Great viewing and reaction! You 2 were as fun as the movie! Try the movie 'Scanners'(1981) You might like it. Will check out what else you have. I love these reaction videos, it's a great thing people do!
@@KennyandLindsayWatch well you asked ... " alien" is the other iconic horror sci fi of that period , much more so than terminator . liked , subscribed and commented , gl
@@jasoncaldwell5627 For a long time i didn't know, but then someone explained it and then i noticed. ALL the parts of it are some kind of dog parts. But first i always thought i was just some kind of alien flower.
lol, I've never seen anyone come up with the idea that the Thing is invisible before. Those blurry spots on the screen were just poor image quality or something. The dog was a Thing from the beginning. That's why the Norwegians were trying to kill it.
A note, this is not the original, this is based on the 1951 film "The Thing from Another World," which is based on the 1938 novella "Who Goes There." This film is part of what people call John Carpenter's Apocalypse trilogy along with In the Mouth of Madness and Prince of Darkness, because they each end in a way that signals we are most likely watching the beginning of an Apocalypse. In this case, one or both men are likely the Thing, they will freeze and be found by the rescue party, and their bodies taken back to civilization where the Thing will rapidly take over. Also, the 2011 film is not a "remake" its a prequel of what happened at the Norwegian station.
I love dogs so much, watching that was a nightmare lol. Our dogs were not allowed to sleep in the bed the past few days because I was so freaked out 🤣🤣
Childs not being even tempered, he's an asshole. Its why we love Childs, he's one of the most careful in this movie. And yes, Keith David this was his 1st film role, and his best.
"I'm thinking because it's older it won't be as scary." 😂😂😂 Well, if older movies aren't as scary, you should have no problem with "The Excorcist" or "Psycho." 😁
"--won't be as scary." Oh, you sweet summer children.......some THING awaits thee. Altered States also lies in wait. After that, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978.
You mentioned a "remake." The 2011 movie 🎬 is a prequel, NOT a remake! It tells the story of the Norwegian camp and ends with the helicopter-dog chase that begins this movie 🎬.
@@BruceCarroll Yeah. We don't know exactly what, but there's obviously bad blood between them and been for a while before the movie kicked off. Maybe something to do with Mac being a Vietnam vet?
A lot of people miss it, but when Nauls says "which one of yall threw your dirty drawers in the trash" its a huge clue that the dog thing that escaped already killed and mimiced someone.
I'm pretty sure the dog infected Norris. I know that wasn't his silhouette because Carpenter intentional used a crew member rather than any of the actors to confuse the audience. What I wonder about is when was Blair infected? I think it was after he destroyed the radio and helicopter. I'm not sure if he was a "thing" when he pleaded to be allowed back into the base although he could've been. On a side note: Fuchs theorized based on Blair's research that a "small particle" could takeover a whole organism. Blair did the autopsies on the Norweigan remains and the dogs. Was he exposed and infected...but did not fully "turn into" a Thing until after he was locked up?
@@badprotocol1105 my personal hypothesis is that the dog didn't infect anyone when it walked into the room, I wanna say that's a red herring. But I believe it was Norris or Palmer when Nulls finds the underwear. And as for Blair I think he got the initial infection from the autopsies, but he felt himself getting taken over. My evidence for this is he made the noose when he realized it, but when Mac and them check that's not Blair anymore, its the Blair thing just mimicking him.
@@badprotocol1105 clarification: so when they first put him in the shed he wad Blair, but between that and when they check he made the noose for himself but "lost" himself between then and when Mac and them checked.
Yeah, it got Palmer first (probably). You'll see Palmer try to divide the group after that- particularly going after Windows (obviously the weak link in the group). I doubt it got Blair until after he was locked in the shed- he was a sitting duck.
My wife Stephanie and I love this movie. For it to be 40+ years old and people to still discuss it today shows that the movie can withstand the test of time. There are a lot of theories out there about who was a Thing and when did people get turned. Especially at the end of the movie. Most people think that Childs was a Thing because he vanishes a long time at the end and when he appears again, he's wearing different clothing which is because clothes get destroyed during the Thing taking over the person. Here is another view of the movie. I think that MacReady was a Thing. Norris was the first from the American Camp to get taken over, followed by maybe either Palmer or MacReady. Remember they all act as individual beings, the Things do not work together, but a self preservation mode. At the start of the movie we see MacReady playing a Chess game which is a symbolic theme throughout the entire movie. He was a chess player that was always steps ahead of the other players or the computer program. During Chess, in order to win, you have to sacrifice your own men to win the game. When Windows came into the room where Bennings was getting assimilated, he dropped the key (listen for it). It never shows whom got these keys, but I'm going with it being MacReady. This was the keys that also unlocked the blood vault. This is how MacReady's blood didnt scream from the hot copper wire during the test as he used untainted blood from the sabotage blood vault. We never see MacReady cut his finger to put the blood in the dish for the test. We also never see when Blair gets infected, but the last contact was with MacReady. Blair was still a human when they locked him in the shack, but right before MacReady leaves him alone, he takes a swig of Blair's alcohol that was sitting in front of him on the table, thus infecting the drink. Later on they go back to check in on Blair and hes got a noose hanging from the roof. He then says he is alright now but they still leave him out there. The alcohol bottle is gone from the table. From the sight of the noose, he was contemplating suicide and more than likely finished off the bottle to give him "liquid courage" and this is when he gets infected. Fukes also tell's MacReady that he thinks that they should make their own meals and only eat out of cans as it could infect people this way. (Going back to Blair's computer analysis of the Things cells infecting other cells proves this to be correct.) MacReady's response to Fuke's suggestion was creepy as he stands there, paused, as if he underestimated Fukes and is rethinking what to do with this one, then only replies with an "alright..." then walks out of the room. Shortly after the lights go out and Fukes is next seen burnt up dead. Being a "leader" MacRready never shares the information Fukes suggested to him of not sharing food or drink with the group. Then at the end, Childs gets infected when he is handed the alcohol and drinks from it. As soon as he takes a swig, The Thing theme music kicks in and MacReady laughs as if to say Check Mate.
Wow that was a great read. Honestly everyone here has been sick past couple days (kids included) so instead of trying to watch a movie we have just been watching and reading about theories on the ending and its so fun haha. Yeah initially we thought Macready was the thing because, like you said you have to sacrifice your own men to win the game, and he was so gungho about making sure the thing did not escape alive, and yet when he sees childs who he had lost contact with, his solution is just to....sit and wait? That makes no sense, Macready would have taken no chances not just sit there and freeze (which is what the thing wanted to do anyways) We love movies that people still debate and the fact that this movie still has these debates to this day is incredible.
@@KennyandLindsayWatch You both need to watch The Thing from 2011. Its the Prequel to this one. It works so well with this movie, it is actually perfect. It tells the story of the other foreign base that MacReady and teammates traveled to and found destroyed. Another Excellent movie!
The Thing From Another World was missing the shapeshifting element. It was really just a big alien man thing that was tromping around the Antarctican base.
@@brandonflorida1092 I don't know, I found it rather boring and underwhelming without the paranoia aspect to it. Not knowing who could be the thing is what makes Carpenter's version so timelessly haunting
@@k1productions87 Well, I have loved it since I first saw it about 55 years ago. It has 87% on "Rotten Tomatoes." Carpenter was a big fan. Granted, it isn't the kind of empty calorie junk food most movies are today. Maybe you should confine yourself to movies with lots of chase scenes and explosions and don't watch anything earlier than "Star Wars: A New Hope."
Perfect ending, just like John Carpenter's 1st big hit: John Carpenter's Halloween. They both have perfect endings and NO, they should NOT be followed by an inferior sequel. I do not want for The Thing, what happened to Halloween with 13 inferior imitations. This is one of the best films ever made and IF nothing else, John Carpenter can die knowing he was correct, that the financial/critical bomb of 1982 was in fact a genuis masterpiece of film that found its audience. He was savaged for making this film. 2023, he recieves universal praise for this film. That gives me closure the ending doesn't provide.
This is the first time I've seen someone mistake video/streaming artifacts as something intentional done by the filmmakers.. ya'll need stronger internet!
Apart from Stan Winston's work on the Kennel Thing, because Rob was overworked and starting to have some health issues from it. But yeah. The guy's work holds up to Stan Winston. Rob also did the effects work for Robocop 2.
When Windows lost it and went for the rifle, he was shut down by the others. A few seconds latter Childs went for a gun, he was evaluated based on his temperament as not being good leader material, particularly in a high stress situation, and also shut down.
I think what took us by surprise was the practical effects, we have seen so much CG garbage over the past few years that we were just not ready for this haha.
The UFO was practical, with some rotoscoping added. CGI didn't exist in 1982, because it required a supercomputer. Even Tron had very limited use of acctual CGI and was mostly camera tricks and rotoscoping.
I did enjoy your reactions. …When the video first started, and you said, “We don’t do gore…” I thought, ‘well, you don’t know what you signed up for.” :) •••• Two other wildly good films in the horror genre I’d watch, if you did a video on them, are: Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), and David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986). The latter is a 3-part combo SF-Horror-Love story. It also contains gore that rivals or surpasses “The Thing.” •••• I realize that any reactor’s spontaneous reaction, in the immediate moment, is just that: spontaneous. Therefore, what I’m about to write is not a rebuke, just an observation/insight. Upon reflection, it should be obvious that when the several station members (mainly Clark and Mac) react suddenly to Childs’s stating “I’ll take it (the gun and the leadership position)” …and when Clark says, “the hell you will,” - that these reactions are not racist. They don’t oppose Childs because he’s black. They oppose what he was about to do, because of what Mac said: “It should be someone a little more even-tempered, Childs.” Several characters, on several occasions before the monster appeared, say and do things indicating that Mac is the most respected, trusted one in the camp (because Mac earned their trust. We don't see exactly how, but Mac would have been consistent in the prior time that the others had spent with him.) The others know (and feel) that they can rely on HIM in an emergency, in a way that’s not true of others - including Garry, the person who has the formal leadership position. When Doc Copper sees that Mac is hesitant about flying to the Norwegians’ base, he says, “It’s up to you, Mac: you don’t wanna fly, we don’t fly.” When Nauls reacts uneasily to Mac’s decision to fly in uncertain weather, Palmer says about Mac, “He knows what he’s doin’.” By contrast, Childs proves to be an undependable, grudge-holding hothead: When Mac breaks into the storeroom, Childs leads the charge (to break down the door with the ax) and would have killed Mac, if Mac hadn’t threatened to blow them all up. Killing MacReady would have been a terrible outcome for the other men, if they’d done it: The men had already found two shredded clothing items (with name tags missing) from prior assimilations. It should have occurred to someone that the thing had planted some shredded clothing WITH Mac’s name visible, in Mac’s shack - to frame Mac as being an imitation. But no one thinks of that. Then, after Mac kills Clark to prevent himself from being lethally stabbed, Childs can only further abuse Mac verbally, “so Clark was human, huh? -Which makes you a murderer, don’t it?” First, it wasn’t murder, it was self-defense. Second, Childs is so focused on animus towards Mac, he loses sight of the big picture: The whole human race lives or dies, depending on whether these men keep the Thing from spreading. So Mac is acting to protect all of humanity, not merely the people in the camp. Indeed, it’s Mac who correctly grasps that everyone there, including himself, should be sacrificed, so that the thing will die with them. So, when Childs starts to go for Garry’s gun, the others know that that must not happen: The group needs the most sane, dependable, focused-on-the-important-things person that they have, to lead the team. And they know that that isn’t Childs. •••• Best wishes and good luck in future reactions. :)
I suspect that the reason '80s horror seems so graphic to people is because horror didn't really get graphic until the Halloween to Friday the 13th timeframe of the late '70s. So by the time the '80s rolled around, horror filmmakers were at their peak of using gore and graphic violence. There was a backlash against violent movies which ended the trend. By the time Scream brought that sensibility back to horror in the '90s, practical make up effects were being replaced by computer generated special effects and so movies never approached '80s level horror like The Thing or The Fly again.
Which is a real shame. They have the capability to make amazing gory practical effects, but yeah, I haven't seen any practical effects the likes of The Thing since the 1980s.
There is a proper ghost-story called "The Changelling" from the 80s. My mom wouldn't sleep alone after we watched that. (It's NOT the Angelina Jolie film!). I still waych it now and then. It is really well written.
to0 answer your question, the man was trying toi kill the dg because the dog was the thing. This is the best horror movie ever made, They both froze to death at the end.
What the hell are you two talking about when you "see" the invisible thing 😂. Like when it's right next to Garry? I went back and looked and I really have no idea. And I've never seen anyone else talk about it.
It doesn't show in the reaction very well, but there is like a little glitch effect. It first shows at the Norwegian camp when they are on both sides of the ice block, it appears on the left side. I swear we are not crazy lol.
@@KennyandLindsayWatch😂 it was just a defect in the editing process. The dog was always a Thing from the very beginning. In fact it was the very first one to be assimilated at the Norwegian camp. The pilot of the helicopter wasn't at the base when the alien was wreaking havoc. He arrived back to the camp after the carnage, and didn't understand what was happening. The Norwegian doing the shooting was screaming "that is no dog, get the hell away from it" when they got to the American base.
The best way to watch a scary movie is with the lights turned off.🤣🤣🤣 P.S. try watching the 1973 Exorcist (director's cut). Make sure to have a crucifix (cross) handy.😂😂😂
No way was I watching that in the dark lol, and I am terrified to watch the exorcist!!! I watched it when I was a little girl, and the only thing I remember is that it scared me sooo bad....but maybe we will give it another shot...maybe after a few sips of liquid courage lol
Scifi horror is definitely the best best place to start imo. Sure there's gonna be some gore here and there, but the overall movies are usually great. Stuff like Terminator, Aliens, and Robocop are all worthy classics.
Interesting Facts: Norris (the guy who’s chest bursts open, chopping off the doctor’s hands with its bear-trap teeth) had a bad heart, and when the Thing took him over and perfectly imitated him, it also faithfully recreated his heart defect, which eventually caused Norris to suffer a heart attack for real during a high-stress moment. The Thing would have been happy to hide itself in a presumably “dead” body, but it couldn’t tolerate the electro-shocks from the defibrillator and was thus forced to reveal itself. (Incidentally, at the beginning of the movie, the spaceship was flying erratically because the crew was desperately trying to fight off the Things that were aboard their vessel and causing havoc. That’s why the spaceship attempted to make an emergency landing on the nearest planet and ended up crash landing in the Antarctic. Only one of the Things made it out of the ship alive, only to freeze in the ice.)
Oh wow that's badass, where does the info about the ship come from? Is their a book or something to read or do they talk about that in the prequel/remake?
“The Thing” is based on a short story called “Who goes there?” which I read In Junior High School and absolutely loved. “The Thing” has been my favorite movie ever since it came out and I have seen it countless times. As a huge fan, I have also read a great deal about the movie, and the making of the film, in addition to exchanging theories and lively discussions with other fans. So the thoughts about the flying saucer are based on my own informed conclusions, but I also think it is very clearly implying in the movie. It begins with a scene of the flying saucer flying erratically in evident distress, heading for Earth, the nearest habitable planet. Later in the movie, they follow up on the information obtained from the Norwegian camp and discover the crashed saucer buried in ice that they determine is at least 100,000 years old. Nearby they discover the rectangular cut out in the ice where the body of the thing was recovered and hauled back to the Norwegian’s outpost for research. Afterwards the Yanks discuss among themselves how the spaceship crashed and was buried in the ice 100,000 years ago, and, incredibly one of the things managed to survive and crawl out (or get thrown out) of the wrecked saucer, only to eventually get found and thawed out, whereupon it preceded to wreak havoc on the Norwegians and then subsequently the Americans… Their real enigma is whether or not McCready and Childs are both human at the end, or whether one or both of them have become Things. But that’s another discussion…
"She cannot handle gore..." , "Nothing is gonna happen to the dog in an 80's horror movie..." - Oh, boy 😂 Also, the dog WAS the thing, it wasn't a dog. The invisible thing is just a glitcg probably or something in the video you watched, because there is no invisibale things here.
Backstory: The aliens crashed on Earth to prevent the Thing infecting their homeworld. If the Americans understood Norwegian, the helicopter crew was telling the story of the Thing destroying their camp. The story continued in a series of graphic novels where MacReady chases and battles the Thing up through South America and finally ending in a small fishing village in New Zealand. MacReady survives and the Thing escapes to live a peaceful life as a fish.
Conjecture. The ship crashing could've been a result of damage to the ship, or the Thing having taken out the pilot. Either makes the crash accidental.
No, this isn't the original. The original was in 1951. John Carpenter loved it so he remade it. Even that was taken from a 1938 story. By the way, when writing his score, Morricone wasn't allowed to see a single foot of the film. Carpenter hired him because he knew and agreed with his towering reputation. Oh, the Chess Wizard computer voice is Carpenter's wife. If you do more movie reactions, I'll be back. Horror or suspense: "Alien," "Aliens," "Forbidden Planet," "Frequency," "Ghost," "The Green Mile," "North by Northwest," "Psycho," "Rear Window," "The Terminator," "Vertigo," "Zodiac"
Great info, and the score in this is great, I was only really familiar with Morricones work on westerns but this one was great, and yeah more movie reactions coming soon, I can tell you both of the aliens, the green mile and terminator 1 and 2 are on the list of ones we are doing soon.
The Thing 1982 is the measuring stick for movies with practical effects! The guy (Rob Bottin) in charge of the effects actually was so stressed out trying to complete the movie and make everything so good, it caused him to have to go into the hospital due to exhaustion and pneumonia! Stan Winston had to step in and finish up the dog transformation effects. It is funny that this movie really has aged well over time, and really makes you appreciate the effort put into making a very memorable movie.
One of the best science fiction films. I saw it many times in Italy. The profound meaning, the metaphor of this masterpiece by Carpenter, is the paranoia that takes hold of human beings when they see potential dangerous adversaries in their peers and fight against each other instead of being united, all in a closed environment, claustrophobic, even though the outdoor spaces are enormous but uninhabited. There is also another element that must be taken into consideration: our ancestral fear of being infected by our peers or by others. Furthermore, there is another interpretation: in the Permafrost, in the thousand-year-old ice, there are thousands of micro organisms that it is better not to "reawaken" as is unfortunately happening with the global rise in temperatures, because they are extremely dangerous for our health. In short, nature should be respected in any environment.The splendid soundtrack is by Ennio Morricone. Quentin Tarantino declared that he was inspired by Carpenter's "The Thing" when he filmed "The Hateful Eight" and wanted Morricone for the soundtrack at all costs. Some curiosities about the film. In reality, there were two Siberian husky dogs trained to play the part of the Thing that Carpenter used. Since digital effects did not exist in 1982, almost everything was created by hand by Rob Bottin and his collaborators. Due to the enormous amount of work and the consequent stress, Bottin ended up in hospital for fifteen days due to a collapse. There are different theories about the final scene. If you notice when Childs and MacReady are left alone it seems that Childs doesn't have any water vapor coming out of his mouth despite the cold and some claim that in reality what MacReady offers Childs to drink is not whiskey but the petrol left over from when they burned everything. If that were the case, Childs would be a Thing, but Carpenter never wanted to make that clear. Personally I believe that they both sacrificed themselves to save the human species and all other life forms on our planet. Greetings from Milan, Italy.
Nothing more enjoyable and funny for a long time fan of Carpenter's film like myself than to watch a first time reaction. Thank you for reacting to this awesome film. :) BTW, the "1980s robot voice" in this film is actually the voice of Adrienne Barbeau, a film actress who worked with and was wife of John Carpenter (she worked with him on three films prior to this one: Someone's Watching Me!, The Fog and Escape from New York). Also, the Dog is Jed. He also played White Fang in the 1990s.
@@KennyandLindsayWatch Well, considering you guys just watched The Thing, which is the first part of an unofficial trilogy that John Carpenter himself calls "The Apocalypse Trilogy" (dealing with the theme of ordinary people facing cosmic horror), I definitely recommend Prince of Darkness (1987) and In The Mouth of Madness (1994). His remake of Village of the Damned (1995) is a pretty interesting take. However, if you're wanting a palette cleanser instead of diving straight back into sci-fi/horror of Carpenter's work, I recommend Starman (1984), which is probably the most wholesome John Carpenter film you can go with, or Dark Star (1974), which is a sci-fi comedy (and it stars Dan O'Bannon, who was so frustrated with the alien prop from this film that he ended up writing the script for a film that gave us one hell of an iconic one: Alien (1979), and also went on to direct Return of the Living Dead (1985), which started the whole "zombies eat brains" trope), as is Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992). But if you're just wanting some action, Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Escape from New York (1981), Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and They Live (1988) all have some good action in them. There's also his adaptation of Stephen King's novel Christine (1983) if you happen to like Stephen King adaptations. I mean, you really can't go wrong with a John Carpenter film (except for The Ward, which a lot of fans don't even acknowledge it's existence, and doubly so because it has Amber Heard in it). And I'm not even including films he was the writer for (such as The Eyes of Laura Mars and Black Moon Rising) or even produced (such as The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) or the recent Halloween films (2008, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, as he was the one who directed the original Halloween in 1978). Y'all have a lot of options. Just depends on what you have a hankering for. Whichever you decide next, I hope you find it as enjoyable (and in the non-horror/more action related stuff, less gruesome). :D
My dad let me watch it at around 6-7. It’s ok though because I’d already seen IT at 5 😂 Honestly though I wasn’t that bothered by it as a kid, my dad knew I could handle it. I’d already seen behind the scenes specials about horror movies and how the make up and special effects were done so it didn’t really freak me out because I was always able to be like, it’s just actors playing pretend. Wont lie, they put images in my head that occasionally made it hard to sleep at night but I wasn’t traumatized or anything. I remember being 6, taking a shower and avoiding looking at the drain, dont even remember why just that it was IT related and I specifically remembered telling myself “you KNOW nothing is down there, it’s just a make believe movie, stop being such a baby” 😂
When they're setting the explosives at the end, there's a reason why they'd split up: they had a lot of work to do and a time limit. Sticking together means one or maybe 2 of them would be idle.
That was great. 😂 the minute she said she couldn't handle gore and horror movies I'm like oh no. He goes this would probably be middle of the road gore and om like oh no no. This definitely not the movie for her. Lol but now every other horror movie will seem tamer in comparison. And thus is a remake of a 1950s movie set in alaska, so you were partly correct. There is a 2011 prequel as well that shows you whst happened in the norwegian camp that the dog had come from. Not as good. But worth a watch for the back story. But no sequel. Tho with renewed interest in the classic movie john carpenter has said he'd be up for doing a sequel. How would you do a sequel 40 years lster?
Actually, the original film is from 1951. This John Carpenter version, while undeniably great, is a remake that is closer to the source novella from 1938.
LOL, you really started in the deep end with one of the grossest horrors ever. Perhaps a comedy-horror like 'Tucker and Dale vs Evil' would have been easier, some bloody bits but lots of laughs.
@@TheDeeGeeNL it would have to be him, because the passage of time is too short between Macs encounter with the Thing up until him destroying it. I recently watched another video that explains how Blaire could have gotten Childs, before all of that went down.
Many people miss the fact that at the end Child's (sp?) is not emitting any steam when he breaths/speaks, but kurt russel lets out a tremendous amount of steam with the smallest syllable. a big clue that the black dude is no longer warm-blooded.
Also, - Child’s is wearing a different jacket. - MacReady filled his empty bottles to make Molotov cocktails with fuel. See the scenes where they blow up the station. - child’s is assimilated by a Thing that was not aware that the rule for feeding amongst the humans was not to share drink or food and eat from cans. As soon as he drinks, we know he is a thing. - Carpenter’s photography director stated that the clue was to look in the eyes. If the eyes were reflecting light,”a spark of life”, you were human. Dead eyes like Norris and Palmer showed no light. MacReady had light in his eyes, Childs did not.
The chess game: careful analysis shows computer was loosing, so it switched colors and moved MacReady’s pieces and then checkmated him. MacReady was beating the machine.
“The Thing” is suspicion, mistrust, and paranoia personified! It is the story of desperate men, isolated and hopelessly trapped in the middle of nowhere, caught up in a terrifying life-and-death battle with an inhuman enemy, in which the fate of the entire world hangs in the balance. What would you do?
This is an epic film and a great story, so cool, after 40 some years, it's finally finding new audiences, it's body horror to the nth degree w/classic Agatha Christie style storytelling, the tension and anxiety becomes so palpable, it breaks the 4th wall, brilliant! The practical effects are still some of the very best in all of cinema, and it was trashed by critics when it came out, which created a hard-core fan base; John Carpenter is genius.
A fun, visceral reaction to a genuinely shocking classic guys. Most people miss (as I did myself) that MacReady has visible breath in the cold at the end, but Childs doesn't, leading to speculation that he's the Thing. It's full of hints and misleading tricks to keep you guessing; those practical effects never fail to get a reaction! Cheers :)
Rob Bottin who was the leader of the special effects team did spent one week in the hospital after the film was finished because of exhaustion,Maybe that's why there was never a part 2 ,with today's cgi its not the same quality as this one and a sequel with most animatronics is a hell of a job
I saw this movie for the first time in 1986, when I was 12. I stayed up late to watch it with my mum. I got as far as the dog scene. I had to go to bed, it scared the bejeesus out of me for ages afterwards. Now it has become one of my fave horror/scifi movies of all time. The film that traumatised me as a kid is now among my top 5 best movies. Great reaction btw, really enjoyed it.
A bit of trivia: Doc's computer is actually showing not "27.000" hours, but "27000" hours. That is, roughly, 3 years exactly. So full "contamination" of entire planet in ~3 years.
Great reaction guys and nice editing job. Since horror is not your thing, naturally I will provide some horror recommendations. (You can thank me later) The Fly (1986) Midsommar Hereditary The Witch Pan's Labyrinth Cheers!
It's funny how many people would be instantly infected by the husky from the get go, lol. Great Reaction though. Oh, the 2011 movie, from what I heard was that it was from the Norwegian base's point of view.
@KennyandLindsayWatch it was sad because it started as using practical effects, but then the suits in charge got rid of them and forced them to use CGI in a very short time-frame so it came out bad.
@@KennyandLindsayWatch Unfortunately it's not just the CGI. The 2011 movie just doesn't have the same scary vibe as this one. Here's a good video explaining why: th-cam.com/video/x8KZZW6yNZU/w-d-xo.html
This IS the remake! The original was The Thing from Another World, often referred to simply as "The Thing", based on the short story "Who Goes There?“ was the original, something Director John Carpenter saw as a child. In John Carpenter's Halloween, the original is playing on TV. John Carpenter's The Thing got a continuation, technically, a prequel, set in the Norwegian camp, leading to the events of this movie. It was titled simply The Thing. The practical FX scenes were practically finished, when the producer decided to replace them with CGI.
By the way, if you're wondering about the ending-whether one of them was the Thing... (If you want to figure it out for yourself, don't read any further.) Yes .. Childes is the thing and MacReady knows it. Explanation: Steam is coming out of MacReady's mouth, but not Childs'. MacReady comes up with a "test" - he offers Childs a bottle. The real Childs wouldn't drink because he doesn't trust MacReady (it could be contaminated), but the Thing happily accepts the bottle and immediately contaminates it. MacReady realizes this and just smiles. He's alone here, amidst the burning wreckage; he'll freeze soon, and his only companion is the Thing.
This was a very fun and relatable reaction to this movie. I felt like I was reliving my first time watching! Definitely looking forward to more movie reactions. Not sure what you all have seen already, but I recommend the usuals; Jaws, Jurassic Park, Alien, Halloween, etc. However, if you like suspense and want something outside of the horror realm, Primal Fear and Seven are great choices.
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Great viewing and reaction! You 2 were as fun as the movie! Try the movie 'Scanners'(1981) You might like it. Will check out what else you have. I love these reaction videos, it's a great thing people do!
1984's "Terminator" is, at it's heart, a horror movie (with NO jump scares) and is a pop culture masterpiece.
Oh we will def be watching Terminator at some point@@rsrt6910
@@KennyandLindsayWatch well you asked ... " alien" is the other iconic horror sci fi of that period , much more so than terminator . liked , subscribed and commented , gl
"The Fly" Jeff Goldblum is a great SciFi / Love Story with a bit of horror thrown in 😉
EVERY REACTOR starts off "Don't you DARE hurt that dog!"
and ends with "KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!"😂
And it NEVER gets old, am I right?
@@rsrt6910Never ever gets old I smile every time i hear it lol.
"TORCH IT, CHILDS."
@@murrayroodbaard207 You know that the inside of the "flower" that goes after Child's is made of dog tongues?
SO. DISTURBING.
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For a long time i didn't know, but then someone explained it and then i noticed. ALL the parts of it are some kind of dog parts.
But first i always thought i was just some kind of alien flower.
lol, I've never seen anyone come up with the idea that the Thing is invisible before. Those blurry spots on the screen were just poor image quality or something. The dog was a Thing from the beginning. That's why the Norwegians were trying to kill it.
Yeah, the "invisible" and "there it is, I saw it" had me almost yelling at the screen half the time. There was no "invisible thing"
My dad took me to see this theatrically in 1982 when I was almost 15, it’s my favorite horror film to this day. Thanks dad, R.I.P.
Cool dad for real.💯
A note, this is not the original, this is based on the 1951 film "The Thing from Another World," which is based on the 1938 novella "Who Goes There." This film is part of what people call John Carpenter's Apocalypse trilogy along with In the Mouth of Madness and Prince of Darkness, because they each end in a way that signals we are most likely watching the beginning of an Apocalypse. In this case, one or both men are likely the Thing, they will freeze and be found by the rescue party, and their bodies taken back to civilization where the Thing will rapidly take over. Also, the 2011 film is not a "remake" its a prequel of what happened at the Norwegian station.
Never fails...every reaction I watch..."oh the poor dog" 🤣
I love dogs so much, watching that was a nightmare lol. Our dogs were not allowed to sleep in the bed the past few days because I was so freaked out 🤣🤣
So far I think I saw only one reaction where the person understood that they must have a reason for it :)
Every time I see someone go "please don't hurt the dog" I just think "oh you poor summer child."
No big deal if a person gets killed, but protect the dog at all cost, even if it means killing a fellow human.
Yep. Or the ever popular, ''Not the dog! Don't shoot the dog!'' Followed by ''Shoot the dog! For God's sake shoot the dog!'' Lol!
Childs not being even tempered, he's an asshole. Its why we love Childs, he's one of the most careful in this movie. And yes, Keith David this was his 1st film role, and his best.
He was better in They Live.
@thedeegee1601 different character, Same quality acting.
"I'm thinking because it's older it won't be as scary."
😂😂😂
Well, if older movies aren't as scary, you should have no problem with "The Excorcist" or "Psycho." 😁
Or Carrie, or The Omen.
"--won't be as scary." Oh, you sweet summer children.......some THING awaits thee.
Altered States also lies in wait. After that, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978.
Or "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
The toilet flushing is more scary.😂
Or the original Halloween
You mentioned a "remake." The 2011 movie 🎬 is a prequel, NOT a remake! It tells the story of the Norwegian camp and ends with the helicopter-dog chase that begins this movie 🎬.
Clark tried to stab Macready with a knife from behind and got shot in the head for it , that would make it self defense not murder .
Yeah, was not Clarks best idea that day, it was definitely his last though lol.
And Childs calls MacReady a murderer. Childs wanted to leave MacReady out in the cold to freeze to death.
@@BruceCarroll Yeah. We don't know exactly what, but there's obviously bad blood between them and been for a while before the movie kicked off. Maybe something to do with Mac being a Vietnam vet?
A lot of people miss it, but when Nauls says "which one of yall threw your dirty drawers in the trash" its a huge clue that the dog thing that escaped already killed and mimiced someone.
I'm pretty sure the dog infected Norris. I know that wasn't his silhouette because Carpenter intentional used a crew member rather than any of the actors to confuse the audience.
What I wonder about is when was Blair infected? I think it was after he destroyed the radio and helicopter. I'm not sure if he was a "thing" when he pleaded to be allowed back into the base although he could've been.
On a side note: Fuchs theorized based on Blair's research that a "small particle" could takeover a whole organism. Blair did the autopsies on the Norweigan remains and the dogs. Was he exposed and infected...but did not fully "turn into" a Thing until after he was locked up?
@@badprotocol1105 my personal hypothesis is that the dog didn't infect anyone when it walked into the room, I wanna say that's a red herring. But I believe it was Norris or Palmer when Nulls finds the underwear. And as for Blair I think he got the initial infection from the autopsies, but he felt himself getting taken over. My evidence for this is he made the noose when he realized it, but when Mac and them check that's not Blair anymore, its the Blair thing just mimicking him.
@@badprotocol1105 clarification: so when they first put him in the shed he wad Blair, but between that and when they check he made the noose for himself but "lost" himself between then and when Mac and them checked.
OHHHH ok, I was wondering why he name the noose then wanted to be let out. That makes sense!!
Yeah, it got Palmer first (probably). You'll see Palmer try to divide the group after that- particularly going after Windows (obviously the weak link in the group).
I doubt it got Blair until after he was locked in the shed- he was a sitting duck.
That time a Mac beat Windows
Lets call it a draw. I mean, Mac froze right. But Windows got infected. He he he he
Just watching you two talk about what you like during the intro…. You were not ready for one of THE BEST horror movies of all time.
Not at all lol
My wife Stephanie and I love this movie. For it to be 40+ years old and people to still discuss it today shows that the movie can withstand the test of time. There are a lot of theories out there about who was a Thing and when did people get turned. Especially at the end of the movie. Most people think that Childs was a Thing because he vanishes a long time at the end and when he appears again, he's wearing different clothing which is because clothes get destroyed during the Thing taking over the person. Here is another view of the movie.
I think that MacReady was a Thing. Norris was the first from the American Camp to get taken over, followed by maybe either Palmer or MacReady. Remember they all act as individual beings, the Things do not work together, but a self preservation mode.
At the start of the movie we see MacReady playing a Chess game which is a symbolic theme throughout the entire movie. He was a chess player that was always steps ahead of the other players or the computer program. During Chess, in order to win, you have to sacrifice your own men to win the game.
When Windows came into the room where Bennings was getting assimilated, he dropped the key (listen for it). It never shows whom got these keys, but I'm going with it being MacReady. This was the keys that also unlocked the blood vault. This is how MacReady's blood didnt scream from the hot copper wire during the test as he used untainted blood from the sabotage blood vault. We never see MacReady cut his finger to put the blood in the dish for the test.
We also never see when Blair gets infected, but the last contact was with MacReady. Blair was still a human when they locked him in the shack, but right before MacReady leaves him alone, he takes a swig of Blair's alcohol that was sitting in front of him on the table, thus infecting the drink. Later on they go back to check in on Blair and hes got a noose hanging from the roof. He then says he is alright now but they still leave him out there. The alcohol bottle is gone from the table. From the sight of the noose, he was contemplating suicide and more than likely finished off the bottle to give him "liquid courage" and this is when he gets infected.
Fukes also tell's MacReady that he thinks that they should make their own meals and only eat out of cans as it could infect people this way. (Going back to Blair's computer analysis of the Things cells infecting other cells proves this to be correct.) MacReady's response to Fuke's suggestion was creepy as he stands there, paused, as if he underestimated Fukes and is rethinking what to do with this one, then only replies with an "alright..." then walks out of the room. Shortly after the lights go out and Fukes is next seen burnt up dead. Being a "leader" MacRready never shares the information Fukes suggested to him of not sharing food or drink with the group.
Then at the end, Childs gets infected when he is handed the alcohol and drinks from it. As soon as he takes a swig, The Thing theme music kicks in and MacReady laughs as if to say Check Mate.
Wow that was a great read. Honestly everyone here has been sick past couple days (kids included) so instead of trying to watch a movie we have just been watching and reading about theories on the ending and its so fun haha.
Yeah initially we thought Macready was the thing because, like you said you have to sacrifice your own men to win the game, and he was so gungho about making sure the thing did not escape alive, and yet when he sees childs who he had lost contact with, his solution is just to....sit and wait? That makes no sense, Macready would have taken no chances not just sit there and freeze (which is what the thing wanted to do anyways) We love movies that people still debate and the fact that this movie still has these debates to this day is incredible.
@@KennyandLindsayWatch Thanks for the reply and I hope you and yours gets better soon!
@@KennyandLindsayWatch You both need to watch The Thing from 2011. Its the Prequel to this one. It works so well with this movie, it is actually perfect. It tells the story of the other foreign base that MacReady and teammates traveled to and found destroyed. Another Excellent movie!
Everybody falls for the dog at the opening. Rob Bottin the special effects man was 21 when he made the effects.
It always worries me how people are so much more sympathetic to the animals than the humans.
Not a remake made some years ago- it’s a prequel. It’s the story of what happens at the Norwegian base.
FYI: The original was made in 1951 and was titled "The Thing from Another World."
The original is a book from 1938 called "Who Goes There?"
The Thing From Another World was missing the shapeshifting element. It was really just a big alien man thing that was tromping around the Antarctican base.
@@k1productions87 Limited by the movie technology of the time, but a great film. If it hadn't been, Carpenter wouldn't have been a fan.
@@brandonflorida1092 I don't know, I found it rather boring and underwhelming without the paranoia aspect to it. Not knowing who could be the thing is what makes Carpenter's version so timelessly haunting
@@k1productions87 Well, I have loved it since I first saw it about 55 years ago. It has 87% on "Rotten Tomatoes." Carpenter was a big fan. Granted, it isn't the kind of empty calorie junk food most movies are today. Maybe you should confine yourself to movies with lots of chase scenes and explosions and don't watch anything earlier than "Star Wars: A New Hope."
Perfect ending, just like John Carpenter's 1st big hit: John Carpenter's Halloween. They both have perfect endings and NO, they should NOT be followed by an inferior sequel. I do not want for The Thing, what happened to Halloween with 13 inferior imitations. This is one of the best films ever made and IF nothing else, John Carpenter can die knowing he was correct, that the financial/critical bomb of 1982 was in fact a genuis masterpiece of film that found its audience. He was savaged for making this film. 2023, he recieves universal praise for this film. That gives me closure the ending doesn't provide.
The dog in the beginning was the 'thing'.
This is the first time I've seen someone mistake video/streaming artifacts as something intentional done by the filmmakers.. ya'll need stronger internet!
Lmao if thats the case then its peacocks fault. Weird
Did anyone notice when Windows drops the keys when he noticed Bennings being absorbed by the Thing
It's rather hard to miss. IIRC, if one has subtitles on for the movie, it even says "keys hitting floor" or something.
Rob Bottin, the Master of the organics SFX, and he was only 20 when he worked on this movie, his masterpiece.
Apart from Stan Winston's work on the Kennel Thing, because Rob was overworked and starting to have some health issues from it. But yeah. The guy's work holds up to Stan Winston. Rob also did the effects work for Robocop 2.
More Keith David in "They Live". It's John Carpenter too. Sci-Fi, but not gory. Great story.
When the Thing screams, it's the screams of every lifeform it has ever imitated.
Your invisible thing was a video glitch. Not part of the movie. Dog was monster.
The original movie came out in '51. Based on the book "Who Goes There". The remake is actually a prequel at the Norwiegian base.
"nothing too bad will happen to a dog! That aged well...🤣🤣
When Windows lost it and went for the rifle, he was shut down by the others. A few seconds latter Childs went for a gun, he was evaluated based on his temperament as not being good leader material, particularly in a high stress situation, and also shut down.
Imagine my mom let me see this when it came on HBO 1981 I was 9 lol.Now this stuff never bothers me....I'm so dead inside
I think what took us by surprise was the practical effects, we have seen so much CG garbage over the past few years that we were just not ready for this haha.
You watched it on TV a year before it was released?
@@The-UnderbakerYep they're a very lucky person...or maybe a time traveller??? 🤔
Same😂
The only ''CGI'' was the UFO. All the rest was practical. The 2011 film was the prequel to this film's story.
I really enjoyed the prequel. Naturally the effects were not nearly as good, but a very entertaining watch nonetheless.
The UFO was practical, with some rotoscoping added. CGI didn't exist in 1982, because it required a supercomputer. Even Tron had very limited use of acctual CGI and was mostly camera tricks and rotoscoping.
The reason Macreedy says F you too to the Thing before he blows it up is because perhaps he understood what it said --he might be one of the Things .
8k+ views in 6 days (and counting) on your first reaction! Congratulations!
I did enjoy your reactions. …When the video first started, and you said, “We don’t do gore…” I thought, ‘well, you don’t know what you signed up for.” :)
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Two other wildly good films in the horror genre I’d watch, if you did a video on them, are: Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), and David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986). The latter is a 3-part combo SF-Horror-Love story. It also contains gore that rivals or surpasses “The Thing.”
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I realize that any reactor’s spontaneous reaction, in the immediate moment, is just that: spontaneous. Therefore, what I’m about to write is not a rebuke, just an observation/insight. Upon reflection, it should be obvious that when the several station members (mainly Clark and Mac) react suddenly to Childs’s stating “I’ll take it (the gun and the leadership position)” …and when Clark says, “the hell you will,” - that these reactions are not racist.
They don’t oppose Childs because he’s black. They oppose what he was about to do, because of what Mac said: “It should be someone a little more even-tempered, Childs.”
Several characters, on several occasions before the monster appeared, say and do things indicating that Mac is the most respected, trusted one in the camp (because Mac earned their trust. We don't see exactly how, but Mac would have been consistent in the prior time that the others had spent with him.) The others know (and feel) that they can rely on HIM in an emergency, in a way that’s not true of others - including Garry, the person who has the formal leadership position. When Doc Copper sees that Mac is hesitant about flying to the Norwegians’ base, he says, “It’s up to you, Mac: you don’t wanna fly, we don’t fly.” When Nauls reacts uneasily to Mac’s decision to fly in uncertain weather, Palmer says about Mac, “He knows what he’s doin’.”
By contrast, Childs proves to be an undependable, grudge-holding hothead: When Mac breaks into the storeroom, Childs leads the charge (to break down the door with the ax) and would have killed Mac, if Mac hadn’t threatened to blow them all up. Killing MacReady would have been a terrible outcome for the other men, if they’d done it: The men had already found two shredded clothing items (with name tags missing) from prior assimilations. It should have occurred to someone that the thing had planted some shredded clothing WITH Mac’s name visible, in Mac’s shack - to frame Mac as being an imitation. But no one thinks of that.
Then, after Mac kills Clark to prevent himself from being lethally stabbed, Childs can only further abuse Mac verbally, “so Clark was human, huh? -Which makes you a murderer, don’t it?” First, it wasn’t murder, it was self-defense. Second, Childs is so focused on animus towards Mac, he loses sight of the big picture: The whole human race lives or dies, depending on whether these men keep the Thing from spreading. So Mac is acting to protect all of humanity, not merely the people in the camp. Indeed, it’s Mac who correctly grasps that everyone there, including himself, should be sacrificed, so that the thing will die with them.
So, when Childs starts to go for Garry’s gun, the others know that that must not happen: The group needs the most sane, dependable, focused-on-the-important-things person that they have, to lead the team. And they know that that isn’t Childs.
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Best wishes and good luck in future reactions. :)
Start of the movie everyone be like "don't you hurt that puppy"!
Half hour later everyones like... "Kill everything that moves"!!
I suspect that the reason '80s horror seems so graphic to people is because horror didn't really get graphic until the Halloween to Friday the 13th timeframe of the late '70s. So by the time the '80s rolled around, horror filmmakers were at their peak of using gore and graphic violence. There was a backlash against violent movies which ended the trend. By the time Scream brought that sensibility back to horror in the '90s, practical make up effects were being replaced by computer generated special effects and so movies never approached '80s level horror like The Thing or The Fly again.
Which is a real shame. They have the capability to make amazing gory practical effects, but yeah, I haven't seen any practical effects the likes of The Thing since the 1980s.
There is a proper ghost-story called "The Changelling" from the 80s. My mom wouldn't sleep alone after we watched that. (It's NOT the Angelina Jolie film!). I still waych it now and then. It is really well written.
One of the best ghost films.
@@LarryFleetwood8675Agree!
to0 answer your question, the man was trying toi kill the dg because the dog was the thing. This is the best horror movie ever made, They both froze to death at the end.
"Bro has diabeetus strength" freaking killed me!🤣
LMAO
22:36 Fun Fact the actor Wilford Brimley was a diabetes educator and TV spokesman for Liberty Medical diabetes supplies😂
What the hell are you two talking about when you "see" the invisible thing 😂. Like when it's right next to Garry? I went back and looked and I really have no idea. And I've never seen anyone else talk about it.
It doesn't show in the reaction very well, but there is like a little glitch effect. It first shows at the Norwegian camp when they are on both sides of the ice block, it appears on the left side. I swear we are not crazy lol.
@@KennyandLindsayWatch😂 it was just a defect in the editing process. The dog was always a Thing from the very beginning. In fact it was the very first one to be assimilated at the Norwegian camp. The pilot of the helicopter wasn't at the base when the alien was wreaking havoc. He arrived back to the camp after the carnage, and didn't understand what was happening. The Norwegian doing the shooting was screaming "that is no dog, get the hell away from it" when they got to the American base.
27,000 hours is a little over 3 years
The best way to watch a scary movie is with the lights turned off.🤣🤣🤣
P.S. try watching the 1973 Exorcist (director's cut). Make sure to have a crucifix (cross) handy.😂😂😂
No way was I watching that in the dark lol, and I am terrified to watch the exorcist!!! I watched it when I was a little girl, and the only thing I remember is that it scared me sooo bad....but maybe we will give it another shot...maybe after a few sips of liquid courage lol
Scifi horror is definitely the best best place to start imo. Sure there's gonna be some gore here and there, but the overall movies are usually great. Stuff like Terminator, Aliens, and Robocop are all worthy classics.
Interesting Facts: Norris (the guy who’s chest bursts open, chopping off the doctor’s hands with its bear-trap teeth) had a bad heart, and when the Thing took him over and perfectly imitated him, it also faithfully recreated his heart defect, which eventually caused Norris to suffer a heart attack for real during a high-stress moment. The Thing would have been happy to hide itself in a presumably “dead” body, but it couldn’t tolerate the electro-shocks from the defibrillator and was thus forced to reveal itself. (Incidentally, at the beginning of the movie, the spaceship was flying erratically because the crew was desperately trying to fight off the Things that were aboard their vessel and causing havoc. That’s why the spaceship attempted to make an emergency landing on the nearest planet and ended up crash landing in the Antarctic. Only one of the Things made it out of the ship alive, only to freeze in the ice.)
Oh wow that's badass, where does the info about the ship come from? Is their a book or something to read or do they talk about that in the prequel/remake?
“The Thing” is based on a short story called “Who goes there?” which I read In Junior High School and absolutely loved. “The Thing” has been my favorite movie ever since it came out and I have seen it countless times. As a huge fan, I have also read a great deal about the movie, and the making of the film, in addition to exchanging theories and lively discussions with other fans. So the thoughts about the flying saucer are based on my own informed conclusions, but I also think it is very clearly implying in the movie.
It begins with a scene of the flying saucer flying erratically in evident distress, heading for Earth, the nearest habitable planet. Later in the movie, they follow up on the information obtained from the Norwegian camp and discover the crashed saucer buried in ice that they determine is at least 100,000 years old. Nearby they discover the rectangular cut out in the ice where the body of the thing was recovered and hauled back to the Norwegian’s outpost for research.
Afterwards the Yanks discuss among themselves how the spaceship crashed and was buried in the ice 100,000 years ago, and, incredibly one of the things managed to survive and crawl out (or get thrown out) of the wrecked saucer, only to eventually get found and thawed out, whereupon it preceded to wreak havoc on the Norwegians and then subsequently the Americans…
Their real enigma is whether or not McCready and Childs are both human at the end, or whether one or both of them have become Things. But that’s another discussion…
I'm pumped you guys recognised Keith David / Captain Anderson. Don't think I've seen any other reactors mention that!
We are HUGE Mass Effect fans haha
"She cannot handle gore..." , "Nothing is gonna happen to the dog in an 80's horror movie..." - Oh, boy 😂 Also, the dog WAS the thing, it wasn't a dog. The invisible thing is just a glitcg probably or something in the video you watched, because there is no invisibale things here.
Backstory: The aliens crashed on Earth to prevent the Thing infecting their homeworld. If the Americans understood Norwegian, the helicopter crew was telling the story of the Thing destroying their camp.
The story continued in a series of graphic novels where MacReady chases and battles the Thing up through South America and finally ending in a small fishing village in New Zealand. MacReady survives and the Thing escapes to live a peaceful life as a fish.
Conjecture. The ship crashing could've been a result of damage to the ship, or the Thing having taken out the pilot. Either makes the crash accidental.
Nice reaction.Here are several under appreciated Keith David movies: "Off Limits," "Men at Work," and "They Live." The last is horror.
"My turkey is never dry. How dare you!"
Dude, better choice of quips next time!
No, this isn't the original. The original was in 1951. John Carpenter loved it so he remade it. Even that was taken from a 1938 story.
By the way, when writing his score, Morricone wasn't allowed to see a single foot of the film. Carpenter hired him because he knew and agreed with his towering reputation.
Oh, the Chess Wizard computer voice is Carpenter's wife.
If you do more movie reactions, I'll be back.
Horror or suspense:
"Alien,"
"Aliens,"
"Forbidden Planet,"
"Frequency,"
"Ghost,"
"The Green Mile,"
"North by Northwest,"
"Psycho,"
"Rear Window,"
"The Terminator,"
"Vertigo,"
"Zodiac"
Great info, and the score in this is great, I was only really familiar with Morricones work on westerns but this one was great, and yeah more movie reactions coming soon, I can tell you both of the aliens, the green mile and terminator 1 and 2 are on the list of ones we are doing soon.
The two most uttered comments were, "Oh My God!" and "Oh My Fucking God!" LOL!
Great score composed by Ennio Morricone, John Carpenter and Alan Howarth.
The Thing 1982 is the measuring stick for movies with practical effects! The guy (Rob Bottin) in charge of the effects actually was so stressed out trying to complete the movie and make everything so good, it caused him to have to go into the hospital due to exhaustion and pneumonia! Stan Winston had to step in and finish up the dog transformation effects. It is funny that this movie really has aged well over time, and really makes you appreciate the effort put into making a very memorable movie.
You don't like scary, bloody, or gory movies? The Thing is a perfect watch for you!
29:19 😄😄I had the exact same reaction when I first saw it back in1982. Nothing bothered me until thumb cutting scenes. That made me squirm.
Yeah fingers and eye stuff I can't do haha - Kenny
Yeah fingers and eye stuff I can't do haha - Kenny
One of the best science fiction films. I saw it many times in Italy. The profound meaning, the metaphor of this masterpiece by Carpenter, is the paranoia that takes hold of human beings when they see potential dangerous adversaries in their peers and fight against each other instead of being united, all in a closed environment, claustrophobic, even though the outdoor spaces are enormous but uninhabited. There is also another element that must be taken into consideration: our ancestral fear of being infected by our peers or by others. Furthermore, there is another interpretation: in the Permafrost, in the thousand-year-old ice, there are thousands of micro organisms that it is better not to "reawaken" as is unfortunately happening with the global rise in temperatures, because they are extremely dangerous for our health. In short, nature should be respected in any environment.The splendid soundtrack is by Ennio Morricone. Quentin Tarantino declared that he was inspired by Carpenter's "The Thing" when he filmed "The Hateful Eight" and wanted Morricone for the soundtrack at all costs. Some curiosities about the film. In reality, there were two Siberian husky dogs trained to play the part of the Thing that Carpenter used. Since digital effects did not exist in 1982, almost everything was created by hand by Rob Bottin and his collaborators. Due to the enormous amount of work and the consequent stress, Bottin ended up in hospital for fifteen days due to a collapse. There are different theories about the final scene. If you notice when Childs and MacReady are left alone it seems that Childs doesn't have any water vapor coming out of his mouth despite the cold and some claim that in reality what MacReady offers Childs to drink is not whiskey but the petrol left over from when they burned everything. If that were the case, Childs would be a Thing, but Carpenter never wanted to make that clear. Personally I believe that they both sacrificed themselves to save the human species and all other life forms on our planet. Greetings from Milan, Italy.
Nothing more enjoyable and funny for a long time fan of Carpenter's film like myself than to watch a first time reaction. Thank you for reacting to this awesome film. :)
BTW, the "1980s robot voice" in this film is actually the voice of Adrienne Barbeau, a film actress who worked with and was wife of John Carpenter (she worked with him on three films prior to this one: Someone's Watching Me!, The Fog and Escape from New York).
Also, the Dog is Jed. He also played White Fang in the 1990s.
Thank you for watching!! As a long time Carpenter fan, what should we watch next?
@@KennyandLindsayWatch Well, considering you guys just watched The Thing, which is the first part of an unofficial trilogy that John Carpenter himself calls "The Apocalypse Trilogy" (dealing with the theme of ordinary people facing cosmic horror), I definitely recommend Prince of Darkness (1987) and In The Mouth of Madness (1994). His remake of Village of the Damned (1995) is a pretty interesting take.
However, if you're wanting a palette cleanser instead of diving straight back into sci-fi/horror of Carpenter's work, I recommend Starman (1984), which is probably the most wholesome John Carpenter film you can go with, or Dark Star (1974), which is a sci-fi comedy (and it stars Dan O'Bannon, who was so frustrated with the alien prop from this film that he ended up writing the script for a film that gave us one hell of an iconic one: Alien (1979), and also went on to direct Return of the Living Dead (1985), which started the whole "zombies eat brains" trope), as is Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992). But if you're just wanting some action, Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Escape from New York (1981), Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and They Live (1988) all have some good action in them.
There's also his adaptation of Stephen King's novel Christine (1983) if you happen to like Stephen King adaptations.
I mean, you really can't go wrong with a John Carpenter film (except for The Ward, which a lot of fans don't even acknowledge it's existence, and doubly so because it has Amber Heard in it). And I'm not even including films he was the writer for (such as The Eyes of Laura Mars and Black Moon Rising) or even produced (such as The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) or the recent Halloween films (2008, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, as he was the one who directed the original Halloween in 1978).
Y'all have a lot of options. Just depends on what you have a hankering for. Whichever you decide next, I hope you find it as enjoyable (and in the non-horror/more action related stuff, less gruesome). :D
Awesome write up! Great info here!! Thanks so much@@DanielS2001
@@KennyandLindsayWatch You're very much welcome. I hope whichever movie you decide to go with, that you enjoy the ride. :)
This and The Shining (1980) are masterpieces!
Shining is way overhyped
My mom took me to see this when I was 10 years old....let that marinate for a few. I ain't been right since then!
Lol oh noooo, cmon mom!
My dad let me watch it at around 6-7. It’s ok though because I’d already seen IT at 5 😂
Honestly though I wasn’t that bothered by it as a kid, my dad knew I could handle it. I’d already seen behind the scenes specials about horror movies and how the make up and special effects were done so it didn’t really freak me out because I was always able to be like, it’s just actors playing pretend.
Wont lie, they put images in my head that occasionally made it hard to sleep at night but I wasn’t traumatized or anything. I remember being 6, taking a shower and avoiding looking at the drain, dont even remember why just that it was IT related and I specifically remembered telling myself “you KNOW nothing is down there, it’s just a make believe movie, stop being such a baby” 😂
Btw, your mom sounds awesome 😁
@@DarthLesbian she is and we are super close!!!
When they're setting the explosives at the end, there's a reason why they'd split up: they had a lot of work to do and a time limit. Sticking together means one or maybe 2 of them would be idle.
That was great. 😂 the minute she said she couldn't handle gore and horror movies I'm like oh no. He goes this would probably be middle of the road gore and om like oh no no. This definitely not the movie for her. Lol but now every other horror movie will seem tamer in comparison. And thus is a remake of a 1950s movie set in alaska, so you were partly correct. There is a 2011 prequel as well that shows you whst happened in the norwegian camp that the dog had come from. Not as good. But worth a watch for the back story. But no sequel. Tho with renewed interest in the classic movie john carpenter has said he'd be up for doing a sequel. How would you do a sequel 40 years lster?
Actually, the original film is from 1951. This John Carpenter version, while undeniably great, is a remake that is closer to the source novella from 1938.
LOL, you really started in the deep end with one of the grossest horrors ever. Perhaps a comedy-horror like 'Tucker and Dale vs Evil' would have been easier, some bloody bits but lots of laughs.
That was outstanding! Well done for hanging in there. 😄
Thanks so much lol
You might enjoy Dark City. Make sure you watch the director’s cut. It’s sci-fi, very mildly scary, but really excellent and engaging.
I have ALWAYS wanted to watch Dark City, I used to always look at the case at Blockbuster back in the day. This is def on the list. - Kenny
@@KennyandLindsayWatch make sure you watch the directors cut. The theatrical version has a voiceover at the beginning that spoils a bunch of stuff.
As usual, "AW, dont hurt the puppy..." (Twenty Minutes Later) "KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!" 🤣
John Carpenter himself said that one of them is definately The Thing
Probably Childs, since he broke the rule by drinking from Mac's bottle.
@@TheDeeGeeNL it would have to be him, because the passage of time is too short between Macs encounter with the Thing up until him destroying it. I recently watched another video that explains how Blaire could have gotten Childs, before all of that went down.
The actor who plays Clark adopted the dog in the beginning of the movie .
Awwww
That was fun, I hope you do more movie reactions. Something a little less gross, like The Fly with Jeff Goldblum... that's a lovely little tale.
Glad you enjoyed!!
Yep more movies are on the way, and ok cool I love Jeff Goldblum - Lindsay
and remember to eat plenty of food before you watch the fly😀
Yeah I agree. The Fly with Jeff Goldblum is a nice feel-good movie after something gross like The Thing
Heh, heh, heh, heh, yes, such a wonderful love story. A smart man, a beautiful woman & a unique invention.
Watch it on an empty stomach.
Subscribing because I'm looking forward to y'all doin more movie reactions.
Many people miss the fact that at the end Child's (sp?) is not emitting any steam when he breaths/speaks, but kurt russel lets out a tremendous amount of steam with the smallest syllable. a big clue that the black dude is no longer warm-blooded.
Also,
- Child’s is wearing a different jacket.
- MacReady filled his empty bottles to make Molotov cocktails with fuel. See the scenes where they blow up the station.
- child’s is assimilated by a Thing that was not aware that the rule for feeding amongst the humans was not to share drink or food and eat from cans. As soon as he drinks, we know he is a thing.
- Carpenter’s photography director stated that the clue was to look in the eyes. If the eyes were reflecting light,”a spark of life”, you were human. Dead eyes like Norris and Palmer showed no light. MacReady had light in his eyes, Childs did not.
The chess game: careful analysis shows computer was loosing, so it switched colors and moved MacReady’s pieces and then checkmated him. MacReady was beating the machine.
@@gabrielestrada8523 All great points, too. Thanks for adding to what I said. The subtle tricks to figuring out the secret truth is intriguing.
“The Thing” is suspicion, mistrust, and paranoia personified! It is the story of desperate men, isolated and hopelessly trapped in the middle of nowhere, caught up in a terrifying life-and-death battle with an inhuman enemy, in which the fate of the entire world hangs in the balance. What would you do?
Probably die lol
"OMG, this is so cute!"
Movie: Cute? Cute, you say? Well, I can fix that... HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
They didn’t release a remake, they released a prequel. It shows what happened at the Norwegian camp prior to this film.
The recent movie ‘The Thing”- is actually a prequel, and does not use practical effects.
This is an epic film and a great story, so cool, after 40 some years, it's finally finding new audiences, it's body horror to the nth degree w/classic Agatha Christie style storytelling, the tension and anxiety becomes so palpable, it breaks the 4th wall, brilliant! The practical effects are still some of the very best in all of cinema, and it was trashed by critics when it came out, which created a hard-core fan base; John Carpenter is genius.
Sorry, Lyndsay, the dog was very much The Thing.
Life ain't fair.
It's really not 😭😭😭
A fun, visceral reaction to a genuinely shocking classic guys. Most people miss (as I did myself) that MacReady has visible breath in the cold at the end, but Childs doesn't, leading to speculation that he's the Thing. It's full of hints and misleading tricks to keep you guessing; those practical effects never fail to get a reaction! Cheers :)
The breath!!!! dang it Childs lol....thanks for watching!!
Rob Bottin who was the leader of the special effects team did spent one week in the hospital after the film was finished because of exhaustion,Maybe that's why there
was never a part 2 ,with today's cgi its not the same quality as this one and a sequel with most animatronics is a hell of a job
"We like sci fi so we're hoping this is a middle ground" oh no "Hoping maybe since it's older it won't be as scary" OH NO *pops popcorn*
It takes place in Antarctica, and the original, 'The Thing From Another World', came out in the 1950's.
Lindsay sounds like she's doing the Batman theme: "No no no no no no no no no"😂
I saw this movie for the first time in 1986, when I was 12. I stayed up late to watch it with my mum. I got as far as the dog scene. I had to go to bed, it scared the bejeesus out of me for ages afterwards. Now it has become one of my fave horror/scifi movies of all time. The film that traumatised me as a kid is now among my top 5 best movies. Great reaction btw, really enjoyed it.
Saw this in the theaters when it opened. You will never look at your dog the same way again.
Kurt's hat has to be in the top 10 all times best movie props😂
LMAO at this point it's a supporting character.
Have I been missing the "invisible thing" all these years?
No. I don't know what they think they saw, but there are no "invisible things" in this story and the dog was obviously the thing the entire time. 🤷♂️
😂😂😂😂😂😂 "Not Lindsey Buckingham" Lololol Funny and Accurate!! Lol Great Reaction!!! 👍🏾
A bit of trivia:
Doc's computer is actually showing not "27.000" hours, but "27000" hours. That is, roughly, 3 years exactly. So full "contamination" of entire planet in ~3 years.
Great reaction guys and nice editing job. Since horror is not your thing, naturally I will provide some horror recommendations. (You can thank me later)
The Fly (1986)
Midsommar
Hereditary
The Witch
Pan's Labyrinth
Cheers!
Thank you for mentioning the editing it is very new to us and we are learning as we go! Thank you for the recommendations! - Lindsay
I second Hereditary.
love her reaction!
It's funny how many people would be instantly infected by the husky from the get go, lol. Great Reaction though. Oh, the 2011 movie, from what I heard was that it was from the Norwegian base's point of view.
So true. I'd walk right over to give it a proper pet. 😂
The 2011 remake is a CGI dumpster fire.
yeah thats what I was worried about@@dokidaddy1056
@KennyandLindsayWatch it was sad because it started as using practical effects, but then the suits in charge got rid of them and forced them to use CGI in a very short time-frame so it came out bad.
@@KennyandLindsayWatch Unfortunately it's not just the CGI. The 2011 movie just doesn't have the same scary vibe as this one.
Here's a good video explaining why: th-cam.com/video/x8KZZW6yNZU/w-d-xo.html
Watch the movie don't hide behind your hands because that's what we want to see,you must suffer for your art.😅
This IS the remake! The original was The Thing from Another World, often referred to simply as "The Thing", based on the short story "Who Goes There?“ was the original, something Director John Carpenter saw as a child. In John Carpenter's Halloween, the original is playing on TV. John Carpenter's The Thing got a continuation, technically, a prequel, set in the Norwegian camp, leading to the events of this movie. It was titled simply The Thing. The practical FX scenes were practically finished, when the producer decided to replace them with CGI.
By the way, if you're wondering about the ending-whether one of them was the Thing... (If you want to figure it out for yourself, don't read any further.)
Yes .. Childes is the thing and MacReady knows it. Explanation:
Steam is coming out of MacReady's mouth, but not Childs'. MacReady comes up with a "test" - he offers Childs a bottle. The real Childs wouldn't drink because he doesn't trust MacReady (it could be contaminated), but the Thing happily accepts the bottle and immediately contaminates it. MacReady realizes this and just smiles. He's alone here, amidst the burning wreckage; he'll freeze soon, and his only companion is the Thing.
If you are able to make it through The Thing, you can make it through any thing.
I see what you did there lol, but yes I hope that's true I don't see how it could get worse lol.
I don't know, The Exorcist and The Conjuring are pretty intense.
I loved your reaction to this film! Kenny I think you owe Lindsey a nice dinner putting her through this!😂😂 I recommend Black Phone and Misery!
Keith David young- “They Live” plays along side of 80’s wrestler Rowdy Rodney Piper
Whaaaat I gotta check that out - Kenny
Them: Nothing bad should happen to the dog...
Me: lol... oh just wait.
This movie has the best, most disgusting and disturbing practical effects. Happy you survived 😂😂🔥🔥
This was a very fun and relatable reaction to this movie. I felt like I was reliving my first time watching! Definitely looking forward to more movie reactions. Not sure what you all have seen already, but I recommend the usuals; Jaws, Jurassic Park, Alien, Halloween, etc. However, if you like suspense and want something outside of the horror realm, Primal Fear and Seven are great choices.