FIRST TIME WATCHING | The Thing (1982) | Movie Reaction | WHAT THE F#&$!!!
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- The Mrs. watches John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) for the First Time. Here's her Reaction.
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"The generators gone"
"Anyway we can fix it"
"It's GONE MacReady!"
One of my favorite parts.
The practical effects guy should have got a lifetime achievement award just for this one film.
Rob Bottin did a great job!
Rob botin has gotten several because of this movie and a couple others .
That's what they said when they bestowed such awards.
Rob Bottin is VFX Mt. Rushmore
17:34...mate you're smart. A lot of reactors just think Blair's lost it. You're one of a tiny group who understand he's a hero and is willing to sacrifice himself (& the rest) for humanity's sake. This is why you two are amongst my favourite reactors. Love you both 🥰🥰🥰
Yeah but, it's not actually the case. That's what you are led to believe, but Blair was already assimilated by then. He was doing it to isolate everyone so that they couldn't warn anyone. That way, he could escape in his craft and get to civilization. That's why he destroyed the chopper and other vehicles. That way no one would notice parts missing. Blair was most definitely the first to get got, it was just off screen, before silhouette guy got hit. There's no way he'd have enough time to do all he did of he got assimilated after he got locked up.
@@FilthTribeFTP It seems you’re basing this gigantic assumption off of the idea that Blair couldn’t possibly have built that spaceship if he was assimilated after he got locked up; but we have no idea how fast the thing can work, how complex or difficult to make the craft is, or how close he even was to completing it. Hell, how much time even passes between the original assimilation (which is fair to assume was the silhouette), and Blair getting locked up? A day? Is the time difference really that great that Blair building the ship after getting locked up is completely implausible, but him building it after the silhouette scene makes perfect sense? Also, if the idea is that he got the parts from the vehicles after he destroyed them, then surely he couldn’t have started building the ship until after he got locked up anyway. Maybe he got them a little earlier without anyone noticing, but they took a ride on the helicopter at least once way after the silhouettes scene, which means he would have had to take the parts after that, which makes the time difference even more irrelevant. I just don’t buy it.
Blair was the one to originally tell the crew what the creature was and how it’s biology functioned to begin with. If the reason why he didn’t want the crew to have the chopper was so that they couldn’t tell the world what it was or how to kill it, why did Blair bother explaining that to them in the first place? What’s the point of telling them how he works if that’s exactly what he doesn’t want them to know? I don’t know, man. The theory seems a bit flimsy, to me.
@@FilthTribeFTP If Blair was already infected, he would not try to kill any potential vector of contamination like Childs or Windows (why else kill dogs if not?) . The thing still had a chance to go by helicopter at this point in the movie so why would it destroy something that would force it to remain frozen for maybe a thousand more years? He was still a hero who understood the situation long before anyone else. Stop believing that it is one thing from the start because it is your logic that makes some scenes useless in the film if you think about it well. You think you are being subtle by falling into traps as big as yourself. Sorry, but Blair's behavior is evident from start to finish as is his suspicion of Clarck. The shadow of the beginning is Vance Norris. There is no debate on it. It is recognizable among all the others but cannot be recognized by a person seeing the film for the first time.
@@thesilencer8074 actually the shadow was intentionally obscured by Carpenter by having a random on set stand in so nobody would be able to tell.
@@mrskinszszs I dont think so. Look at the shadow, it's at 14:58 in the movie (sorry, i have a copy of this movie right now ^^, big fan). With this haircut, can you tell me who else could it be?
Ok the shadow does not help but we can see its outline perfectly. No one else has this haircut unless you can tell me who.
So as I said, at the first viewing, we don't know each protagonist and that's what Carpenter really counts on. But in the second, it is obvious.
I'm not a Superman, but details like that I don't miss in the movies. And the detail for this particular scene is huge on screen and takes almost 8 seconds on screen.
Maybe we can miss it on a cathode ray screen of the time but in the cinema, we had the same rendering as a digital version of our time. In cinema, films were and still are at a resolution equivalent to WQHD. It was the silver film that wanted that. FYI, I was a projectionist in cinema and even 4K in theaters is still today, a selling point for watching a film because not all of them are yet, far from it.
IIRC Blair was in the shed or three days. After they put him in there, they mention a storm will be hitting them in 16 hours. Later Mac says into the tape recorder that the storm has been hammering them for 48 hours. So, three days. Still not a lot of time to build even a mini space ship, but it was The Thing so it could have manifested a dozen sets of eys, hands and brains to all work at once.
Also, from other sources, we know The Thing needs no rest, doesn't get fatigued or tired. 72 hours when they're all 72 productive work hours with no distractions of human nature, you can accomplish a lot...look at insects and you can see what extreme industriousness + discipline can accomplish in a short time. Bees are this way. It's not a hive of hundreds of thousands, it's one single super-organism with hundreds of thousands of independent parts.
makes me wonder if he was turned from the start, or just a human who later changed sides. He smashed the vehicles, but was it to save humanity? or just for the parts, which he used later.
“You gotta be fucking kidding”........greatest line delivery of all time.
Aaaand a couple of scenes later we learn that Palmer was himself a Thing and was apparently just trying to deflect suspicion by backstabbing a fellow Thing. But it may be noted that he doesn't say those words before another person has also seen the escaping spider-head so that its survival was compromised anyhow.
One of my favorite lines in the movie, and most reactors either exclude it or don't react to it in any mensurable way.
Palmer is hilarious in general
My favorite line is "Blair, I'd like you to start an autopsy".
"Yeah, Fuck You Too" is not so bad i think ^^.
It's so refreshing to see someone who didn't automatically start defending and feeling sorry for the dog. When I first saw this I was the same way, "Why are they trying so hard to kill the dog, there must be a reason?". I knew something was up with that dog.
yes, there's a lot of value in logic over emotions at times
Of course....when you watch the prequel with Mary Elizabeth Winstead, you know about the dog's fate.
Followed by me asking "Why is this dog acting so f-ing WEIRD?! Look at it, it's standing stock still, staring at...you."
9:50...the dog's called Jed and he's probably the greatest dog actor in the history of Hollywood. It's a tragedy that he never won an Oscar for this performance (or whatever the doggy equivalent is..?)
He's actually half Malamute and half Wolf and the handler warned the cast and crew that if the animal just stops suddenly and just stares at you then you just freeze too and not make any sudden movements.
@@Acme1970 seems like good advice.
The doggy equivalent would probably be lots of treats and belly rubs
@@flyingpaladin617 sounds quite good for humans too. 😋
Jed and Jones from Alien. Best animal actors.
She didn't flinched at the blood test scene. I'm gonna need a few minutes to process that 😲
That surprised me too. All those Friday the 13th Jumpscares numbed her to that. I think she noticed the fake hand and was ready for it.
@@YouMeTheMovies Fake hand?
@@SStupendous yeah the fake hand hold the dish for the monster to jump out of.
@@YouMeTheMovies So Kurt Russell isn't actually holding it then?
@@SStupendous nope. Just try to imagine how they’d do the practical special effect. It’s a fake hand with a puppet underneath to pop out.
I loved her reactions to the dog. "somethin's with the dog...." THAT DOG STILL SCARES THE SHIT OUTTA ME. They did SUCH a good job training it to act right. The doggo deserved an Oscar.
Surely the trainer deserves the oscar?
@@Cheepchipsable eh, a blue ribbon so they don’t feel left out ;)
That dog was fantastic, huskies are smart doggos
One of the dogs in the movie was a robotic dog. But I'm not sure which scenes it was used in.
Dog, act absolutely and completely non-dog like...yeah JUST like that!
3:25 -- for those of you who scandalously have never studied Norwegian: "It's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! Get away, you idiots!" Yeah, us Norwegians are always hopelessly spoiled when we watch this movie.
To be fair, I think most people assume something is up with the dog the in your first watch. In real life we'd reasonably assume the guy is nuts but with a movie we know twists are coming.
I only ever get the last sentence. Because in german you would say "Kommt da weg, Idioten!" and that is very close in sound to whatever the norwegian phrase is.
1/2 of the plot is explained in that line. Carpenter bet (correctly) no american movie goer would understand Norwegian 😀 .
@@Quotenwagnerianer He says, "Kom dere vekk, idioter." Literally "Get yourselves away, idiots", or in better English, "Get away, you idiots!"
John Carpenter's: The Thing and Pulp Fiction are the ones fighting on the top of my favorite movie list. Different kind of movies, but they all have some great in common: great story and top notch acting. I can watch both movies anytime, anyday, forever. Btw, the "Cheating B*tch." scene is the first rage quit caught on film. ;P
Pulp Fiction is a joke. Another one of Tarantino's live action Road Runner cartoons.
What? Are you kidding? It's called pulp fiction. You do realise that the 5 cent novels he was trying to pay homage to were known for outrageous story's and things you wouldn't normally find in a book by a "prestigious" publisher. I'm not saying I have any issue with the content, but it's needs to be taken with a grain of salt and not so seriously.
Cheers
"He's like a young Kurt Russell." Boy, do I have some news for you 🦄
We shapeshifters can be very productive. When alone In the shed, the Thing person could have had 20 arms and bone hard hammer hands, which would allow it to build things very quickly.
Never seen someone say this before good observation 👍
That's a really good point. Never thought of that.
But when it transforms, it doesn't change back. Splitface couldn't turn back into a human, it could've just turned back to its human self and left outpost 31 in a chopper, Jed, Norris, palmer, Blair, once Gary was assimilated by face, that's it. They dont change back. It's a big misconception that the thing can do all these mad tentacle things whilst human and change back, we never have that explained. When once exposed, that's it. It hides. It doesn't transform until threatened and when it does, that's it. It slowly infects, we know it only attacks violently when exposed. Splitface acted aggressively because it was dying, that's all they had to go on, mac thinks it attacks you. It doesnt, only when exposed, it infects you, blair wrote his notes and Fuchs summed it up that quite possible small infection is enough. The dog didnt thing out on Norris and turn back into a dog, the thing cant do that, it simply infected him. Most likely covered him in drool, quietly. Hiding.
Ok hats off to you for sitting through this one. One of the best sci-fi creature films ever created and very high on my top 10 List. Great selection!
Glad you enjoyed it!
One of the best horror/thriller movies. The tension is tangible and the atmosphere is CHILLNG! A timeless classic! I love it!
I personally think that Childs is a thing by the end. Childs was unable to trust other people at all. He didn't trust Mack.
Childs thought Mack was a Thing. Another thing is that this movie was made before the theory about jewelry began.
It's also safe to note that childs is wearing the missing coat from the hall at the end of the movie that you see him wearing at the very end.
Things shred all their clothes and childs is not wearing the same clothes.
That other dog be like I didn’t sign up for this!!😄 10:36
This is for the Mrs.
There was an alternate ending shot where Kurt Russell's character Macready is rescued and given a blood test that proves he is not infected. Carpenter preferred the more ambiguous ending and ultimately got to retain it even though the studio initially thought it would be too bleak.
One of my all time favorite. Top 3 easily! I wanted to be like Kurt Russell when i was a kid. What a role model!
Blair wasn't trying to save humanity. He was trying to save ALL LIFE on Earth. Lol!!!
My first thought when I saw the dynamite was "don't blow it up, then you'll have a bunch more little ones to deal with! If a drop of blood can move on its own, those pieces probably can!" but I've never heard anyone else think so too!
8:44 god damn if I'm ever stuck in a horror movie event IRL you'd who I'd want in my team
every single point you're knocking it outta the park!
27:12 You are now the 6th person that figure out, Blair could not have built that ship while out in a locked shed. Not to mention no snow piles in the shed from digging. He was infect closely after the Dog autopsy, most likely used the snow cats/ machinery to get that hole done. Once he used the parts, nothing will work at the camp. All his taking apart the vehicles, and helicopter was to build the ship and keep anyone from blowing his cover.
There was a videogame released in 2002 that is meant to be a sequel to this movie, it was endorsed by John Carpenter. In the game a special forces team is sent to investigate the outposts and they find Childs dead from hypothermia but not MacReady. He later shows up and flies away in a helicopter with the lone survivor, the fact that he survived and didn't die from hypothermia like Childs leads me to believe he's infected.
Same at least for the game there's also a comic that flips it and Childs was the thing but he keeps Mac alive for insurance.
Fun fact. At the begining the Norwegian (Lars) tells in his language "get away! That dogs not a dog!"
How grossed out you were is a testament to just how good the practical effects are even to this day. Rob Bottin is the man.
John Carpenter is probably one of my favorite directors. Hammered out a bunch of bangers, then hung up the spurs before he lost his talent. Respect.
That no one can be trusted goes a little deeper than you think. It comes down to the Dogs themselves being unable to detect The Thing until it's too late. In horror flicks, usually dogs give an early warning, but here they don't.
More Kurt Russell recommends: Death Proof, Stargate, and Soldier
Soldier for sure
Soldier is a great movie, also maybe Kurt Russel most impressive role as he doesn't talk very much and puts everything in facial expressions.
Soldier and Stargate, yes.
Escape from New York and Big Trouble
His best films besides this are definitely Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China and Tango and Cash
Childs was a thing. That bottle was likely a Molotov cocktail he made to burn the thing:
Blair was turned the night that Fuchs killed himself. The transformation takes an hour or less at most.
Also Blair could have worked on the ship for hours without sleep and he likely didn’t even know how it works because the thing imitates, it does not need to understand how complex equipment works. So the ship was an imitation of the old ship but likely he understood that he had no way to make it work, that humans were too primitive to have spaceship technology.
Out of all y'all's reactions this one is the best, it really got her 😆👊
John Carpenter said he knows who's The Thing at the end but he also said he'll never say.
Your wife is an impressive woman. She's way too plot smart. The goal should be to find movies she'll be lost watching. Tenet and Mulholland Drive.
Throw The Prestige on this list. By far my favorite Nolan film
LA Confidential maybe
Memento and Primer.
@@means_well yes pls!..
The game
crazy how the guy who made the very subtle halloween made this straight up insane movie
I love how the Thing uses and reuses previously-established shapes whenever it transforms into something monstrous.
A flower mouth made of tongues and teeth. Multiple hairless dog heads. Several human arms. Tentacles that look like intestines.
It literally sees us (humans and the dogs) as an arrangement of parts it can apply like templates to new tasks. It has a radically alien perspective depicted with familiar pieces
Contains my favourite line in a movie "Whatever it is, it's weird and pissed off!"
I always liked "I don't want to be tied to this couch all fucking winter!"
"I don't know what the hell's in there? But it's weird and pissed off whatever it is." And, "I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
Eerie that this Reaction should get uploaded when this month, an article was uploaded about a Tiny creature that survived 24,000 years frozen in some Permafrost in Siberia.
Kurt Russel may have the beard, but your husband’s mustache just kills. Awesome mustache
The thing survive cause if you pay attention to details is when Kurt and the other at the end after the thing blew up and they sit outside you can see Kurt's foggy breathe but when the second guy showed up and shared a drink with him you can't see his breathe even as he does a big exhale after taking a swing of the drink cause the thing doesn't need to breathe.
A masterpiece of acting, writing & atmosphere. The paranoia in this movie is second to none. The Thing was a critical failure in 82, utterly crazy. I am glad this movie is now viewed as the masterpiece it truly
Is.
"I don't mind gore but.... this is gross!" 😂😂😂
Hi from the uk, loving these reaction videos especially the Friday the 13th ones. Keep up the good work 😄😄
Thank you! Will do!
They're both human at the end. Childs approaches McCready who's on the ground turned away from him. He has him dead to rights. If Child's is the Thing, he blows McCready to hell and wins. McCready can't be the Thing because of the events right after the explosion. The explosion happens and we see a man stumbling through the snow who's starting to succumb to the effects of extreme cold. We know that the Thing can survive in the extreme cold. It was buried in the ice for thousands of years and thawed out without any problems. If McCready was the Thing, that scene of a man stumbling through the snow would just have been a man casually walking.
The brilliance of the movie is the mistrust that the discovery of the Thing causes. It's a perfect plot device right up to the end of the movie. They've achieved a great victory they cannot possibly celebrate.
There was a long standing theory that suggested Childs was the Thing at the end. The evidence for this was the coat he's wearing at the end. There are slow moving camera shots in the movie of rooms and in one of these shots is a blue coat hanging on a hook. After the blood test scene, Childs is wearing this blue coat. The next time we see Childs he's wearing a grey/white coat. You have to remember, this was made in 1982, the setting/environment of the film is this dark encampment with very little light. Recently, the blu-ray version of this movie released and the video quality was remastered. In that version, you can clearly see the blue of the coat in parts where the snow/ice is not covering it. It's the same coat.
First reaction of this movie where I don't hear "Don't hurt the doggy, I like the doggy." You caught on almost immediately.
The who's infected question is kind of a mess and ultimately a dead end. It's like the "who's shadow is that" question (they deliberately used none of the cast members so there couldn't be a RIGHT answer). When asked in a phone in Q&A if Childs is an alien in the final scene, John Carpenter said "I know Mac is an alien. I don't know about Childs," but when ground to a halt with callers just asking for details, he broke down and said "I was just kidding! I don't know who's an alien. NOBODY does. That's the point." He then messed that up by endorsing the PS2 "The Thing" sequel video game as canon which showed that Childs was human and dead from hypothermia and ends with Mac suddenly appearing at the end to save you from the Thing. And then there was the comic book sequel which showed yet another completely different fate for the characters, and the less said about that the better.
I did like the comics though. Got a little silly with some of them though
"Burn each other. Light a fire… Jump in." Absolute gold. 👌🏻
I love the line "Do you hear we" when he saying to "watch Clark..."
Must of had a cold...lol!
Part of the reason this movie is a classic is the use of good practical effects. If they had used CGI I doubt it even be half as popular as it is.
To all intents and purposes, CGI (as we understand it today) didn't exist in 1982. "The Last Starfighter" had the best around when it came out, and you can tell the difference between the 'practical' and the 'digital' effects in it. Think about it ... *1982* means that this came out years before most of the YT reactors, who are doing movies, were even born!
@@ephennell4ever Yeah...if the 1982 film had used CG effects, it DEFINITELY wouldn't hold up today. 1982 did have two films to use CGI, which were Tron and Star Trek II, but in both cases it was depicting what were actually supposed to be computer graphics. Last Starfighter was the first time they used CG to represent what were meant to be real objects.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks I seem to remember the prequel used practical effects, but then they decided to add CGI effects on top for some reason. Not have a mix of practical/CGI, but literally cover up the practical effects with CGI.
There's a movie from 1972 which is somewhat similar to The Thing. The movie in question is Horror Express. It stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Telly Savalas. It's one of my favourite movies and hopefully one day you'll both get to watch it. Great reaction 👏👍. Trevor from East London, UK.
I remember seeing Horror Express as a child, it's been a long time and I don't remember a lot of the details, now I want to check it out again👍
Bedsides ALIEN, this is the best Sci-fi Horror film ever made. Saw this film on July 4th 2002, on the Encore Action Channel and it scares the hell out of my family and I! It's impressive and the special effects still hold up to this day.
Props to the performance by the legendary Wilford Brimley as Blair
Another thing about the visibility there: On sunny days, the light reflecting off the snow can damage your eyes, causing 'snow blindness.' It's important to wear sunglasses outside.
Also, depending on their location, day or night can last for months, so it's hard to guess just how long they lived in this situation. It seemed like a few days, but it could indeed have been much longer.
I think Blair got contaminated when he stuck the pencil he was using as an autopsy probe into his mouth thoughtfully...but it took a long time to consume him from within. He was aware or suspicious that he was being consumed, when he 'went nuts,' got locked away, and tried to kill himself (via noose) before it was complete...but the Thing took him over, and began its tunneling & building.
Another theory I like is John Carpenter has said you can tell who a thing is because they don't have a light in their eyes, and Childs didn't have much light reflection in his eyes at the end, despite the raging fire, another theory is that when Macready handed the bottle to Childs it was actually Kerosene or fuel from the machines, and when Childs didn't flinch or say what the hell is that when he took a sip, because a thing wouldn't know what alcohol tastes like it shows he was a thing. Also after many times rewatching, I feel pretty confident that the silhouette was in fact Norris, the one who had the heart attack.
Love seeing people react to the amazing/disgusting practical effects.
You can, by the way, see Childs' breath in the final scene, even though everyone says you can't. It's just less obvious due to the lighting angles.
Plus the fact, you could see the breath of "The Thing" when it was imitating Bennings.
This John Carpenter classic is a masterful exercise in paranoia and practical effects!
I discovered "The Thing" during my junior high school
years on VHS when going through a Carpenter phase.
Originally a 1938 pulp novella written by John W. Campbell called "Who Goes There?", the story was first adapted to film as a 1951 Howard Hawks production called "The Thing From Another World". A '50's-era sci-fi classic in its own right, the original was taken to a whole new level by John Carpenter abetted by the incredible practical effects wizardry of Rob Bottin. A prequel was made in 2011 chronicling what happened at the Norwegian base but wasn't nearly as good.
Led by a world-weary Kurt Russell, Carpenter assembled a cast of terrific veteran character actors including Keith David, Richard Dysart, Wilford Brimley, David Clennon, Charles Hallahan, Donald Moffat and Richard Masur who believably inhabit their roles and ratchet up the tension by degrees. Carpenter would direct Russell in five films including "Elvis", "The Thing", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Escape From New York" and "Escape From LA". He would direct Keith David again in "They Live!"
John Carpenter is a one-man band who writes, directs, edits and scores all his films. In a rare exception, the score for "The Thing" was provided by composing great Ennio Morricone. Carpenter's body of work includes a number of pulpy classics and B-movie greats like "Assault on Precinct 13", "Halloween", "Someone's Watching Me!", "The Fog", "Escape From New York", "The Thing", "Christine", "Starman", "They Live!", "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", "Body Bags", "In the Mouth of Madness", "Vampires" and "The Ward". His first film, "Dark Star", was a sci-fi horror-comedy that partially inspired "Alien"! He also wrote the screenplay for "The Eyes of Laura Mars". His scores are instantly recognizable with their throbbing notes and he expertly uses silence and stillness to generate unbearable tension.
Wilford Brimley's Blair sabotaged the vehicles after making the discovery that there was a high probability of someone being infected and seeing the grim projection that three years would be all it would take for the Thing to spread over the Earth! He was determined to trap them there which is the same realization Macready comes to at the end. He's taken to the shack a human but, the second time they check on him, he's probably a Thing because his demeanor is so calm. The funny noises he says he was hearing must've gotten to him before he could avail himself of the noose he fashioned as an escape from its clutches! As a Thing, he was building a craft under the shed to travel to the mainland.
My favorite non-horror moment in "The Thing" is Donald Moffat's slow-burning explosive outburst while tied to the couch. "I know you gentlemen have been through a lot but, when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS F**KING COUCH!" It gets me every time.
The ambiguous ending leaves you with four possible outcomes and they're all bleak. Lol.
The best case scenario is that both Childs and Mac are human, the Thing was destroyed and the survivors die of hypothermia.
The other three options are that one or the other or both survivors are Things who will copy the remaining human and the rescue party as well eventually dominating the Earth.
There is a popular fan theory that Things lack eye gleam and Childs doesn't have it in that last scene. It could also be a trick of light.
There is another popular fan theory that claims Mac tests Childs by giving him a flask of kerosene instead of liquor which Childs consumes! Mac chuckles with fatalistic resignation realizing he has failed and humanity is doomed. That is, unless, he has a spare stick of dynamite he can use to blow himself up along with a now very flammable Childs! Lol.
The only sequels exist as a series of Dark Horse comics and a video game featuring John Carpenter himself as a Dr. Faraday!
If the Thing drank kerosene it would react as a human would as its a near perfect copy. Another flaw of that is if Child's was he should have just toasted Mac just to make sure his frozen corpse is taken back in the spring.
I heard at the end, Childs was the Thing because you didn't see his breath
There is a videogame that continue the story. In the videogame childs was not infected and the body of Mcready was not found.
I do love this film. I expect Norris (the late Charles Hallahan) went into cinematic folklore for that defibrillator sequence.
That and the initial dog face splitting scenes are the best scenes. Not just a jump scare, but REALLY giving you something to be scared of!
There is an unofficial sequel called The Thing Returns done by an independent film studio. But, John Carpenter has been talking as recently as June 2023 about making a true sequel to The Thing saying he wants to clear up the speculation mystery once and for all now that over 40 years has elapsed.
“Ewwww . What are those?!”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The perfect quote to sum up this movie
I like to watch Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing, back-to-back. The two films are so similar, thematically, that it's easy to imagine them as part of the same universe.
The creature in the original version of The Thing, (played by James Arness) was a plant-like alien which had assumed humanoid form. The Body Snatchers copied humans inside plant-like pods.
Maybe, one of the Body Snatchers made it aboard the alien spaceship and turned the pilot into The Thing? Probably not, but it's fun to think about.
Invasion is on our list to watch. They do make great companions
The remake of body snatchers with Meg Tilly is good too.
I did a lot of extra work in the eighties. John Carpenter is one chill dude.
Guys 11k in less than a day proud of you guys !
Thanks. Happy to see so many people are enjoying The Thing. It's one of my Top 5 favorite films!
That line of questioning at the end, the weird way they were talking, I think Child’s was the thing.
Great show! I'm a huge fan of The Thing and still remember when I went to the theater to see it opening night in August '82. I absolutely loved it and went back twice to see it again. Sadly, I brought my then girlfriend, to see it....big mistake. She hated it so much, that after 3 years of going together........she dumped me. If the movie caused it to happen, then I have to thank John Carpenter, he saved my life. Anyway, I find it amazing how this film never gets old. The practical effects are still amazing to this day. My nephew watched the 4K version of this film at my place a couple of years ago and he loved it. He found it hard to believe that the effects were not CGI (not at that time). I said, if you want, we can watch the prequel of The Thing and, you will see how both movies are different, one with practical effects and the other with CGI. Huge difference, man. After watching it, he was really disappointed in the prequel. In ending, let me point out, that I believe that McCready and Childs were both human at the end. Also, I know an alternate ending was written, where both characters are rescued at the end. Actually, I believe in the comic book versions of this movie, the story continues with that ending. Oh, more more thing, (get it?) I actually owned The Thing computer game on Windows 95, back in the 90's. Great game, except, there are several levels to reach, and I only could reach 2. Man, how I wish they would release a new version of that game. Sorry I went on and on, but, I really enjoy talking about The Thing. Love your movie site....take care.
This and Alien are how to make a Sci-fi horror
The scoring trio power of Ennio Morricone, John Carpenter & Alan Howarth.
My favorite movie ever and I love this channel. Her reactions are great and so is your poker face
hard to believe a 19 year old made those effects that in my book, are still the greatest practical effects put on film to date (not all of them, of course, but some of them like the head separating from the body and and slithering away, were amazing)
in the end it's a monster movie where the horror comes not from the monster but from the hopelessness of he situation, the paranoia of whom to trust
Wow, the age of the special effects creator seems to range from 19 to 23 - I wish "fans" would get their stories straight.
@@Cheepchipsable like that is even remotely relevant... point is, a guy that young shouldn't be that skilled that 40 years later the effects still outshine much of cgi that cost hundreds of millions
Can’t ask for a better way to start your Monday then with another you, me, & the movies reaction especially on this classic movie always one of my favourites as well.
Here's a clue: Child's isn't breathing throughout the last talk with Macready.
Neither MacReady nor Childs were the Thing. There's a video game that picks up where the movie left off. You play as a soldier that's apart of a group that is sent to the base to check it out. You find Childs's body, having frozen to death, but MacReady is nowhere to be seen. This leads you to believe MacReady was the Thing, but at the end of the game, MacReady shows up and helps you kill the Thing, proving that he wasn't the Thing either.
"Like an earth worm" what? Earth worms completely take over organic beings at a molecular level?
I think Blair got infected immediately after he was locked in the shed -- and perhaps multiple Things helped make the puddle-jumper-craft.
"Is that supposed to be a wolf? Looks like a regular Huskie to me."
Fun fact! The dog-actor in question was named Jed, and he played in several other movies! He was actually half-Huskie and half-wolf. I think he died at around 18 years of age, which is an impressive age for any dog!
He wasn’t a husky, he was an Alaskan Malamute.
For Sci Fi/Horror this film is top 3 all time, IMO.
There's also another huge fan theory out there that childs is the THING because before the power goes out he was seen wearing a blue jacket but when he returns at the end of the film he's wearing a white jacket which indicates that the thing had torn through his clothes. Also is when MacReady is passing the drink to childs MacReady had actually filled the drink with gasoline and torched child's after the movie face to Black at the end credits. Which is also the reason why MacReady smiling at the end because he was testing Childs
First, THANK YOU for not being one of those reactors who are constantly saying, "Poor dog" and expressing sympathy for the dog right up until it's revealed to be a Thing!
Second, McReady wasn't a murderer when he shot Clark. Clark was about to stab him with the scalpel. Self-defense.
Third, I never caught that Childs still had his earring in at the end. Interesting. Did the Thing know he needed to have it to show others he was "human", or was he actually human?
Most people zero in on the visible breath that McReady was exhaling and Childs' was non-existent or very little. But Childs said the temperature was up all over camp. So, would there be that amount of water vapor from McReady?
Interesting, and fun movie. And the practical effects still stand up.
The Blair-Thing was building not a spaceship but a craft to move into inhabited area of Earth. Because what spaceship can you build out of helicopter parts?
John Carpenter Masterpiece
I watched this movie for the first time when I was about nine years old and home alone at night. My mom had to work 3rd shift and couldn't find a baby sitter. First thing I did was start looking for dirty or scary movies on cable. Then I found this! I also watched Alien for the first time that night. Let's just say I was afraid of the dark for a while after that.
what lackadaisical parents you must have had, since this is an R rated movie.
-"Look at that beard too"
-"Thank you"
Adorable 😂
"Why are they trying to kill this dog?"
Why indeed...
there's a movie they should have: Predator vs the Thing
I asked myself that same question too I thought at first because they were hungry but I found out why there's a 2011 version of The Thing which is a prequel and you find out why they're after the dog
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@@jowbloe3673 that… that would be cool.
At the end, when it’s just the two of them left. With Mac, you can see his breath in the cold. You can’t see the breath of Childs. They show a lot of close up shots of Mac’s cold breath to give you a clue that it’s cold and that you can see his breath and that you should be able to see Childs’ breath, but you can’t. (Cue the best dramatic music ever written… dum-dum, dum-dum).
"I wish they'd give us a better look at it." Don't worry, you will get plenty of good looks in before the movie's over!
Fun Fact:
Everyone forgets in the beginning of the movie the sign saying Station 4 for the American camp and yet MacReady says Station 31 when making his recorded tape.
This movie traumatized me when I was a Kid...
22:50 lol I was looking for the best moment so I decided to go with this one
22:15 I fucking love his facial expression
I’ve seen this movie 100s of times. Still gets me with those special effects
best speculation is at the very end..... you can see McGreedy's Breathe exhale , and you can't see Childs' breath.....
Trivia: John Carpenter did not want it to obvious who the first one "taken" was. So he used a crewmember to provide the shadow.
Unfortunately for Carpenter, the crewmember cast a shadow that looks very much like the shadow that the most likely first one "taken" would cast.......
There is a whole video that points out stuff that u may have missed in the movie that gives clues to who is the thing. One point made is that childs hates mcgriddy the whole movie but then at the end scene hes totally cool with him.. so that may be a sign he's the thing..
Child’s didn’t have a breath fog in the cold air like mcreedy did. I didn’t think the whole “can’t duplicate metal” thing was canon until the prequel. That was a key plot point in that movie. My money is on child’s being infected because he was mysteriously absent for a good portion of the last part of the movie.
10:14, now we know why they wanted to kill the dog: it's THE THING. Also this sequence was done by Stan Winston Studios.
Still one of the greatest psychological horror movies ever filmed. Fear and paranoia
I wouldn't call it that. There was actually something to be afraid of, so it's not psychological, and the fear of that is what ramps up the tension.
@@Cheepchipsable it's psychological because they don't know who's been infected sparky
Stan Winston was part of the special effects team on this film. After this he would work on films such as The Terminator and Jurassic Park.
A true masterpiece from John Carpenter
Encino Man! :D
Another speculation about mcgreadys chuckle was that he replaced the whiskey with gas and childs drank it and gave no obvious reaction that he drank fuel.