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- The Thing's final form is revealed as MacReady (Kurt Russell) & Childs (Keith David) prepare for battle.
The Thing (1982): A research team finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and is starting to hunt them down. Things take a sinister turn when they realise that the creature can take the shape of its victims.
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@Marco Castillo I think it actually was his first film as an actor, Mr. Castillo. Not 💯% sure, though🤔
@Marco Castillo At least it was the first time I'd seen him in a film chronologically speaking
I read that Chile's is the thing cause you cant see his breath like mcready
Love that line at the end:
“If we’ve got any surprises for each other… I don’t think we’re in much shape to do anything about it.”
It's true, because Childs is definitely a Thing (we never see what happens to him, no breath when speaking, asking MacReady "*You* the only one who made it?"), but Childs can't exactly just kill MacReady right away because he's the only ticket out of there and needs a "genuine" human to bread-crumb the Thing to a general population.
Yup he had other killer lines in this movie
Like when says
It wakes up after thousands of years
Wakes up
Probably not in the best of moods!!”
😅
Hence why they are both human.
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 lmao :D dumb take
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408lol no, he’s just keeping it vague instead of saying “you” or “me” as in “you wouldn’t be able to do anything about it” or “I wouldn’t be able to do anything about it”
I alway loved how Nauls just vanishes. No fight, no sound, no gore. Just … gone. And McReady realizes he’s all alone
Maybe he simply cracked mentally and went to walk away from the camp to freeze to death?
@@melanimatejak6821Arguably not a bad way to go, compared to being assimilated, anyway.
@@HelghastGrunt But it makes you look like a coward 😒 I mean that guy. World likes heroes.
@@melanimatejak6821 We're talking in the context of a mental break, no? Can't really blame the rationale in that state.
@@HelghastGrunt OK, maybe he couldn't help it, but still doesn't look cool...
The truly scary aspect of "The Thing" isn't that the monster can be anyone... it's that there can be more than one. At one point in the film, there are three separate Things, and the ending leaves it ambiguous as to whether or not they got 'em all.
One of the final 2 is the thing. The director of the film said so. He also revealed how you can tell who is the thing and who isn't. It is so cold those who aren't the thing you can see their breath because it is so cold. Those who aren't the thing you cant see their breath. If you watch you can see the breath of one but not the other.
@@shazprothero7912 That got debunked, as far as I'm aware. The breath theory is more of a fan-theory and you can actually see the breath of both Childs and MacReady. Also, if I recall, Carpenter said the game was canon, but I know that directors very frequently will take back "game canon" later on in their career.
The main arguments for Childs being the Thing is that he switches his clothes part way through the movie (meaning his clothes got torn) and that he drinks from the bottle of alcohol, which could've been contaminated. These are the two main indications of him POSSIBLY being the thing, but if the game is canon then Childs wasn't infected.
@@bloopboop9320 What happens in the game? also wasn't the bottle they drank from actually gasoline? I saw a video once where it talked about how the bottle Kurt Russel is about to drink from is gas, so he stops and gives it to childs and he drinks it, and that is when macready knows childs is a thing.
@@johngate4715 in the game it is confirmed that Childs is not infected. I dont think it is ever mentioned that the bottle of alcohol had gas in it.
As much as I personally want there to be evidence that Childs is the alien, I think the movie intentionally had a completely ambiguous ending and trying to find evidence counters the purpose of the ending.
Love the ending because it leaves you wondering.
Tarantino said „The Thing“ is the best horror movie ever, not because of the gore, because of the consistent discomfort of everybody, the audience too! Nobody knows who The Thing is until the end in this isolated arctic station where nobody is able to escape.
Simple a great movie experience!🔥🔥🔥
You forgot the aliens movie.
@@VARJAGAMINGENTERTAINMENT Aliens is more of a Scifi thriller action more
@@AngelofDeath-Y2K I'm not talking about the newer ones but the 90's aliens movie. They're more into horror like this thing movie.
@@VARJAGAMINGENTERTAINMENT I mean a little bit here and there but it's mostly Scifi thriller
@@VARJAGAMINGENTERTAINMENT the OG first Alien movie.. now that I consider a Horror.
This is real horror, not the gore but the atmosphere, suspense, paranoia not knowing who to trust…you can touch it - just love it !
the gore actually makes sense, the nature of the thing is a parasite that takes over a victim's cells and starts to improvise ... it can make a mouth with sharp teeth from a torso if that allows it to bite off the hands of a new victim... it can become a spider-like head if it wants to get away...
I agree, the isolation and paranoia really elevate this film to masterpiece status in my eyes
Agree. But even the gore is better than modern CGI crap.
Stop.... Macready time!!!!!
the golre is the consequence of being caught, not the primary fear of it.
1:53 It's such a small thing but I love how it looks around to see if anyone's coming. That small display of intelligence speaks volumes about how smart it really is
I think it's intelligence depends on how many cells are working together as a unit. It's why the cells for the blood test reacted to the flame the way they did. They didn't have the intelligence to not react.
Damn hector really changed did he
There is actually a short story written by Peter Watts called "The Things". It describes from the creatures point of view, and watts does a great job showing the utterly alien intelligence is. Since the thing is not embodied, and is rather amorphous in nature, it's view of self differs from a single self. Also as it goes on, you get a pretty terrifying view of how it doesn't even recognize human beings as intelligent/sentient.
@@zombieshoot4318 I think the implication is that hte blood cells just wanted to survive, not really to do with their intelligence. I think if they poked the hot needle into a Thing-human's arm, their blood would also try to escape. The film doesn't make it conclusive however.
Oh yeah, does it speak volumes?
"The generator's gone... it's gone MacReady."
I think that's lowkey the most terrifying part of this whole scene. The Thing has, up to this point, been an ambush predator. But that generator probably weighed at least a few thousand pounds. Yet the Thing just carried it off right before this scene when the power died. So the characters have to be wondering "how much more powerful than the other Things has the Blair Thing gotten?"
hi pal, let me ask you something, , When blair destroy everything whit the axe he was the thing ? HE WANTS TO BUILD A NEW SHIP ????
@@kibakim no, he had not been assimilated by the thing yet at that point. When Blair was destroying the communications, he was still human. The reason (or at least the supposed explanation why) he did that was to prevent the thing from assimilating any of the other people and calling for a rescue.
If it were able to call for a rescue team, it would have a huge opportunity to be taken back to a more populated area.
Remember the computer scene? Blair's computer says there is a 75% chance that one of the people at Outpost 31 is already infected. Then his computer says if the thing reaches civilization, it would assimilate all life on Earth within 27,000 hours (a little over 3 years).
Also, Blair not only destroyed the communications, but he also the helicopters to try and prevent it from escaping Outpost 31, where they were at.
Later in the movie, there's a scene where blair is being talked to and there's a noose in the tool shack he's locked in. He was ready to commit suicide (because earlier, Blair explained that the thing will not assimilate a dead person). However, before he had the chance to commit suicide, the thing got to him.
Then it dug the massive tunnel and tried to build a spaceship from helicopter parts to escape. But once it couldn't find any means of escape, remember: MacReady says now that the thing has assimilated Blair, it wants to freeze itself in the ice again and wait until a search party comes to find it again.
Hope that clears up the confusion about Blair. The Thing is difficult to understand only because of how intricate the details are.
@@CrestedSaguaro520 Thanks dude i love this movie so much
@@kibakim it's a great movie, a bigtime classic! I really like it too.
@@CrestedSaguaro520 pretty simple explanation thx
best line from gary "the generator is gone!!" can you fix it? "ITS GONE MCREADY!!" love it,
Well tell it to come back...we need it....wait....no that is not happening
Brilliantly played by Donald Moffat(Gary). May he RIP. Passed away 12/20/2018 age 87. Quite the career he had.
This actually is the best horror film that was ever made. The suspense, the effects, the dialogue, all of it is just perfect. the only film that comes close is Alien.
*according to You
@@moravianlion3108 fair
This is better then alien
To me, Aliens and Alien are the best horror films of all time with this movie next.
@@booooboooo2010 Aliens isn't really a horror movie, it dropped all the horror of Alien in favour of being an action movie
Honestly, the only horror film i can think of from back then where the survivors werent killed due to stupidity.
They were just WAAAY out of their depth
I agree, some of them do panic and act rashly which is understandable given the situation. Even Wilford Brimley going berserk and smashing up the communications equipment makes perfect sense to him - he doesn't want the Thing calling for a 'rescue'.
But Sun-Tzu once said the pinnacle of military strategy approaches the formless. How do you really defeat something that has no true form? It could be anywhere or anyone. MacReady's decision to simply level the playing field (literally) makes sense in this context.
True. This is the kind of situation only a trained Star-Fighter should handle.
This is the only film where the survivors weren't killed?
@@grahamblack1961 oh they were killed, it was just something where they dont die for the sake of it, they were genuinely just out of their depth.
Dude heard or saw something, then wandered off alone to investigate. That's the absolute pinnacle of stupidity in this kind of situation.
Notice how when Blair Thing is checking to see if the others are looking it's way, it also checks the other way when it knows that MacReady and Nauls were in the same direction. It was checking to see if Childs was gonna sneak up on it after he lured him away in the storm.
So you believe that Child's wasn't a Thing?
@@kingcamelot1395 all subsidiary media, including the videogame which John Carpenter endorsed as the official sequel, confirmed childs was human.
1:43 imagine the dread and horror he felt while getting face palmed by the thing.
@Ubp125it doesn't look very fast
That kill was way more personal than the other ones
It was also probably really, really painful. I can only imagine what was vring injected into his mouth.
Imagine something
@@andyroobrick-a-brack9355 probably weird gross bile vines and juices with sinue and blood brrrrr. when windows gets his head chomped while alive and in the air its messed up to know that while his head was inside the thing there were all types of creepy things inside it which were probably right in his face and sending tubes and weird gross things down his throat, eyes, ears and nose. imagine the dog face thing licking you and biting you.
You all will excuse me boasting myself but I had the privilege of watching this masterpiece at the cinema... for the first time!!! Truly a marvellous experience
Were there any screams from the audience?
@@kerruo2631 only from the men.
@@joeysplats3209 Strangely enough, Mr. Splats, there were more sentiments coming from guys than there were ladies in the theater when I originally saw it with several family members back in late June of '82 as a 6th grader. 5 ppl left the viewing bc of the gore scenes as I recall......3 men & 2 women
@@kerruo2631 No man, just plain and tense silence. Mind you that many of the moviegoers, quite a lot for a rescreening actually, had already seen the film. Nevertheless, I jumped off my seat in the blood test scene 😅
damn, and I thought I was old... oh wait I am too
Definitely one of the best movies ever made. All these decades later and it still holds up well.
The dog scene literally is the most terrifying thing ever!!!
Thats what im saying!! That scene where the guy with the flame thrower goes to light it on fire and it zooms in the thing and leaves you alone with it... no music no talking just the thing, its slowly opening eyeballs, and the horrible throbbing and groaning sounds it makes@Valhalla_Heathen
I got to see this masterpiece in the theaters back in 1982 with my dad, my good friend and his sister. Scared the crap out of everyone, and to this day, only the 1979 movie, Alien, is scarier. I put those two movies as the pinnacle of Sci-Fi horror movies, and the best that were ever made!
Scarier? Not sure about that. They're both up there though. The paranoia and claustrophobia elements of THE THING really set it apart.
You lucky br stad I was born in 1982 wish I'd have seen it
@@gideondavid30 then name something else, but at the end of the day its all subjective opinion in where we either gauge the reaction of the masses or critics and base it respectively.
@@memewithinameme35 I am always right.
@@gideondavid30 that's funny
I like to think that Childs was the thing, but at that point it didn't matter anymore, it was smart enough to know it wasn't getting out "alive" and so we have this moment of companionship.
I think it's him based off the fact he drank from the beer, if he was really worried about MacCready, he wouldn't do that. You could say at that point he'd given up and didn't care. But I think anyone would still rather freeze to death than be consumed by the Thing from the inside, no way he just drinks from that in that situation if he's human. And he seemed to calm overall for someone who supposedly doesn't know what's been going on. Also you piece together the other evidence, like the shot leading to where Child's was waiting, his back to a door where he could be attacked from, switched around coats in the room followed by ominous music when you see that he's gone. He claims to have seen blair but the blair thing was in the generator room at the moment he was walking out, not to mention it's totally out of character for childs to just walk out like that into the storm no matter what he saw, he'd been very cautious to that point. Remember when he genuinely thought it might be Mac, he was eager to just leave it outside while Palmer thing was eager to let Mac in and burn him. When they left Child's alone standing guard, it got him.
As to why it didn't go for Mac at the end, maybe it was happy to just freeze, I'd heard theorys that Mac was supposedly holding onto a weapon himself under his cloak so it was cautious to attack him, probably because Childs was the only piece of it left.
The director stated that child's was the thing. MacReady’s breath comes out as a cloud, the way it does in cold weather. But Child’s breath doesn’t, proving he is not human.
@@ygarcia9236 I want a link to proof because I call bullshit. It just sounds like a dumb theory and was all to do with the lighting at the time, you literally do see his breath in certain shots. Even if he does state Child's was the thing (which I won't believe without proof), I bet he doesn't specifically mention the breath as a reason. It doesn't even make sense the Thing wouldn't have breath, it's supposed to be a perfect assimilation, it will have human lungs.
@@ygarcia9236the thing copies every human cell which means every organ would be functioning normally, your theory is wrong.
@@ygarcia9236you realize the thing just copy’s the humans code, including the breathing system.
What I love is that no matter how much is shown in the movie, whatever the Thing is is still a mystery and open to speculation, so the less we know the better. This might not be the final form, it's just the Thing going all out with everything it's got, every cell going to war using every form it can come up with. It's still cornered and probably desperate for an endgame so it goes full monster.
I like to think that it's true form. It's original form. Was something really really small. Like a fleshy worm like thing. And just kept getting bigger and bigger every time it absorbed something. Resulting in what we see now.
True...it's basically a parasite.
its a mass of cells that replicate other cells. its true from is microscopic.
@@yani2499 my best guess is that it's a parasite on an inhabited planet.
Bc in the prequel. They found this thing in a block of ice in a sort of humanoid form. That form must've been something it either absorbed first or later on.
Its purist form is an aggressive single cell.
@@furionmax7824 It was imitating the pilot of that ship.
I doubt that was the actual look of the Thing in the 2011 version.
This is pretty cool because we get a small window into the fauna throughout the galaxy...like where tf did that being originate from ?
The Thing leaves more questions than answers and that's one of its strengths.
Wish I had watched this in the cinema , even creepier on the big screen in the dark with strangers all around you ! Some horror films don't age well but this is a classic , still holds your fear and attention no matter how many times you watch it ... The sense of helplessness & despair .
It’s being shown this month October 2022 in most Odeons as a one off 40th Anniversary special. My ticket is booked 😊
Already did yesterday in UK cinema
If you see it in theaters, you dont know which of the other audience could be the Thing... be careful and carry a flame thrower.
It was an unparalleled cinematic experience like I've never had before or since when I initially saw it as a 12 year old with my late pop, uncle, (his brother) and cousin (his son) on the last weekend of June, 1982, Mr. Hennessey
It was simply awesome
Nauls' death is the pure definition of "curiosity killed the cat". Ngl I wanted him to survive since he was my favourite character.
While Nauls’ offscreen death is creepy because it allows our minds to wonder what happened, it would’ve been neat if they had been able to actually film it. The storyboards for it were horrific.
Yeah read that they were out of time and money to film it.
hes death was more brutally painful in the story boarding
Goddamn, I actually like his "death" here but his original death, along with the Blair-Thing's original form with Garry and Nauls assimilated was so horrifying but awesome. It's a shame they couldn't film and nobody bothered to do a comic about it.
To this day when kurt asks hows it coming in there and it just silence gives me chills. Every time im at work alone i think of this scene
While working in the office and suddenly not hearing the response of your colleagues, you will anxiously raise the detonator handle under your desk.💥😁😁😁
I really like how raw this movie is. Everything feels a bit messy, like in real life. It makes it feel like it's actually happening.
Garry: "I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS F***ING COUCH!" 🤣🤣🤣
Oh well if your going to act and be like that you can stay there a little longer then huh...
I like to think that both MacReady and Childs are human in the end.
They ever gave us answers?
@@MaNo0sss If you play the Thing video game which is a sequel to this movie you find both these guys.
If there both still Human that the million dollar question not even the director will say.
Child's had no cold breath showing when he talk but he did had a ear ring still on.
@@MaNo0sss The prequel they made in 2011 established that when The Thing assimilates an organic being, it can't retain anything that's inorganic. Childs still has an earring on in the final scene, meaning both he and MacReady are human.
They both were human.
@@ASimoneau thank u been wondering for a while wish they continue the thing it's too good
"The Thing"(1982) is a horror sci-fi movie masterpiece, and probably this is the best movie of all time for this Kind!
Actually the first scene about the thing is 2011
Man what a great movie. It gets better with age.
Right....its a masterpiece.
Greatest sci fi horror film ever
Ages like a fine wine
They did a great job with the 4k transfer, too. Was very impressed on my big ol' OLED.
The thing looks like a parasite and I like when they roar and mutate
I fought the same thing in Resident Evil 4 game. Didn't know it was a tribute, easily one of the scariest boss battles I've ever fought
Ru talking about the U3?
People here are surprised how intelligent the Thing is.
However, the Thing was never supposed to be a "mindless" thing. Let's not forget that this Thing had been assimilating various organisms before it had reached Antartica.
And when it assimilates and organism, it copies it fully. Not just in terms of its physical appearance. But it copies its memories and experiences. That's why the Thing knew how to talk, walk and blend in with other humans. It "remembered" relationships with other members of the station. It knew their names. Etc.
That is why the gasoline theory that people use to claim that Childs was a thing at the end of the movie, is bullsh*t.
Because the Thing would've smelled the gasoline before Childs lips touched the bottle of whiskey. And it would've known that:
A) Gasoline is not what humans drink
B) Mac Ready was trying to prove if it was a Thing by giving it something toxic to drink.
So if Childs was a thing and MacReady had given it gasoline to drink, the thing would've known it was all a trap. Which would've resulted with MacReady being killed on the spot.
So yeah, the Gasoline theory has been debunked. There's even a video here on TH-cam that explains the same reason why that theory is bunk.
One particle of the “thing” is enough to take over an entire organism. My theory is MacCreedy was the first person infected because the dog had licked his J&B bottle when they first encountered it. Mac laughs when he hands the bottle to Childs because he knows that he’s just eliminated his last threat. Now he can go to sleep in the cold and wait for the rescue team.
@@SJM6791 Well the way the Thing operates in assimilating with other organisms, shows that a more "physical" kind of contact is required for proper infection.
And I think that happens because a few particles of the Thing are just not able to do the job effectively. Especially if the organism that it wants to infect, has strong antibodies that would fight off such a small exposure of it.
So, yeah... if simple particles were enough to infect other organisms, then the Thing would've developed a way to spray a mist of itself. To infect others like a flu or COVID virus. It could even use air ducts or ventilation systems. And that would be enough. There would be no need to expose itself to potential harm by trying to violently take over a human. Just sneezing in a room full of them would be enough. According to the particle theory that you mentioned.
However, that's not how the Thing goes about infecting other organisms. It does that in a more physical manner. At least to be able to take it over within a few minutes.
I think with a few particles of the Thing, it would take a lot longer for it to successfully take over a body. But IMO infecting bodies that way is too risky because it allows the host to seek treatment. Like they would with a cold.
@@TatankaTaylor- Blair would disagree with you. Lol, I love talking about this movie and I saw it for the 1st time in a drive-in movie theatre. It was a double feature with Halloween 2. Great memories!
What debunks it for me is he was going to take a drink before he heard Childs behind him, and why would he be carrying a bottle of J&B filled with gas?
It came to earth on a spacecraft
What's scary to me is how they go down there with three people. From MacReady's POV, as I'm setting the detonator, I'd feel a (false) sense of security knowing I have human allies off in either direction. But then, things go really quiet... what happened to them? You can assume the worst, but as character you don't really know for sure. That's terrifying.
I can't IMAGINE how this wasn't a hit when it first came out.
I'd like to say the same, but honestly, it flew under my radar when it was released to theaters. I live in a smallish town, so I'm not sure if it even actually played here. I think it was overshadowed by E.T., which they kept showing for months on end at the local theater...
It went up against E. fucking T. How do you think
Because more people wanted to see E.T. go home.
It had to compete with some big movies
People wanted to watch ET and guys like Roger Ebert were complete idiots when reviewing it
"The Thing" 1982 is a purely Lovecraftian horror about the fear of the unknown. We don't know where the Thing came from, what it is in general, and how evolution could create such a creature, and this is frightening. What I like about this film, in addition to the amazing practical effects and soundtrack of Ennio Morricone, is the atomosphere of despair and hopelessness, which is accompanied by fear and paranoia. To be in an isolated place with an aggressive dangerous life form that cannot be touched and defeated, and where everyone you know can be infected and the chances to survive are zero - this is the most terrifying thing...
The Thing is a modern version of At The Mountain of Madness.tekeli_ li still rules
One of the theories I've read about was that in its simplest form it may just be a sentient disease
@@samaelcoral7297no it isn’t. It’s the retelling of “Who Goes there?” Written by John Campbell in 1938
let's just hope they won't touch it ever
This is not horror of unknown
The ending is so perfect, the composition of Ennio Morricone which reinforces the whole thing even more, the best ending of all horror movies for me 🔥
absolutely love this movie...probably my favorite sci fi horror.
My favourite movie of all time
same, it is my favorite
The perfect trilogy
1. Alien
2. The Thing
3. The Fly
@@milan5073 4. The Beast Within
One of the greatest horror movies ever made, the cast wasn't bad either.
Thank you, John Carpenter. 👍
Child's had an ear piercing. No breath. They both died. But their last moments if either were the thing, it doesn't matter. j&b. Thank you for saving the world for a while.
I saw the game of The Thing (2002) and Childs was human, but he died by the high cold. At the end of the game, Macready appears and he helps to the protagonist to kill the last Thing.
Yup i played it too
"No breath"
Except that he does. Watch the movie in 4k and you'll see his breath just fine.
I think child's is the thing
@@benjack8477 Dude, you must see the game The Thing (2002).
Keith David survived both the Vietnam war and the Thing. True survival instincts right there. ✌️
Platoon
Didn't beat the Nope thing though :(
And then Survived the Human-Covenant War and the Flood as the Arbiter
And now he has helped defeat the Witness in The Final Shape.
Honestly the flood would win against the thing.
4:34 best line in movie history
I literally always say this before landing the final blow on any boss in a video game
@@incognit0mode same
4:33 he says "too". does that mean he somehow read the thing's mind was thinking "f you" first? that the thing knew it was never gonna survive anyway? that macready had already been assimilated?
@sahn1225 Nah. He wouldn't have said anything if that was the case. He wouldn't need to if they could read each other's minds. It was the real MacReady just taunting the monster one more time.
This movie and Alien are the best Science Fiction / Horror movies ever made. The overall atmosphere of dread and suspense were perfectly mixed throughout these films along with the good chemistry between the actors. Great scripts.
How about Invasion of The Body Snatchers (1978)?
don't forget the og predator movie
The quality of this movie just gets better and better and better The actors look fantastic the thing looks even more fantastic.
Timeless, one of my all time favorites.
My favourite movie of all time
It's gone MacReady ! I always say this line when things disappear .
you`re not the only one
Seeing the original VHS cover art of this film in UK rental shops during the eighties was a marvel with the image of a distorted inhuman face & a blue background. An eighties classic!
Not knowing who to trust...that's the most terrifying thing in existence. That's what this movie monster really brought to the table!
Personally, I believe that the way they die has got to be the absolute most terrifying way to die in human history, just a huge parasite forcing itself down your throat ripping u apart from the inside out & using your body as it’s vessel all the while u could possibly still be alive the entire time & feel every bit of it😬😨😬😨
You know what? I honestly think they should have kept Randall Cook's stop motion effects that were cut. You truly see how utterly monstrous The Thing is when it reaches large size, and the scene is mostly shot in shadow and low light which made it really effective.
Even though I'm a fan of stop motion, I didn't think the effects in the deleted scene looked all that great, and they didn't really jibe with Rob Bottin's practical effects. The few seconds that were left in the film don't really distract, but I think they were wise not to over-extend it.
i would kill for movies to go back to practical work like this.
I have a sort of list in my head of "Movies I'd Watch Again and Again," and this is right at the top. From the excellent script to the eerie soundtrack and the great special effects, it's a masterpiece of horror/science fiction. They just don't make them like this any more.
The thing's true form was never revealed, but that's difficult, because it becomes what it consumes.
Hence, "The Thing".
it waa reveales under the micro scope. its just cells like a virus, it accumulates mass to replicate other beings.
@@finalcam1740 your probably right final, something the size of a virus, with the ability to take over a whole organism.
@@vengeance2825 oh I know I forgot.
It's true form is a virus like organism that consumes cells imitates them then reproduces and the cycle continues so long as it has viable biomass
one of the most badass human vs alien scenes ever macready deserves a place in the horror movie hero hall of fame :3
When childs sits down at the end you can see his ear ring,so human.
The thing and alien and aliens, just cinematic gold.
What people need to remember is what made this movie great was not the gore and the kills, but the psychological aspect of it. Horror movies are meant to terrify and make you feel uncomfortable. Which is what this movie did exactly, and did it very well.
Kurt Russell and Keith David are awesome in the Movie
For those who didn’t hear, in 2012 John replied to a Twitter post about this movie, and said that one of the two in the end is the thing
then its McCready because childs has his earring.
@@snight01he could have put it back in
but the Video Game said Child died because of hypothermia
Edit: If one of them is the Thing, then it will contradict with the Video Game which Carpenter said Canon but if it was really a confirmed theory. Does it make the Comics and the Videogames not canon, this is such of an cliffhanger
It’s definitely Child’s because when he talks at the end you can’t see his breath in the cold unlike Macready’s
@@martyncawthorne9663the thing copies human cells perfectly, including the organs
One of the best horror films of all time all without CGI. I was lucky to see this in a movie theater that summer multiple times and went out directly and bought the soundtrack album.
My favorite horror movie. Complete masterpiece!
And it still is in 2023 :)
I agree it's a masterpiece but I like Lord of Illusions a bit more.
My favorite too. Definitely Carpenter's best work, truly a masterpiece!
@@MellowMutant isn’t it crazy that when it came out it was a critical and a financial flop?
@@Howlingburd19 right, I seriously can't believe why it flopped back then, mind blown
@@porkins_jr719 Lord of Illusions is overlooked by a lot of people.
If you listen closely when the The Thing roars, it's the same sound effect they used for the first King Kong movie.
Hard to believe this excellent movie was a box office flop in 1982.
One of my first cinematic memories of when I got cable back in the 80s! I used to watch this film religiously when The Movie Channel and HBO ran it!!
I find Gary’s death/assimilation so damn disturbing 😳!
Just imagine that he’s fully conscious, horrified and in agony yet completely helpless can he’s face is eaten and he can feel his brain being eaten/assimilates whild his friends are nearby completely unaware 😨😨😨
You ever seen "Leviathan"? Same deal there
When McReady asks how it’s coming along, the look on his face is so perfect. Realizing that he is alone, that it took over the others in the matter of minutes.
I'm not a horror guy usually. And I'm someone who gets bored of movies quite fast. There aren't many movies where I'm 100% focusing on the movie the entire time and time flies by so far. The thing is one of the top movies where I never lose tension despite the fact that I've watched the movie like 20 times.
My only nitpick about this movie is that the thing seems to be more dangerous and more intelligent when it's in disguise. When it shows its monster form, it kind of doesn't do anything, sits still and gets killed pretty easily.
that sound / scream on second explosion A|||||||||||||||||||||... fantastic
Macready's look of astonishment and fear after realizing no one human is left to hear him is so iconic
Fun fact: due to the low humidity in the air in antarctica, your breath wouldn’t cause clouds anyway
Eh..it's the humidity in your breath...which is high.
4:33 best line in the movie
4:28 There was a deleted scene of the creature in full stop-motion animation
1:39: Probably one of the scariest things I have ever scene. The music combined with the visuals is terrifying. Reminds me of that one scene from Mulholland Drive.
someone said „The Thing“ is the best horror movie ever, not because of the gore, because of the consistent discomfort of everybody, the audience too! Nobody knows who The Thing is until the end in this isolated arctic station where nobody is able to escape.
Tarantino said that.
exact copy of what tarantino said
Tarantino
dude just straight up copied another comment but just replaced Tarantino with “someone said”
@@souljacrankthat so what..eh
1982, when I was 10 years old and of course I saw this movie in theater.
Since then, I couldn't go outside at the night. Even downstairs also.
So scare for me to go over to spooky place.
Sometime still I can't in 2024.
Love this movie ! Seen it in the theater when it came out . Possibly the best horror / sci-fi of all time !
The music in the background of the film was perfect. There's really no hope; no help is coming. Just a terrifying wait. McReady said it best, "None of us is getting out of here alive." (paraphrasing); they all knew they were not going to make it. Amazing film; casting, acting, directing. Gold standard.
One of my alltime favorite movies. The reason why I love it so much is the suspense and atmosphere but I've never understood why everyone is constantly praising the special effects. I actually never thought they looked that good. Some of them do, but I always thought some look pretty horrible. You can see from a mile that it's a bunch of plastic. Even back when I was a kid I thought some of the effects did not look that good. One of my personal favorite special effects is the intro flying disc. I think that one looks spectacular. I love the disk in the movie when actors are standing on top of it. I love some parts where the effects are used on a smaller scale like when that character is caught transforming and they burn him outside the station. I can't remember the name of the character. The effects I don't like are the ones on the big scale like this one or the one where that stuff cralws out of the stomach of that character they're trying to resesitate. One of the problems of using practical fx is the animation. Sometimes they'll look good but the animation will give it away.
Childs and Macready are both humans since they both have a glimmer in their eyes. The only reason why you can't see Child's glimmer is because his eyes are half-open but once he fully opens them, then you can see it.
The glimmer was only used in the palmer scene and pretty sure john debunked this still good theroy though
I'd love to see in the future a movie tackling the scenario of the Thing being taken to warm populated area. Just to see how mad that organism can become while having access to millions of living beings, human and animals alike.
That’s where “The Blob (1988)” comes in but I hear ya. 😮 I would venture it would be doomsday should that happen. Imagine it infecting Miami or Cancun! 😮
This is my favorite horror movie of all time. I've watched it countless number of times, and no matter how many times I've watched it, it still gives me the creeps. The SFX in this movie is just top notch!
4:34 best retort in cinema history
4:03 What a beautiful smile 😁 Such a good movie!
4:33..Best f-bomb ever thrown😂
This is what I believe happens and the order in which it happens after having seen the movie soooo many times lmao:
Norris was the first to be assimilated. Palmer was second, followed by Bennings, then Blair, then Windows after he's attacked in the blood test scene, then Childs is assimilated by the Blair thing, then Garry is killed on screen by Blair and assimilated, then Nauls is killed and assimilated (there is concept art to prove it, they just ran out of budget and cut it) and is the last to be assimilated during the run time of the film.
At the end, Childs is the thing and Mac is still human. Childs is wearing different pants and a different coat (proof of this is the coat room, which is where Childs was located before disappearing, was arranged differently after Childs left. There was a blue coat hanging there, but upon seeing the room after Childs is gone, the extra blue coat is missing. He was consumed and imitated by the Blair thing and lost his original clothing).
Windows dropped the keys when he saw the Bennings thing (you can hear them hit the ground) and Palmer thing picked them up and sabotaged the blood. Fantastic movie. I love that we can still make theories about it this many years later.
Have you ever noticed how the dog thing stares at Bennings at the beginning of the movie? then while everyone was sleeping the dog thing goes into Bennings room but then backs up and goes straight to Norris. It's something I picked up on watching the movies a billion times.
I saw this at a midnight showing in a theatre near where I was camping. We had no idea what the movie was about but we were on holiday and it was ok to bring in cans. The chatter and laughter in the cinema soon turned to shocked silence! Great way to expect very little and then watch the best horror movie ever.
An absolute all time great of a film. It scared me a lot as a kid, but kept going back to it. I also had the pleasure to watch this on the big screen recently, amazing!
the movie is one of the best ever made for the ongoing discussion. just go through the comments. after so long, its still being analysed and speculated on. What an achievement.
I’m really mad at myself for not watching this sooner, this is horrifying
1:39 He has the upper hand!
Alright I see what you did there
What’s scarier about the thing is that we don’t know how dangerous it truly could’ve became if it wasn’t stopped. It had absorbed only humans and dogs up until its death. Imagine if it escaped to new countries absorbing bigger things like lions bears gorillas elephants and hippos.
PURE MASTERPIECE IN SCI-FI CINEMATIC HISTORY! THIS MOVIE CAN NO WAY , BE "IMPROVED!"
I like to think that the Thing was an organism encountered by aliens who were then killed by it causing their craft to crash in Antarctica
6:00 when he responds to "you the only one who made it" by saying "Not the ONLY one", he has proved that he is not the thing
@2:06. The Thing is an A-Hole. It kills you by taking everything away from you, and drags you along as it finishes disposing of You completely. Worst than dying by mindless violence or an animal such a hyena or baboon IMO.
The thing"yep...that's me"
When Macready was saying, "why don't we just sit here for a little while, see what happens". I think he was referencing how the Alien was trapped in ice waiting idly to be uncovered.
Timeless Masterpiece.
Iconic movie.
Bravo maestro J.Carpenter.👍🤙🇺🇸
The final form is truly horrific and haunted my nightmares for years
4:10 is that supposed to be Naul's assimilated head or just a dog thing?
Resembles one of the half assimilated wolves TBH
Lets not forget the bleak very low key soundtrack, a masterpiece in itself.
John Carpenter himself has stated that to this day, he still doesn't know if MacReady or Childs is the Thing in human form.
wrong
I like to think that both Childs and Macready were human. But it doesn't matter at that point. Both were so consumed by paranoia and mistrust, that they couldn't work together, not even for mutually assured survival. So there was only one thing they could do, and that was to share a drink and wait for the Antarctica cold to do its work.
The scene of the explosion after the Thing is killed by the dynamite stick, you can hear not only the cries of the Thing, but also everyone else.
4:35 Such language…😳😱🫣
After the explosion when they cut to an exterior shot, that echo-ing scream from the creature is such a great touch.
2:46 the realization you are alone now but to be honest that's terrible teamwork they should stick together and if they cant they should keep talk to each other.