Also I feel Blair was infected when inspecting the corpse, as we know it infects through touch or fluids. And Blair just touched the corpse with something and then puts that exact thing to his mouth, thus possible infecting him.
"I know you gentlemen have been through a lot...and when you find the time, I'd rather not spend time watching any more of these clips...TIED TO THIS F**KING COUCH!!!"
Yes!! This just exemplifies Morricone's masterpiece work here. Double Yes!! on the scene in the kennel with Bennings being extremely creepy and dreadful. Why it wasn't worked in some how beats the hell outta me. I'm just thankful we have it to watch, over and over. Lol. Hands down the ultimate in film scoring.
It would’ve made the men mentally prepared which leaves out the suspense and dramatic irony since they know what they’re up against from the start. Better that they left that scene out.
I saw this film the day it came out. I took a girl on a date to see it, (bad decision). When the end of the movie came I noticed that the theater was missing quite a few people. They were all in the lobby upset and distraught. Yeah, it blew a lot of peoples mind. This was new filming territory and effects, and way ahead of the game on horror flix. Carpenter was smart, when he changed the monster to look different all the time. Unlike older movies where, once you see the monster, your no longer afraid. This is and will always be MASTERPIECE. The original Thing, is also pretty good. My all time quote is from Predator though. "I ain't got time to bleed"
@@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr woah, that's kinda strange. Are you guys still in good contact or did you just happen to find this video and this particular comment
It's a good thing they deleted that part, it wouldn't have made sense at all if they kept it around knowing that or that any of them dared be alone with it, like Bennings did.
I love how calmly the doctor is explaining the dead alien dog corpse on the table like the shit is a normal everyday thing, excellent movie by the way.
And actually, the actor was a hardcore cowboy/hunter in real life. There’s an interview with John or Kurt that they tell how much of a badass he was and everyone respected him on set. He was actually NOT impressed, but eager to jump into the corpse with both hands!
Well, I think that's on the outside only. Inside his mind was racing and he was panicking. He was fascinated, and terrified, and he saw what was coming pretty quickly. It drove him mad later in the movie because he's the type who deals with the worries this way. He kept up his research and knew they were all done fore, but he doesn't let that break his composure.
The Thing will always be one of my favorites and one of the best films. They don't make movies like this anymore. It's so fascinating to see all of the deleted scenes. Also the Norwegian blinked.
I wouldn't call that an alternate ending, it looks like B roll footage of the dog running from the Norweigan camp. The alternate ending has already been described: MacReady is rescued and receives a blood test, confirming he's human. It was filmed but went unused as a precautionary measure and would have been a complete and utter ruination of the beautifully bleak ending in the final film and thank GOD the studio didn't give enough of a shit about this movie to force the change. EDIT: Read the replies and see if someone's already told me about the ending of the TV version 7 years ago before you tell me again
I read that i ln one of the original screenplays, Windows and Fuchs sit in one of the destroyed buildings and play chess while they wait to succumb to hypothermia.
I know what alternate ending you describe and I thought the dog running was also unused footage from the Norwegian base but, perhaps not. I think that's a flying saucer behind the smoke
Yep, the dog running is B roll from the Norwegian camp scene, but it was actually used as an alternate ending in some television airings of the film (since the Norweigian camp set was actually the same set as the one used for Outpost 31, after it's destruction at the end of the film) indicating that The Thing survived somehow and took the form of the Husky because it was most adept at surviving in sub-zero temps.
FYI - I guess the scene starting at 2:02 was supposed to play out with Bennings getting stabbed to death through the back with a screwdriver, but the scene was dropped because Carpenter figured it was too much like something that belonged in a slasher like Halloween rather than a monster movie. I'm glad he made that decision, because the scene he did use that ends with Bennings being burned as one of the creatures is absolutely bone chilling! There was also an alternate death for Fuchs where he's found impaled to the wall with a shovel, but that was changed too for the same reasons, but a still shot of it remains. Somewhere out there is an alternate take of Palmer's transformation during the blood test scene, you can see clips of it in some of the TV teasers, he shows facial reactions rather than just a blank stare like the released scene.
John Staples: Yes, so it is claimed in the film. Trouble is, logic dictates that The Thing would have had to originate on one specific planet somewhere in the cosmos. Accordingly, unless it was a highly advanced species that had developed interstellar travel through its own efforts, one would have to ask: How did it escape its native environment in the first place? Of course, one could also ask: What does it look like when seen in its natural form, as opposed to imitating other creatures? A final, rather philosophical question might be: If the infection were to ultimately conquer the entirety of the universe, then what would there be left for The Thing to do? Just musing ;-)
I'd like to think its "original form" is just a bunch of semi-cellular goop that infects, assimilates and imitates others. Basically, no "true form" as people would imagine it, which I think would be even creepier ;) The original Novella the films are loosely based on called "Who Goes There?" does have an interesting description of the Thing's original form though. You can even see an illustration here based on said description: villains.wikia.com/wiki/File:The_Thing.jpg But, there's no reason to think that necessarily applies directly to Carpenter's film adaptation. It's just something to keep in mind. In Carpenter's Thing-verse, we still have no clue what the "true form" would look like, if it even has one ;)
@@Turrican60 Instead of escaping from it's own planet I'd say it's more likely it's planet was invaded and The Thing took over the invaders, aquiring their ships and the knowledge to use them.
I think that The Thing is a virus or a bio-weapon gone wild that killed the original pilot of the spacecraft and then it crashed on earth. So no "true form" really, just reproduction, assimilation and survival.
You know a movie is pretty damn good when even the deleted scenes are compelling......Check out the deleted scene in the first Godfather as well - they're excellent..
my brother in the 90s did a VHS collection he made for himself and for me and it had all the deleted scene put back in and there was only one scene he left at the very end he couldn't figure out where to put it and it really fit to end the set.
In the documentary Terror Takes Shape on the DVD, film editor Todd C. Ramsay states that he made the suggestion to Carpenter to film a "happy" ending for the movie, purely for protective reasons, while they had Russell available. Carpenter agreed and shot a scene in which MacReady has been rescued and administered a blood test, proving that he is still human. Ramsay follows this by saying that The Thing had two test screenings, but Carpenter did not use the sequence in either of them, as the director felt that the film worked better with its eventual nihilistic conclusion
not true the reason for some of these shots wear not showing cus they give to much away and j.c wanted to bas the whole film around the ending and make us fell parnoid tho out the movie which was up to us to decide what happens.
thefirstgalaxybeing There is a theory that states that Childs might be infected at the end cuz the bottle was filled with gasoline so the thing in him wouldn't have thougt to anakyze the taste. It would only want to blend in. That's why the original ending is better; it wanted to make us ask whether or not Childs had been infected.
M R Gaming true Bc first of all there is assumptions dying the bottle had gasoline in it which isn't true then john carpenter himself said the game is canon which you find child's and macready in the snow frozen
I really like the scene when McReady shows the ripped clothing Nauls found. The way McReady targets Clark, Norris reluctantly admits of wearing that size and Clark's sinister laugh just make the scene very tense with paranoia.
1:23 watching closely and seeing the saliva of the not-quite-dead dog-thing slowly start to drip... That's ominous as hell knowing what it's going to lead to.
He absolutely was. Don't forget they get to the blood test after this immediately. But as a human thing he was smart enough to use this opportunity to make himself look more human.
Fun fact: Bennings was originally supposed to be assimilated by the dog thing (or an imitation of the crew’s remaining sled dogs), so the deleted scene could be having him find the partially assimilated dogs that were left alone (the one that got shot and the half digested dog) and begin to fully assimilate and attack him. Probably having Bennings uneasy from the kennel scene, and having him scared frozen realizing the half-absorbed dogs are slowly coming to life.
My guess is that the Bennings scene happens during Blair's mental breakdown after he killed the dogs. Bennings reaches the kennel, sees the dead dogs then Blair stabs him from behind.
@@rocky4life167 the first to get infected is most likely norris, since he looks similar to the shadow in the dog scene, its most likely norris thing copied bennings reaction.
@@ghostlyflower9354 they actually wanted it to look like palmer, but they wanted it to not be obvious so they made it look a little like Norris as not to completely give it away
@@k9cobra728 that was super early in the movie production, the shadow is neither of the actors and they most likely changed their idea after a while so it reallly could have been either but the reaction isnt really a givaway that Norris isnt a thing, the thing likes to act as if it where afraid of itself, like in the scene where palmer doesnt want to go with windows, at that moment palmer is already a thing, so why not want to be alone with someone whi isnt a thing? i take it it was both an attempt to look more believable as a non thing and to also transform childs who may be more of a menace than windows.
While Blair speaks, they cut to Mac a few times. He appears to already know all of this somehow. Mac's actions bug me throughout the film. I love this movie.
Mighta been deleted because in that same scene, Blair goes, "It ain't dead yet." If they know it isn't dead, we wouldn't have gotten the fantastic scene with Bennings since I'm pretty sure they'd have torched the damn Thing
@@blightical Bennings was originally supposed to just be stabbed to death. When they decided to make him a Thing instead they probably added the Blair with his computer scene and redid this scene so that it'd make sense.
@@blightical nice one!!!!! I love how Copper delivers that line!!............................ another one of my favorites is when Macready goes to the shack to question Blair...he asks Blair "Have you seen Fuchs"? .......Blair says "It ain't flukes.... It ain't Fuchs
@@starfilmations Lmao. I especially liked it when Blair was being isolated and Mac was about to leave, then Blair said, "Watch Clark, and watch him close, do you hear bwee?" Brimley did so well with his character 😂😂
This wasn't the alternate ending. The alternate ending was a scene where MacReady is rescued and receives a blood test, confirming he's human. It was made to please the studios but was never intended to be used in the final cut.
@ Matthew Upson, I cannot stand the “final man/woman” trope. It’s overused to death, and I don’t know why people think it’s good. The only time I like that trope was in Alien, and only because I felt that Ripely was vindicated for being right all along. I don’t care if they make a sequel to The Thing, because I really don’t think MacReady destroyed all the possible Things in Antarctica, but leave MacReady and Childs’ fates alone. Don’t resort The Thing to a cheap ass Dollar Tree ending.
Back then everybody was a bunch of useless, entitled bitches that felt entitled to a happy ending. Just look up the initial reactions from these pansies: “Where’s the comradeship? The romance? The warmth? This movie is soooo cold!” Thankfully people stop bitching at first sight and realized that all that warmth, love, Care Bears nonsense would’ve fucked up the paranoid atmosphere that Carpenter crafted.
Great video. The scene with "Clark..." should have been in the final cut. I love it. This movie, Alien (1979) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) are my favorite Sci-Fi/Horror films in the world
some of these scenes really should have been kept. the long johns, the suspicious figure in the kennel, all could have upped the feeling of tension and fear between the characters, which was just as scary as the thing itself. oh well, the movie was still great anyway.
I agree Monica, especially the scene at 02:02 that was Palmer being imitated and was interrupted by Bennings walking through the door... That was an excellent scene...
ClayDog MadMan oh hell... that’s fucked up. That would’ve been amazing we would’ve known it was someone but not exactly who...Especially the way if you look at it the facial features are humanoid but distorted
Artificial Intelligence noooooo...The masterpiece would have been to have done what I meant to do. You should look up how bennings was originally supposed to die.
@marty uribe The monster that they found in the original had it's head splitting into two as you can tell by the morphed tongue. In the prequel, they creators just thought it was two heads from two different people
Apparently they were aware of this scene, they just chose to ignore it. They chose the name 'Lars' as being more obviously Norwegian. The actor playing Lars in the prequel doesn't particularly resemble the one in this scene either, hes much bulkier.
I remember seeing this film on TV as a kid in the 80's and could swear that the TV version ended with an aerial shot of the Rescue Team on the way to the camp.
I remember seeing a version with the deleted scenes except the Norwegian scene...but I'm gonna blame that on not having the creature yet exposed and scaring that memory into me for life 🤣😂
Maximilian Bernard the scene at the end with the dog running away was from the 2011 prequel and in the 1982 original it opened with a dog running. (Presumably bridging the gap between the 2011 prequel and 1982 original)
Well, Childes is VERY suspicious... And hé did drink the bottle. When just saliva or blood can corrupt you with the Thing, it mean he don't give a damn. Why? Because he probably is the Thing. And look at his eyes. They don't have light in them. MacCready lose at the end. The Thing is alive and he will die. Maybe be corrupted. Then, because they won't be responding, help will come. They will take the bodies for inspection and when they will return to civilisations with the bodies, the Thing would have win. It was it's goal all along. It could have killed all of the humans instantly, but it needed them to take him back to civilisation. It's goal was to scare them enough to make them run away (with it alongside them)... But MacCready knew it and force them to stay. Then, the Thing other goal was to corrupt MacCready or at least make his coworker distrust him and kill him. In the end, MacCready just make it lost a bit of time. But basicly, the Thing did win the "game".
@@josephcontreras8930 It's 100% possible, in fact far easier than it was in the 80s, but it wont happen. Practical effects, barebones soundtrack, less than beautiful actors, all male cast, ambiguity, sensible premise, characters that don't have the exact same ultra witty personality, simplistic action set pieces, no race or lgbt that can be shoehorned in, it just doesn't match the new criteria of films. Business has assimilated art. .
Ironically, Childs also said moments before "I guess then we're wrong" when he was asked about what would happen if they are wrong about MacReady being a Thing when they want to let him freeze to death.
John Carpenter's THE THING was the second movie version of the short story WHO GOES THERE? Published in 1948 as a compilation of short stories by John W. Campbell Jr. The original movie version was released in 1951 titled THE THING from Another World directed by Howard Hawks. Shasta Publishers then re-released the book as the Second Edition to coincide with the release of the movie. The dustjacket of the Second Edition features the title of the movie THE THING along with the WHO GOES THERE title which was, the featured short story in the book. I have a copy of the 1951 Second Edition with it's original dustjacket.
There are also a couple of early paperback editions of WHO GOES THERE which use the film's title THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD on the cover---one with an illustration of characters in parka coats standing around a block of ice with a strange creature in it (released by British company, Fantasy Books). Also, in all fairness, Christian Nyby can't be ruled out as being at least the co-director, especially as a number of people in the film have stated long ago that Nyby was on the set every day and took part in directing. On the other hand, there seems to be no doubt that Hawks was also there much of the time helping Nyby direct in his (Hawks') style. I have a feeling a lot of the actors preferred to have starred in a film directed by the well-known Hawks as opposed to the protege Nyby; It's not inconceivable that some of them even tried to give total credit to Hawks. We are hard-pressed---those of us who weren't there---to prove that Nyby did NOT direct significant portions of the film...and vice versa.
Sadly, that wasn't the real alternate ending. The real one was much, much longer and narrated. The narrator does good by using the line "Who goes there?" which is the title of the book that this film was originally based on.
Matter of opinion whether or not you liked it, yes. However, it's fact that Carpenter had zero involvement in that version you're speaking of. So I wouldn't really call it a true "alternate ending" to HIS movie in the sense that most of the time, alternate ending or deleted scenes were conceived/shot by the original director, and then left on the cutting room floor for whatever reason. When you have a studio, without your involvement, do an altered TV version of your movie, it's something a bit different than the usual context of that term, to me. It's still in the literal sense an "alternate version" but it's not one of John Carpenter's alternate endings/versions of the movie, which he did also have. I tend to stick to the deleted scenes/alternate ending that Carpenter also made when I use those terms in this context talking about the movie. When trying to talk about the TV version... hell, I just call it exactly that: the TV version, lol. It's not any of Carpenter's "alternate" ideas himself there though, at all, which is the point I'm trying to make. Context/connotation still matters ;)
I like a lot of these scenes, but 0:53 that one especially, I'm so glad that John Carpenter decided to go with Fuchs telling Macready about Blair's notes in the tractor outside, because that's so much more eerie to hear that information like that. It doesn't tell the audience, only suggests it. It's like Carpenter said "anything you show or tell an audience is nothing compared to what they can come up with on their own in a moment of suspense" 😊 2:02 is a wicked scene. It's full of suspense and ambiguity and only adds to the film, doesn't take away from it.
I've been a fan of this movie ever since first seeing it on videotape way back in the day. I wasn't aware of these features even existing. The original ending suited the film perfectly. I can see why it tanked though. It was released the same time as E.T. I read an article saying that back then you had in one film a sweet, cute cuddly Alien and you had this alternative one! It makes sense.
This has to be the best remake of an old movie ever, with the Thomas Crown Affair and some others I can't think of at the moment as being worthy of mention.
That Nordic man had only one job, to hit that damn dog, even if on moving platform, but come on, ot at least throwing grenates on that THING. but of course, wouldn't be a great movie to happen if that would happen
Finta Simon Well isn't it difficult to throw grenades accurately at a moving target on a moving platform? The Norwegians probably weren't trained for shooting or throwing, as the one with the rifle seemed to miss every time, and the pilot dropped a grenade after unpinning it, and didn't immediately run away.
Alan Dean Foster's novel(the thing, in case you're wondering!!!)is, truly terrifying in places!!! And BTW, I am a horror cynic and, I'm saying that!!! There may also be a book based on the John Carpenter film but, I haven't been able to confirm that yet...???
This and Alien are right up there as THE best sci-sci films of all time! - MILES better than the drivel Hollywood is churning out today! - And why?.......no cgi, all in-camera special effects and a simple yet effective story of isolation, paranoia and fear 👍
These scenes were included in the TV version as well as some voice over giving you a brief background on each of the team members. There's also a voice over in that last scene where the dog survives.
They should make a musical of this movie. Could you imagine McCready, Childs and the rest, doing a big musical number dancing and singing around the Blair thing, as Norris's head falls off and starts breakdancing.
ProjectFlashlight612 As bad as the prequel is, it shows that the Thing learns. In the Norwegian camp, it took on the humans head-on, but by the time it reaches the American camp, it's learned to let the humans quarrel between each other, only attacking if it was alone with a victim or simply had to.
The prequel is fine...but that's all it is, which is certainly not worthy of a prequel to this film. Having said that It's still better than most horror films made in the past 10 years.
@@artificialintelligence8328 I was puzzled by things like the saucer not matching the one in the Carpenter film, and some other inconsistencies. Bad decision to cast actors in the prequel who looked and behaved too much alike. And, again, the cg creature work was meh. Too much of the critters shown/too much on-screen time, as usual.
No he got infected later on while locked in the tool shed . He just went nuts because he realized what would happen if the thing got to more populated areas .
@@Shadowman820 No. He was infectés during the autopsy. But their are 2 type of infection in the movie. 1- absorbtion. The Thing kills you, eat you and copy you. Quick but messy. 2- corruption. If you absorb a fluid from the Thing (saliva, blood) you will be slowly assimilated. The Doctor understood this and break the communication materiel and lock himself because he knew he was transforming. Childe was corrupt when he smoke his friend weed. But it's a slow corruption. Probably take hours to really work. And the host don't know it until the end.
I seen this movie very young, possibly the first movie I ever saw in a theater (Drive-in). This movie terrified me and when ever I heard Stevie Wonders Superstitious it gave me the creeps and reminded me of this movie. Now its one of my favorite films and I love that song.
The Thing is one of those movies that has come to be completely reappraised critically over the years (along with its contemporary, Blade Runner - released the very same day - and others such as Bonnie and Clyde and Alien). It got middling to poor reviews at the time from critics who thought it was a schlocker/gore-fest. Most critics came to the opinion subsequently that it is a film that is primarily about paranoia. It is now very well regarded.
If you watch the behind the scenes video..You find out interesting things such as the outside scenes were filmed on location. All the interior scenes were filmed at the studio in Los Angeles in the summer. I think they did a great job making the characters look cold and n some scenes covered in ice etc.
"The thing's not dead, yet."
_everybody retreats_
😆
Bennings and Norris were like, "Oh fuck that." 😂
That line delivery tho
@JZ's Best Friend Du solltest deine Aggressionen in den Griff bekommen.
He meant it as there is still a thing among them.
Also I feel Blair was infected when inspecting the corpse, as we know it infects through touch or fluids. And Blair just touched the corpse with something and then puts that exact thing to his mouth, thus possible infecting him.
The Norwegian dude blinked at the beginning lol
That was Larry Franko, the executive producer, who played the Norwegian with the rifle BTW!!!
+William Van Parys III In the movie his name was Lars.
Maybe "Lars" was a, nickname???!!! More likely it was, a mistake lol ;)...
A nickname maybe but, more likely a mistake lol...
+Christian Frazier Well, you know, can't be dead all the time.
The norwegian blinked at the start, that's why it was deleted.
c21dickcracker And they couldn't have reshot this because...
c21dickcracker, nice catch! However, they could have started the scene a second later at the dog tag.
couldn't reshot, because he would blink again :-P
c21dickcracker
Not only that "Am I starting to look Norweigian to you, Bwana?" would be the corniest line in the movie.
+V Ling I thought it was kinda funny.
"I know you gentlemen have been through a lot...and when you find the time, I'd rather not spend time watching any more of these clips...TIED TO THIS F**KING COUCH!!!"
Lol good 1
Patriarchal Sun movie quote dipshit
Sonny Warner- One of the best lines in the history of Cinema.
Nice!
Sonny Warner One of the greatest lines in any movie ever
The scene with Bennings is really creepy, and the music plays a big part of that.
Morricone is a genius.
Morricone is definitely a master
It's an interesting part there as well, got me intrigued. I wonder who that was, and why was it cut from the film?
Yes!! This just exemplifies Morricone's masterpiece work here. Double Yes!! on the scene in the kennel with Bennings being extremely creepy and dreadful. Why it wasn't worked in some how beats the hell outta me. I'm just thankful we have it to watch, over and over. Lol. Hands down the ultimate in film scoring.
Jake Raymond I am pretty sure it was the scene where Bennings had his alternate death where he got his throat slit.Presumably by Clark
@@ZK-56 obviously for time...nothing really happens it just GREAT score...
’’What's it gonna do, put itself together and come chasing after us?" Great line, wish they kept that in.
It would kinda spoil what's going to happen because that's basically what it does, regenerate and hunt the rest down.
It would’ve made the men mentally prepared which leaves out the suspense and dramatic irony since they know what they’re up against from the start. Better that they left that scene out.
Mine too! i've seen it so many times, but still enjoy watching it.
@@robertbrook8552 Ditto! And I've warmed to the "remake" after the third watch. It's quite well thought out.
@@mishtaromaniello8295 yeah too much foreshadowing. I can see why they left it out.
"Am I starting to look Norwegian to you, Bwana?"
Childs is so muthafucking boss
Its Keith Mothafuking Davis
I'd say better than sam Jackson. And he was great in they live and the puppet masters. He's got a great voice for cartoons.
Keith David meet David Keith. I'd like to see those two in a movie together.
As good as samual l jackson Larry fishburne denzel Washington and idris Elba....
Every time I hear him speak automatically think about the arbiter
I saw this film the day it came out. I took a girl on a date to see it, (bad decision). When the end of the movie came I noticed that the theater was missing quite a few people. They were all in the lobby upset and distraught. Yeah, it blew a lot of peoples mind. This was new filming territory and effects, and way ahead of the game on horror flix. Carpenter was smart, when he changed the monster to look different all the time. Unlike older movies where, once you see the monster, your no longer afraid. This is and will always be MASTERPIECE. The original Thing, is also pretty good.
My all time quote is from Predator though.
"I ain't got time to bleed"
Another great quote from Predator: "If it bleeds, we can kill it." ;)
What did your date think of the movie? Haha.
EnnJaySee I didn’t like the movie I threw up lol
what do you mean bad idea to take your girlfriend? I bet she was all over you out of fear......;)
@@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr woah, that's kinda strange. Are you guys still in good contact or did you just happen to find this video and this particular comment
"Its not dead yet." I wouldve shat out my heart hecks naw
It's a good thing they deleted that part, it wouldn't have made sense at all if they kept it around knowing that or that any of them dared be alone with it, like Bennings did.
@@pan-jw2wf Augh he did fucking gross. man what a dumbass.
Also think it had diabetes.
@Razh 80 hmm
I can't understand a word you wrote.
I love how calmly the doctor is explaining the dead alien dog corpse on the table like the shit is a normal everyday thing, excellent movie by the way.
He was fascinated by it, as I would have been if I were a doctor. He'd probably already seen things in humans that would shock most people.
And actually, the actor was a hardcore cowboy/hunter in real life.
There’s an interview with John or Kurt that they tell how much of a badass he was and everyone respected him on set.
He was actually NOT impressed, but eager to jump into the corpse with both hands!
Well, I think that's on the outside only. Inside his mind was racing and he was panicking. He was fascinated, and terrified, and he saw what was coming pretty quickly. It drove him mad later in the movie because he's the type who deals with the worries this way. He kept up his research and knew they were all done fore, but he doesn't let that break his composure.
The Thing will always be one of my favorites and one of the best films. They don't make movies like this anymore. It's so fascinating to see all of the deleted scenes. Also the Norwegian blinked.
+Batesmotel1960 3 years for the whole wide world to be assimilated. XD
+Batesmotel1960 My favorite movie in the *ENTIRETY* of existence....!
+Batesmotel1960 oh god, blast him!!!!!
Rain Tuato'o kill it with fire !
but the remains will still show cellular activities...
First goddamn week of winter.dede9806
I wouldn't call that an alternate ending, it looks like B roll footage of the dog running from the Norweigan camp.
The alternate ending has already been described: MacReady is rescued and receives a blood test, confirming he's human.
It was filmed but went unused as a precautionary measure and would have been a complete and utter ruination of the beautifully bleak ending in the final film and thank GOD the studio didn't give enough of a shit about this movie to force the change.
EDIT: Read the replies and see if someone's already told me about the ending of the TV version 7 years ago before you tell me again
I read that i ln one of the original screenplays, Windows and Fuchs sit in one of the destroyed buildings and play chess while they wait to succumb to hypothermia.
You mean Macready and Childs?
I know what alternate ending you describe and I thought the dog running was also unused footage from the Norwegian base but, perhaps not. I think that's a flying saucer behind the smoke
Nevermind thats a smudge
Yep, the dog running is B roll from the Norwegian camp scene, but it was actually used as an alternate ending in some television airings of the film (since the Norweigian camp set was actually the same set as the one used for Outpost 31, after it's destruction at the end of the film) indicating that The Thing survived somehow and took the form of the Husky because it was most adept at surviving in sub-zero temps.
"It's Bennings!"
"It isn't Bennings!"
That was so sus
They just dont make them like they use to.
Ok boomer
the diamond kid ok zoomer
@@mikemeyer5973 ok micheal Meyers
the diamond kid ok the diamond kid
@@tarrahforcier477 I'm a zoomer and I agree with the boomer
FYI - I guess the scene starting at 2:02 was supposed to play out with Bennings getting stabbed to death through the back with a screwdriver, but the scene was dropped because Carpenter figured it was too much like something that belonged in a slasher like Halloween rather than a monster movie. I'm glad he made that decision, because the scene he did use that ends with Bennings being burned as one of the creatures is absolutely bone chilling! There was also an alternate death for Fuchs where he's found impaled to the wall with a shovel, but that was changed too for the same reasons, but a still shot of it remains.
Somewhere out there is an alternate take of Palmer's transformation during the blood test scene, you can see clips of it in some of the TV teasers, he shows facial reactions rather than just a blank stare like the released scene.
Andrew Tornadoboy
lol that would've been an awkward scene in a movie like this
Andrew Tornadoboy
Or maybe it was just Bennings finding the remaining dogs dead?
Yes. That inhuman roar is still chilling no matter how many times I watch it.
Artificial Intelligence no it was confirmed that the original scene was going to get Bannings stabbed with a screwdriver to the neck
No it's more than that, there's a still shot available showing the moment Bennings gets stabbed
“I’m I starting to look Norwegian to you Bwana?” - why did they cut they out? Hilarious! I love these!!
It could have imitated a *million* life forms on a million *planets*....!
scary what this creature can do
John Staples: Yes, so it is claimed in the film. Trouble is, logic dictates that The Thing would have had to originate on one specific planet somewhere in the cosmos. Accordingly, unless it was a highly advanced species that had developed interstellar travel through its own efforts, one would have to ask: How did it escape its native environment in the first place? Of course, one could also ask: What does it look like when seen in its natural form, as opposed to imitating other creatures? A final, rather philosophical question might be: If the infection were to ultimately conquer the entirety of the universe, then what would there be left for The Thing to do? Just musing ;-)
I'd like to think its "original form" is just a bunch of semi-cellular goop that infects, assimilates and imitates others. Basically, no "true form" as people would imagine it, which I think would be even creepier ;)
The original Novella the films are loosely based on called "Who Goes There?" does have an interesting description of the Thing's original form though. You can even see an illustration here based on said description: villains.wikia.com/wiki/File:The_Thing.jpg
But, there's no reason to think that necessarily applies directly to Carpenter's film adaptation. It's just something to keep in mind. In Carpenter's Thing-verse, we still have no clue what the "true form" would look like, if it even has one ;)
@@Turrican60 Instead of escaping from it's own planet I'd say it's more likely it's planet was invaded and The Thing took over the invaders, aquiring their ships and the knowledge to use them.
I think that The Thing is a virus or a bio-weapon gone wild that killed the original pilot of the spacecraft and then it crashed on earth. So no "true form" really, just reproduction, assimilation and survival.
You know a movie is pretty damn good when even the deleted scenes are compelling......Check out the deleted scene in the first Godfather as well - they're excellent..
my brother in the 90s did a VHS collection he made for himself and for me and it had all the deleted scene put back in and there was only one scene he left at the very end he couldn't figure out where to put it and it really fit to end the set.
even the deleted scenes are verry good. i also like the intestity of the scene with Bennings
Me too, chilling as hell
Me too ,chilling as hell
Creepy
In the documentary Terror Takes Shape on the DVD, film editor Todd C. Ramsay states that he made the suggestion to Carpenter to film a "happy" ending for the movie, purely for protective reasons, while they had Russell available. Carpenter agreed and shot a scene in which MacReady has been rescued and administered a blood test, proving that he is still human. Ramsay follows this by saying that The Thing had two test screenings, but Carpenter did not use the sequence in either of them, as the director felt that the film worked better with its eventual nihilistic conclusion
not true the reason for some of these shots wear not showing cus they give to much away and j.c wanted to bas the whole film around the ending and make us fell parnoid tho out the movie which was up to us to decide what happens.
thefirstgalaxybeing There is a theory that states that Childs might be infected at the end cuz the bottle was filled with gasoline so the thing in him wouldn't have thougt to anakyze the taste. It would only want to blend in. That's why the original ending is better; it wanted to make us ask whether or not Childs had been infected.
Arty the Great child's isn't infected.
M R Gaming true Bc first of all there is assumptions dying the bottle had gasoline in it which isn't true then john carpenter himself said the game is canon which you find child's and macready in the snow frozen
First thing: It was only childs.
The the Norwegian blinked in 0:03
Lol. That's probably why they deleted it
I noticed that too.
lol good eye
nick SOULE thats probably why it was cut
john mellor lol, that's what I said, great minds think alike, right?
I really like the scene when McReady shows the ripped clothing Nauls found. The way McReady targets Clark, Norris reluctantly admits of wearing that size and Clark's sinister laugh just make the scene very tense with paranoia.
1:23 watching closely and seeing the saliva of the not-quite-dead dog-thing slowly start to drip... That's ominous as hell knowing what it's going to lead to.
Life finds a way...
Wrong movie ;)
+Lucas here we will better say : man is the warmest place to hide
Lucas you completely missed the point..
#synchronicity
I wonder if it could find and assimilate a penguin, seal, whale, etc. and kill of marine life first.
@@ir8free jotaro would be angry about that 😂
"You've got to be FUCKING KIDDING ME!"
I wonder if Palmer was The Thing yet at that point. If so, it was basically The Thing reacting to itself! LOL. Very clever!
He absolutely was. Don't forget they get to the blood test after this immediately.
But as a human thing he was smart enough to use this opportunity to make himself look more human.
That Norwegian fucking blinked!
TrueLeonPriest He's not dead, he's just pickled...like a herring.
krelbar Or Lutefisk
TrueLeonPriest 0:34...looks like it has ...diabeetus
Fun fact: Bennings was originally supposed to be assimilated by the dog thing (or an imitation of the crew’s remaining sled dogs), so the deleted scene could be having him find the partially assimilated dogs that were left alone (the one that got shot and the half digested dog) and begin to fully assimilate and attack him. Probably having Bennings uneasy from the kennel scene, and having him scared frozen realizing the half-absorbed dogs are slowly coming to life.
My guess is that the Bennings scene happens during Blair's mental breakdown after he killed the dogs. Bennings reaches the kennel, sees the dead dogs then Blair stabs him from behind.
Skar100
True....
I thought he was killed in the back by clark
@@rocky4life167 why? Clark was human
@@samaelcoral7297 Yes, Clark was a human because he was killed by MacReady, I don't know why I wrote that
1:14
"That Thing's Not Dead Yet."
(Bennings, and Norris backs up)
That means they weren't the thing at that point
@@rocky4life167 Not really. Wouldn't it be a good cover to act afraid ?
@@rocky4life167 the first to get infected is most likely norris, since he looks similar to the shadow in the dog scene, its most likely norris thing copied bennings reaction.
@@ghostlyflower9354 they actually wanted it to look like palmer, but they wanted it to not be obvious so they made it look a little like Norris as not to completely give it away
@@k9cobra728 that was super early in the movie production, the shadow is neither of the actors and they most likely changed their idea after a while so it reallly could have been either but the reaction isnt really a givaway that Norris isnt a thing, the thing likes to act as if it where afraid of itself, like in the scene where palmer doesnt want to go with windows, at that moment palmer is already a thing, so why not want to be alone with someone whi isnt a thing? i take it it was both an attempt to look more believable as a non thing and to also transform childs who may be more of a menace than windows.
I just love the face the guys make when Blair tells them that its not dead yet; It was "Fuck this shit I'm outta here" in human form
The scene of Blair explaining the celluar structure is very important. I wonder why is it deleted?
While Blair speaks, they cut to Mac a few times.
He appears to already know all of this somehow.
Mac's actions bug me throughout the film.
I love this movie.
Mighta been deleted because in that same scene, Blair goes, "It ain't dead yet." If they know it isn't dead, we wouldn't have gotten the fantastic scene with Bennings since I'm pretty sure they'd have torched the damn Thing
SUBTLETY!!
@@blightical Bennings was originally supposed to just be stabbed to death. When they decided to make him a Thing instead they probably added the Blair with his computer scene and redid this scene so that it'd make sense.
Because of diabeetus...😎
When Blair said “it’s not dead yet” and they jumped back I laughed
I love it because that would be quite literally my immediate reaction as well
One of the best movies of ALL TiME!! It's a shame that most of the deleted scenes are lost...
They was more than this... 🤔
I've been watching this movie since 82, seen it likely 100 or so times but I had never seen this footage so thanks!
Hands down one of the best horror flicks I’ve seen from the 80s
Probably one of the best of all times tbh
Not just from the 80's silly 🤪
One of the best of all times.
Scanners.
@@RichWards-Wins meh
"Maybe we at war with Norway."
R.I.P. Richard Dysart/Dr. Copper 4/5/15
"Now wait a minute Garry! You've been in here on several occasions!"
starfilmations the guy who played Norris passed away
@@daccopp30 So has Donald Moffatt, who played Garry.
"Cabin fever, who knows?"
@@blightical nice one!!!!! I love how Copper delivers that line!!............................
another one of my favorites is when Macready goes to the shack to question Blair...he asks Blair "Have you seen Fuchs"? .......Blair says "It ain't flukes.... It ain't Fuchs
@@starfilmations Lmao. I especially liked it when Blair was being isolated and Mac was about to leave, then Blair said, "Watch Clark, and watch him close, do you hear bwee?" Brimley did so well with his character 😂😂
OMFG if Clark is not talking back to you ITS NOT FUCKING CLARK STOP FOLLOWING HIM ! lol
This wasn't the alternate ending. The alternate ending was a scene where MacReady is rescued and receives a blood test, confirming he's human. It was made to please the studios but was never intended to be used in the final cut.
@Jade Green Bullshit this movie did not need a "mega happy ending" as Wayne would say
@ Matthew Upson, I cannot stand the “final man/woman” trope. It’s overused to death, and I don’t know why people think it’s good. The only time I like that trope was in Alien, and only because I felt that Ripely was vindicated for being right all along.
I don’t care if they make a sequel to The Thing, because I really don’t think MacReady destroyed all the possible Things in Antarctica, but leave MacReady and Childs’ fates alone. Don’t resort The Thing to a cheap ass Dollar Tree ending.
Back then everybody was a bunch of useless, entitled bitches that felt entitled to a happy ending. Just look up the initial reactions from these pansies: “Where’s the comradeship? The romance? The warmth? This movie is soooo cold!”
Thankfully people stop bitching at first sight and realized that all that warmth, love, Care Bears nonsense would’ve fucked up the paranoid atmosphere that Carpenter crafted.
1) Alien 2) The Thing (1982)...best sci-fi OF ALL TIME.
Hey, I'm Mr. Meeseeks ,look at me!!!
OOOOOOhhhhh YEAHHHHH Can DOOOO!
He said simple: Mr. Meeseeks, I would like to take two strokes off my golf game :-D
1) Predator/ The thing 2) Alien
Michaël Colignon Wrong.
It's amazing how much difference adding music to a scene makes.
Great video. The scene with "Clark..." should have been in the final cut. I love it.
This movie, Alien (1979) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) are my favorite Sci-Fi/Horror films in the world
Three of my favorites. Hard to get younger people into IotBS '78 but it's still one of the best tension movies.
the deleted scenes are better than most finished feature films of today
Mój pierwszy horror jaki w życiu obejżałem, miałem 7 lat........trzy dni nie spałem :)
some of these scenes really should have been kept. the long johns, the suspicious figure in the kennel, all could have upped the feeling of tension and fear between the characters, which was just as scary as the thing itself. oh well, the movie was still great anyway.
Monica Mede that figure was Blair as Bennings discovered he had killed the dogs.
Monica Mede
As long as Blair doesn't kill Bennings. His death in the actual movie was a masterpiece.
I agree Monica, especially the scene at 02:02 that was Palmer being imitated and was interrupted by Bennings walking through the door...
That was an excellent scene...
ClayDog MadMan oh hell... that’s fucked up.
That would’ve been amazing we would’ve known it was someone but not exactly who...Especially the way if you look at it the facial features are humanoid but distorted
Artificial Intelligence noooooo...The masterpiece would have been to have done what I meant to do. You should look up how bennings was originally supposed to die.
I had a vhs with The Thing taped on it and it had all these scenes in it, including the alternate ending, and the norwegian blinking
2:55 The bald dude should've realized something was wrong when 'Clark' kept running away in a secret manner LOL.
That was a George Bennings dude, and we know that wasn’t Clark, that was the thing imitating him.
"Jans Bolan" According to the prequel his name was Lars. Guess the writers of the prequel didn't watch these, or read the original script.
Jans isn't even a Norwegian name (or a name period) - one of the many reasons this scene got cut.
Oh, hi Michael. Big fan of your work
@marty uribe The monster that they found in the original had it's head splitting into two as you can tell by the morphed tongue. In the prequel, they creators just thought it was two heads from two different people
@@ExValeFor It's dutch
Apparently they were aware of this scene, they just chose to ignore it. They chose the name 'Lars' as being more obviously Norwegian. The actor playing Lars in the prequel doesn't particularly resemble the one in this scene either, hes much bulkier.
I like how the second there are ripped clothes involved, macreadys like:
I kNoW iTs YoUrS cLaRk
I remember seeing this film on TV as a kid in the 80's and could swear that the TV version ended with an aerial shot of the Rescue Team on the way to the camp.
Never know, that's interesting
I remember seeing a version with the deleted scenes except the Norwegian scene...but I'm gonna blame that on not having the creature yet exposed and scaring that memory into me for life 🤣😂
Holy fuck... Imagine that the Thing survived, so in the end it was all for nothing... ;(
Maximilian Bernard the scene at the end with the dog running away was from the 2011 prequel and in the 1982 original it opened with a dog running. (Presumably bridging the gap between the 2011 prequel and 1982 original)
Honestly I don’t think that MacReady destroyed all the possible Things in Antarctica.
Well, Childes is VERY suspicious... And hé did drink the bottle. When just saliva or blood can corrupt you with the Thing, it mean he don't give a damn. Why? Because he probably is the Thing. And look at his eyes. They don't have light in them.
MacCready lose at the end. The Thing is alive and he will die. Maybe be corrupted.
Then, because they won't be responding, help will come. They will take the bodies for inspection and when they will return to civilisations with the bodies, the Thing would have win.
It was it's goal all along. It could have killed all of the humans instantly, but it needed them to take him back to civilisation. It's goal was to scare them enough to make them run away (with it alongside them)... But MacCready knew it and force them to stay. Then, the Thing other goal was to corrupt MacCready or at least make his coworker distrust him and kill him.
In the end, MacCready just make it lost a bit of time. But basicly, the Thing did win the "game".
@@etarver13 Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. That's the beauty of the ending we have: whatever you want to be true is the ending for you.
If they died in the Blizzard and one of them was the thing it means it got what it wanted: to be frozen. Which means it won and now will infect more
that wasn't an alternative ending. that was the Norwegian camp.
Wilford Brimley doesn't get enough recognition for his performance
*_I'LL KEEL YEW!!_*
@@coolguy02536 shit, that made me laugh out loud.
This was a great cast to start out with and they'll never reach that kind of greatness again.just like alien and star trek star wars.
@@josephcontreras8930 It's 100% possible, in fact far easier than it was in the 80s, but it wont happen. Practical effects, barebones soundtrack, less than beautiful actors, all male cast, ambiguity, sensible premise, characters that don't have the exact same ultra witty personality, simplistic action set pieces, no race or lgbt that can be shoehorned in, it just doesn't match the new criteria of films.
Business has assimilated art.
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He’s the second actor who comes to mind when i mention this movie. The first being kurt russel.
Childs said: "So Clark was human. Which makes you [McReady] a murderer." It was part of the plot that Clark was not a replication.
Ironically, Childs also said moments before "I guess then we're wrong" when he was asked about what would happen if they are wrong about MacReady being a Thing when they want to let him freeze to death.
I have this on DVD. Love it. The music track is brilliant. One of my favorite movies.
A little different dialogue there too. I am glad to see this. Never seen these before. Thanks 😊
John Carpenter's THE THING was the second movie version of the short story WHO GOES THERE? Published in 1948 as a compilation of short stories by John W. Campbell Jr. The original movie version was released in 1951 titled THE THING from Another World directed by Howard Hawks. Shasta Publishers then re-released the book as the Second Edition to coincide with the release of the movie. The dustjacket of the Second Edition features the title of the movie THE THING along with the WHO GOES THERE title which was, the featured short story in the book. I have a copy of the 1951 Second Edition with it's original dustjacket.
James Anderson Watched that one the other day! James Arness did a pretty good job playing the Thing.
There are also a couple of early paperback editions of WHO GOES THERE which use the film's title THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD on the cover---one with an illustration of characters in parka coats standing around a block of ice with a strange creature in it (released by British company, Fantasy Books). Also, in all fairness, Christian Nyby can't be ruled out as being at least the co-director, especially as a number of people in the film have stated long ago that Nyby was on the set every day and took part in directing. On the other hand, there seems to be no doubt that Hawks was also there much of the time helping Nyby direct in his (Hawks') style. I have a feeling a lot of the actors preferred to have starred in a film directed by the well-known Hawks as opposed to the protege Nyby; It's not inconceivable that some of them even tried to give total credit to Hawks. We are hard-pressed---those of us who weren't there---to prove that Nyby did NOT direct significant portions of the film...and vice versa.
Alan Dean foster wrote the screenplay book and it's good on its own too. As well as the alien book too.
Can't believe I've gone this long without seeing these.
The music in this film is phenomenal and the constant howling of the wind ....everything ( no pun intended) works in this film!
Sadly, that wasn't the real alternate ending. The real one was much, much longer and narrated. The narrator does good by using the line "Who goes there?" which is the title of the book that this film was originally based on.
Derek McCumber
"Butchering" is a matter of opinion. I happened to enjoy the "everyone loses" ending.
This movie is desolate and gives feelings of isolation. A Narrator would completely kill that feeling for me.
the 'ending' scenes in this clip just look like the dog shots from the very start of the film, ; i.e. Norwegian Helicopter chase
K-C Rhoder Sees the World! Yes, a matter of opinion. Its called subjective tastes
Matter of opinion whether or not you liked it, yes. However, it's fact that Carpenter had zero involvement in that version you're speaking of. So I wouldn't really call it a true "alternate ending" to HIS movie in the sense that most of the time, alternate ending or deleted scenes were conceived/shot by the original director, and then left on the cutting room floor for whatever reason. When you have a studio, without your involvement, do an altered TV version of your movie, it's something a bit different than the usual context of that term, to me. It's still in the literal sense an "alternate version" but it's not one of John Carpenter's alternate endings/versions of the movie, which he did also have. I tend to stick to the deleted scenes/alternate ending that Carpenter also made when I use those terms in this context talking about the movie. When trying to talk about the TV version... hell, I just call it exactly that: the TV version, lol. It's not any of Carpenter's "alternate" ideas himself there though, at all, which is the point I'm trying to make. Context/connotation still matters ;)
Such a great movie! Great to see these extra scenes :-)
I like a lot of these scenes, but 0:53 that one especially, I'm so glad that John Carpenter decided to go with Fuchs telling Macready about Blair's notes in the tractor outside, because that's so much more eerie to hear that information like that. It doesn't tell the audience, only suggests it.
It's like Carpenter said "anything you show or tell an audience is nothing compared to what they can come up with on their own in a moment of suspense" 😊
2:02 is a wicked scene. It's full of suspense and ambiguity and only adds to the film, doesn't take away from it.
One of the best horror films ever made. By far. Love the practical FX too. Still carries its weight after all these years.
I've been a fan of this movie ever since first seeing it on videotape way back in the day. I wasn't aware of these features even existing. The original ending suited the film perfectly. I can see why it tanked though. It was released the same time as E.T. I read an article saying that back then you had in one film a sweet, cute cuddly Alien and you had this alternative one! It makes sense.
Yep, it should have come out in November. Perfect movie around Halloween and winter.
"Alien" meets "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" :)
I just want to carry on talking about the thing for the rest of my life 🙃
Same here
This has to be the best remake of an old movie ever, with the Thomas Crown Affair and some others I can't think of at the moment as being worthy of mention.
Imagine how terrifying that would be if the situation were real, and the person you thought was dead just blinked. Good catch, by the way!
Chilling
That Nordic man had only one job, to hit that damn dog, even if on moving platform, but come on, ot at least throwing grenates on that THING. but of course, wouldn't be a great movie to happen if that would happen
Well, the Thing IS amorphous... who's to say it didn't get hit and absorb the bullet?
TheKray11
I always said the same.
TheKray11 But a grenate it's really hard to absorb even by the THING, but I get your point.
Those norwegians may as well have been shooting with pea shooters.. it wouldn't really hurt that thing.
Finta Simon
Well isn't it difficult to throw grenades accurately at a moving target on a moving platform? The Norwegians probably weren't trained for shooting or throwing, as the one with the rifle seemed to miss every time, and the pilot dropped a grenade after unpinning it, and didn't immediately run away.
This was interesting, never saw this scenes in the movie yet.
Thanks for making this :)
It is a very good story, I read it in book, too and it is much scarier in book than in movie!
Alan Dean Foster's novel(the thing, in case you're wondering!!!)is, truly terrifying in places!!! And BTW, I am a horror cynic and, I'm saying that!!! There may also be a book based on the John Carpenter film but, I haven't been able to confirm that yet...???
I must buy the book!
Released in the year of my birth. Small wonder it would become my favorite movie.
Same.
Same
This and Alien are right up there as THE best sci-sci films of all time! - MILES better than the drivel Hollywood is churning out today! - And why?.......no cgi, all in-camera special effects and a simple yet effective story of isolation, paranoia and fear 👍
These scenes were included in the TV version as well as some voice over giving you a brief background on each of the team members. There's also a voice over in that last scene where the dog survives.
The Thing war,ist und wird immer mein Lieblingshorrorfilm bleiben.Unübertrefflich was spezialeffekts und Schauspielkönnen angeht 👍👍
They should make a musical of this movie. Could you imagine McCready, Childs and the rest, doing a big musical number dancing and singing around the Blair thing, as Norris's head falls off and starts breakdancing.
"I am a Thing from outher space / I rule your butts and there's no how to scape", "la la la". Pure magic!
@@alfredokarraskarras 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Go check Legolambs
It's a great movie and good to see more parts of it
Best remake of the thing ever
I'm a big fan of this movie, so it's nice to see these bits and pieces...
Haha, the dead guy blinked.
0:03
I'd rather watch this clip 11 times in a row than watch the 2011 prequel once. Sadly, having seen said prequel I cannot now un-see it.
ProjectFlashlight612
As bad as the prequel is, it shows that the Thing learns. In the Norwegian camp, it took on the humans head-on, but by the time it reaches the American camp, it's learned to let the humans quarrel between each other, only attacking if it was alone with a victim or simply had to.
Frank Berst well alot of people have irrational hatred of prequels.
The prequel is fine...but that's all it is, which is certainly not worthy of a prequel to this film.
Having said that It's still better than most horror films made in the past 10 years.
@@artificialintelligence8328 I was puzzled by things like the saucer not matching the one in the Carpenter film, and some other inconsistencies. Bad decision to cast actors in the prequel who looked and behaved too much alike. And, again, the cg creature work was meh. Too much of the critters shown/too much on-screen time, as usual.
"It's not dead yet"
Oh hell no i would retreat as well
Nobody could imagine just a bit later...lookameee make a giant shark mouth out of a chest cavity!
WUT?!
The cellular structure scene was actually really cool.
Atari 2600 graphics.
This is great movie because it doesn't have any CGI horsesh#t in it.
The Thing is definitely CGI'd
It's crazy how good this looks in hd.
so great to see extensions to favourite movie
Obra maestra del cine en cualquier género. Maravillosa película.
I always figured Blair got infected during his Autopsy of the Dog-Thing.
No he got infected later on while locked in the tool shed . He just went nuts because he realized what would happen if the thing got to more populated areas .
@@Shadowman820 No. He was infectés during the autopsy. But their are 2 type of infection in the movie.
1- absorbtion. The Thing kills you, eat you and copy you. Quick but messy.
2- corruption. If you absorb a fluid from the Thing (saliva, blood) you will be slowly assimilated.
The Doctor understood this and break the communication materiel and lock himself because he knew he was transforming.
Childe was corrupt when he smoke his friend weed. But it's a slow corruption. Probably take hours to really work. And the host don't know it until the end.
I seen this movie very young, possibly the first movie I ever saw in a theater (Drive-in). This movie terrified me and when ever I heard Stevie Wonders Superstitious it gave me the creeps and reminded me of this movie. Now its one of my favorite films and I love that song.
I'd love to get a look-see at what caused Bennings jaw to drop at 3:15. Notice the dogs weren't barking.
*_"Am I starting to look Norwegian to you wanna, Bwana?"_*
😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝
This line would be problematic nowadays.
@@Raycloud >>> Political correctness is an abomination.....
theres a ufo at 3:53 in the smoke floatingaround in it until the end of the clip
It's a mark on the lens - you can see it move with the lens through the whole shot.
THOMAS CARNACKI It's most likely just a rock in the background, that's an overhead shot, so we are looking at snow and not a single bit of the sky.
@@freduncle9999
Happy Christmas, Freddie.
The Thing is one of those movies that has come to be completely reappraised critically over the years (along with its contemporary, Blade Runner - released the very same day - and others such as Bonnie and Clyde and Alien). It got middling to poor reviews at the time from critics who thought it was a schlocker/gore-fest. Most critics came to the opinion subsequently that it is a film that is primarily about paranoia. It is now very well regarded.
If you watch the behind the scenes video..You find out interesting things such as the outside scenes were filmed on location. All the interior scenes were filmed at the studio in Los Angeles in the summer. I think they did a great job making the characters look cold and n some scenes covered in ice etc.
that ending was from the edited for television version.
Those deleted scenes were added to the made for tv version that came out years back.
Archangel the Stylish
The TV version is awful :( in addition, the screen size is always so small
Along with the cheesy voice over naration.
Thank you so much for this. My fav movie. Saw it ehen i was 4. Haunted my my entire childhood. Love it. ❤
Clark must had gone the restroom very quick he didnt even say hello lol
MacReady called him a Norwegian, had to be deleted!
It shows what a true, remarkable artist John Carpenter really is in the editing process to generate the mood that sticks with us.