nominated for a razzie award, only to turn out to be the most perfect movie ever made. everything is absolutly perfect from the scenario, the setting, the acting, the OST, the SFX, the lovecraftian/psychological horror ... an absolute Masterpiece.
What makes this a great horror film is the effective atmosphere it was able to create. The cold and desolate Antarctic setting and the music complements it so well. We as the viewer feel just as isolated as the characters in the film and just as scared and hopeless. That's what's missing in horror films these days...ATMOSPHERE.
I agree with you all the way, most of the "horror" films today are all centered on the devil and demons. That's absolutely not even scary, because it's so saturated to the point that it has absolutely no atmosphere, character development, and so much more! Movie directors should step up their game and see fit to what an actual horror film should be- and not the half-assed and CGI shit that we are skeptical to see. I could go onto a huge rant, but I'll just keep it short- hopefully the movie drain will unclog todays repetitive excuses for "horror" or "thriller" films.
+bigleaguechew87 Yes. A little close-knit group, isolated and out of reach of all help, suddenly facing something straight out of Lovecraft. Some THING which could hide, consume and imitate your friends, then pop out without warning as a true Eldritch Abomination. Something so completely alien that the mind was numbed just to look at it. (Indeed, one particular character's calm reaction to one of the Thing's more nauseating parlor tricks is a significant clue that he himself was a Thing at that point in time. )
One of the greatest themes to one of the greatest movies. "Now, 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*CKING COUCH!"
Agreed. It really gives you a sense of their helplessness as they're trapped in by the polar climate. Very eerie and amazing. And now a couple of quotes: "YEAH, F**K YOU, TOO!" and "Anyone messes with me, and the whole camp goes!"
i know if you were all these things you would just attack me ,,,,,,,,,,,,so i know some of us r still human !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!----------now were going 2 find out whos who
Childs: You the only one who made it. Macready: not the only one. Childs: did you kill it. Macready: where were you child's. Childs: thought I saw Blair. Ran out after him. Got lost in the storm. Fires got the temperature up all over the camp. Won't last long though. Macready: neither will we. Childs: how will we make it. Macready: Mabey we shouldn't. Childs: if your worried about meMacready: if we've got any surprises for each other I don't think we're in much shape to do anything about it. Childs: so what do we do. Macready: Mabey we should, just wait here for a while. See what happens.
"Not for that thing, it wants to freeze...it's got no place to go. It just wants to go back to sleep and wait for the rescue team!..." This line alone is harrowing...great film Mr. Carpenter.
God, so many true fans here...I remember seeing this on 1st cinema release back in '82, I was 14 and mesmerised...the audience around me didn't know what to make of what they were seeing, as if witnessing a revelation. What a bumper start to the eighties...first The Howling, then An American Werewolf In London, then...THE THING. Great times.
Fun fact: Rob Bottin did SFX for both The Howling and The Thing. In his early 20s. (And he was doing SFX on major movies starting at 17!) He would later go to work on countless other iconic films, including Total Recall (1990), Airplane!, Se7en, and Fight Club. How the fuck can you be that genius?!
@@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Ittothanks because I was wondering this one is slightly different that the one I used to know. But of course the great Carpenter and Howarth collaborated once again to give us another masterpiece of a synthesizer. Like they did before.
I remember watching this with my sister back in the day. It was the first movie I ever saw that actually scared me. It didn't help that it was snowing outside at the time.
You're like the only commenter that correctly points this is John Carpenter (and Alan Howarath), Ennio Moricone did not do this, he did the orchestral music, but Carpenter and Howarath did the synth work, which this is the synth theme.
Bloody hell, you've only got to listen to this track to feel your nerves slowly fraying, and that's quite aside from watching the film itself, lol! The Thing is without doubt the greatest, most unsettling, most claustrophobic, most paranoia-filled horror movie ever made, bar none - and I include the original Alien in that. John Carpenter didn't just make a masterpiece: he created a cinematic legend that is still unsurpassed nearly 40 years later. It doesn't get any better than this...it really doesn't.
If there was ever a perfect film this has to be close. Story 100%, actors 100% ,ending 100% ,theme tune 100%. It's so good it almost makes one think it's a mistake!
I know *EXACTLY* what you mean because I've always thought the same things myself. This film feels almost beyond reproach because there's just nothing to criticise, even down to the smallest details. Heaven only knows what those brain-dead critics were thinking of back in 1982 when they badly derided this magnificent film. Well, nobody remembers their names 38 years later, but everyone knows about this classic. The Thing greatly deserves the global cult following it's achieved over the years, and you can't say much more than that. An outstanding production and work of art.
My sister rented this movie when I was about five or so. It sacred the hell out of me at the time, but is one of my favorites now. It even inspired one of my novels.
I love the first 30 seconds of this. Has this helpless, dystopian quality to it. Horrifying movie with a really unsettling soundtrack. Definitely has to be one of the most unsettling movies of all time. One of the few movies I can never watch all the way through.
I've seen it more than a hundred times; first in the theaters when it was released; then on cassette twice every other weekend for over two years. I got to the point where I could tell just about who had been taken and when. I knew what was happening when two characters gave each other pointed looks in a crucial scene. The movie is and was amazing. :)
@@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto Thanks for letting me know. Though Ennio did contribute to the music. I had the honor of meeting both John & Alan. Nice guys!
John Carpenter did say one of them was assimilated. When Carpenter made the movie, he had a second ending to the movie (Just in case he needed to use it) in which, Macready is rescued and placed into a room and given a blood test and he passed it. Thus, Childs was The Thing at movies end.
john curtin I really like the conclusion to the blood testing scene; where Palmer turns and the others flip shit. Hilarious. What did you think of the ending?
john curtin I will absolutely watch Escape From New York. Yes I actually have phantasm, great movie really creepy, I didn't understand it the first time cause I was 12. I watched it again recently (still a little unclear about the ending) but I can honestly say I don't look at cemetery's the same anymore.
john curtin Oh yeah! The tall man was so creepy but I had an ridiculous fixation to the death sphere, I think it'd be cool to own one. Ever seen The Fog?
This movie scared the shit out of me on the crt back in the 2000s when i was a little child, my dad once put this movie on in the garage. The scariest part in this movie was the dog seen.
"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!" Totally awesome acting by everybody, and one of my all time favorite movies along with They Live.....
I have seen thins movie a million times but every time I watch it I get chills and watch 3 or 4 times a week the maybe a year break but always come back to it
Loved my time in remote Alaska ! Gave me time to think about what I had just gone through during my 3 years in Vietnam ! Something aboutbeing so isolated.....that the world as I knew it no longer existed.
After the blood test scene and Blair's hideout, when this song comes back on in the final act / when Nauls sees Blair run outside, then the lights go out around the camp. Gives me chills, because it's just so awesome. "It got back inside and knocked out the generator. In six hours, it'll be a hundred below in here." - "But that's suicide!" "Not for that thing... It wants to freeze, now. It has nowhere to go. It just wants to go to sleep in the cold until the rescue team finds it." - "What can we do?" "Whether we survive or not, we can't let that thing freeze again. We're not getting out of here alive... but neither is that thing. Maybe we'll just warm things up a little around here."
Thee most foreboding, and eerily doom inducing theme I've ever heard. An Ennio Morricone masterpiece!! Next to "The good,bad and ugly" his best score imo! One of the greatest sci-fi horror movies ever made. Great cast, great practical effects, score, directing, editing, story, cast etc,etc.....EveriyTHING about it!!!
John Carpenter knew what the hell he was doing when he did this movie. I was in my teens when I saw it in the early 90's. My dad had never seen it either and we watched it together one night and it was cold and raining (snow is rare here in Texas) but it still set the mood. And by the time it was over, we were both just jaw dropped. I did not sleep well that night. And to this day, this movie ranks in my top 5 all time favorites. I love showing this to people who had never seen it. And the soundtrack made it pure perfection!!!
Kurt Russell had told Carpenter that this film(The thing) wasn't gonna be appreciated for 20 years. Kurt foresaw what John couldn't. With better special effects and some more alien-attacking-man scenes, this film could have become the greatest horror ever.
It's actually Carpenter's soundtrack with Morricone's name on it. Carpenter rewrote most of Morricone's work. It prompted Morricone to ask Carpenter why did he hire him if he was going to replace 90% of it anyway. Carpenter kept Morricone's name on the soundtrack because a lot of the reworked soundtrack was based on Morricone's main theme. It should be noted Morricone specifically wrote that theme in Carpenter's style as a nod to the director and it was never intended to be anything more than incidental music.
@@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto nope. Morricone said in an interview his theme was an "imitation" of a Carpenter theme. All the composed music in the movie is his. However, there were a few tracks he composed that Carpenter cut from the movie.
Certain 80'S movies brings you back in time. You start thinking back to those 80'S feelings, the music, tv shows, the cars, the horror movies , the fashion, the slang, the girls/boys you liked growing up, junior high school, high school, college, trade school, events, the feeling itself of the 80'S. John Carpenter's the thing stood out from other horror movies. It's right up there with the movie Aliens. This theme music and Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th. Far as 80'S zombie movies. Return of the living dead! I hate to say it but some flicks you never forget for as long as you live. These flicks stays on your mind . You play it back in your brains. You press rewind. Revenge of the nerds, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, They call me Bruce, Terminator, Aliens, Police Academy, Krush Groove, One down two to go.
Never gets old since I was around 7 when I saw it on TV at grandma's, and still scares the crap out of me hearing the single bass thumping of the theme marking its ominous presence. It's so simple and yet its eerieness grip forever.. A wonderful rare case of not having to be complicated to be remembered. And The Thing is a masterpiece in every way, it's musical concept as well as it's practical effects in the movie is what made it come alive anytime better than crappy CGI that's overblown in movies today. Thanks so much for this timeless upload.
So pleased to read every comment, without the slightest fault of taste! It's so rare on TH-cam to meet a place "where particular people congregate"! Long life to you, Master Big John and thank you once again for this masterpiece you gave to... Humanity! ;) (With the assistance of the grumpy Maestro Morricone).
Never forget the first time I saw this. Such an epic film, and the music is so brilliant, and chilling. Too bad they don't really make great movies like this anymore. Today's movies are missing so many important elements....
phill mitchell big trouble was wierd for me as a kid I didn't like it but Alien and the thing made me prepare for something coming I would have my BB gun on the side of my bed ...
The fact that this got a "razzle award" should have told everyone what they needed to know about movie critics. Like seriously rotten tomatoes is the worst place to get reviews on movies and yet its so popular.
I saw this movie during initial theater release and this music has haunted me ever since. The main beat is a heartbeat; every time I pay attention to my heartbeat I can imagine the counter-beat playing along with it. :D
I have always loved this movie even when I was way too young to have watched it(my older cousins let me watch it with them; so long as I kept it a secret; and they were scared but my little mind was blown away) and I remember the college I graduated from was doing free movie showings for Halloween and one of them was this masterpiece Lots of students taking their dates to it and even though I have seen this movie dozens of times, it’s always a thrill and hearing everyone else in that theater reacting at the most famous moments just shows this will forever be one of the greatest movies ever made
The First bass is the human heartbeat, the second one is the thing trying to imitate it. At the end of the theme the thing finally complete it's imitation. The only thing you hear is a normal heartbeat, completely assimilated.
Yes the best sci fi horror film of all time, well so far. The 40th anniversary is round the corner, it would be good to see a cinema release if we can beat the virus.
This still is one of the scariest movies I’ve seen. Everything from the haunting score to the gruesome alien beings. I first saw this when I was like 7 or 8. It MESSED me up. I had nightmares for weeks that the thing was after me.
Back then, people were more drawn to E.T. and thus they hated this film because it came out 2 weeks in-between it. Good alien vs cruel and despicable aliens, ehhhhh, take a guess who people prefered.
Super theme JC , KL the legends, when I have not heard this , driving , long haul flights , and guess what the mystery of this theme always mesmerising me
This song always gets me in the mood for October/Halloween anytime of the year. Such amazing song WAY ahead of it's time. "He was human. That makes you a murderer doesn't it?"...lol
+sbrute66 It was in self defense. That what he killed was *human* just makes it blackly ironic; he kills one of the remaining humans while Things are freely roaming the base. That was the point that the situation started to spiral completely out of control, and it was also the point that the audience realized that Blair was both prophetic and correct: The only priority was keeping the Thing from loosing itself on an unprepared Earth. At *all* costs.
and to be fair the couch guy (i dont remember the name atm) shoots the norwegian guy in the beginning too, no one called him a murderer, it was clear self defense in both cases... AAAANd we are talkin about MacReady so Clark can clearly go fk himself
My absolute favorite horror film of all time, and not only does it entertain, but also lends itself to different theories and conversations like these (30+ years after!). There are 2 things that still elude me--when exactly was Blair infected? ("I hear strange things out here...")? And what exactly happens to Fuchs. I guess an infected BlairThing gets to him?? Theories?
John Hakes When he performed an autopsy on the dog monstrosity, he came in contact with the dangerous bacteria form the blood which covered his hands. (Fully aware that he wore gloves, but I highly doubt it would protect him.) He touched it without worrying about the consequences and thus he was infected.
+SharxShakudo 25 The part of the Dog-Thing he was autopsying was pretty much dead, it was not a source of infection. (Some of it DID get away and later reappeared, mashed together with the Blair-Thing for the final battle). There was a storyboarded scene with the Blair-Thing attacking Fuchs from the ceiling and devouring him, but Carpenter just couldn't get the FX to look convincing so the scene was cut, leaving Fuchs' fate ambiguous. (Ironically, only a few years later, the 80s remake of The Blob would actually do a couple of VERY good ceiling-attack scenes).
@@zjakoanwkqoqldndoo9264 you are correct, most people havent noticed it but during the autopsy of the dog look on his wrist, you can see he gotten a spot of blood on his wrist/arm
I read where everyone was careful around the dog(Jed)....he hadn't been trained long, and was part wolf. He never growled or barked, but if he stared at you for very long, you knew to back away.....slowly.
I don't know what it is about this theme music but its never left my history page. i listen to it late overnight when im up working sometimes. its like its actually speaking of utter hopelessness.
Ah, I remember the horrors of that rainy night when I saw "The Thing" in 1982. It was a whole new level of frightening, and it still sends chills down my spine. But nothing quite prepared me for the terror that "It" inflicted on me in 1990. Tim Curry as Pennywise was the stuff of nightmares, and his portrayal still haunts me to this day. Those two movies really shook my childhood!
I can not believe that this score was composed by Ennio Morricone. It sounds creepy as John Carpenter himself made it. Great movie and horror music....
The best horror movie of all time.
Yes
The Thing (2011)
Me: I want the Real Thing.
The Thing from another world.
Me: I said the *real* Thing.
John Carpenter’s *The Thing*
Me: Perfection.
The Thing may have a message for mankind.....we wait.
If its the best idk but its easily my favorite .
Alien is better IMO.
Not just one of the best horror movies of all time. It's one of the best movies of all time
Hell yess^^
one of the most famous ngl
Absolutely
Agreed.
Yup! If I had to pick 5 movies I could only watch for the rest of my life, this would be one of them!
nominated for a razzie award, only to turn out to be the most perfect movie ever made.
everything is absolutly perfect from the scenario, the setting, the acting, the OST, the SFX, the lovecraftian/psychological horror ...
an absolute Masterpiece.
One of the simplest but scariest track in the history of horror...
What makes this a great horror film is the effective atmosphere it was able to create. The cold and desolate Antarctic setting and the music complements it so well. We as the viewer feel just as isolated as the characters in the film and just as scared and hopeless. That's what's missing in horror films these days...ATMOSPHERE.
I agree with you all the way, most of the "horror" films today are all centered on the devil and demons. That's absolutely not even scary, because it's so saturated to the point that it has absolutely no atmosphere, character development, and so much more! Movie directors should step up their game and see fit to what an actual horror film should be- and not the half-assed and CGI shit that we are skeptical to see. I could go onto a huge rant, but I'll just keep it short- hopefully the movie drain will unclog todays repetitive excuses for "horror" or "thriller" films.
+bigleaguechew87 Yes. A little close-knit group, isolated and out of reach of all help, suddenly facing something straight out of Lovecraft. Some THING which could hide, consume and imitate your friends, then pop out without warning as a true Eldritch Abomination. Something so completely alien that the mind was numbed just to look at it.
(Indeed, one particular character's calm reaction to one of the Thing's more nauseating parlor tricks is a significant clue that he himself was a Thing at that point in time. )
+bigleaguechew87 Dude, what did Ennio Morricone not give effective atmosphere to?
bigleaguechew87 it's all cgi now gay
Could not agree with you more!! Alone, cold, dark and no help nearby.
One of the greatest themes to one of the greatest movies.
"Now, 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*CKING COUCH!"
Super quote!
attenti a Clark!
LMFAO
Agreed. It really gives you a sense of their helplessness as they're trapped in by the polar climate. Very eerie and amazing. And now a couple of quotes: "YEAH, F**K YOU, TOO!" and "Anyone messes with me, and the whole camp goes!"
i know if you were all these things you would just attack me ,,,,,,,,,,,,so i know some of us r still human !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!----------now were going 2 find out whos who
Childs: You the only one who made it. Macready: not the only one. Childs: did you kill it. Macready: where were you child's. Childs: thought I saw Blair. Ran out after him. Got lost in the storm. Fires got the temperature up all over the camp. Won't last long though. Macready: neither will we. Childs: how will we make it. Macready: Mabey we shouldn't. Childs: if your worried about meMacready: if we've got any surprises for each other I don't think we're in much shape to do anything about it. Childs: so what do we do. Macready: Mabey we should, just wait here for a while. See what happens.
I drove across Nevada listening to this over and over and over.
great soundtrack for that......
How long were you alone with that soundtrack?
@@hawker7488 I dunno, an hour? An hour and a half, why the hell are you looking at me like that for?
@@somerandomidio places a piedtry dish in front of you. xD
Wondering wich passenger to trust in your car.... :D
"Not for that thing, it wants to freeze...it's got no place to go. It just wants to go back to sleep and wait for the rescue team!..."
This line alone is harrowing...great film Mr. Carpenter.
God, so many true fans here...I remember seeing this on 1st cinema release back in '82, I was 14 and mesmerised...the audience around me didn't know what to make of what they were seeing, as if witnessing a revelation. What a bumper start to the eighties...first The Howling, then An American Werewolf In London, then...THE THING. Great times.
the possession is really creepy and should be recognized with the best of them.
Was not around since i was born in the 90s but man this movie is the best of all times.
Absolutely right
Fun fact: Rob Bottin did SFX for both The Howling and The Thing. In his early 20s. (And he was doing SFX on major movies starting at 17!) He would later go to work on countless other iconic films, including Total Recall (1990), Airplane!, Se7en, and Fight Club. How the fuck can you be that genius?!
The best time to be growing up
Rest in peace, Ennio Morricone!
This isn't Ennio. Ennio did the orchestral stuff, John and Alan Howarath did the Synthesizer music, which this theme is synth.
@@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Ittothanks because I was wondering this one is slightly different that the one I used to know. But of course the great Carpenter and Howarth collaborated once again to give us another masterpiece of a synthesizer. Like they did before.
It's snowing outside.
Perfect time to put this on loop. Where were you Childs?
I remember watching this with my sister back in the day. It was the first movie I ever saw that actually scared me. It didn't help that it was snowing outside at the time.
baggywhiskers its too realistic thats why
The 👌
That's the best time to watch this movie actually.
Damn
Carpenter is a genius at creating atmosphere with music. No other director even comes close to his brilliance at blending a music score to a movie.
You're like the only commenter that correctly points this is John Carpenter (and Alan Howarath), Ennio Moricone did not do this, he did the orchestral music, but Carpenter and Howarath did the synth work, which this is the synth theme.
John Williams
@@Dispreimdifferent type of score for a different type of movie. John Williams could not do better than John & Alan on this film.
"The generators gone Macready"
"How long to fix it?"
"Its gonnnnnnne!!!"
No other comment I've found talks about that. You are the first.
I can never tell if it meant it was completely wrecked, or if the generator was physically gone. Like packed it's bags and left.
@@stefanjevtic7175 the Thing most likely dismantled it to use in its spacecraft assembly
@@kibakim wtf
@@stefanjevtic7175 Most likely the Thing destroyed it and threw it somewhere, from the way Garry says the line it seems it's not there anymore.
For years I was convinced that Carpenter wrote this theme. It's incredible that Ennio Morricone dit it.
Its Ennio Morricone. Why be surprised? Dude's an old school John Williams.
Blows me away that he did it in Carpenter’s style.
@@maxfrankow1238 but it's not Ennio. ALL synth work is John Carpenter and Alan Howarath. Ennio did the orchestral music.
@@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto Correct.
It’s that time of year again:
“First goddamn week of winter,”
Time to make popcorn, wrap myself in a blanket and watch my favorite horror film.
Don't forget the beer and wine.
And chewing tobacco.
Bloody hell, you've only got to listen to this track to feel your nerves slowly fraying, and that's quite aside from watching the film itself, lol! The Thing is without doubt the greatest, most unsettling, most claustrophobic, most paranoia-filled horror movie ever made, bar none - and I include the original Alien in that. John Carpenter didn't just make a masterpiece: he created a cinematic legend that is still unsurpassed nearly 40 years later. It doesn't get any better than this...it really doesn't.
If there was ever a perfect film this has to be close. Story 100%, actors 100% ,ending 100% ,theme tune 100%. It's so good it almost makes one think it's a mistake!
I know *EXACTLY* what you mean because I've always thought the same things myself. This film feels almost beyond reproach because there's just nothing to criticise, even down to the smallest details. Heaven only knows what those brain-dead critics were thinking of back in 1982 when they badly derided this magnificent film. Well, nobody remembers their names 38 years later, but everyone knows about this classic. The Thing greatly deserves the global cult following it's achieved over the years, and you can't say much more than that. An outstanding production and work of art.
My sister rented this movie when I was about five or so. It sacred the hell out of me at the time, but is one of my favorites now. It even inspired one of my novels.
To this day this is still the scariest movie I've ever seen. Not only the horror but the psychological aspect that really eats away at you.
I love the first 30 seconds of this. Has this helpless, dystopian quality to it. Horrifying movie with a really unsettling soundtrack. Definitely has to be one of the most unsettling movies of all time. One of the few movies I can never watch all the way through.
I've seen it more than a hundred times; first in the theaters when it was released; then on cassette twice every other weekend for over two years. I got to the point where I could tell just about who had been taken and when. I knew what was happening when two characters gave each other pointed looks in a crucial scene. The movie is and was amazing. :)
I love the Bass for this. So simple, but managing to let you know that bad times are ahead.
Awesome. Clark: "I don't know what the hell's in there but it's weird and pissed off whatever it is."
The Thing and nothing more needs to be said. BEST MOVIE EVER
I still love watching "The Thing" and the sound track is amazing
"IT ISN'T BENNINGS!!!"
RIP Ennio Morricone
Not Ennio. Ennio did the orchestral music, John Carpenter and Alan Howarath did all the synth work, to include this track.
@@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto Thanks for letting me know. Though Ennio did contribute to the music. I had the honor of meeting both John & Alan. Nice guys!
@Peter M. Torres of course. Johnny is a KY boy, as am I.
John Carpenter did say one of them was assimilated.
When Carpenter made the movie, he had a second ending to the movie (Just in case he needed to use it) in which, Macready is rescued and placed into a room and given a blood test and he passed it.
Thus, Childs was The Thing at movies end.
Part of what makes this film's soundtrack so great is that it perfectly captures the fear of the unknown.
This is actually my comfort movie for when I get sick.
john curtin I really like the conclusion to the blood testing scene; where Palmer turns and the others flip shit. Hilarious. What did you think of the ending?
I like to think they neither of them were. Have you seen the prequel?
john curtin We have it but I've never taken an effort to watch it. is it good?
john curtin I will absolutely watch Escape From New York. Yes I actually have phantasm, great movie really creepy, I didn't understand it the first time cause I was 12. I watched it again recently (still a little unclear about the ending) but I can honestly say I don't look at cemetery's the same anymore.
john curtin Oh yeah! The tall man was so creepy but I had an ridiculous fixation to the death sphere, I think it'd be cool to own one. Ever seen The Fog?
Simply the best cosmic horror movie and one of the greatests flicks of all time.
The BEST sci-fi horror film of all time!
Classic for the ages!!! Never gets old.
This movie scared the shit out of me on the crt back in the 2000s when i was a little child, my dad once put this movie on in the garage. The scariest part in this movie was the dog seen.
"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!" Totally awesome acting by everybody, and one of my all time favorite movies along with They Live.....
One of my favorite lines too! Glad you brought it up!
Why don't we just wait here, see what happens
There was a sign there which tells u which of the two is the Thing
ThePonyDalek Giving Child's the bottle and he drank with NO problem lets McCready KNOW Child's is infected !!
Childs breath was " steaming" from the cold air like Mack's.
BLLLARRRR
Yeah at the end of the movie they both were so miserable and tired as fuck....but they both for sure wasn’t gonna even try to sleep.... lol
"Where were you Childs...?"
EmonaTheSheep FloofyTheFox Thought I saw Blair, I went out after him, got lost in the storm.
Emona I was looking for Nada from the movie they live.
Alejandro Olivas. I always felt like that was such a vague excuse. This is why I always thought childs was the thing in the end.
Edison Hernandez Na Childs was not the thing since Childs had metal in his teeth and ear.
@@WHALEDOGS9111 dont start now
It's the greatest movie of all time..
And the scariest of all aliens..
I have seen thins movie a million times but every time I watch it I get chills and watch 3 or 4 times a week the maybe a year break but always come back to it
Loved my time in remote Alaska ! Gave me time to think about what I had just gone through during my 3 years in Vietnam ! Something aboutbeing so isolated.....that the world as I knew it no longer existed.
After the blood test scene and Blair's hideout, when this song comes back on in the final act / when Nauls sees Blair run outside, then the lights go out around the camp. Gives me chills, because it's just so awesome.
"It got back inside and knocked out the generator. In six hours, it'll be a hundred below in here."
- "But that's suicide!"
"Not for that thing...
It wants to freeze, now. It has nowhere to go. It just wants to go to sleep in the cold until the rescue team finds it."
- "What can we do?"
"Whether we survive or not, we can't let that thing freeze again. We're not getting out of here alive... but neither is that thing. Maybe we'll just warm things up a little around here."
Thee most foreboding, and eerily doom inducing theme I've ever heard. An Ennio Morricone masterpiece!! Next to "The good,bad and ugly" his best score imo! One of the greatest sci-fi horror movies ever made. Great cast, great practical effects, score, directing, editing, story, cast etc,etc.....EveriyTHING about it!!!
John Carpenter knew what the hell he was doing when he did this movie. I was in my teens when I saw it in the early 90's. My dad had never seen it either and we watched it together one night and it was cold and raining (snow is rare here in Texas) but it still set the mood. And by the time it was over, we were both just jaw dropped. I did not sleep well that night. And to this day, this movie ranks in my top 5 all time favorites. I love showing this to people who had never seen it. And the soundtrack made it pure perfection!!!
One of the greatest horror films of all time! Every time I watch it I get goosebumps while hearing this!
Hard to think Morricone's work on this film was nominated for a razzie.
thats because they do now nothing about music,its like all those amateurs on the internet,they gonna tell you what is a good soundtrack and not,
Kurt Russell had told Carpenter that this film(The thing) wasn't gonna be appreciated for 20 years. Kurt foresaw what John couldn't. With better special effects and some more alien-attacking-man scenes, this film could have become the greatest horror ever.
What? This movie and the music associated with it is a classic!
TheDestint Really I think the special effects were fantastic. Still a thousand times better and more cringe inducing than CGI.
It's actually Carpenter's soundtrack with Morricone's name on it. Carpenter rewrote most of Morricone's work. It prompted Morricone to ask Carpenter why did he hire him if he was going to replace 90% of it anyway. Carpenter kept Morricone's name on the soundtrack because a lot of the reworked soundtrack was based on Morricone's main theme. It should be noted Morricone specifically wrote that theme in Carpenter's style as a nod to the director and it was never intended to be anything more than incidental music.
RIP Ennio
Not Ennio. Ennio did the orchestral music, John Carpenter and Alan Howarath did all the synth work, to include this track.
The best Sci-Fi movie ever made!
The perfect example of Lovecraftian horror on film, with an eerie soundtrack to boot.
Ennio morricone really knows how to do good music . This is some of the most eeriest music I,ve ever heard . And it,s a good film as well .
Not Ennio. Ennio did the orchestral music, John Carpenter and Alan Howarath did all the synth work, to include this track.
@@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto nope. Morricone said in an interview his theme was an "imitation" of a Carpenter theme. All the composed music in the movie is his. However, there were a few tracks he composed that Carpenter cut from the movie.
Still chills me inside.
Masterpiece of film and music.
RIP to Ennio Morricone and Wilford Brimley.
This isn't Ennio, Ennio did the orchestral music. This is John Carpenter and Alan Howarath. ALL synth music is from them.
@@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto Also The Thing turns 40.
@Bates1960 dear god...
@@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto The 80's had one of the best films. They don't make movies like this anymore.
@@Bates1960 likely never will either
The Thing is one of my top 5 movies of all time....the score is perfect for its atmospheric conception
Certain 80'S movies brings you back in time. You start thinking back to those 80'S feelings, the music, tv shows, the cars, the horror movies , the fashion, the slang, the girls/boys you liked growing up, junior high school, high school, college, trade school, events, the feeling itself of the 80'S. John Carpenter's the thing stood out from other horror movies. It's right up there with the movie Aliens. This theme music and Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th. Far as 80'S zombie movies. Return of the living dead! I hate to say it but some flicks you never forget for as long as you live. These flicks stays on your mind . You play it back in your brains. You press rewind. Revenge of the nerds, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, They call me Bruce, Terminator, Aliens, Police Academy, Krush Groove, One down two to go.
Never gets old since I was around 7 when I saw it on TV at grandma's, and still scares the crap out of me hearing the single bass thumping of the theme marking its ominous presence. It's so simple and yet its eerieness grip forever.. A wonderful rare case of not having to be complicated to be remembered. And The Thing is a masterpiece in every way, it's musical concept as well as it's practical effects in the movie is what made it come alive anytime better than crappy CGI that's overblown in movies today. Thanks so much for this timeless upload.
So pleased to read every comment, without the slightest fault of taste! It's so rare on TH-cam to meet a place "where particular people congregate"! Long life to you, Master Big John and thank you once again for this masterpiece you gave to... Humanity! ;) (With the assistance of the grumpy Maestro Morricone).
love those bass drone sound effects!
I always liked Blair... "Ah'll keell youuuuuuuu!"
ransax lmao!!!
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You’re sitting in the dark watching this with your dog and you suddenly notice …. He’s forgetting to blink
Or stands up on its hind legs and begins strutting towards you
@@Pontus2023 Never mind that, what do you do when it's guts start spilling out, grab you around the legs, and start pulling you in? ;)
Never forget the first time I saw this. Such an epic film, and the music is so brilliant, and chilling. Too bad they don't really make great movies like this anymore. Today's movies are missing so many important elements....
quite simply the best monster movie ever made, shame it cost Carpenter his contract with Universal, imagine what he would of created...........
alien was good
phill mitchell it s was cheesy and what it was a comedy ,but still remember kim katrrel
phill mitchell i understand ,thanks for reply
phill mitchell big trouble was wierd for me as a kid I didn't like it but Alien and the thing made me prepare for something coming I would have my BB gun on the side of my bed ...
The fact that this got a "razzle award" should have told everyone what they needed to know about movie critics. Like seriously rotten tomatoes is the worst place to get reviews on movies and yet its so popular.
It got the nom because it's very repetitive.
the amount of chills I get listening to this...
*Childs
With all the news of the Coronavirus, this theme gains a whole new meaning
Man is the warmest place to hide....
Its been decades
This song still gives me the creeps
Luv it !!!
In My Personal Opinion It's One Of The Best Horror Movies Of All Time If Not The Best I Loved The Original As Well As All Of The Remakes
It is indeed one of the best movie soundtracks of all time. So simple a score and yet, it can creep you out.
The thing is art and unique
Those 2 thumps give me chills every time I watch this movie
I re-watched the movie 10 times and counting. This theme still makes me nervous and uneasy. RIP Ennio Morricone you legend.
I saw this movie during initial theater release and this music has haunted me ever since. The main beat is a heartbeat; every time I pay attention to my heartbeat I can imagine the counter-beat playing along with it. :D
Theme is from Carpenter not Morricone. Only the orchestral versions are by him.
Not Ennio. Ennio did the orchestral music, John Carpenter and Alan Howarath did all the synth work, to include this track.
I have always loved this movie even when I was way too young to have watched it(my older cousins let me watch it with them; so long as I kept it a secret; and they were scared but my little mind was blown away) and I remember the college I graduated from was doing free movie showings for Halloween and one of them was this masterpiece
Lots of students taking their dates to it and even though I have seen this movie dozens of times, it’s always a thrill and hearing everyone else in that theater reacting at the most famous moments just shows this will forever be one of the greatest movies ever made
“Windows : Childs, what if we're wrong about him?
Childs : Well then, we're wrong!”
The First bass is the human heartbeat, the second one is the thing trying to imitate it. At the end of the theme the thing finally complete it's imitation. The only thing you hear is a normal heartbeat, completely assimilated.
Yes the best sci fi horror film of all time, well so far. The 40th anniversary is round the corner, it would be good to see a cinema release if we can beat the virus.
"I don't want to spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS F*** COUCH!"
This still is one of the scariest movies I’ve seen. Everything from the haunting score to the gruesome alien beings. I first saw this when I was like 7 or 8. It MESSED me up. I had nightmares for weeks that the thing was after me.
Absolutely brilliant music and film..ty..\m/
This soundtrack was nominated to Razzie Award for Worst Musical Score in 1982. Were they high?
Must have been! The feeling of creeping, slow-burn horror oozes from this musical score. One could listen to this for HOURS!!
Yeah, You´re Goddamn right!
Goes to show you how the fuckwits behind the curtains had no taste even back then.
I agree. In fact, the Razzie Award for Worst Musical Score was removed in 1986
Back then, people were more drawn to E.T. and thus they hated this film because it came out 2 weeks in-between it. Good alien vs cruel and despicable aliens, ehhhhh, take a guess who people prefered.
Morricone s music is amazing....
"Childs, what if we're wrong about him!!"
"You gotta be fckng kidding"
Simply one of Carpenters best!!!
This music is so eery and wonderful.
Um dos melhores filmes de horror da história. Um enredo que prende a atenção da gente do começo ao fim. Muito bacana.
"I don't what it is, but it sure is pissed off" - Clark
Best movies of all time
The movie is a classic, I never get tired seeing it. The music to the movie just sends chill as if you were on that base in the cold Antarctic.
Super theme JC , KL the legends, when I have not heard this , driving , long haul flights , and guess what the mystery of this theme always mesmerising me
The prequel ending into the beginning of this movie's opening was so well done.
The Thing will become you... and you will become The Thing!
Once you become The Thing, there's no going BACK!!
Oh and watch out for Tad Tucker! He's about to eat a family of rabbits!
There's no doubt that when you hear this score you'll remember the THING in an instant, it's an awesome musical score and nice and CREEPY to boot!!
Legendary this film
The spoiler is in the title, John Carpenter was The Thing all along!
This song always gets me in the mood for October/Halloween anytime of the year.
Such amazing song WAY ahead of it's time.
"He was human. That makes you a murderer doesn't it?"...lol
+sbrute66 It was in self defense. That what he killed was *human* just makes it blackly ironic; he kills one of the remaining humans while Things are freely roaming the base. That was the point that the situation started to spiral completely out of control, and it was also the point that the audience realized that Blair was both prophetic and correct: The only priority was keeping the Thing from loosing itself on an unprepared Earth. At *all* costs.
and to be fair the couch guy (i dont remember the name atm) shoots the norwegian guy in the beginning too, no one called him a murderer, it was clear self defense in both cases...
AAAANd we are talkin about MacReady so Clark can clearly go fk himself
My absolute favorite horror film of all time, and not only does it entertain, but also lends itself to different theories and conversations like these (30+ years after!). There are 2 things that still elude me--when exactly was Blair infected? ("I hear strange things out here...")? And what exactly happens to Fuchs. I guess an infected BlairThing gets to him?? Theories?
John Hakes When he performed an autopsy on the dog monstrosity, he came in contact with the dangerous bacteria form the blood which covered his hands. (Fully aware that he wore gloves, but I highly doubt it would protect him.) He touched it without worrying about the consequences and thus he was infected.
John Hakes Fuchs burned himself burned himself before the creature could assimilate and take his form fooling everyone.
+SharxShakudo 25 The part of the Dog-Thing he was autopsying was pretty much dead, it was not a source of infection. (Some of it DID get away and later reappeared, mashed together with the Blair-Thing for the final battle). There was a storyboarded scene with the Blair-Thing attacking Fuchs from the ceiling and devouring him, but Carpenter just couldn't get the FX to look convincing so the scene was cut, leaving Fuchs' fate ambiguous.
(Ironically, only a few years later, the 80s remake of The Blob would actually do a couple of VERY good ceiling-attack scenes).
@@zjakoanwkqoqldndoo9264 Agreed. after all he did touch his bottom lip with infected blood on the pencil.
@@zjakoanwkqoqldndoo9264 you are correct, most people havent noticed it but during the autopsy of the dog look on his wrist, you can see he gotten a spot of blood on his wrist/arm
I read where everyone was careful around the dog(Jed)....he hadn't been trained long, and was part wolf. He never growled or barked, but if he stared at you for very long, you knew to back away.....slowly.
they don't make them like this anymore.
Candy Cane ikr....this was some scary SHIT !! The music just enhances it !!!
now its silence then jumpscare
Damn, you got a hell of a stage name there.
It's a shame. Like music, things have gone downhill
I don't know what it is about this theme music but its never left my history page. i listen to it late overnight when im up working sometimes. its like its actually speaking of utter hopelessness.
WHY DON'T WE JUST WAIT HERE A LITTLE WHILE AND SEE WHAT HAPPEN'S!
Ah, I remember the horrors of that rainy night when I saw "The Thing" in 1982. It was a whole new level of frightening, and it still sends chills down my spine. But nothing quite prepared me for the terror that "It" inflicted on me in 1990. Tim Curry as Pennywise was the stuff of nightmares, and his portrayal still haunts me to this day. Those two movies really shook my childhood!
This movie was ahead of it's time the audience wasn't ready for it.
I can not believe that this score was composed by Ennio Morricone. It sounds creepy as John Carpenter himself made it. Great movie and horror music....