I just realized that McCready refers the the other scientific team as "Norwegians" and Not "Swedes" as He had been joking earlier in the film meaning He's taking this whole situation a lot more seriously.
It's brilliant that we never really see the alien's natural state. It's been planet hopping, absorbing and destroying everything it contacts for who knows how long. The horror, paranoia, dread and sense of the apocalyptic in this film are dazzling. Carpenter's masterpiece.
This isn't the 'thing's spacecraft, you oaf. The Thing was onboard this craft and likely assimilated the aliens on board, which is what caused this spacecraft to crash on Earth in the first place. The opening scene is literally the saucer flying out of control, highly suggestive that the 'thing' was assimilating and causing havoc to the aliens that were piloting/onboard this spacecraft
@@rossroys The Thing killed the original crew.. that's how the ship crashed landed to earth 200,000 years ago 😅 The Aliens eventually captured it and it'd broken free from it's imprisonment and attacked the crew 😂
He was indeed the thing, and sense the thing assimilate the memories of its victims the Norris-Thing probably flashback when he was one of the alien pilots and thought to himself, yep, we never made it home. My theory I guess
What I like most about this scene is that Norris is already infected. So in fact, it’s the alien who says that the ship has been buried for at least 100.000 years under the ice.
Using the knowledge of Norris's mind and the other Norwegians to make a better guess. Doesn't even react when it comes across the spot it froze in for all those years.
The way they got the sunlight to pass over the matte painting of the ship was an extra mile they didn’t have to go, but they did it anyway. This film is a work of art.
One question that still Burns in my mind is if that is the actual ship from the Thing's species, or is it the ship belonging to another species that it absorbed before it landed on Earth?
@@Cyrax4d Yes, it may well be the case that the pilot was infected. Superficially at least, one can certainly draw that conclusion. Nevertheless, we can't be absolutely sure since it isn't made clear to the viewer, therefore it's ambiguous in nature. For all we know, the pilot may have had the equivalent of a heart attack or seizure, whilst The Thing was merely a biological specimen that had been collected and stored aboard the ship....then it got an unexpected opportunity to escape after the crash. Alternatively, The Thing may simply have been piloting its own craft...but a malfunction suddenly developed and it had to crash-land on Earth. There are many potential explanations that one could theorise, but the answer will always remain the same: *we don't know.*
I like to think the Thing was a type of parasite that gains a bit of intelligence from its host and infected the intelligent alien crew when they explored some planet. Possibly the Thing commandeered the saucer and knew about life being on Earth, therefore crashing it on Earth in a failed attempt to land here.
1982. Brings back good memories. I saw the movie being listed in the local paper. ( they did that back then) Didn't know what to expect. Stood outside the theatre in 20 below with a friend and smoked a couple of reefers. Was just blown away by the special effects. Very new and special back then. Kurt Russell and the rest of the cast were just awesome. Great movie. I loved the eighties.
Google search Apollo 20 mission to the moon to investigate a crashed spacecraft replete with dead female priestess. I say priestess because her 3rd eye is very prominent. Here is her backstory. She is a member of the MU society located in the Gobi Desert.There was a conflict with the Atlanteans/ Pleadians.They initiated a sneak attack against MU but some of their spacecraft escaped in time.1 of the MU spacecraft were damaged by the shockwave 11.4k yearsago. .1 crashed into the moon and the other is tumbling thru our solar system=Omuamua.Ya NASA has done this before-salvage crashed spacecraft. The refugees of MU migrated to the Tibetean plateau focusing on their spiritual practices to atone for this heinous act of destruction. The Pleadians dispersed to America-The Yucatan-Patagonia and Egypt.The remains of Atlantis can be found in 2k feet of water off the coast of Cuba. Finally Google search Pleadian contactee Billy Meiers material with a narrative by Randolf Winters...hit the video.
This movie is the epitome of what a good science fiction movie should be. From the story, script, actors, direction, suspense, special effects, etc., it had everything.
I agree but you gotta admit this was a hell of a story. HP Lovecraft would've loved this movie and pigged out on Popcorn and Soda like the rest of us. Lol
The thing that I found bone chilling is that the ship looks like a drawing here. Yet the characters are seen walking around and on it. I'm impressed by that kind of effect!
I believe alien movies used this trick too. But funniest thing is that even halo2 on original xbox used painting backgrounds, common in early video games.
@dxhangover They aren't looking at a greenscreen. The set exists normally, and you have stuff near the camera of which the matte painting is literally painted on; it is all set up such that the perspective illusion makes it seem like the matte painting is the background, whilst it is really super close to the camera, and the people on set are further away, but look closer. You don't use greenscreen anywhere to do this effect.
@@humanafterallTF2 Matte paintings, while similar, are way different than a painted background in video games. And virtually all video games have 'painted backgrounds,' even to this day. Do you not know what a 'skybox' is? Basically the same thing
Just realised until now that Copper has a piercing on his right nostril, and wears it all the way up to his death. If he was the thing, then it wouldn’t have been able to replicate the metal ring and would have discarded it. Little details like that is why I love the movie.
Well, the inorganic material thing was established in the prequel, so technically, it doesn't necessarily apply here. Although this movie does make clear that a Thing creature does need to find clothes because it can't make some out of its own body, an earring isn't that hard for an assimilated life-form to pick up after being infected and putting back in for the sake of the disguise. Fillings, on the other hand, are different because you can't just take them out or put them in at will like you can with the earring.
@@warrioroflight6872 I don't think the thing would have fitted the earing itself. It's very difficult even with a mirror and there would be no piercing tool. It's possible that another thing could have done it for him though. Then there's always the question about needle phobias. Things were quite prone to that I understand. They didn't like spiders either.
When I first saw this movie back in the 80s, I had no idea what was coming. I was shocked . It was a thrill too. The special effects were amazing. Good acting too.
I can just imagine them getting back to the base. "What did the insides look like?" "We didn't go inside." "Couldn't you find a hatch?" "No, there was a hatch, and it was open, we just didn't go inside." "WTF?"
They didn't go inside, because it had been blown up when the Swedes found it. They went inside and what they saw caused them to want to blow it up. Then, they found the thing buried outside the ship frozen and they took it back and after killing most of the swedes, the thing became a dog to escape and find more people.
You're telling me you'd come across an ancient alien spacecraft and walk willy nilly into it? Something that has to be indestructible to our standards since it's capable of interstellar travel, and is far beyond our knowledge despite it being probably older than our species. I'd just assume whatever is in and on there isn't designed for me, and could lead me to getting killed or worse just approaching it.
Whitlock is as good as it gets. So much of his work is invisible or taken as real life. He strove for realism but also atmosphere. He did awesome work with Hitchcock -- and Mel Brooks. And not just on Brooks' Hitchcock parody either. Some commenters seem to think he worked on STAR TREK TMP. He didn't, of course.
I'm such a geek I think about the Thing universe, and if it crashed into Antarctica, The safest thing to do is nuke Antarctica, even if The world floods it would be the only option, it would only take one cell getting exposed to the outside world, before everything is fucked, and also how many other worlds has the Thing assimilated, is it still present on multiple worlds?
Brilliant storyline....carpenter smashes the boundaries of time and space with an alien craft that’s ancient,yet way ahead of our time in tech terms. And an alien that’s hardly subject to time at all...still very much alive after all this time. 100,000 years old at least!...so it could be well over a quarter of a million for its suggestiveness.
Ennio Morricone music here is enough to give nightmares to anybody for a few nights. This movie could have ended right there, and yet be nearly as effective.
He's remembering the good ole days when he brutally assimilated the original alien pilots and made them crash land on Earth thousands of years ago. 😂😂😂
MacReady isthe pilot. Also, it would not be in the thing's best interest to crash the helicopter if its goal is to assimilate everyone and then assimilate the rescue crews.
The Thing will always be my personal favorite and one of the best Sci-Fi horror monster movies ever made. My favorite scene where they discovered The Thing's spaceship.
It make sense that they didn’t go inside at that particular moment, for Pete sakes this alien craft have been in the ice for thousands of years, God only knows what is awaiting them inside there.
"Well, the backscatter effect's been bringing things up from way down around here for a long time. I'd say... I'd say the ice it's buried in is 100,000 years old, at least." "And those Norwegians blew it up..."
If we saw the interior of the spaceship we would have essentially had an idea as to how the creature "truly" is, rather than it being ambiguous. For all intents and purposes it is perfect in how we didn't see it. Because for all we know, the spaceship is _not_ the "original" parasites vehicle, only something that it assimilated and ended up crashing on world. The Thing is akin to not just a space parasite but a space cancer. Imagine something so alien that its alien to other aliens (who are beyond us intellectually on a massive scale). It would just undermine everything and make it a gimmick, something the sequel failed to realize and cheapened the whole aspect of what the Thing even was. It wasn't for us to know, nor for us to care, only to be feared.
They were going to explore more of the ship in the prequel, have the concept be like the Norwegian camp but in space. And the alien pilots would have collected different life forms, Xenomorphs, The Thing, etc.
@@Obe_Qwaet Excellent comment. I like this interpretation that the craft is not even a ship made by the parasite. Though isn't there a scene where one of the men who have been infected is building a ship? 🤔 That kind of ruins that idea.
In hindsight, upon discovering the UFO wreckage, if I was Mac I'd fly to next closest camp and be transmitting on the radio constantly trying to get a hold of someone. Given you'd already found the camp destroyed, dead crew, and the situation with the dog, it is vitally important to start talking anyway possible. This would be something I'd discussed with our own camp first. If we find something of significance, given our lack of radio comms, we will continue onward to nearest reachable site and report our findings to begin spreading word. I think the Norwegians mistake was they tried to keep their find too quiet. Not faulting the movie, just what I would do today.
James Frank - I think Windows said that there wasn’t another camp for a thousand miles, which is beyond the range of a helicopter. Windows was also transmitting night and day trying to reach someone. This movie did a pretty good job of limiting the options of the station. It also limited the options of The Thing - at least for a while.
Imagine the consequences : every country would want to get a grasp of the find of the millenium. They would NOT listen to warnings, collect samples, making it easier for the Thing to infect the whole wide world. Actually, if it was only for the Thing itself, maybe Humanity would have a tiny chance of survival : quarantined in Antarctica, condemned to freeze in a state of eternal hibernation, the organism could (probably) never leave the continent. But if you take human greed into account, you know we're doomed. From the moment the Thing was taken out of the ice, it had already won.
What happens when a "Thing" has assimilated a eco system/world? Does everything look normal, like imitation animals living out the originals lives? Or is there a reason to hide?
@Finn MacCool And how do you *know* that "everything dies"? Do you have irrefutable proof, or did John Carpenter personally tell you? Don't present guesswork as some sort of 'fact' when it's nothing of the sort.
My guess is that “The Thing” evolved similar to how viruses evolved here, Needing hosts. Probably some poor alien race went to a half thingified planet and that’s how it started an interstellar war campaign.
@@gavriloprincipgaming7857 that's a very good assumption. This would make the movie concept even creepier, considering that the thing from outer space would a be an irrational entity driven by animal instincts, even when It struggle with alien technology. It's just applying schemes 💀
perhaps they look the same but have New habits and gadgets previously unknown. Perhaps they have cell phones and are constantly checking the either of the internet like its an oracle
I still wonder to this day is the thing artificially made by another species just like how the enigners made the xenomorphs or is it actually a natural born species?
It's not a UFO but more a ULO no? I mean Unidentified Lying Object. Don't get mad I'm kidding! ^^ Edit: Oh, I guessed! It's an Unidentified Frozen Object.
I thought it was such an awesome idea that the aliens flying the ship were transporting the Thing possibly to some penal colony but it escaped and took over the ship and caused the crash. Even other alien civilizations knew the danger of the Thing
The craziest part to me in this scene is the fact Macready was accompanied by both Norris and Palmer, both of them later revealed to be Things. Either Palmer wasn't replaced yet since Norris was very likely replaced by the Dog-Thing earlier or The Thing didn't feel the need to replace Mac yet. Either way, it makes an already tense scene even more creepy when you think about it.
When they see the size of the craft in the ice and they try to comprehend just what it means for them or the world....... That is one of my all time favourite movie scenes.
In the book „Who goes there?“ Blair is building an atomic-powered Anti-Gravity Device, nearly bringing it to perfection. Norris talks about the backscatter effect in the video: signals, waves and particles that travel back to its origin. They travel non-linear. An anti-gravity device would (in theory) be able to travel faster than light by contracting space in front and expanding space behind it. This means that such an object could appear „out of thin air“. For example in Antarctica, but people would think they discovered something that was buried there for thousands of years.
he reused it because Morricone couldn't do the score in the timeline Tarantino wanted. It was not an homage to kurt russell, it was because Morricone couldn't get it done...and it is soooo out of place in that movie.
One of the greatest, and scariest movies of all time, features one of the greatest and scariest movie monsters of all time. Yet here’s the scariest thing of it all. The Thing isn’t about a creature from outer space. The Thing is about the end of the world.
@@weirdshibainu that's because the ship the thing was on wasn't it's ship it was Another alien species ship that is why the ship crashed to earth an alien tried to escape the thing but it got assimilated and lost control of the ship that's why it crashed on Earth and that is why the alien ship is so big
They are very happy that they found the ship. Who is the other person that flies wirth MacReady and Norris? Maybe these are the three guys from the cover of the Soundtrack LP.
The brilliance of this film, the way Carpenter produced it, is that it will keep throwing up questions that have different answers depending on what you believe…
Keep this in mind that the Norwegians made the greatest scientific discovery inhuman history and the technology that they uncovered will keep the finest minds busy for decades 🚀
this is why the prequel makes no sense, the nor's had already blown up the saucer and it was exposed , the prequel shows it buried deep and still in working order , prequel was no good👎
I often wonder, is this movie a leaked story as a few have been? I heard for years of some "Thing" found in cold places; Alaska, and esp much about Antarctica where Admiral Byrd had an area cordoned off for years when he found something buried...is this it?
Genius scene, can not do something like this with CGI, just incredible. Movies like this will never happen again. A laugh that E.T. was so huge and this movie hardly did anything. I saw ET in the theater when I was about 12, I got up and walked out after 10 minutes it was so bad. Wish I would have seen this instead back then.
One plot hole I'd say this movie had is even after EVERYTHING they find, the destroyed base, the dead monsters, the block of ice that something came out of, the fucking ALIEN SPACECRAFT! not one of them..not a SINGLE one of them thinks back to why the Norwegians were chasing and trying to kill a stray dog from their camp. It NEVER crosses their minds after ALL this evidence what those Norwegians..who's base was found destroyed with dead aliens burned outside.....were doing chasing and shooting at a fucking dog. that would have been the FIRST thing I thought of given all this evidence. "after all this, why were they trying to kill a dog?"
I don't think it would have been necessary to have any of the characters point out that connection between the Norwegians trying to kill the dog after it tried to kill all of Americans' dogs
This scene actually proves Dog Thing infected Norris, not Palmer. They didn't study the ice core which is what is used to age ice not unlike the layers of earth for fossil excavations. Even for a geologist that's near impossible to do with ice with just a glance. They also found the location very fucking quickly on that map. Someone assimilated would've known where exactly even without the Norwegians. That's a slight red flag there. Palmer and Childs also share a joint a little later, and Childs is human during the bloodtest later after that. That means the dog infected Norris. This would explain the smile and the fact Norris knew how old it was just by looking. Its The Thing boasting about its survival skills. It would've assimilated Mac, but Blaire could've gone for the communications in the heli and warned the others. It played it safe
This version of The Thing I understand is closer to the book with the alien being shape-shifting rather than a defined humanoid as in the 1951 version, which I suppose at the time Hollywood decided would be more comprehensible to a 1951 audience. But I still enjoy the 1951 version the best, especially when I watched it repeatedly on local NY City TV station Channel 9 WOR's "Million Dollar Movie" as a young child, filmed in film noire black and white rather than color, which made it that much spookier and not dependent on fancy CGI and more on overall atmospherics, power of suggestion, cinematography, and good old dramatic tension. Side note that the alien monster was played by James Arness who went on to build an entire acting career synonymous with Marshal Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke."
Why didn't the Norris-thing absorb Mac or Doc on this little outing? He was alone and in close proximity with them. Unless he hadn't been infected yet. And as a side question: what's the significance of the light change/freezing at 2:44 of this clip?
I can only assume he doesn't assimilate Mac and the Doc during their outing due to the fact he doesn't have access to spare clothes to have them change into. The Norris thing only went with them to keep up with normal Norris activities.
I just realized that McCready refers the the other scientific team as "Norwegians" and Not "Swedes" as He had been joking earlier in the film meaning He's taking this whole situation a lot more seriously.
nice catch!
I'm going to catch " the thing" make a deal with it , to have comic books model statues and a record deal.
Or it's cause he didn't know and was corrected the first time.
@@MrBelles104 back in the day they teached geography in school, oh how things changed
@@Guitarninjaruy "Asking Americans to name another country"
It's brilliant that we never really see the alien's natural state. It's been planet hopping, absorbing and destroying everything it contacts for who knows how long. The horror, paranoia, dread and sense of the apocalyptic in this film are dazzling. Carpenter's masterpiece.
This isn't the 'thing's spacecraft, you oaf. The Thing was onboard this craft and likely assimilated the aliens on board, which is what caused this spacecraft to crash on Earth in the first place. The opening scene is literally the saucer flying out of control, highly suggestive that the 'thing' was assimilating and causing havoc to the aliens that were piloting/onboard this spacecraft
What if it not even it ship but did a "alien" type of deal and killed the ship original crew
@@rossroys The Thing killed the original crew.. that's how the ship crashed landed to earth 200,000 years ago 😅
The Aliens eventually captured it and it'd broken free from it's imprisonment and attacked the crew 😂
Body Snatchers VS The Thing!!! Who... or What wins?????
possibly not, Norris started having pain in his chest later in the film (which I assume is the Thing taking over from the inside slowly)
I just noticed this little detail: Norris smiles when he's looking at the spaceship. This movie just gets creepier with every watch
You think it's because he's a thing or just general scientific interest?
@@rfkwouldvebeenaok1008 He was a thing
@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- we don't know for sure
The mystery shadow in the room where the dog thing entered was the closest likeness to Norris. He's the thing here.
He was indeed the thing, and sense the thing assimilate the memories of its victims the Norris-Thing probably flashback when he was one of the alien pilots and thought to himself, yep, we never made it home. My theory I guess
What I like most about this scene is that Norris is already infected. So in fact, it’s the alien who says that the ship has been buried for at least 100.000 years under the ice.
Pretty sure it’s Palmer not Norris.
I never thought of that until now 😳
Using the knowledge of Norris's mind and the other Norwegians to make a better guess. Doesn't even react when it comes across the spot it froze in for all those years.
Infected isn`t the same as assimilated.
It's not established that Norris is already infected during this scene. It very well could have happened later off screen.
The way they got the sunlight to pass over the matte painting of the ship was an extra mile they didn’t have to go, but they did it anyway. This film is a work of art.
I was just thinking the same thing! I have the DVD and watched the movie many times and only noticed that now!
One question that still Burns in my mind is if that is the actual ship from the Thing's species, or is it the ship belonging to another species that it absorbed before it landed on Earth?
Matt Gerrish another species. The intro you can tell the pilot got infected because it crash landed on Earth
@@Cyrax4d Yes, it may well be the case that the pilot was infected. Superficially at least, one can certainly draw that conclusion. Nevertheless, we can't be absolutely sure since it isn't made clear to the viewer, therefore it's ambiguous in nature. For all we know, the pilot may have had the equivalent of a heart attack or seizure, whilst The Thing was merely a biological specimen that had been collected and stored aboard the ship....then it got an unexpected opportunity to escape after the crash. Alternatively, The Thing may simply have been piloting its own craft...but a malfunction suddenly developed and it had to crash-land on Earth. There are many potential explanations that one could theorise, but the answer will always remain the same: *we don't know.*
Turrican60 it only makes since that the thing killed the pilot cuz Blair wanted to make a ufo which copied the hosts mind.
I like to think the Thing was a type of parasite that gains a bit of intelligence from its host and infected the intelligent alien crew when they explored some planet. Possibly the Thing commandeered the saucer and knew about life being on Earth, therefore crashing it on Earth in a failed attempt to land here.
Matt Gerrish I wonder that the alien species was in the ufo and I wished they showed what was insude
1982. Brings back good memories. I saw the movie being listed in the local paper. ( they did that back then) Didn't know what to expect. Stood outside the theatre in 20 below with a friend and smoked a couple of reefers. Was just blown away by the special effects. Very new and special back then. Kurt Russell and the rest of the cast were just awesome. Great movie. I loved the eighties.
I saw it on HBO. Blew me away. Once was enough.
Are reefers marijuana cigarettes?
@@johnk.7523 yes , people called them reefers or joints
Google search Apollo 20 mission to the moon to investigate a crashed spacecraft replete with dead female priestess. I say priestess because her 3rd eye is very prominent.
Here is her backstory. She is a member of the MU society located in the Gobi Desert.There was a conflict with the Atlanteans/ Pleadians.They initiated a sneak attack against MU but some of their spacecraft escaped in time.1 of the MU spacecraft were damaged by the shockwave 11.4k yearsago. .1 crashed into the moon and the other is tumbling thru our solar system=Omuamua.Ya NASA has done this before-salvage crashed spacecraft.
The refugees of MU migrated to the Tibetean plateau focusing on their spiritual practices to atone for this heinous act of destruction.
The Pleadians dispersed to America-The Yucatan-Patagonia and Egypt.The remains of Atlantis can be found in 2k feet of water off the coast of Cuba.
Finally Google search Pleadian contactee Billy Meiers material with a narrative by Randolf Winters...hit the video.
I would give anything for that experience. Smoking a joint before watching that must of been intense!
This movie is the epitome of what a good science fiction movie should be. From the story, script, actors, direction, suspense, special effects, etc., it had everything.
Yes the start of the film sucks you in, modern films dont possess this any more, everything is rushed..
It’s sad that this film is probably the closest thing to At The Mountains of Madness that we’ll get.
I agree but you gotta admit this was a hell of a story. HP Lovecraft would've loved this movie and pigged out on Popcorn and Soda like the rest of us. Lol
The closest THING
@@waltersobchak4565 That he would! The alien in this film is pretty much the Shoggoth from his story.
@@klttrll Lol I see what you did there.
Yet.
The thing that I found bone chilling is that the ship looks like a drawing here. Yet the characters are seen walking around and on it. I'm impressed by that kind of effect!
I believe alien movies used this trick too. But funniest thing is that even halo2 on original xbox used painting backgrounds, common in early video games.
I think they used this trick in old old movies too
It is called a *Matte painting,* and lots of movies used to use these, such as the OG _Star Wars._
@dxhangover They aren't looking at a greenscreen. The set exists normally, and you have stuff near the camera of which the matte painting is literally painted on; it is all set up such that the perspective illusion makes it seem like the matte painting is the background, whilst it is really super close to the camera, and the people on set are further away, but look closer. You don't use greenscreen anywhere to do this effect.
@@humanafterallTF2 Matte paintings, while similar, are way different than a painted background in video games. And virtually all video games have 'painted backgrounds,' even to this day. Do you not know what a 'skybox' is? Basically the same thing
I think I read that they didn't film going into the ship because they didn't want to ripoff Alien too much.
Makes. Some kinda. Sense. . .
Budget was also a consideration.
The prequel shows that was a valid decision lol
Nearly the same story.
I think it makes sense that a group of 3 men wouldn't just waltz into an ancient alien spacecraft.
I don't think anyone in their right mind would.
Just realised until now that Copper has a piercing on his right nostril, and wears it all the way up to his death. If he was the thing, then it wouldn’t have been able to replicate the metal ring and would have discarded it. Little details like that is why I love the movie.
Well, the inorganic material thing was established in the prequel, so technically, it doesn't necessarily apply here. Although this movie does make clear that a Thing creature does need to find clothes because it can't make some out of its own body, an earring isn't that hard for an assimilated life-form to pick up after being infected and putting back in for the sake of the disguise.
Fillings, on the other hand, are different because you can't just take them out or put them in at will like you can with the earring.
@@warrioroflight6872 I don't think the thing would have fitted the earing itself. It's very difficult even with a mirror and there would be no piercing tool. It's possible that another thing could have done it for him though. Then there's always the question about needle phobias. Things were quite prone to that I understand. They didn't like spiders either.
except the metal rejection thing was a new introduction by the prequel and was not in the writing anywhere for this movie.
@@richards9407
It's very difficult unless you are an organism that can just move it's cells around, and then it's easy
@@richards9407 : Why don't things like spiders ?
When I first saw this movie back in the 80s, I had no idea what was coming. I was shocked . It was a thrill too. The special effects were amazing. Good acting too.
Norris-Thing's just there for the nostalgia
This is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. It shows you how the crew realized the gravity of what they had done.
But then it was too late
all these years later and it is still a fantastic scifi/horror movie. one of carpenters finest !.
I can just imagine them getting back to the base. "What did the insides look like?" "We didn't go inside." "Couldn't you find a hatch?" "No, there was a hatch, and it was open, we just didn't go inside." "WTF?"
They should’ve brought more men to explore the craft.
@@joethekinghawk7514 they couldnt because they only had a small aircraft. Plus, this was a last minute investigation.
They didn't go inside, because it had been blown up when the Swedes found it. They went inside and what they saw caused them to want to blow it up. Then, they found the thing buried outside the ship frozen and they took it back and after killing most of the swedes, the thing became a dog to escape and find more people.
@@re1010 true
You're telling me you'd come across an ancient alien spacecraft and walk willy nilly into it? Something that has to be indestructible to our standards since it's capable of interstellar travel, and is far beyond our knowledge despite it being probably older than our species. I'd just assume whatever is in and on there isn't designed for me, and could lead me to getting killed or worse just approaching it.
Good effects for an old movie though
Albert Whitlock did the UFO painting. He was from England an also did star trek scenes in the 1960s + many movies, an won awards. see 2:20
Nice. It definitely looked like the same style as Star Trek TMP. I've always loved it, has a unique quality to it.
@@jasonhagar1758 I think he also won an Oscar.
VC YT he certainly did an incredible job, its really hard to tell it’s a painting.
@@VCYT your profile pic explains...
Whitlock is as good as it gets. So much of his work is invisible or taken as real life. He strove for realism but also atmosphere.
He did awesome work with Hitchcock -- and Mel Brooks. And not just on Brooks' Hitchcock parody either.
Some commenters seem to think he worked on STAR TREK TMP. He didn't, of course.
Fantastic scene. Visually stunning. Love the 80's!
Rocky, Alien, Predator, Rambo, Terminator, Star Wars, etc. Lots of actual good blockbusters
Probably my favorite scene of the movie. Love this piece of the soundtrack from Ennio Morrrcone, RIP
If CGI was possible for this scene, it wouldve ruined it.
To. Da. Maxx
I am such a geek. I'd like a movie where they explore the ship, figure out it's tech, etc.
closest thing tho that would be the preqeul you get an inside look of it and a better and closer look at it.
Hell yeah! I always wished that they made an extended cut with an extra hour of them getting it out of the ice.
An after 2 weeks exploring it, they find Trumps tax returns in a box.
I'm such a geek I think about the Thing universe, and if it crashed into Antarctica, The safest thing to do is nuke Antarctica, even if The world floods it would be the only option, it would only take one cell getting exposed to the outside world, before everything is fucked, and also how many other worlds has the Thing assimilated, is it still present on multiple worlds?
that makes two of us.
Brilliant storyline....carpenter smashes the boundaries of time and space with an alien craft that’s ancient,yet way ahead of our time in tech terms.
And an alien that’s hardly subject to time at all...still very much alive after all this time.
100,000 years old at least!...so it could be well over a quarter of a million for its suggestiveness.
So are you suggesting that the alien craft been in the ice much longer?
@@joethekinghawk7514 norris said it ‘id say the ice it’s buried in is a 100,000 years old…..at least!’.
@@JohnMartin-oh6bf yep, he was guessing.
@@joethekinghawk7514 a conservative estimate
@@joethekinghawk7514He was the geologist on their team, he would've had the best guess out of anyone.
Ennio Morricone music here is enough to give nightmares to anybody for a few nights.
This movie could have ended right there, and yet be nearly as effective.
3:14 look at Norris’s face, he was long gone by this point
He's remembering the good ole days when he brutally assimilated the original alien pilots and made them crash land on Earth thousands of years ago. 😂😂😂
I think it’s interesting to note that one of the men who goes with Mac (we don’t know for sure which) is a Thing by this point.
Caleb Horton Norris? Not at this point.
PowerRangersFan Norris or Palmer, but it is indeed one of them.
The 3rd man is Garry.
The third man is Palmer. It's kinda hard to tell, but is indeed him.
MacReady isthe pilot. Also, it would not be in the thing's best interest to crash the helicopter if its goal is to assimilate everyone and then assimilate the rescue crews.
The Thing will always be my personal favorite and one of the best Sci-Fi horror monster movies ever made. My favorite scene where they discovered The Thing's spaceship.
It’s little touches like Russell’s hat that help make this a classic😂
3:26 “MANNIX! GIVE ME MY PISTOL!!!”
I think it actually works better in The Hateful Eight. Although this movie is fantastic.
Paul Crosby 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"GIIIIIVE IT'CHEEEAAAAHH!!"
0:36 Me and the boys practicing social distancing at the crash sight.
Naw, they are trying to measure the size how big of the ship silly.
"The Thing"(1982) is a horror sci-fi movie masterpiece!This is one of the 5 best horror sci-fi movies of all time for sure!
It was great
It is for sure.
The fact they don’t go inside despite the hatch being open kills me. They didn’t even discuss going In.
It make sense that they didn’t go inside at that particular moment, for Pete sakes this alien craft have been in the ice for thousands of years, God only knows what is awaiting them inside there.
This movie is like Alien 1978
@@luisvelez1952 Alien was like The Thing 1951.
Although Ripleys monster was much scarier than Matt Dillon in a frankenstein forehead mask.
Carpenter didn't have the budget from the studio to do it...
"Well, the backscatter effect's been bringing things up from way down around here for a long time. I'd say... I'd say the ice it's buried in is 100,000 years old, at least."
"And those Norwegians blew it up..."
2:42
What an amazing shot.
Y did they not enter the ship? would have found many interesting things I bet. I'd risk it.
I think I read that Carpenter didn't want this movie to seem too much like Alien, so they scrapped exploring the ship.
Joseph Wagner maybe it’s more intriguing to let the audience have their own interpretations of what could be inside the UFO
If we saw the interior of the spaceship we would have essentially had an idea as to how the creature "truly" is, rather than it being ambiguous. For all intents and purposes it is perfect in how we didn't see it.
Because for all we know, the spaceship is _not_ the "original" parasites vehicle, only something that it assimilated and ended up crashing on world. The Thing is akin to not just a space parasite but a space cancer. Imagine something so alien that its alien to other aliens (who are beyond us intellectually on a massive scale).
It would just undermine everything and make it a gimmick, something the sequel failed to realize and cheapened the whole aspect of what the Thing even was. It wasn't for us to know, nor for us to care, only to be feared.
They were going to explore more of the ship in the prequel, have the concept be like the Norwegian camp but in space. And the alien pilots would have collected different life forms, Xenomorphs, The Thing, etc.
@@Obe_Qwaet Excellent comment.
I like this interpretation that the craft is not even a ship made by the parasite.
Though isn't there a scene where one of the men who have been infected is building a ship? 🤔
That kind of ruins that idea.
This is a fabulous film and has stood the test of time.
Millennium Falcon, is that you?!
Василий Маслобойцев thought the same
"Chewie, we're home!"
Don't tell it managed to get to the Star Wars galaxy as well (that would be a better movie than the sequel trilogy tbf)
In hindsight, upon discovering the UFO wreckage, if I was Mac I'd fly to next closest camp and be transmitting on the radio constantly trying to get a hold of someone. Given you'd already found the camp destroyed, dead crew, and the situation with the dog, it is vitally important to start talking anyway possible. This would be something I'd discussed with our own camp first. If we find something of significance, given our lack of radio comms, we will continue onward to nearest reachable site and report our findings to begin spreading word. I think the Norwegians mistake was they tried to keep their find too quiet. Not faulting the movie, just what I would do today.
@Zipgun TV ...yes, AND for fear of compromising our entertainment!
James Frank - I think Windows said that there wasn’t another camp for a thousand miles, which is beyond the range of a helicopter. Windows was also transmitting night and day trying to reach someone.
This movie did a pretty good job of limiting the options of the station. It also limited the options of The Thing - at least for a while.
@@thetooginator153 the Norwegian camp sent their helicopter to a base for kerosene restocking, so they were within range.
Imagine the consequences : every country would want to get a grasp of the find of the millenium. They would NOT listen to warnings, collect samples, making it easier for the Thing to infect the whole wide world. Actually, if it was only for the Thing itself, maybe Humanity would have a tiny chance of survival : quarantined in Antarctica, condemned to freeze in a state of eternal hibernation, the organism could (probably) never leave the continent. But if you take human greed into account, you know we're doomed. From the moment the Thing was taken out of the ice, it had already won.
And you would run the risk of getting the Thing back to civilization which wouldn't be good at all.
What happens when a "Thing" has assimilated a eco system/world? Does everything look normal, like imitation animals living out the originals lives? Or is there a reason to hide?
@Finn MacCool And how do you *know* that "everything dies"? Do you have irrefutable proof, or did John Carpenter personally tell you? Don't present guesswork as some sort of 'fact' when it's nothing of the sort.
@@Turrican60 because there Is nothing that suggest a different kind of nature except for the predator. So there Is no evidence of homeostasis :)
My guess is that “The Thing” evolved similar to how viruses evolved here, Needing hosts. Probably some poor alien race went to a half thingified planet and that’s how it started an interstellar war campaign.
@@gavriloprincipgaming7857 that's a very good assumption. This would make the movie concept even creepier, considering that the thing from outer space would a be an irrational entity driven by animal instincts, even when It struggle with alien technology. It's just applying schemes 💀
perhaps they look the same but have New habits and gadgets previously unknown. Perhaps they have cell phones and are constantly checking the either of the internet like its an oracle
RIP Richard, Donald, A Wilford , and Charles Thanks fellas 🙏
Kurt Russell’s hat steals the scene.
This scene Also has my favorite score in the movie
I still wonder to this day is the thing artificially made by another species just like how the enigners made the xenomorphs or is it actually a natural born species?
One of my personal theories is that it's an alien pathogen that got out of control and adapted to consume any species by "becoming" it
" It's blowing 35 knots." Not a piece of their clothing ruffles in the wind and snow doesn't blow at all....
Good point
Actual footage showing and explaining exactly what happened “we can’t learn anything from this!”
Uh, what?
Was he already assimilated at this point?
yeah he was
@@JohnsonTheSecond oh.....well that would explain it
Oh I love watching this like a TH-cam time travel episodical.. Just switched here from the 2011 Prequel discovery scene. 🍷
It's not a UFO but more a ULO no? I mean Unidentified Lying Object. Don't get mad I'm kidding! ^^
Edit: Oh, I guessed! It's an Unidentified Frozen Object.
A UFrO.
Not a type of hair.
Crazy. Funny. Thou . .
in my top 100 al time. edge of seat. simply outstanding. this & Alien. superb.
0:08 I guess they were watching The Thing 2011 prequel. 😆
No crappy cgi in this version lol
I thought it was such an awesome idea that the aliens flying the ship were transporting the Thing possibly to some penal colony but it escaped and took over the ship and caused the crash. Even other alien civilizations knew the danger of the Thing
A penal colony for something like this ?.....YOU serve 100 000 years in prison !!!!..... Oh come on.
Incredible that this great movie was a box office failure
2:20 gives me at the mountains of madness vibes
I wonder what the planet where it came from looks like
All that permafrost melting. Hope whatever is down there isn't pissed off..
Still one of my favorite movies. Any genre any era
The craziest part to me in this scene is the fact Macready was accompanied by both Norris and Palmer, both of them later revealed to be Things. Either Palmer wasn't replaced yet since Norris was very likely replaced by the Dog-Thing earlier or The Thing didn't feel the need to replace Mac yet.
Either way, it makes an already tense scene even more creepy when you think about it.
When they see the size of the craft in the ice and they try to comprehend just what it means for them or the world....... That is one of my all time favourite movie scenes.
the open hatch leaning all the way back in the center of the craft is really unsettling
Cinematic gold.
Thank you to these guys for freezing their asses off in that weather to make this masterpiece.
In the book „Who goes there?“ Blair is building an atomic-powered Anti-Gravity Device, nearly bringing it to perfection.
Norris talks about the backscatter effect in the video: signals, waves and particles that travel back to its origin. They travel non-linear.
An anti-gravity device would (in theory) be able to travel faster than light by contracting space in front and expanding space behind it.
This means that such an object could appear „out of thin air“. For example in Antarctica, but people would think they discovered something that was buried there for thousands of years.
Although The Thing didn’t do well at the box office when it was first released,it has been one of my favorite science fiction movies.
3:00 this music was reused in The Hateful Eight (which kinda was Tarantino's version of THE THING)
he did that as a shout out to Mcready fans..since Kurt Russell was in both films👍😉👍
yeah,Enio Morricone did the music for both movies
@@atcred3
And both had him trapped in a snow storm with people he wasn't sure were who they claimed to be😀
he reused it because Morricone couldn't do the score in the timeline Tarantino wanted. It was not an homage to kurt russell, it was because Morricone couldn't get it done...and it is soooo out of place in that movie.
Awesome movie. Always up for watching again.
One of the greatest, and scariest movies of all time, features one of the greatest and scariest movie monsters of all time. Yet here’s the scariest thing of it all.
The Thing isn’t about a creature from outer space.
The Thing is about the end of the world.
No. The Thing is about how humans behave toward one another when confronted with something unknown.
I like McCready's hat. Reminds me of Yosemite Sam 😆 😆.
ME TOO, I'M GOING TO GET ME ONE.
one of my favorite movies
Now showing up in 4k Blu ray.....👍
super cool movie, first movie was the best but this second one so good with special effects and actors so good one of my favorites
It's hard to believe that they are aliens, I didn't expect aliens to look this Hella ugly.
3:00 fun fact. that part of the background theme was used in the hateful eight.
And both had Kurt Russell trapped in a snow storm with people he wasn't sure they were who the claimed to be😀
@@giuffre714 yeah🤣🤣
And was plagiarized in Gundam 0083 to great effect.
When Norris was talking about a backscatter effect, was that just for how the word sounds, or did it actually mean something?
Backscatter in physics is the reflection of waves, particles, or signals back to the direction from which they came.
@@cadror26 Honestly, I wouldn't know. I just assumed you need an answer to what the Backscatter effect was.
The older ice is probably rising to the surface while the top ice is being worn away by wind and weather, that's my guess
I like the scale of how big this ship was
Yeah, but kinda weird how there's only one "Thing" for a ship it's size, then it builds a very small ship to escape the base.
@@weirdshibainu that's because the ship the thing was on wasn't it's ship it was Another alien species ship that is why the ship crashed to earth an alien tried to escape the thing but it got assimilated and lost control of the ship that's why it crashed on Earth and that is why the alien ship is so big
@@Treyway2455 Where was that mentioned?
@@weirdshibainu the comics and the novel they are all Cannon
They are very happy that they found the ship. Who is the other person that flies wirth MacReady and Norris? Maybe these are the three guys from the cover of the Soundtrack LP.
Palmer
THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO KNOW TOO, FOR YEARS.
Well according to Bob Lazar some spaceships were discovered from archeological digs.
Awesome movie 🎥!
The brilliance of this film, the way Carpenter produced it, is that it will keep throwing up questions that have different answers depending on what you believe…
Whats going to come out is that this movie is actually based on a alien ship which WAS found in the ice
That was one of the scariest movies I ever saw. I saw it once, that was enough.
Problem is 500 years ago antarticaWASNT under ice!
Morricone's soundtrack?
Blow your mind and music
Whose is with McReady (Kurt Russle) and Norris (Charles Hallahan) when they go to the thing ship!!!!!!! Please EXPLORE!!!!!!!!!
Then Norris would have assimilated MacReady
Palmer
@@samaelcoral7297 at first I thought it was Bennings
THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO KNOW TOO.
Keep this in mind that the Norwegians made the greatest scientific discovery inhuman history and the technology that they uncovered will keep the finest minds busy for decades 🚀
Damn good film. I got to put this on my fall watchlist.
FunFact-In 1982-Kurt Russell-Invented the"Snow Sombrero"❄️🤠See if ya can spot it🧐
this is why the prequel makes no sense, the nor's had already blown up the saucer and it was exposed , the prequel shows it buried deep and still in working order , prequel was no good👎
I often wonder, is this movie a leaked story as a few have been? I heard for years of some "Thing" found in cold places; Alaska, and esp much about Antarctica where Admiral Byrd had an area cordoned off for years when he found something buried...is this it?
No, this is not 'it'. The Thing is based on a famous science fiction novel written by John W. Campbell...it's not real, ffs.
Genius scene, can not do something like this with CGI, just incredible. Movies like this will never happen again. A laugh that E.T. was so huge and this movie hardly did anything. I saw ET in the theater when I was about 12, I got up and walked out after 10 minutes it was so bad. Wish I would have seen this instead back then.
I guess they wanted to make sure that Mac wasn’t _too_ cool so they made him wear that hat! 😂😂
You are totally out of control, you Thing from another world you
1:12 - What's with that goofy hat?
Makes McCready more cuter 😉😘
The music in this scene can also be heard in the final chapter of the hateful eight
And both have Kurt Russell trapped in a snow storm with people he's not sure are who they claim to be😀
One plot hole I'd say this movie had is even after EVERYTHING they find, the destroyed base, the dead monsters, the block of ice that something came out of, the fucking ALIEN SPACECRAFT! not one of them..not a SINGLE one of them thinks back to why the Norwegians were chasing and trying to kill a stray dog from their camp. It NEVER crosses their minds after ALL this evidence what those Norwegians..who's base was found destroyed with dead aliens burned outside.....were doing chasing and shooting at a fucking dog.
that would have been the FIRST thing I thought of given all this evidence. "after all this, why were they trying to kill a dog?"
Common sense isn’t common anymore have you heard 4 years later.
I don't think it would have been necessary to have any of the characters point out that connection between the Norwegians trying to kill the dog after it tried to kill all of Americans' dogs
Among the best horror films ever made.
Kurk looked so young. I wa already 32, when I saw this and I liked it.
This scene actually proves Dog Thing infected Norris, not Palmer.
They didn't study the ice core which is what is used to age ice not unlike the layers of earth for fossil excavations. Even for a geologist that's near impossible to do with ice with just a glance. They also found the location very fucking quickly on that map. Someone assimilated would've known where exactly even without the Norwegians. That's a slight red flag there.
Palmer and Childs also share a joint a little later, and Childs is human during the bloodtest later after that. That means the dog infected Norris.
This would explain the smile and the fact Norris knew how old it was just by looking. Its The Thing boasting about its survival skills. It would've assimilated Mac, but Blaire could've gone for the communications in the heli and warned the others. It played it safe
100,000 years in the ice🥶
Maybe longer According to the movie.
You gotta be fuckin kidding me!classic,top to bottom.the direction,acting,and those freaking effects.rob bottom I believe. Rp
This version of The Thing I understand is closer to the book with the alien being shape-shifting rather than a defined humanoid as in the 1951 version, which I suppose at the time Hollywood decided would be more comprehensible to a 1951 audience. But I still enjoy the 1951 version the best, especially when I watched it repeatedly on local NY City TV station Channel 9 WOR's "Million Dollar Movie" as a young child, filmed in film noire black and white rather than color, which made it that much spookier and not dependent on fancy CGI and more on overall atmospherics, power of suggestion, cinematography, and good old dramatic tension. Side note that the alien monster was played by James Arness who went on to build an entire acting career synonymous with Marshal Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke."
Why didn't the Norris-thing absorb Mac or Doc on this little outing? He was alone and in close proximity with them. Unless he hadn't been infected yet. And as a side question: what's the significance of the light change/freezing at 2:44 of this clip?
I can only assume he doesn't assimilate Mac and the Doc during their outing due to the fact he doesn't have access to spare clothes to have them change into. The Norris thing only went with them to keep up with normal Norris activities.
Better than Hollywood
It is hollywood.