued. We had grown men, screaming, crying and yelling for their mommies, running to their bunks and hiding under blankets. It was one of the funniest things I had ever observed! Every time I watch this film I can't help but think of that night. Thanks for the video.
Rodney Bray as much as I want to say you’re right I can’t. Halloween is a really great movie but it sadly can’t hold a candle to The Thing. The reason I say this is due to the fact that Michael Myers dies two times in the original Halloween film yet inexplicably doesn’t. I mean he gets stabbed in the throat with an oversized knitting needle to the point to where he should be choking on his own blood. Not to mention the time where he gets his skull bashed in with a 2X4. Which, considering tests done on human skull replicas, shows that he probably got his skull shattered. It’s a good film but the plot armor of Myers is a bit over the top.
I was in college when this movie came out and a few friends and I went to the theater to see it. I will never forget that trip. Wow... the entire crowd was screaming and squirming around in their seats. It was (and still is) quite the show.
I watched the screening at the Directors Guild of America. The audience was so stunned that they just remained in their seats as the credits rolled. They were truly disturbed, and gave the film a bad review. Boy, were they wrong.
@@tiffsaver Huh, didn’t read the last part of your comment, I think the WGAW liked it, that’s too bad, I remember a lot of screams and audience reaction. Not like Star Wars, but it was a pretty wild ride. Cheers
That scene when they catch Bennings with his arm mutated out in the snow, and Bennings let out that otherworldly scream... Hands down, the most haunting scene in the entire film. I remember thinking that his face looks deceptively human, but whatever is lurking behind his eyes is something else entirely.
@Dr. Freeman Just so. Hard to achieve that effect in a scene. You have to get in that sense of "the alien and the unknown". Works wonders for horror if you can pull it off, but not many can.
That Dog deserves some sort of Oscar for animals, he killed it, even though you don't know what he is yet, you know something's not right, and the Dog does a great job in portraying this with his stiff and almost inorganic performance
Jed was half dog half wolf, he didnt bark. by god he earnt his dinner that day for that scene alone. actually there were a few scenes where he just stared.
I hate horror movies, I just find myslef yelling at the characters making horrible choices... this movie on the other hand is really really good all through
@@lanzer22 To be fair the Norwegians had gone nuts and only desired to kill the creature anymore. Rationality is far away from those poor bastards who's sanity is long gone after seeing all their friends ripped apart or eaten.
And let's not forget about the score. The music caused a huge, ominous, deep, dark depth to the movie. John Carpenter's music in all his movies just.......no words can describe.
@@ElijahBak you can say that again. I was shocked when I learned that this score wasn’t Carpenter, but rather another legend in Ennio. Just shows how great Marricone is because this score screams John Carpenter.
Fun fact: the day the Antarctic research base is officially cut off from the rest of the world for the winter due to the weather (just like in the film), they all sit down and watch The Thing together, just to set the mood. It's been tradition since the movie first came out on VHS.
This is one of those few movies where, if youre flipping through the channels, if The Thing is on....you just stop and watch it to the end, whatever point you're at. Infinitely watchable film.
CGI is best when it isn't the only effect type used. Lord of the Rings has aged so well because they did so much of it as practical effects amd used CGI to augment it and create the things they just couldn't do practically (like the Balrog).
@@anonymoususer208 I don't mind CGI affects, especially in action scenes where you're too busy to pay attention, but if they make a monster out of CGI and expect you to be scared, that's like being scared by a cartoon.
Simply put, a masterpiece. The effects are still chilling and horrifying, the cast are excellent and the writing is just perfect. I'm surprised it hasn't been removed from streaming services as it is that rare thing of a film without a single female in it!
Has Adrienne Barbeau on the chess game and a deleted scene with a sex doll. But yeah, a bit anti-female, this one. Maybe Carpenter's dig at his divorcee.
Makes sense to me why there wouldn’t be any women. Typically hazardous or intense jobs have a high ratio of male workers to females. So a situation like this would actually be more common/realistic. 💁♀️
This is based on John W. Campbell jr.’s 1938 novella titled “Who Goes There?” And I think it’s a testament to how good the story is that both film adaptations of the novel, Howard Hawke’s 1951 Sci-fi classic “The Thing from another World” and John Carpenter’s 1982 film, are excellent.
The 1951 version-- excellent as it is-- covers only the first half of the novella. I read it long before the Carpenter adaptation and it was a treat to see the whole story realized.
Drinker: “You’d look scruffy and out of shape if you couldn’t go out and exercise and there was no reason to keep up appearances anymore” *everyone in 2020 looks around uncomfortably*
My grandfather was imprisoned for 6 years by Franco after the Spanish civil war. I still remember my father telling me how my grandfather continued to shave every day in prison so as not to loose his self respect and sense of self. Different times. Different men.
This movie has a special place in my heart. I absolutely hated horror movies as a kid, but one day when I was like 13, my dad basically went, “Son, it’s time to show The Way,” and he used this and Alien as my introduction to horror. Obviously, I hated it at first, but as I got used to scares and saw how stupid most horror movies are, I realized just how good this one. There’s no cheap jump scares, no brain-dead chicks, no catering to teens with shitty edgelord music or teen drama; just a bunch of grown men doing their damndest to survive. The threat of The Thing is constantly looming in the air, and the music is just so iconically good. It’s so much fun to rewatch this movie over and over.
If those two films were your first experience with horror sci-fi then you were certainly spoiled because most other movies suck compared to these great story thank you for sharing
I also remember the critics dissing the cast , saying they had no chemistry. Not sure how you can be a fan or critic of movies and come to that conclusion. Within the first 10 minutes you understood every character and what miotivates them.
Same here, although I watched it on German TV, meaning it was heavily censored, still I loved that movie. Had to import the Dutch DVD version in a time when online shopping wasn't yet a thing. I cannot describe the delight I felt when finally watching the original version. It was taken down from the Index in germany sometime in the 2000s so the unabridged version is readily available nowadays.
Check out The Void. 2016 horror movie that was crowdfunded making it truly independent (not the fake independent that so many so-called indy movies actually are) with 100% practical SFX. The plot is a mash up of The Thing, Hellraiser and Event Horizon, and yes, it's as fucking insane as it sounds.
Its a good beard alright but its not perfect. If i had that beard I'd groom it more often, not every day like, but i guess every 70hours or so. Also the handlebars lack definition, they could do with some work.
@@danielharvey6352 this trope monster is the most horrible and creative possible it let a super large freedom for make diferent movies on the exact same monster let imagine the same with he world war Z style
He only drinks at the beginning and then the last scene so.. we drink every time there's gory prosthetic make up fx stuff.. so pretty wasted half way thru🤓
@@omnianti0 It's a mutating monster that consumes other species. Why not have the ability to divide yourself amongst more than one body? The Thing has countless heads absorbed into his body.
@@vladdracul2379 tottally fake you have to watch the movie the thing is describted as a bacteria or vuirus lifform and many body splited on purpose and never infected body merged even if it possible it was never depicted this not a monster or a creature but colaborative swarms
Hard to believe he started playing clean cut Disney characters. He also had a scene with Elvis in a movie, then played him years later in a TV movie. Life is strange eh?
Well fun fact: They imitate the hosts memories, so the screams are actually the screams of the mutated people, who can feel themselves being ripped apart. I think (I’m not sure) that some of them don’t even know they are infected
I love how some movies can make you feel how cold it is, or how alone you feel, or how hopeless the situation is. Most of these things are missing in Hollywood.
I saw it when it first came out in 1982. It was in January, the morning after a blizzard snow storm. The theater was eerily completely empty except the four of us... It was great!
I watched the Thing prequel in the cinema in 2011. It was also almost deserted, and for some reason the air conditioning was cranked up to a ridiculous degree. It added to the atmosphere and I ended up really enjoying it, despite its flaws. Synchronicity.
@@nicholaslewis862 that movie was a perfect example of studio meddling into the production. If they just left the team alone to make the movie it would have been an instant classic. I too like it despite its flaws but it could have been so amazing.
@@yup486 The original King Kong movie has got to be the absolute king of improvised and creative movie effects. I believe that even today, not all the tricks they used have been revealed.
This is my favorite movie, I'm a woman, and one of the things I appreciate the most about it is precisely that there are no women. No screaming, no crying, no hysterics. It sounds mysoginistic, but the truth is, there is something deeply unsettling about seeing a bunch of tough, grizzled men be scared. If they are scared of this thing, what's left for the rest of us? But not to worry, that disgrace prequel of 2011 added the plank of wood Mary Elizabeth Wingstead to balance things out :/
As a cast member of the HBO series "OZ" Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was put to good use even to the point of flopping out his huge Agbaje from time to time. In the Thing prequel he was reduced to playing the stereotypical bug-eyed panicky black guy with a Jamaican accent for the Norwegian scientists to scoff at. The prequel was an abomination that never should have been made.
I like how in Norweigen the guy says "Get the hell outta there. That's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! Get away, you idiots!" If only people knew what he was saying... XD
I guess it was on the RLM Video where they forgot about this part in the Norwegian release and totally ruined it for the cinema audience few minutes in :D
You missed one of the best lines from the film. It’s right after they kill Palmer-Thing and test Gary’s blood. “I know you gentleman have been through a lot, but when you find the time I’d rather not spend the rest of this Winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!” Such a great moment of relief and humor. Like it was Carpenter’s way of telling the audience, “it’s okay guys, you can relax for now.”It’s also a pivotal scene for Gary as well. Up to that point, Gary had been the on the receiving end of losing his command, being accused of everything, and finally having the audience and the crew think he’d been assimilated. So this was his way saying he had had enough of being the scapegoat.
I was in Jr. High when this came out so I had to wait a year to see it on cable in 83. My buddies and I must have watched it 10 times growing up. A classic, and kudos to EVERYONE involved in this film.
My girlfriend hates movies like this too. But I found a way to ease them into a movie like this. I started by showing them movies like Fright Night and Return Of The Living Dead and ramped it up from there. By the time I got to The Thing, they were already accustomed to atmospheric horror films with practical gore effects.
A masterpiece from start to finish. Cant believe it was nominated for worst soundtrack. Is it simple? Yes, but what does it for the film to create an atmosphere? Hell yeah. I always thought the Swedian...oops Norwegian said, "Okay a**holes that's my dog, I was the one taking care of him, he's mine, mine....GODDAMNIT STOP LICKING THEM FOR F**K SAKE!".
Honestly, in my eyes this movie wouldn't even NEED a soundtrack for it to be effective. I find that pure silence in horror or thriller films always makes the build up to the stings much more effective. Having music kinda ruins it in my opinion.
The soundtrack was apparently done by John Carpenter himself, and it's wonderfully effective, never overshadowing, just giving the right feel of isolation and suspense.
The soundtrack was done by Enio Morricone. Carpenter chose about 2 of the tracks he wrote and didn't use the rest. Enio said Carpenter picked the two which sounded like what he would have done.
This movie is hands down one of my most ultimate favourites. In the early to mid 90s, my roommate and I would alternate between 'The Thing', 'Big Trouble in Little China', 'Escape from New York' and 'Aliens'.
@@omnianti0 i consider ET a horror film. ET had mindcontrol powers, and had brainwashed a child into subservience. thats the way i saw it when i was a kid, and apparently im not alone, because thats a popular theory about it.
The guy was visionary. I loved the behind the scenes stories about when one of his effects went wrong and burned up the whole set they were working on. Carpenter replied with, "Thank you, Mr. Bottin!" ...but they learned from that mistake, went on and gave us the epic movie that is still making film lovers go wild for it years later. Cheers!
It's pretty much a perfect movie. The only conceivable improvement would be if they cut the opening bit with the flying saucer entering the Earth's atmosphere so the reveal that the Thing is an alien is more shocking. EDIT: By the way, the film stars Kurt Russell, Keith David, and Wilford Brimley. Bad. Ass. It's also technically not an all-male cast - the voice of the computer that Kurt Russell kills is provided by Adrienne Barbeau.
It's the same issue with Predator. You could have a really tense "what is going on here?" for the opening part of the film if the first shot wasn't an alien spaceship.
Fun fact: John W. Campbell, who wrote the original story, was inspired by the fact that his mother had an identical twin and as a child he would often confuse his mother and his aunt.
@@Flaschenteufel No. The plot follows Campbell's story very closely and it has little in common with Lovecraft's, other than monsters in Antarctica. Campbell may have been influenced by Lovecraft's story but it was Campbell's story that featured a single alien ship under the ice, with a single alien "corpse" that infects and absorbs other beings and features the transformation of men and huskies and the hot needle blood test and the guy locked away in the shed no one thought might be a monster but who was and who was working on a way to escape.
Ffs drinker, it's one of the few classics I hadn't watched yet and you know you spoil the shit out of these movies (in a good way)......fine...I'll be back in 1h 49m Edit: Worth it, I knew you'd have to mention that grenade slip!
I feel your pain, dude. Although now you know to not watch a video about a movie if you don’t want it spoiled. But yeah, I sympathise, it’s very difficult to avoid spoilers on the internet. I’ve even encountered videos that spoil TV shows without even it being relevant to the topic at hand!
"The Thing" encapsulates the ultimate feeling of Horror. For me at least. An organism that takes hold of other organisms and is indistinguishable, from sight, and can live on indefinitely. With an intelligence of yet unknown capabilities. The way it melts the dna of its hosts, twists and pervert it...Turning your fellow men against you. And then the absolute gorgeous effects on top of that. It sends chills down my spine, every time.
@Seven V I think that might be the scariest thing of all, I don't think it does replace the consciousness of the subject, instead I think it replaces the subconscious. My two reasons to support this: (1) What was the advantage in it having a heart attack? It only revealed itself after the second "attack" with the defibrillator. (2) Windows is the first to see and point out the head creature, reacting EXACTLY like Windows would have. At no point does Windows reveal himself as the Thing until he is exposed, even allowing himself to be tied up and tested. So, to me, it looks like the person never even realises they are a duplicate.
McReady hands Child’s a bottle of whisky to drink but the bottle , as shown throughout the ending , had been repurposed like to others into a Molotov cocktail. Child’s drinks it no sweat and it’s then that McReady knows he’s the alien.
Two mine best movies from my childhood: first Alien and The thing. Loneliess, sick effects, slow claustrophobic survival horror and on the end emptines after near dead. Just greatness
So damn good, I watch it about twice a year. Never gets old. You forgot to mention the soundtrack. It creeps things out even more. Truly a masterpiece......
All you have in Hollywood anymore are hacks who spout the "right" politics or belong to the "right" demographics. There are ABSOLUTELY almost NO writers, directors, casting agents, or actors with ANY talent anymore, nor producers who give a damn about anything but shaping the next political narrative. I'm tired of endless "reboots" and inferior remakes of previously superior movies and television shows.
@@GRAYR189 it isn't the writers fault. They are plenty of talented writers trying to break into hollywood but the studios want easy money and dont wanna take chances on new material so they just keep rehashing movies and paying the writers they already have to write a boring story thats been done a million times.
Movies, music, commercials, TV shows, nothing. The Critical Drinker could do a video on just the "CUCKmercials" . They all just portray men as juvenile bumbling idiots that are too stupid to tie their own shoes, but along comes genius strong woman to humiliate him. Diversity overload.
Great movie. And in fact the computer WAS cheating at Chess, it didn't have him in checkmate. Nice bit of insight into MacReady's character and foreshadows his actions a couple of times later on both with the dynamite and the climax. If he's going to lose, he's going to make sure you lose too.
I always thought of this movie as the gold standard of psychological horror. At 10 years old, I was in a scary movie kick. Literally none of them bothered me. One of my parents friends one night said "oh, I got a movie for you." He turns out the lights and puts The Thing in. This movie truly horrified me. The atmosphere and the eerie high pitch music is right on point. The gore really dramatizes the scenes to where you are in this wtf mode. Especially with the dogs (I almost shit myself on that scene the first time). The mystery behind the creature and the way it moves about really shows the depth of thought put into the movie. The feeling of hopelessness and the paranoia is on the mark. Just imagine being put in a situation like that and the fear you would be experiencing. It would be overwhelming. Knowing that this thing is out there, or maybe it is your friend. It's truly a work of art.
I saw this movie for the first time when I was in the Army back in the 80’s. I remember a friend who had already seen it telling all of us watching that he could tell us every creepy thing that was gonna happen right before it did happen and it would still freak us out. He was right.
@@interstellarbeatteller9306 I don’t even really disagree. It’s genuinely confusing to me how good the dogs are. In my experience, there’s never been animal work as effective and specific as this in all the intervening years. The trainers must have put in an incredible amount of work.
@@landonhagan450 Beautiful creatures...there's a few shots that look like the dog is actually acting! John Carpenter took great care so the dogs weren't stressed during the intense scenes in the cage movies.stackexchange.com/questions/56655/what-is-this-dog-really-biting-in-the-thing
The documentary about The Thing is really interesting when they get into all the practical effects and stuff. The amount of work they put into it was unreal, especially the dog transformation scene. Definitely check it out if you haven't before.
My gf can't watch the movie because of that scene, it freaks her out too much, and she's an avid fan of The Walking Dead. Shows just how good the effects were.
From what I remember from that one of the leading special effects guys looks and carries on like a total bum, but he came up with some of the most brilliant and simple effects.
Fun fact: while filming, the temperature was actually lowered to replicate the cold tundra of the Antarctic. To sell the cold and make the actors feel the misery of the sheer cold like if they were in the real Antarctic. And the cast would just keep on their warm gear and when they were on break or lunch step out into the scorching LA heat. Some cast members even got sick from doing that.
The Thing (1982) is literally my favorite movie, and for good reason. I watched it as a teenager about a decade and a half ago and I instantly fell in love with it. The atmosphere, special effects, characters, story. They're all amazing and I've been searching for the horror movie that would give me the same feeling I had when I first watched this movie ever since to no avail.
@@freaknr1 One of the great things about the movie, language barriers being a thing. Survivors from the other camp trying to warn the others, pnly to sadly come across americans who only know thier own language.
Those little tentacles flickering out of the dog always freaked me out, idk why. But yeah, not a good movie to show the kids Edit: oh, and the way Palmer Thing moves in the chair scene is some quasi-nightmare, uncanny-valley shit. I dont care if it looks "cheesy", that scene is just gnarly as all hell
Fun fact this movie is based on the 50s film thing from another world. Also Drinker I haven't been following your channel for long but in that time I've come to appreciate your opinion on things. It's amazing you're wanting to tell your own stories. I'm in the process of doing that myself. These are stories I've been working for years and only recently have begun putting them to the page. Thank you sir
Something that was mentioned in this video that might have been dismissed by others but is noticed by some people. You mentioned that this is an all male cast. people now would think that that is an extremely sexist concept but when you look at movies like The Shawshank Redemption, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Thing, and Saving Private Ryan, you'll see that sometimes it makes sense for only men to be in a dingy science station at the end of the world, a prison, a sales office from freaking '80s, or a world war II troop. Well sci-fi and all these other movies do have some great female heroes in them, sometimes it makes no sense to shoehorn them into places where they wouldn't even function within the world of the story!
This is actually briefly referenced in the commentary track for the Special Edition DVD with Kurt Russell and John Carpenter. Apparently there was one woman on the crew, and she abandoned ship early on. Russell said that when it was just a bunch of guys, filming got a lot smoother, as everyone stopped competing with each other and just eased into the routine and enjoyed themselves.
Not only does it not make sense, but if a woman was in it then the audience would not forgive the male characters for not protecting her and treating her better, and they definitely wouldn't allow Kurt Russel to burn her alive, so that would ruin the suspense. I also don't understand what's wrong with having male movies for men. Sometimes guys need to be around male energy to know what being a man even feels like. It's not like women are forbidden from watching the movie.
The dog in The Thing is a better actor than most of Hollywood today.
I'd like to see Meryl Streep convincingly play a husky trying to escape a deranged Norwegian with a shotgun in a helicopter.
Unironically, yes.
Agreed
Lol, TRUE, and half the time they are stuffed, 😂🤣
That dog actually "starred" in both White Fang movies and the Journey of Natty Gann. Jed, what a fucking legend.
A lovecraftian alien that can perfectly replicate human beings vs Kurt Russell and his beard.
The Thing never had a chance.
their is another youtube documentary that debunk all the lovecraft myth as real paranoia and all movies made from behind wasnt representative of the author
I wouldn’t say perfectly, say what you want about the remake/squeal, I did like how they pointed out that it was spitting out the fillings in the teeth because it can’t replicate Inorganic material so it did have a tale
@@thedrno4901 what is not logic is the thing canot reuse the inorganic and reject it for no reason
canot copy is ok but refuse to keep is nosens
Too bad nobody will ever release a game based on the premise of one (or 2) killers among all a group of Us! I'd play that! (if it was FTP...)
@@omnianti0 but you’re assuming that it has control over the process what if it’s more like when the Doctor regenerates how he can’t control what he will turn I to next ,maybe once the process starts it can only fallow the blueprint of the DNA and human DNA says a mouth of non decayed teeth, just a thought I’m assuming as well
'The Thing'
Starring:
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russel's Beard
Pretty sure Kurt Russell's beard got top billing.
The power of The Beard.
You got that out of order.
The beard should have won best actor, and Kurt best supporting actor.
Don't forget Kurt Russell's Beard Wash.
Ah, movies of 80s! When actors weren't just pretty looking models, but had to build personalities we loved, with stories that were believable and interesting, smart decisions and no excess of actions to cover up all the missing logic. The Thing, absolute perfection!
Kurt Russell *could've* been a model, though. He's still beautiful in my book
@@DrDolan2000 he is and he was but not in that "almost filter like" way. He is natural.
When I realize that this film was actually made in 1982, I still shake my head.
Kurt Russel turn a Chad male gay man is good looking
“Kurt Russel and his beard want some answers.”
Fucking. Gold.
Until he said it the 500th time.
Kurt's beard has better acting ability than the majority of Hollywood today.
@@iim4xii129 Yeah. Then it became platinum.
y :D :D Funny detail
@@iim4xii129Nope, still gold.
Fun fact: The dog actor at the beginning was half wolf so he was naturally awkward around people and other dogs.
This is what happens when you put real thought into casting.
Jed the dog!
Now that's a dedication to cinema
He was also the title character in 'White Fang' in 1991.
@@invisibleman4827 a versatile king.
Another fun fact: the temperature was lowered on the set so the actors can feel like they were in the Arctic. The actors hated taking off and putting on their outfits for filming, so they would just leave them on all the time. Cast and crew got sick or suffered from heat exhaustion cause they would leave a freezing set into the summer heat or vice versa during lunch breaks.
Man the practical effects used in this film outperforms many CGI based films today
Many? I can't think of a single CGI horror film with monsters as effective as The Thing
Just like Alien/Aliens 😊
@UCQzMdZDgzsqUEsZBo7ia9ww That's literally a sin against God...
It has soul, that's the difference .
CGI in Jumanji were good to me, or at least I recall they were among the first CGI. Now CGI seems to have not progressed.
The Thing (1982) and Aliens (1986) are without a doubt the two greatest masterpieces of entertainment ever produced. Thanks, CD!
predator and die hard feel dismissed, needs to be a group of 4.
Alien > Aliens
@@kanedNunable while die hard is great, i think it's 1 tier below these masterpieces
You forgot The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
@@nyxarhea those are definitely way up on the all time list.
My cousin worked a few winters in Antarctica. She told me that every midwinter they have a showing of this movie. One of their favorite lines is _"get the flamethrower!"_
Hmmmm i wonder
"Mac wants the WHAT?"
Then a husky comes running in.
O_O
What did she do there?
@@benjamins9121 Research the crashed alien spacecraft, of course. 🙄
I'm glad carpenter is alive to know his movie has become a stone cold classic.
@Deadass, b 😁
@Deadass, b Carpenter is still alive...
@Deadass, b There was a false report in 2018 from some website, but it was clarified that it was a mistake.
@Deadass, b *George Romero
@Deadass, b no............."IS" a stone cold classic.
38 years later and they still cant do effects as good as they did in this exquisite masterpiece
I'd say it's due to a solid lack of creativity and passion. Hollywood has become a factory line of get it out and get the money. The art of great cinematography, special effects, and story telling is definitely almost dead with a few outliers still giving their best.
Check out The Thing 2011! They used practical effects just like in the first one. You can watch some amazing behind the scenes videos here on youtube.
th-cam.com/video/omQ-G7dxq8s/w-d-xo.html
@@LuciTulcea harbinger down
Watch 'The Void'.
The plot is nonsense but the practical effects are impeccable.
For me, the most brilliant casting choice in the movie is actually Jed, which Drinker refers to here as "cute dog." Jed does look like a dog, and that's what makes him work so well for this movie. It's not until they put him in the kennel with other huskies, including a Malamute (which, even if you don't know it, you feel instinctively that's what he should look like), that you begin to feel that there's something really wrong here. The moment he steps into the kennel, and they show you the close ups of all the other dogs, you feel something is terribly amiss. This is because Jed is part wolf. His way of moving and the harder lines of his muzzle and face mark him as something different and other from the dogs in the kennel, well before he turns into a special effect. The slow, deliberate way Jed goes about his business earlier in the movie is also inherent to what he is, but you don't notice it until later, in fact you may write it off as a somewhat skittish dog having just been hunted down by some helicopter fools (and, of course, the knowledge that wolves were hunted from helicopters and planes in this way was kind of a big thing at the time, making a large part of the audience instantly sympathetic to the dog). At the same time, the hallway scene is an excellent opportunity to showcase Jed's precise training, and I'm someone who appreciates that kind of thing, when it's done within the plot as it is here.
lol climb off jeds knot, bro
@@ponetastic "Oh no, somebody talked about something they liked/thought was interesting that I didn't consider important and that wasn't already talked about in the video, however shall I cope with it one year after the fact?"
@@Zara-Bari i see you two have split up and gone your seperate ways
I would say that most of the time Jed is on screen, you feel something is off with him. His actions are quite un-doglike. He never makes a sound. He stands or lies very still. He stares fixedly at things, which normal dogs almost never do. I found his attitude rather unnerving, even before I knew the truth. But when you watch those scenes after learning it, you can almost feel the "dog" observing, analyzing, planning.
@@danieldickson8591, I'll agree that something seems 'off' from the start, but it's easy to reason away as... well... he did come from a madhouse, and was being chased and shot at from a helicopter. Maybe it's shock or something.
And yeah, everything about the way the "dog" behaves serves to build the film, and while it wouldn't "ruin" the film if a lesser dog was in it, I think Jed's casting choice was rather brilliant simply because of what he was and what he was capable of doing.
It's the Terminator 2 of horror movies.
What a great analogy!
Efe Aydal no it’s not, T2 was a sequel this isn’t. Maybe it’s the predator or horror movies
@@Modelstl063 I would have accepted "The Alien" of horror movies...
A McConnell - “Alien” is the “Alien” of horror movies
Bruh Terminator 2 is a sequel not a remake....nice try though
I believe John Carpenter himself said that he considers this movie to be his masterpiece. Even edging out Halloween.
@Jack and Bt Sandwich you, sir, just caught a purposeful and well-hidden plot point that ties into the end of the movie.
@Jack and Bt Sandwich it's never made exactly clear how the Thing assimilates. The ambiguity of it adds to the fear and paranoia of the characters
I've been edging since last Halloween, is that what you mean?
Not a fan of halloween
@Matthew Estrada Or Big Trouble
38 years old, and still better than the vast majority of modern movies.
Stop liking. Go away.
which is funny when you think the audience didn't like it at the time!
Nah. Not really.
Dragonage2ftw Its okay to have terrible opinions, just dont say it publicly
just name a single better monster movie plz
@@Milk-bi8mm do you mean Sean Penn
This movie shows that practical effects feel more real than CG effects. I love that you kept referring to Kurt Russel and his beard😂.
Kurt Russell’s beard should have been nominated for best supporting actor.
Real talk
Practical effects
Kurt Russell and his beard carried this movie.
It was.
In all of our hearts.
That and his hat.
Second time today I've got to tell this small story. I was stationed as an MP guard at a military detention facility in 1983, South Korea. It was dead winter with deep snow and about 10 degrees below. The nearest structure to us was 2 miles away. The jail housed about 40-50 US Service Members awaiting legal action of some sort. One night a week we played a movie. This film was making the rounds at the base, us included. There we were, frozen and isolated in place. The film began and us guards were catching bits a pieces of the film along with the captive audience. As the film progressed we could hear rumblings and reactions to the film and comparing it to our situation. Our anxieties were raised. When the difibrulator scene hit, chaos ensued. We had grown men, screaming, crying and yelling for their mommies, running to their bunks and hiding under blankets. It was one of the funniest things I had ever observed! Every time I watch this film I can't help but think of that night. Thanks for the video.
lmfao, awesome.
Wow...
Now immagine that someone's hearth gave out during that scene.
@@doublem1354 that's why it is always important to have your chimney swept once a year.
He dies from shame and bullets
🤣🤣
What a great story thank you for sharing hahaha
THE THING is John Carpenter's masterpiece in my opinion.
It’s a his masterpiece for sure, it practically killed him..
I'd agree if not for escape from New York. Carpenter was a genius either way.
Big Trouble in Little Chinatown is one of my favorite films. Its so much fun and has such a neat atmosphere.
Halloween was very good as well. Just listen to the theme. A masterpiece of horror music. th-cam.com/video/pT4FY3NrhGg/w-d-xo.html
Rodney Bray as much as I want to say you’re right I can’t. Halloween is a really great movie but it sadly can’t hold a candle to The Thing. The reason I say this is due to the fact that Michael Myers dies two times in the original Halloween film yet inexplicably doesn’t. I mean he gets stabbed in the throat with an oversized knitting needle to the point to where he should be choking on his own blood. Not to mention the time where he gets his skull bashed in with a 2X4. Which, considering tests done on human skull replicas, shows that he probably got his skull shattered. It’s a good film but the plot armor of Myers is a bit over the top.
I was in college when this movie came out and a few friends and I went to the theater to see it. I will never forget that trip. Wow... the entire crowd was screaming and squirming around in their seats. It was (and still is) quite the show.
Haven’t seen that for a long time in a theatre- ah, the good ole days.
I watched the screening at the Directors Guild of America. The audience was so stunned that they just remained in their seats as the credits rolled. They were truly disturbed, and gave the film a bad review. Boy, were they wrong.
@@tiffsaver I saw it at the Writers Guild with my folks. That’s when movies really had an effect on the audience, not just the guilds, either.
@@tiffsaver Huh, didn’t read the last part of your comment, I think the WGAW liked it, that’s too bad, I remember a lot of screams and audience reaction. Not like Star Wars, but it was a pretty wild ride. Cheers
@@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz
I think they thought it was too gory for their "high end" tastes. Their loss.
To this day, this is still one of the GREATEST Horror films ever made!
One of the best films period imo
This is true.
Very true, in my opinion the greatest horror movie ever, tied with The Exorcist
@DoogieBowser Ahem: you left Alien off your list. For shame. For shame.
The most unrealistic part of this film is the idea of Norweigans who can't aim.
That's more likely than not speaking English to a bunch of Americans.
@ShockingTube More so the skiing and shooting thing
Think of it as them being very cold and worked up after a long time fighting the Thing.
Do Norwegians always throw grenades backwards?
@@lanzer22 Yes :)
That scene when they catch Bennings with his arm mutated out in the snow, and Bennings let out that otherworldly scream... Hands down, the most haunting scene in the entire film.
I remember thinking that his face looks deceptively human, but whatever is lurking behind his eyes is something else entirely.
real "invasion of the body snatchers" moment.
@Dr. Freeman Just so.
Hard to achieve that effect in a scene. You have to get in that sense of "the alien and the unknown". Works wonders for horror if you can pull it off, but not many can.
@Dr. Freeman Similar to what I was going to add:
It's called "acting." We don't see much of that these days.
@@moonsofmadness8850 this, it can be hard to find films where the acting is a pillar of the film these days
Fucker looked like he was about to do an opera scene xD
The Thing is one of the best movies ever made. Carpenter/Russell might be my favorite director/actor combo.
Kurt Russell's beard has more testosterone than all of Hollywood today.
PeeWee Herman has more testosterone than all of Hollywood today.
Its mad how a Dog simply staring is far scarier than any of the CGI nonsense they come out with now
That Dog deserves some sort of Oscar for animals, he killed it, even though you don't know what he is yet, you know something's not right, and the Dog does a great job in portraying this with his stiff and almost inorganic performance
That was the only time I found a dog turned to be fucking creepy 🤙🏾
Because your imagination of the unkown is far scaryer then anything they can show
Jed was half dog half wolf, he didnt bark. by god he earnt his dinner that day for that scene alone. actually there were a few scenes where he just stared.
@@BB-fd2rf eh? ahh fuckit, i did a typo, oops :p
I hate horror movies, I just find myslef yelling at the characters making horrible choices... this movie on the other hand is really really good all through
With the exception of the Norwegians . :) A movie about that team would be everything you find yourself yelling at. :D
@@lanzer22 You mean the 2011 movie? The characters were so stupid, the whole movie was trash.
@@lanzer22 To be fair the Norwegians had gone nuts and only desired to kill the creature anymore. Rationality is far away from those poor bastards who's sanity is long gone after seeing all their friends ripped apart or eaten.
Here's the thing about the thing,the characters were dealing with an unknown alien creature.They had no idea of what to do.
You know you're dealing with sensible characters when nobody says "let's split up".
And let's not forget about the score. The music caused a huge, ominous, deep, dark depth to the movie. John Carpenter's music in all his movies just.......no words can describe.
HELL, YES!!! Even before the first creature showed up, it totally creeped me out.
The score isn't Carpenter--it's Ennio Morricone who was clearly doing his best John Carpenter impression.
@@ElijahBak
He-he😆
@@ElijahBak you can say that again. I was shocked when I learned that this score wasn’t Carpenter, but rather another legend in Ennio. Just shows how great Marricone is because this score screams John Carpenter.
Dum dum....... dum dum........ dum dum........ dum dum......
Fun fact: the day the Antarctic research base is officially cut off from the rest of the world for the winter due to the weather (just like in the film), they all sit down and watch The Thing together, just to set the mood. It's been tradition since the movie first came out on VHS.
Lol yes!! We did that on the uscgc polar sea as well when I was in the coast guard. The Thing is a Antarctica trip tradition!
For the record, they watch The Thing AND The Shining.
What kind of mood are they trying to set exactly? Murder and distrust?
Steve Eisler it’s just a fun meta joke
@@MrDeefleparde don't be a baby
This is one of those few movies where, if youre flipping through the channels, if The Thing is on....you just stop and watch it to the end, whatever point you're at. Infinitely watchable film.
CGI monsters today still can’t convince me they are real like the monsters in this movie do.
Some CGI isn’t that bad, we just need more Visuals effects to make the monsters more convincing
CGI is best when it isn't the only effect type used. Lord of the Rings has aged so well because they did so much of it as practical effects amd used CGI to augment it and create the things they just couldn't do practically (like the Balrog).
Once I see that the monster is CGI, I turn it off. Or if there's a pointless jump scare, I turn it off. My record is 3 minutes in.
@@joshuafischer684 I don't think LOTR has aged that well. But I'm not talking effects. I'm talking about the godawful wigs everyone is wearing 😂
@@anonymoususer208 I don't mind CGI affects, especially in action scenes where you're too busy to pay attention, but if they make a monster out of CGI and expect you to be scared, that's like being scared by a cartoon.
This is one of the greatest horror movies ever made. Great story, great cast, great FX, great cinematography, great music and sound.
100% correct on all six counts!!! A truly perfect movie.
- *"Why is the alien here?"*
To replicate Kurt Russells beard, obviously. I mean, its so powerful, Wilford Brimley didnt have a mustache yet.
or diabetus
Or diabetes.
Because it's not like us, see? Because it's from outer space.
@@theunknownone5990 I see we're both 'South Park' fans.
Fear the beard🧔
Simply put, a masterpiece. The effects are still chilling and horrifying, the cast are excellent and the writing is just perfect. I'm surprised it hasn't been removed from streaming services as it is that rare thing of a film without a single female in it!
Has Adrienne Barbeau on the chess game and a deleted scene with a sex doll. But yeah, a bit anti-female, this one. Maybe Carpenter's dig at his divorcee.
Are you assuming the thing's gender ?
Makes sense to me why there wouldn’t be any women. Typically hazardous or intense jobs have a high ratio of male workers to females. So a situation like this would actually be more common/realistic. 💁♀️
Weird how everything has to be female or just not normal male nowadays.
@@Emulous79
As I read it, Carpenter simply noticed there weren't many all-male movies made of late and decided to make one.
"Kurt Russel and his beard want answers".........the totality of the whole movie, really. Excellent👌👍
This is based on John W. Campbell jr.’s 1938 novella titled “Who Goes There?” And I think it’s a testament to how good the story is that both film adaptations of the novel, Howard Hawke’s 1951 Sci-fi classic “The Thing from another World” and John Carpenter’s 1982 film, are excellent.
The 1951 version-- excellent as it is-- covers only the first half of the novella. I read it long before the Carpenter adaptation and it was a treat to see the whole story realized.
I actually loved the original, but the monster was so pathetic that it kind of ruined it for me... nothing against James Arness.
The Thing is my favorite horror movie. It is too good
Err, John Carpenter's 1982 "The Thing" to be more precise. Wouldn't want people to think I like the dogshit 2011 movie, just in case
That's the same reason it's one of my least favorite horror movies. Seeing it at a young age scarred me for life.
A man of culture
@@joshuahandlen9885 I can relate...I too saw it young...holy shit...the nightmares it gave me. Still...I have come to truly love it. Cheers!
My favorite would have to be The Mist which actually had a The Thing Easter egg
Drinker: “You’d look scruffy and out of shape if you couldn’t go out and exercise and there was no reason to keep up appearances anymore”
*everyone in 2020 looks around uncomfortably*
I have to say I felt a warm feeling of achievement at that.
My grandfather was imprisoned for 6 years by Franco after the Spanish civil war. I still remember my father telling me how my grandfather continued to shave every day in prison so as not to loose his self respect and sense of self. Different times. Different men.
This movie has a special place in my heart. I absolutely hated horror movies as a kid, but one day when I was like 13, my dad basically went, “Son, it’s time to show The Way,” and he used this and Alien as my introduction to horror.
Obviously, I hated it at first, but as I got used to scares and saw how stupid most horror movies are, I realized just how good this one. There’s no cheap jump scares, no brain-dead chicks, no catering to teens with shitty edgelord music or teen drama; just a bunch of grown men doing their damndest to survive. The threat of The Thing is constantly looming in the air, and the music is just so iconically good.
It’s so much fun to rewatch this movie over and over.
If those two films were your first experience with horror sci-fi then you were certainly spoiled because most other movies suck compared to these great story thank you for sharing
That's funny, my mom doesn't like horror movies and had never seen The Thing. I told her it was a Sci fi movie... she loved it.
another example of why practical effects are absolutely awesome
I hate too much CGI in today's films
I also remember the critics dissing the cast , saying they had no chemistry. Not sure how you can be a fan or critic of movies and come to that conclusion. Within the first 10 minutes you understood every character and what miotivates them.
The critics said the score was bad.
Easily one of the best of all time, RIP Morricone.
perfectly cast.
I caught “The Thing” late night on ITV when I was about 13 and I instantly knew it was one of the best horror films I’d ever seen.
Same here, although I watched it on German TV, meaning it was heavily censored, still I loved that movie.
Had to import the Dutch DVD version in a time when online shopping wasn't yet a thing.
I cannot describe the delight I felt when finally watching the original version.
It was taken down from the Index in germany sometime in the 2000s so the unabridged version is readily available nowadays.
Yeah!!!! ME TOO!!!!😄👍👍👍👍.....
The days when you used to stumble on things late at night on TV haha❤❤❤....
A bit like seeing the final countdown on mtv and thinking that’s going somewhere
Same, I never watched it until I was 32 but always go back to it.
they was the days
The Thing is a cult classic!
99% better than anything we have these days.
Check out The Void. 2016 horror movie that was crowdfunded making it truly independent (not the fake independent that so many so-called indy movies actually are) with 100% practical SFX. The plot is a mash up of The Thing, Hellraiser and Event Horizon, and yes, it's as fucking insane as it sounds.
yeah this thing is top horror movie for me for decades and wont probably change till i die
@@JadeRunner so... is the thing that you mentioned is the 1982 version? If it's 2011 not worth my time
Correction, 100%
You spelled 100% wrong
Watched it last night, it was great. I'm 20 years old and I believe 80's were the best decade for movies of all time.
I think The Drinker is jealous of Kurt Russell's beard.
Who wouldn't be? It's magnificent.
It's gotta be rated at least 3 1/2 Rikers!
Its a good beard alright but its not perfect. If i had that beard I'd groom it more often, not every day like, but i guess every 70hours or so. Also the handlebars lack definition, they could do with some work.
@@Phil_KaneONite_Wood "...3 ½ Rikers..." You magnificent bastard!
I'm a female and I am jealous of his beard.
Most people point to Halloween, but I truly believe this is John Carpenter's best film.
The Thing, Fog and Halloween.
@@danielharvey6352 i guess carpenter turned crazzy with the thing and made crap later
@@omnianti0 Yes your right he never made anything as good afterwards .
@Sanity Is Freedom is he fog wasnt this boring movie where nothing show ever
@@danielharvey6352 this trope monster is the most horrible and creative possible it let a super large freedom for make diferent movies on the exact same monster let imagine the same with he world war Z style
Petition to use the 'Cheating bitch'-scene from The Thing whenever Rotten Tomatoes is pulling their usual rating shenanigans.
_The Thing_ is one of the greatest movies ever made and I'd say Carpenter's best work, and that guy has done some of the best Horror movies ever.
Drinking game: drink whenever Kurt Russell drinks.
I probably would but I might end up like that octo-dog in the back room coughing up something resembling red jelly.
I do that daily lol
I prefer to drink when Kurt Russell has a beard.
I'm drunk.
He only drinks at the beginning and then the last scene so.. we drink every time there's gory prosthetic make up fx stuff.. so pretty wasted half way thru🤓
The Thing is the closest thing to a perfect film in my regard.
Yup. For me, it's up there with Jaws
And No Country For Old Men.
Absolutely. Its definitely an yearly Halloween watch for me.
I've found him guys, it's that one dude who hasn't seen Predator.
@@darkchild130 nah man, Predator is an absolute favourite of mine. But The Thing was a lot better made film.
The ribcage cutting off the Doctors arms was a force multiplier of a scene that was already at one hundred percent pure panic mode.
Dude, the spider legs coming out of that head...
@@Cautionary_Tale_Harris Relative to the scene, it was the perfect ending to a busy day.
this scene make few sens because the transformation is not realistic why their is two diferent heads
@@omnianti0
It's a mutating monster that consumes other species. Why not have the ability to divide yourself amongst more than one body? The Thing has countless heads absorbed into his body.
@@vladdracul2379 tottally fake you have to watch the movie the thing is describted as a bacteria or vuirus lifform and many body splited on purpose and never infected body merged even if it possible it was never depicted
this not a monster or a creature but colaborative swarms
Still beats any horror sci fi movie made today, absolute classic 👌
You got that right.
I love this movie so much.
Kurt Russell is a movie icon, horribly under rated.
Hard to believe he started playing clean cut Disney characters. He also had a scene with Elvis in a movie, then played him years later in a TV movie. Life is strange eh?
Dude flat out makes movies that dudes love. There aren't many actors today that can say that. Last of the finest.
Yes Those of us who knows him, loves him, fer sure!
Kurt Russell is my favorite actor of all time. He's been in some of the best movies ever. The Thing is absolutely top 3 for me.
@@IzzyTheNose well seeing as that's now an offense liable to get you blackballed from Hollywood ;)
A reason why this movie didn't do well in the box office is because ET came out at around the same time as The Thing.
The classic problem. It's what killed Megamind.
@@trequor I love megamind!
trequor what did Megamind go up against?
@@trequor A criminally under-observed movie.
@@HalfbreedTrini Despicable Me
I think the "it's Bennet" reaction is perfect, he cannot fathom how to describe what is happening to him, effectively scaring him shitless.
Exactly, I mean he was in shock....plus by the time he explains it to them and they get their guns, Bennet would've turned arledy.
That makes sense
Who's Bennet?
The dude playing Windows did an awesome job, as did the rest of the cast.
Yes..he was like " you won't believe just see for your-self"
I didn’t even notice the Real-Life Amputee trick at all when I watched it first. It looked so damn realistic and convincing.
The screams from the aliens in this movie are still some of the most haunting sounds I ever heard. The wailing!
@@scottyj6226 🤣🤣🤣
Fun fact, you can hear the voices of everyone (or thing) it has absorbed
Well fun fact: They imitate the hosts memories, so the screams are actually the screams of the mutated people, who can feel themselves being ripped apart. I think (I’m not sure) that some of them don’t even know they are infected
Best description of The Thing is that: there isn't an ounce of fat on this movie, not a single lull or wasted scene.
Carpenter at his most effortlessly effective. The film is a masterpiece.
I said the same thing about one of my other favorite movies - The Dark Knight.
Every scene serves a purpose. That's how you KNOW you have a good film.
@EramSemperRecta plus They Live.
I love how some movies can make you feel how cold it is, or how alone you feel, or how hopeless the situation is. Most of these things are missing in Hollywood.
I saw it when it first came out in 1982. It was in January, the morning after a blizzard snow storm. The theater was eerily completely empty except the four of us... It was great!
Nice
I watched the Thing prequel in the cinema in 2011. It was also almost deserted, and for some reason the air conditioning was cranked up to a ridiculous degree. It added to the atmosphere and I ended up really enjoying it, despite its flaws. Synchronicity.
@@nicholaslewis862 that movie was a perfect example of studio meddling into the production. If they just left the team alone to make the movie it would have been an instant classic. I too like it despite its flaws but it could have been so amazing.
Scary as hell, I bet.
One of you was not the real them.
Kurt Russell’s Beard, A Real American Hero.
And also his hat.
Thanks.
Kurt Russell was fucking awesome in this film. It made me a fan of his. This and the film "Soldier". Awesome
He still has it to this day! ;)
This is a reprise of Kurt Russell's Beard in the role as the Fountain of Awesome in "Escape From New York" (1981)
"They got a real-life amputee to play the character, and had him wear a mask so nobody could tell it was a different guy"
Oh that is fucking COOL
Welcome to old school film making, aka the times when movie effects were at their absolute best because they were real.
@@carljohan9265 Exactly! Who woulda thunk that effects that are real and done in-camera would look real!
@@yup486 The original King Kong movie has got to be the absolute king of improvised and creative movie effects.
I believe that even today, not all the tricks they used have been revealed.
Probably gave him a year's pay for the shot too. It had a $15-million budget in 1982. It ended in-the-positive, but not by much.
Fun Fact: This movie is shown at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station at the beginning of the winter every year.
"all male cast"
STOP! You violated the law. Pay the Oscars a fine or serve your sentence. Your movies audience scores are now forfeit.
the thing was female
@@flyingiguana409 Hollywood: Understandable, have a nice day.
This is my favorite movie, I'm a woman, and one of the things I appreciate the most about it is precisely that there are no women. No screaming, no crying, no hysterics. It sounds mysoginistic, but the truth is, there is something deeply unsettling about seeing a bunch of tough, grizzled men be scared. If they are scared of this thing, what's left for the rest of us? But not to worry, that disgrace prequel of 2011 added the plank of wood Mary Elizabeth Wingstead to balance things out :/
don't worry, in the remake the main character is female. It's still bad, because she is white and not a lesbian, but at least they tried...
As a cast member of the HBO series "OZ" Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was put to good use even to the point of flopping out his huge Agbaje from time to time. In the Thing prequel he was reduced to playing the stereotypical bug-eyed panicky black guy with a Jamaican accent for the Norwegian scientists to scoff at.
The prequel was an abomination that never should have been made.
I like how in Norweigen the guy says "Get the hell outta there. That's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! Get away, you idiots!" If only people knew what he was saying... XD
I guess it was on the RLM Video where they forgot about this part in the Norwegian release and totally ruined it for the cinema audience few minutes in :D
So immediately after calling them idiots he does the thing with the grenade? LOL
He dropped the grenade and missed shots because his team was probably up for days straight dealing with their Things
@@CheeseburgersAndBeer Sure, but that timing still amuses me.
should have dubbed the Norwegian into English for that dub
You missed one of the best lines from the film. It’s right after they kill Palmer-Thing and test Gary’s blood. “I know you gentleman have been through a lot, but when you find the time I’d rather not spend the rest of this Winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!” Such a great moment of relief and humor. Like it was Carpenter’s way of telling the audience, “it’s okay guys, you can relax for now.”It’s also a pivotal scene for Gary as well. Up to that point, Gary had been the on the receiving end of losing his command, being accused of everything, and finally having the audience and the crew think he’d been assimilated. So this was his way saying he had had enough of being the scapegoat.
it was a weak trope moment i remind with great shame
My favorite line is: “Ya gotta be fucking kidding..”
I love that line!
I totally forgot this line and I fucking love it.
Great line, brilliantly delivered.
I was in Jr. High when this came out so I had to wait a year to see it on cable in 83. My buddies and I must have watched it 10 times growing up. A classic, and kudos to EVERYONE involved in this film.
It pleased me greatly when Kurt Russell’s beard was nominated for best supporting actor in this masterpiece.
I can't even count how many times I've watched this movie.
I can't even count how many times I made my girlfriends watch this movie. The current model already hates it with a passion.
@@donotstalkme Mine can't handle movies like this either. It's a great joy to see the look on her face when I start it up again.
My girlfriend hates movies like this too. But I found a way to ease them into a movie like this. I started by showing them movies like Fright Night and Return Of The Living Dead and ramped it up from there. By the time I got to The Thing, they were already accustomed to atmospheric horror films with practical gore effects.
@@Largentina. Fright Night is a good one. It's definitely less gory and more campy. Good idea.
@@jasonp8460 Possibly. I can only count to 3 though.
A masterpiece from start to finish. Cant believe it was nominated for worst soundtrack. Is it simple? Yes, but what does it for the film to create an atmosphere? Hell yeah. I always thought the Swedian...oops Norwegian said, "Okay a**holes that's my dog, I was the one taking care of him, he's mine, mine....GODDAMNIT STOP LICKING THEM FOR F**K SAKE!".
Honestly, in my eyes this movie wouldn't even NEED a soundtrack for it to be effective. I find that pure silence in horror or thriller films always makes the build up to the stings much more effective. Having music kinda ruins it in my opinion.
@@DragonRagovi Well, for Role Play games like Call of Cthulhu, The Thing Soundtrack is best ambient music ever!
It had a soundtrack? All I heard was people talking.
The soundtrack was apparently done by John Carpenter himself, and it's wonderfully effective, never overshadowing, just giving the right feel of isolation and suspense.
The soundtrack was done by Enio Morricone. Carpenter chose about 2 of the tracks he wrote and didn't use the rest. Enio said Carpenter picked the two which sounded like what he would have done.
This movie is hands down one of my most ultimate favourites. In the early to mid 90s, my roommate and I would alternate between 'The Thing', 'Big Trouble in Little China', 'Escape from New York' and 'Aliens'.
Sounds like some great times bro!
“Critics”: This horror movie is too scary.
Horror fans: What did you expect? A film about an alien flesh monster filled with rainbows and lollipops?
E.T.
@@omnianti0 i consider ET a horror film. ET had mindcontrol powers, and had brainwashed a child into subservience. thats the way i saw it when i was a kid, and apparently im not alone, because thats a popular theory about it.
@@namekman01 yes E.T wasnt not a nice body and mind control its more terror than horror because nothing in the movie was really bloody or deadly
|Horror should about equality and diversity, not scary and uncomfortable things, with regards, your blue checkmark
Also, it was a remake of a considerably tamer film by comparison.
And Rob Bottin did all those monster effects when he was 22 f---ing years old!
The guy was visionary. I loved the behind the scenes stories about when one of his effects went wrong and burned up the whole set they were working on. Carpenter replied with, "Thank you, Mr. Bottin!" ...but they learned from that mistake, went on and gave us the epic movie that is still making film lovers go wild for it years later. Cheers!
And then he did Robocop!
@betondo fukutu Check Georg Rockall-Schmidt's video about him.He's a very interesting fellow.
If memory serves he spent weeks working indoors without going outside and eventually looked sick enough for Carpenter to suggest he go to a hospital.
And alot of the casts reactions to the creature effects were genuine. They really were disturbed and disgusted by the creature effects.
It's pretty much a perfect movie. The only conceivable improvement would be if they cut the opening bit with the flying saucer entering the Earth's atmosphere so the reveal that the Thing is an alien is more shocking. EDIT: By the way, the film stars Kurt Russell, Keith David, and Wilford Brimley. Bad. Ass. It's also technically not an all-male cast - the voice of the computer that Kurt Russell kills is provided by Adrienne Barbeau.
It's the same issue with Predator. You could have a really tense "what is going on here?" for the opening part of the film if the first shot wasn't an alien spaceship.
ZeroBeat1 who was his wife at the time. Thanks I did not know that little tidbit!😎
Totally agree. A love the movie and hate the opening scene. It's unnecessary and naive.
Some absolute trooper upscaled this to 4K and 60fps and it’s glorious. You can find it in the usual places online.
I love how every mention of Kurt Russell is followed by “and his beard”.
Look at that beard, it's glorious. Of course we'd mention it.
It's a crime to not announce that magnificent chin-mane.
Hilarious. The beard is perfect. Who wouldn't grow one if they were stuck in Antarctica?
@@dougrobinson8602 And of course, his beard shows up at the North Pole as Santa 35 years later :)
You have to mention Kurt Russell and his beard in the same way we mention Sam Elliott and his mustache. It's the law.
Best sci-fi horror film ever made. Kurt Russell at his best.
his beard and hat each deserved an oscar hahaha
The flick arguably defines the genre.
Along with Alien
certainly one of the all-time best. I'd rank it up there with Alien.
@@sonofacheron Absolutely.
Fun fact: John W. Campbell, who wrote the original story, was inspired by the fact that his mother had an identical twin and as a child he would often confuse his mother and his aunt.
He must've really hated his aunt 😂
Actually The Thing refers 90% to Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
@@Flaschenteufel
No.
The plot follows Campbell's story very closely and it has little in common with Lovecraft's, other than monsters in Antarctica.
Campbell may have been influenced by Lovecraft's story but it was Campbell's story that featured a single alien ship under the ice, with a single alien "corpse" that infects and absorbs other beings and features the transformation of men and huskies and the hot needle blood test and the guy locked away in the shed no one thought might be a monster but who was and who was working on a way to escape.
The atmosphere created by this movie is unmatched by any other movie, ever. (In my opinion)
Ffs drinker, it's one of the few classics I hadn't watched yet and you know you spoil the shit out of these movies (in a good way)......fine...I'll be back in 1h 49m
Edit: Worth it, I knew you'd have to mention that grenade slip!
38 years... I think ya had some time...
I feel your pain, dude. Although now you know to not watch a video about a movie if you don’t want it spoiled.
But yeah, I sympathise, it’s very difficult to avoid spoilers on the internet.
I’ve even encountered videos that spoil TV shows without even it being relevant to the topic at hand!
It'll be one of the best 1h 49mins you'll ever experience bud
You won't regret it, believe me
it was just ok
"The Thing" encapsulates the ultimate feeling of Horror. For me at least.
An organism that takes hold of other organisms and is indistinguishable, from sight, and can live on indefinitely. With an intelligence of yet unknown capabilities. The way it melts the dna of its hosts, twists and pervert it...Turning your fellow men against you.
And then the absolute gorgeous effects on top of that.
It sends chills down my spine, every time.
Sounds a bit like BLM
@Seven V
I think that might be the scariest thing of all, I don't think it does replace the consciousness of the subject, instead I think it replaces the subconscious.
My two reasons to support this:
(1) What was the advantage in it having a heart attack?
It only revealed itself after the second "attack" with the defibrillator.
(2) Windows is the first to see and point out the head creature, reacting EXACTLY like Windows would have.
At no point does Windows reveal himself as the Thing until he is exposed, even allowing himself to be tied up and tested.
So, to me, it looks like the person never even realises they are a duplicate.
You mean like covid?
@@simonoleary9264 Jesus christ that's even more terrifying.
Morriccones soundtrack was also spot on really made you feel the suspense.
It was also the perfect musical score to depict the bleakness of their situation.
Most of it was unused, Tarantino the worked it into the hateful eight
This is one of my favorite movies of all time and in my book is nearly flawless. God bless the 80's
The fact that horror fans are debating to this day if it's Childs or MacReady who is the thing, tells you that this film has more than done its job.
Well no but I get your point
McReady hands Child’s a bottle of whisky to drink but the bottle , as shown throughout the ending , had been repurposed like to others into a Molotov cocktail. Child’s drinks it no sweat and it’s then that McReady knows he’s the alien.
@@Dadbod_Stripper I also can't see Childs' breath in the cold air. Meanwhile, Mac looks like a fog machine. Is that a sign, or do my eyes decieve me?
@@DrDolan2000 True? Well spotted.👍
@@DrDolan2000this is what the director said was the sign, so you are correct
Two mine best movies from my childhood: first Alien and The thing.
Loneliess, sick effects, slow claustrophobic survival horror and on the end emptines after near dead.
Just greatness
Certainly my two favourite horror films. What an era it was.
40 years later, people still discuss this movie. Just tells how how amazing, thought-out, and well-written this movie is to this day.
So damn good, I watch it about twice a year. Never gets old. You forgot to mention the soundtrack. It creeps things out even more. Truly a masterpiece......
They don't make good movies like this anymore sadly.
That’s an absolutely no shit. I miss the 80s. 😭
All you have in Hollywood anymore are hacks who spout the "right" politics or belong to the "right" demographics. There are ABSOLUTELY almost NO writers, directors, casting agents, or actors with ANY talent anymore, nor producers who give a damn about anything but shaping the next political narrative. I'm tired of endless "reboots" and inferior remakes of previously superior movies and television shows.
@@GRAYR189 it isn't the writers fault. They are plenty of talented writers trying to break into hollywood but the studios want easy money and dont wanna take chances on new material so they just keep rehashing movies and paying the writers they already have to write a boring story thats been done a million times.
Movies, music, commercials, TV shows, nothing. The Critical Drinker could do a video on just the "CUCKmercials" . They all just portray men as juvenile bumbling idiots that are too stupid to tie their own shoes, but along comes genius strong woman to humiliate him. Diversity overload.
@@canadiandeplorable6413 he should.
Great movie. And in fact the computer WAS cheating at Chess, it didn't have him in checkmate. Nice bit of insight into MacReady's character and foreshadows his actions a couple of times later on both with the dynamite and the climax. If he's going to lose, he's going to make sure you lose too.
I always thought of this movie as the gold standard of psychological horror. At 10 years old, I was in a scary movie kick. Literally none of them bothered me. One of my parents friends one night said "oh, I got a movie for you." He turns out the lights and puts The Thing in. This movie truly horrified me. The atmosphere and the eerie high pitch music is right on point. The gore really dramatizes the scenes to where you are in this wtf mode. Especially with the dogs (I almost shit myself on that scene the first time). The mystery behind the creature and the way it moves about really shows the depth of thought put into the movie. The feeling of hopelessness and the paranoia is on the mark. Just imagine being put in a situation like that and the fear you would be experiencing. It would be overwhelming. Knowing that this thing is out there, or maybe it is your friend. It's truly a work of art.
i was scaried by cosmos1999 monster at 10yo so i can t imagine the effect of the thing on a kid
I saw this movie for the first time when I was in the Army back in the 80’s. I remember a friend who had already seen it telling all of us watching that he could tell us every creepy thing that was gonna happen right before it did happen and it would still freak us out. He was right.
"He dies from shame, and bullets."
*Nope. He died from the coof.*
He got bored and died. ; )
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That damned co-morbidity
Just like that motorcycle accident guy!
@BLAIR M Schirmer Didn't the girl live in Predator? It's been a while since I've seen it so I could definitely be wrong.
Obviously the whole cast is excellent, but Kurt Russel, Keith David, and Wilford Brimley all give next-level performances here.
The Dog acted them all off the stage - I don't remember seeing Kurt Russel bite his way out of a metal cage....
@@interstellarbeatteller9306 I don’t even really disagree. It’s genuinely confusing to me how good the dogs are. In my experience, there’s never been animal work as effective and specific as this in all the intervening years. The trainers must have put in an incredible amount of work.
@@landonhagan450 Beautiful creatures...there's a few shots that look like the dog is actually acting!
John Carpenter took great care so the dogs weren't stressed during the intense scenes in the cage movies.stackexchange.com/questions/56655/what-is-this-dog-really-biting-in-the-thing
The documentary about The Thing is really interesting when they get into all the practical effects and stuff. The amount of work they put into it was unreal, especially the dog transformation scene. Definitely check it out if you haven't before.
My gf can't watch the movie because of that scene, it freaks her out too much, and she's an avid fan of The Walking Dead. Shows just how good the effects were.
From what I remember from that one of the leading special effects guys looks and carries on like a total bum, but he came up with some of the most brilliant and simple effects.
@@mapesdhs597 I watched it for the first time as a bit too young to be watching it, so it freaked me out too. Haha
@@deckard3755 When I was young, my Mother refused to let me watch, "Alien". WIth hindsight, probably a sensible decision. :D
The work put into continuity was equally as impressive. Which is to say, try and find an error.
Fun fact: while filming, the temperature was actually lowered to replicate the cold tundra of the Antarctic. To sell the cold and make the actors feel the misery of the sheer cold like if they were in the real Antarctic. And the cast would just keep on their warm gear and when they were on break or lunch step out into the scorching LA heat. Some cast members even got sick from doing that.
The Thing (1982) is literally my favorite movie, and for good reason.
I watched it as a teenager about a decade and a half ago and I instantly fell in love with it.
The atmosphere, special effects, characters, story.
They're all amazing and I've been searching for the horror movie that would give me the same feeling I had when I first watched this movie ever since to no avail.
Absolutely agree, but I love Escape from New York as well. Awesome film.... And why I'm never going to the Arctic..
Escape from New York always seemed very far fetched but, looking at urban USA now, it seems increasingly possible.
There's a written short story from the alien's perspective, and it's pretty terrifying. It's here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
"Hey, Sweden!"
"They're not Swedish, Mac. They're Norwegian."
TOmato tomAto
"Det er ikke en bikkje! Det er en slags ting!" If you where norwegian, you knew that shit was about to go down...
What's the difference?
@@DzinkyDzink 542km
@@freaknr1 One of the great things about the movie, language barriers being a thing. Survivors from the other camp trying to warn the others, pnly to sadly come across americans who only know thier own language.
This movie absolutely terrified me when I was a child.
Yes, me too. Especially the scene with the hands. And the head growing spider-like legs. I loved it.
@Ground Hog yeah, it is a film that I own a copy of but will not watch it alone 😀
Those little tentacles flickering out of the dog always freaked me out, idk why. But yeah, not a good movie to show the kids
Edit: oh, and the way Palmer Thing moves in the chair scene is some quasi-nightmare, uncanny-valley shit. I dont care if it looks "cheesy", that scene is just gnarly as all hell
Fun fact this movie is based on the 50s film thing from another world.
Also Drinker I haven't been following your channel for long but in that time I've come to appreciate your opinion on things. It's amazing you're wanting to tell your own stories. I'm in the process of doing that myself. These are stories I've been working for years and only recently have begun putting them to the page.
Thank you sir
Something that was mentioned in this video that might have been dismissed by others but is noticed by some people. You mentioned that this is an all male cast. people now would think that that is an extremely sexist concept but when you look at movies like The Shawshank Redemption, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Thing, and Saving Private Ryan, you'll see that sometimes it makes sense for only men to be in a dingy science station at the end of the world, a prison, a sales office from freaking '80s, or a world war II troop. Well sci-fi and all these other movies do have some great female heroes in them, sometimes it makes no sense to shoehorn them into places where they wouldn't even function within the world of the story!
women can not survive the cold, so it makes sense.
This is actually briefly referenced in the commentary track for the Special Edition DVD with Kurt Russell and John Carpenter. Apparently there was one woman on the crew, and she abandoned ship early on. Russell said that when it was just a bunch of guys, filming got a lot smoother, as everyone stopped competing with each other and just eased into the routine and enjoyed themselves.
vaeringjar138 Hmm. That’s crazy.
@@vaeringjar1387 "Paging Dr. Peterson!" LOL
Not only does it not make sense, but if a woman was in it then the audience would not forgive the male characters for not protecting her and treating her better, and they definitely wouldn't allow Kurt Russel to burn her alive, so that would ruin the suspense. I also don't understand what's wrong with having male movies for men. Sometimes guys need to be around male energy to know what being a man even feels like. It's not like women are forbidden from watching the movie.