And it's sad that the studio trashed all the practicals for the 2011 film at the last.minute to go 100% CGI. Which was terrible for the FX artists too cause they had hardly any time to work on the details and what was released was unfinished and made the look very bad. The practicals we're absolutely amazing!
The best two sci fi horror movies of all time. Often copied but never better than those two movies. Both movies are true masterpieces of cinema horror. Still gives me the chills to this day. I saw Alien and the thing with my parents in the theaters. Perfection in cinema horror.
In my opinion 1982 is one of the best years for cinema. And John Carpenter's The Thing without a doubt is one of the best if not thee best sci-fi horror movies of all time.
Another often missed or unmentioned fact: the props department superb job with on screen firearms. The doctors little J frame S&W snubnosed 38. The bosses Colt Mk III .357 magnum revolver. The Norwegian weilding a .223 caliber HK 33 rifle and of course Kurt's Ithaca M-37 riotgun in 12 gauge. And not surprisingly Kurt carries it, like he's very familiar with it. Like combat comfortable. And the glass cabinet carrying at least one other similar Ithaca shotgun. Realistic armaments for this post Vietnam era.
I saw this movie as a young child in the theater, the original unedited and uncut version, and it was a waking nightmare for me. I could see those images in mind for decades afterwards. Thanks John Carpenter.
I'm so glad that the scene with the blow up doll was chopped out. That would have been terrible. There was an alternate ending shot. It was done just in case it didn't go well with test audiences with the ending we do have. It was "just to be safe" ending. So the alternate ending was showing McReady in a hospital getting a blood test, which he passes, so he's human. So he does in fact survive and isn't infected
Yes, the blow-up doll concept is terrible. After seeing that, it would have been difficult to take MacReady seriously. Something out of a Spy Hard movie, it seems. I'm glad that was removed from the movie since The Thing is not a comedy.
I saw that deleted ending once. Back in the hey-day of late night cable movies, one night a network station, either USA Network or The Sci-Fi Channel, showed this movie and several things stuck out. Two of them was that Blair-Thing talked when he was assimilating Garry, saying "I told you. No one's getting off of this base." And then the dog running away from the remains of the base and a narrator saying in a menacing voice "Its not over". I really wish I recorded that version of the movie since all these years later, no one has really seen that version or remember seeing it. It would spark so much talk just putting that version online
This version was shown one Halloween night on TV I remember in the kennel scene 2 remaining huskies escaping the paddock then at the end you see one running through the snow with a narrator or Kurt Russell saying it's not over I think this is a classic and I've watched it over 100 times.
There is reportedly another alternate ending scene where they filmed Macready having been rescued and passing the test for presence of infection. The footage has not been found and it is unknown if it still even exists in storage somewhere.
@@davidkeller340 its not footage but a comic book series that has that. It continues the story where MacReady and Childs survive and The Thing escapes to South America
The dog running away wasn't a deleted scene - the network that showed it didn't like the ambiguity of the ending so it was recut and footage from the dog pursuit at the beginning of the film was stuck on the end with an added voiceover.
I think Carpenter made the right decisions deleting these scenes. The axe deaths really don't make much sense plot wise (who's killing these people and why? It just confuses the story) and the blowup doll would just make McCready a creepy weirdo instead of a badass hero.
I went to the 1st industry screening of The Thing. The majority of the audience couldn’t handle the practical effects & freaked out. Re: Alternate endings: Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse had a doozy. The monster (Gunther) was NOT supposed to die. After his encounter with the giant cogwheel, he was supposed to resurrect, setting up the sequel. I know, because I wrote the script. Just subbed to your channel. Keep up the great work! All the best. Larry Block
With regards to Fuch's death....I remember seeing a 2 or 3 second longer scene once he's out in the snow and ice where he turns, see's someone and says 'oh, it's you...' or words to that effect. Does anyone else have a similar recollection?
There was one deleted scene that showed the crew examining the longjohns that Nauls discovered in the kitchen trash can, saying that it was a size large which would have likely confirmed that Norris was "Patient Zero" since Palmer has a lankier physique compared to him, and probably since Blair was still human by the time he was quarantined.
One day I came across an interesting theory in the comments, which says that Childs and MacReady are humans and none of them are infected. The fact is that each cell of the Thing is a separate autonomous organism that has two goals: assimilation and survival. Also, the Thing has increased self-preservation. And as the blood test showed, it reacts very instinctively to any threat that can kill it at the cellular level, be it fire or acid, and alcohol belongs to the group of poisons. Ethanol has toxic and deadly effects on the organism that can kill cells. At this moment, after Childs drank the bottle, he did not turn into a monster, and the smile on MacReady's face could mean that Childs had passed the "test" and he was not infected.
The other theory is that the bottle is still filled with petrol (when MacReady made Molotov cocktails), handed it to Childs and when he took a swig then confirms that Childs is a Thing as it doesn’t know the difference between petrol and alcohol, making MacReady smile as he knows
@@petercampbell8694 I don't remember any moment where it was shown that MacReady filled bottle with Molotov cocktail. And what's point of replacing bottle if they're both flammable?
@@petercampbell8694 That would mean Childs has never drunk alcohol before. Remember, when copied, the copy has every experience and memory the host has ever had including all strengths and weaknesses, including poison. It even copies health defects like Norris's weak heart.
The blow-up doll was actually in the theatrical release, I saw it, but McReady was just toting it around, he didn't blow it up on screen (that I remember). It was just there, in the rec room, and he left with it one time is what I really remember. I didn't think it was his personally, but he did leave the rec room with it in one scene. They were all joking around, before the horror began.
I saw this at the cinema when i was 15. Almost spat my popcorn out when the Husky tore it's head apart in the kennel. From that moment on a roller coaster. Still in my top 10 today.
I was 16 years old when The Thing came out and one of my friends saw it opening night and could not stop telling me and our friends all about it, he was beyond stoked. He knew that even though he'd told us all about it, we'd still shit ourselves when we saw it for ourselves. He even took us all to the drive in the next night and we stayed to see it twice, then we must have seen it at least a couple dozen times more that Summer. Drive ins and regular theaters, every audience went ape-shit. Greatest crowds ever.
@@UA-cam-tied A great memory like mine to have. Although i saw it in a stunned, dark cinema in Perth Scotland which is still open today and seen every great sci fi/ fantasy film there since. But yeh, me, my cousin and my older sisters boyfriend had a choice, The Thing, Fame The movie or Rocky iii or iv ( can't remember which one) and we chose The Thing. This was obviously pre internet and we knew nothing about what we were about to see. Hence the shock at the dog kennel scene and the roller coaster ride from that moment on. The movie finally got the love and respect it deserved.
This was the third film to be based on the novella Who Goes There by John W Campbell jr. The first was The Thing From Another World(1951) The second was Horror Express(1972). There’s a new remake in the works by Blumhouse & John Carpenter based on the complete novel of ‘Who Goes There’, which was only recently discovered. The full length novel is actually called Frozen Hell. It was retitled Who Goes There when chapters were cut out to shorten it up in order to publish it as a novella in a popular SIFI magazine in 1938, in order Mr Campbell to put food on the table. He would shortly be hired as the editor for that same magazine and stopped writing, except as editor/mentor in order to help some of his protégés including Isaac Asimov.
Cool. I just rewatched Horror Express and it reminded me of The Thing. I would rather Who Goes There? was the title for a remake taking place in the 1930s and nodded at the Hawks and Carpenter films in some way.
For those that are interested, check out "The Things", it is a short story from the alien's point of view. You can find some audiobooks of it on UA-cam.
Its amazing how they looked at little things from the first movie, to include in the new prequel. Like the bloody axe sticking in the wall that is seen when McReady and co walked through the norwegian campement. Its the axe that was used to cut the small cockroach like thing in half, and was left in the wall.
The Thing is a Masterpiece! I've been a fan since I first saw it back in '82 , re-watched it many times since, lost count. I was unaware of these scenes! Have I missed em off the BluRay? Anyway, excellent stuff! Facinating to see what could have been, I think Carpenter made the right decisions though in hindsight. Great vid 👌
You've probably heard about the un-filmed original ending of Alien, where the alien kills Ripley, then sends a message back to Earth using Dallas's voice- The studio threatened to fire Ridley Scott if he shot it. In another alternate ending, Ripley still kills the alien, but the final shot would have been the shuttle moving away from the camera to reveal an alien egg attached to the hull.
Fun Fact: The ending where Childs and McReady are sitting facing each other; you can see McReady breath, but not Childs. Carpenter in an interview said (paraphrasing) “It happened by accident because of the fire was close to Keith David so he had no breath. But I likes it because it made you question Childs even more and made the ending even more mysterious.”
Even though childs dont have cold breath that time it doesnt mean a thing in the story even the thing can breath cold air so it was already debunked no need to talk about again and again.
Back when VHS was a thing , all movies came more complete than what they re-release on DVD or Blue Ray. Something that I noticed because of my Up In Smoke movie. On my VHS version the jail scene is still part of the movie. In the DVD and Blue Ray it's been deleted out and put as a deleted scene. I bet every single movie released before DVD has chopped our movies up. It's sad and takes away from the nostalgia of the full movie experience.
@@johnquinn8796 I bought mine some years ago on Amazon from a 3rd party seller. Everything was good, manual, case and no scratches. Just messaged different sellers to see who has it all intact in good condition
If you want to know who was the thing in the final scene go watch Big Trouble In Little China and listen to the commentary with John Carpenter and Kurt Russell. Spoiler ALERT it isn't either of them....they are both humans
I had a nightmare which focused on this movie. I dreamt I was watching it but soon I was in it! The Thing was trying to get to my close friend & her boyfriend, K. I don't remember most of what happened other than we were running a lot & trying to hide. As I woke up I saw a bright red flashing sign in front of my eyes, ＪＥＡＬＯＵＳＹ I had no idea what it meant as I wasn't jealous of anyone. I thought about this for several hours. I decided to go to the shop where she worked as a beautician. Another friend was sitting in her chair getting a haircut. I felt safe to tell her about the dream I had & was now very concerned for her & K. She laughed it off, not unusual for her as she was a happy person & not serious as I am most of the time. A bit later her K came in. She threw both of us out. We went across the street to the restaurant where I repeated the horrible dream I'd had. He told me, "I've often had a feeling S______ would try to kill me if he got a chance". This was beginning to look like a novel so I deleted most of it knowing no one would probably take the time to read it anyway. My dream was somewhat of a premonition, I'd had these before.
If you can, see an original print in a theater. It will show you stuff that the theorists who only have seen small screen digital copies don;t see. Like the fact that you can indeed see Childs' breath
Blair was fully taken over by the thing early in the film when he went off the deep end,then gets locked in a tool shed when it's forty below zero outside and it doesn't even seem to phase him.
I watched this movie in the theaters several times. I remember that at a certain time I went to see it, and it had an extra scene. They actually entered the Alien Spacecraft. This was at the late 80's, maybe early 90's. Do anybody also remember that version with the spacecraft scene?
I thought I was the only one that remembered that. Yes! I saw a version where they briefly walked in the spaceship. I remember the interior kind off reminded me of the millenium falcon.
4:48 First time I saw this shot of the monster's head, I didn't notice the human face on the left. The side with the large fangs tends to draw attention away from it. They should have done a slow panning shot around the whole head to show it, because it's even more gruesome. Rob Bottin's work on these effects was fantastic.
They filmed this movie right on the USA and Canada border. Stewart in BC and nearby Hyder Alaska was thier drinking playground. Kurt Russell said thier travel to and fro the old mining sight on a bus to a peak near Stewart was often dramatic and hair-raising. Stewart was chosen because of its generous snowfall per annum. All production equipment was brought in over a winding and often dangerous poorly maintained road. Be well
I was born in 1982, first time I saw "The Thing" was around ten years later, and I was scared shitless and _very_ impressed at the same time. To this day I love to watch this movie every year or so. The claustrophobic and isolated setting just ring my bells, the story is quite complex (for a horror movie, especially the "Swedish camp part" adds a lot), cast and acting is superb and overall quality of the movie is great too. Of course one can clearly see it's age, but - c'mon - it is 41 years old, watch "Avatar" when it reaches this age... Definitely one of the BEST horror movies of all timies! And if you disagree: 5:25. Cheers!
As far as I'm concerned they could delete the whole movie I knew the man who was My best friend who created the original Thing for the 1982 remake and I watched it being created from start to finish you can look it up his name is Dale Kuipers.
I’m glad no women actresses were in this classic. I think that’s partially why the prequel flopped. The stress response men and women have are completely different and in this situation a woman crying would totally have placed the focus on her survival at the expense of the last man instead of on the fact that each of these men faced the fact of their own inferiority in the face of such a advanced alien. Perfectly written and executed. Can’t say the same for the prequel!
At the time I would have placed Alien above The Thing but as time has gone on I find I'm not interested in re-watching Alien but I can watch The Thing over and over. One of the all time greatest horror films...possibly the best.
I like The Thing but feel the same way about periodically rewatching Alien mainly due to Cobb & Gigers brilliantly convincing production design which immerses the viewer & still looks plausibly retro-futuristic today...
@@darania1 don't get me wrong, Alien is amazing and the only film where I wanted to run out of the cinema because of the incredible realism (at the time). I think, for me, the practical effects of The Thing continue to be icky but maybe it's also because Alien became horribly diluted by the poor (post Aliens) sequels. It might also be because The Thing is set in our time, I can associate with it more. Either way, it's an opinion and yours is as valid as mine :-)
@@crippsuniverse Well both Alien & The Thing are equally iconic movies which probably still tie for the greatest SF cosmic horror movies ever made. As both feature similiar plots about a group of hapless humans being relentlessly killed by equally lethal aliens. I also suspect both species share a hostile universe with the equally iconic predators & a dramatic film or series featuring all three species fighting an epic interstellar war of annhilation against colonial marines would possibly trump Star Wars & Star Trek for truly epic SF movie franchises...
There was a scene where McReady was saved and took a blood test proving he wasn’t assimilated it was filmed in case audiences didn’t like the ambiguous ending. There was also a scene where Palmer and Childs contemplate burning their marijuana plants in case the thing is able to spread through them. It’s not known why it was deleted but people think it might be because it would have been too comical or because Palmer was already assimilated at that point and it wouldn’t make sense for him to not attack Child’s if they were alone. There is a a screenshot of that scene but that’s all we have
@@jekw23 Not only IS it established in the 1982 film, but it's also established in the novel "Who Goes There". The Thing cannot replicate articles of clothing (therefore it cannot replicate jewelry) and can only assimilate "living" biomass. It cannot assimilate plants, corpses, food or compost. The Thing 2011 is a prequel to The Thing 1982 which is a remake of The Thing from Another World 1951 which is a direct adaptation of the short story "Who Goes There" 1938. Get your facts straight.
@@franknb7827 goodness you are all over the place. We’re not talking about prequels or origin stories or adaptations. Please humour me and evidence where it is established (tearing through your clothes when it takes you over doesn’t count) Just the facts PS: who goes there is not a novel
@@jekw23 Not only are you too dense to understand but I don't have the time to explain to you why Bill's theory, albeit flimsy and most likely a director oversight, is viable without the prequel film. The fact that you don't even realize The Thing 2011 is a prequel kind of makes your argument moot.
@@franknb7827 at least you had the time to write a patronizing message explaining that you don’t have time to explain yourself. I should not have to explain that you do not judge a 1982 film based on element introduced almost thirty years later by an entirely different group of people. Unless Carpenter or Lancaster factored an element in you don’t retrospectively apply someone’s else’s plot points (prequel or not). I’ll assume that since you can’t back up your own comments you’ve realised your error. No need to respond as I know you don’t have the time.
All good action movies must have a least one female cast member. Since a deleted scene shows one in vinyl form, we can have an alternate ending. While waiting to perish, they hear a noise behind them. They turn around and see, you guessed it, the vinyl love doll. The alien has taken the doll and assimilated it. The movie ends with the words, "Who's Next?" Please forgive me, as I do have a weird sense of humor.
Oh thank GOD IN HEAVEN they decided to leave out that stupid frekin' doll !.. Just have him glancing through a Playboy or something if you need to touch on that subject.
When a big-budget film actually loses money, then it can be considered a flop. The Thing made just under 20 million during it's initial theatrical release on a production budget of 15-ish million. Ergo, not a flop. Obviously, the studios would have liked a bigger initial haul but if any of them were the slightest bit prescient, they would have known that righteous bucks would start rolling in when the movie got a home video release. It's made a fuckload of money on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray (maybe Laserdisc as well.) I personally have spent at least a grand on the movie over the years, including seeing it about 2 dozen times in the theaters in Summer of 82, then all the rental fees and purchases over the years of various home media. Plus about another 100 bucks in t-shirts.
The Thing is one of the best sci-fi horror films ever made! E.T. is the main reason why The Thing didn't do well at the box office and only lead to other films such as Blade Runner, Rocky 3, The Road Warrior and Annie just trampling over it in 1982?
“A Cult Classic that Every Critic Hated” - not true. Gene Siskel, who as part of the “Siskel and Ebert” show was one of the two most influential critics at the time, liked it. I’m sure there were more
@@coyoteboy5601 Who pays attention to critics though? These days in particular, when there’s about a thousand self-styled movie critics on UA-cam alone, half of them just looking to get into a tizzy when they think they see something “woke” in a film
@@coyoteboy5601 BTW, all they had to do was insert the word “almost” into the title and it would have been 100% accurate. Not click-baity enough, though, I suppose
At the very end, you can tell who the Thing is. When MacReady is talking, you can see his breath from the cold air. When Childs speaks you see nothing. I think John Carpenter wanted people to see this. What happens after, we will never know. I hope they don't make a sequel. It will be awful, just like the prequel.
Omar, that's completely and utterly untrue. Child's breath is 100% there. See an original print, not a digital copy, and on the big screen. The lighting is different fir each character as well, but the breath is inarguably there.
I totally regret never seeing this in the movie theater back in the 80's I was in 11th grade. I dont recall even knowing about it, and I am a horror fanatic.
Macready had a blow up doll 🤭😆🤣 SO glad they took that out, because it wouldn't be my all time favourite horror film, instead it would have been categorized as B movie cheese. Have to say though, a doll can't be a "cheatn' bitch" 😅😝 It's a cool and creative decision to not have the Husky at the end. Ambiguity is golden.
The game that released in the early 2000s was a sequel to the movie where you play as a member of the rescue team that was mentioned. So yes. The Thing survived
The fact it's all practical effects is still astonishing
Rob Bottin’s masterpiece
And it's sad that the studio trashed all the practicals for the 2011 film at the last.minute to go 100% CGI. Which was terrible for the FX artists too cause they had hardly any time to work on the details and what was released was unfinished and made the look very bad. The practicals we're absolutely amazing!
also some Stop-Motion Animation
@@ROCKnROLL1406 true, with the real props. It's amazing
The thing and alien are the two movies i definitely watched over a thousand times ..
I'm always happy to hear that other people watch those movies as many times I have.
Same. Thing and Dawn of the dead.
The best two sci fi horror movies of all time. Often copied but never better than those two movies. Both movies are true masterpieces of cinema horror. Still gives me the chills to this day. I saw Alien and the thing with my parents in the theaters. Perfection in cinema horror.
Agreed.
Saw The Thing at the theater and Alien at the Drive in , so much fun back then , good new movies to see every week! Thanks!
In my opinion 1982 is one of the best years for cinema. And John Carpenter's The Thing without a doubt is one of the best if not thee best sci-fi horror movies of all time.
Premiered same day as Blade Runner, both flopped.
@@Studeb Was lucky enough to see blade runner at the cinema recently and wow if you get the chance seek it out fantastic on the big screen.
'82 ALL THE WAY!!!
1982 was definitively the finest year for cinema. The practical visual effects were the pinnacle of all times. Such a great year for movies.
I was 13 in 1982. Damn good year.
The thing is a masterpiece
I second that
Another often missed or unmentioned fact: the props department superb job with on screen firearms. The doctors little J frame S&W snubnosed 38. The bosses Colt Mk III .357 magnum revolver. The Norwegian weilding a .223 caliber HK 33 rifle and of course Kurt's Ithaca M-37 riotgun in 12 gauge. And not surprisingly Kurt carries it, like he's very familiar with it. Like combat comfortable.
And the glass cabinet carrying at least one other similar Ithaca shotgun.
Realistic armaments for this post Vietnam era.
I saw this movie as a young child in the theater, the original unedited and uncut version, and it was a waking nightmare for me. I could see those images in mind for decades afterwards. Thanks John Carpenter.
I'm so glad that the scene with the blow up doll was chopped out. That would have been terrible.
There was an alternate ending shot. It was done just in case it didn't go well with test audiences with the ending we do have. It was "just to be safe" ending.
So the alternate ending was showing McReady in a hospital getting a blood test, which he passes, so he's human. So he does in fact survive and isn't infected
Nice
Yes, the blow-up doll concept is terrible. After seeing that, it would have been difficult to take MacReady seriously. Something out of a Spy Hard movie, it seems. I'm glad that was removed from the movie since The Thing is not a comedy.
I seen that one as well as a thing Superfan I would love to know where I could get a copy of that alternate ending. Please respond
I think the blow up doll is the only thing cut I wish they would have kept.
@@emcsquared8681 Or at least is viewable.
I saw that deleted ending once. Back in the hey-day of late night cable movies, one night a network station, either USA Network or The Sci-Fi Channel, showed this movie and several things stuck out. Two of them was that Blair-Thing talked when he was assimilating Garry, saying "I told you. No one's getting off of this base." And then the dog running away from the remains of the base and a narrator saying in a menacing voice "Its not over". I really wish I recorded that version of the movie since all these years later, no one has really seen that version or remember seeing it. It would spark so much talk just putting that version online
This version was shown one Halloween night on TV I remember in the kennel scene 2 remaining huskies escaping the paddock then at the end you see one running through the snow with a narrator or Kurt Russell saying it's not over I think this is a classic and I've watched it over 100 times.
There is reportedly another alternate ending scene where they filmed Macready having been rescued and passing the test for presence of infection. The footage has not been found and it is unknown if it still even exists in storage somewhere.
@@davidkeller340 its not footage but a comic book series that has that. It continues the story where MacReady and Childs survive and The Thing escapes to South America
@@jeremyblackmouth3323 didn't they have a game called the Thing which continues the story of 1982? I think you should check the game too.
The dog running away wasn't a deleted scene - the network that showed it didn't like the ambiguity of the ending so it was recut and footage from the dog pursuit at the beginning of the film was stuck on the end with an added voiceover.
I think Carpenter made the right decisions deleting these scenes. The axe deaths really don't make much sense plot wise (who's killing these people and why? It just confuses the story) and the blowup doll would just make McCready a creepy weirdo instead of a badass hero.
I went to the 1st industry screening of The Thing. The majority of the audience couldn’t handle the practical effects & freaked out. Re: Alternate endings: Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse had a doozy. The monster (Gunther) was NOT supposed to die. After his encounter with the giant cogwheel, he was supposed to resurrect, setting up the sequel. I know, because I wrote the script. Just subbed to your channel. Keep up the great work! All the best. Larry Block
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With regards to Fuch's death....I remember seeing a 2 or 3 second longer scene once he's out in the snow and ice where he turns, see's someone and says 'oh, it's you...' or words to that effect. Does anyone else have a similar recollection?
Yeah...but that is why I wonder if I remember wrong.
No thats Friday the 13th the origianl movie. yellow raincoat? that actors resemblance fuchs is uncanny
@@Ainttnoway No. It's definitely The Thing - same lead into the scene and the full scene, just 2 secs longer...even with the flare.
@@DH-cw9itI saw it. Back in the 1980s.
One of the all-time best films. Stellar ensemble cast. Brilliant performances.
Still one of my favorite movies ever.
The ending is perfect. IMO, the best thing about The Thing.
As I always tell everyone, unmatched remakes. THE THING/THE FLY/THE BLOB. Got a new copy of Thing recently too 👌🏼🤟🏼👀
Yes definitely. The Thing & Fly are now highly regarded but the 1988 Blob is still one of the most underrated horror remakes of all time. Great movie!
There was one deleted scene that showed the crew examining the longjohns that Nauls discovered in the kitchen trash can, saying that it was a size large which would have likely confirmed that Norris was "Patient Zero" since Palmer has a lankier physique compared to him, and probably since Blair was still human by the time he was quarantined.
The blow up doll is better deleted
Careful with that! Because feminist will cancel you for burying the female lead aka the blow up doll
probability of the blow up doll providing a little light humour in the film...
One day I came across an interesting theory in the comments, which says that Childs and MacReady are humans and none of them are infected. The fact is that each cell of the Thing is a separate autonomous organism that has two goals: assimilation and survival. Also, the Thing has increased self-preservation. And as the blood test showed, it reacts very instinctively to any threat that can kill it at the cellular level, be it fire or acid, and alcohol belongs to the group of poisons. Ethanol has toxic and deadly effects on the organism that can kill cells. At this moment, after Childs drank the bottle, he did not turn into a monster, and the smile on MacReady's face could mean that Childs had passed the "test" and he was not infected.
The other theory is that the bottle is still filled with petrol (when MacReady made Molotov cocktails), handed it to Childs and when he took a swig then confirms that Childs is a Thing as it doesn’t know the difference between petrol and alcohol, making MacReady smile as he knows
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I don't remember any moment where it was shown that MacReady filled bottle with Molotov cocktail. And what's point of replacing bottle if they're both flammable?
Child’s is infected. You will notice that you cannot see his breath in the cold air while you can see McReadys
@@UndeadGunslinger1997 Maybe the bottles were already empty. MacReady did drink a lot.
@@petercampbell8694 That would mean Childs has never drunk alcohol before. Remember, when copied, the copy has every experience and memory the host has ever had including all strengths and weaknesses, including poison. It even copies health defects like Norris's weak heart.
This movie was such an outstanding fim! I watch it at least twice a year! Thanks for another amazing video!!!🙂👍🏻👍🏻
The blow-up doll was actually in the theatrical release, I saw it, but McReady was just toting it around, he didn't blow it up on screen (that I remember). It was just there, in the rec room, and he left with it one time is what I really remember. I didn't think it was his personally, but he did leave the rec room with it in one scene. They were all joking around, before the horror began.
Sorry, but you are incorrect. It is not included in the theatrical cut. I have it on DVD.
I saw this at the cinema when i was 15. Almost spat my popcorn out when the Husky tore it's head apart in the kennel. From that moment on a roller coaster. Still in my top 10 today.
I’m sincerely jealous.
I was 16 years old when The Thing came out and one of my friends saw it opening night and could not stop telling me and our friends all about it, he was beyond stoked. He knew that even though he'd told us all about it, we'd still shit ourselves when we saw it for ourselves. He even took us all to the drive in the next night and we stayed to see it twice, then we must have seen it at least a couple dozen times more that Summer. Drive ins and regular theaters, every audience went ape-shit. Greatest crowds ever.
@@UA-cam-tied A great memory like mine to have. Although i saw it in a stunned, dark cinema in Perth Scotland which is still open today and seen every great sci fi/ fantasy film there since. But yeh, me, my cousin and my older sisters boyfriend had a choice, The Thing, Fame The movie or Rocky iii or iv ( can't remember which one) and we chose The Thing. This was obviously pre internet and we knew nothing about what we were about to see. Hence the shock at the dog kennel scene and the roller coaster ride from that moment on. The movie finally got the love and respect it deserved.
Mine was when the chest cavity opened. I had no idea that was coming
Yeah.. people forget when that film came out... That was hight tech stuff... nothing was like that.. Alien was closest.
This was the third film to be based on the novella Who Goes There by John W Campbell jr.
The first was The Thing From Another World(1951)
The second was Horror Express(1972).
There’s a new remake in the works by Blumhouse & John Carpenter based on the complete novel of ‘Who Goes There’, which was only recently discovered. The full length novel is actually called Frozen Hell. It was retitled Who Goes There when chapters were cut out to shorten it up in order to publish it as a novella in a popular SIFI magazine in 1938, in order Mr Campbell to put food on the table. He would shortly be hired as the editor for that same magazine and stopped writing, except as editor/mentor in order to help some of his protégés including Isaac Asimov.
Cool. I just rewatched Horror Express and it reminded me of The Thing.
I would rather Who Goes There? was the title for a remake taking place in the 1930s and nodded at the Hawks and Carpenter films in some way.
For those that are interested, check out "The Things", it is a short story from the alien's point of view. You can find some audiobooks of it on UA-cam.
Its amazing how they looked at little things from the first movie, to include in the new prequel. Like the bloody axe sticking in the wall that is seen when McReady and co walked through the norwegian campement. Its the axe that was used to cut the small cockroach like thing in half, and was left in the wall.
show the deleted scene, dont just talk about it. what a waste of time
Exactly, pure bs this video
The Thing is a Masterpiece! I've been a fan since I first saw it back in '82 , re-watched it many times since, lost count. I was unaware of these scenes! Have I missed em off the BluRay? Anyway, excellent stuff! Facinating to see what could have been, I think Carpenter made the right decisions though in hindsight. Great vid 👌
You've probably heard about the un-filmed original ending of Alien, where the alien kills Ripley, then sends a message back to Earth using Dallas's voice- The studio threatened to fire Ridley Scott if he shot it. In another alternate ending, Ripley still kills the alien, but the final shot would have been the shuttle moving away from the camera to reveal an alien egg attached to the hull.
Fun Fact: The ending where Childs and McReady are sitting facing each other; you can see McReady breath, but not Childs. Carpenter in an interview said (paraphrasing) “It happened by accident because of the fire was close to Keith David so he had no breath. But I likes it because it made you question Childs even more and made the ending even more mysterious.”
Annoyingly I'm pretty sure you can see Childs' breath too, just not as clearly.
Even though childs dont have cold breath that time it doesnt mean a thing in the story even the thing can breath cold air so it was already debunked no need to talk about again and again.
The main theory is the bottle was an unlit molotov and contained gasoline. So childs drinking it proved he was a thing. I am still on the fence lol
@@Type_3_Screamer The movie is better for not confirming anything, it's about paranoia, and if you know, the paranoia is less interesting.
Childs has an earring so he's not the thing...
Yeah, I think the blow-up doll stuff was cut because it would have been f-ing stupid.
There’s a game that’s canon that confirms Childs died as a human and MacReady lives. Carpenter confirms it’s canon.
@Misanthrope would love to play it but it’s not backwards compatible on modern consoles
Yeah and he also signed off on the comic which is also different. Makes no sense
Back when VHS was a thing , all movies came more complete than what they re-release on DVD or Blue Ray.
Something that I noticed because of my Up In Smoke movie. On my VHS version the jail scene is still part of the movie. In the DVD and Blue Ray it's been deleted out and put as a deleted scene. I bet every single movie released before DVD has chopped our movies up. It's sad and takes away from the nostalgia of the full movie experience.
One of my top Sci fi/ horror movies of all time. Ps2 game based on " The Thing " movie is one of my top all time videogames as well.
I played that game for a long time. I recently tried to see if i could find it but no luck. I loved the sequel concept to that game.
@@johnquinn8796 I bought mine some years ago on Amazon from a 3rd party seller. Everything was good, manual, case and no scratches. Just messaged different sellers to see who has it all intact in good condition
Found it at a flea market for 7 bucks. You want to buy it off of me after I finish it?
McReady’s doll must love going to her favorite band, Air Supply.
The Thing along with Back to the future are pretty much perfect movies.
"Chilly" might be the biggest understatement possible when describing the Antarctic setting of this movie.
If you want to know who was the thing in the final scene go watch Big Trouble In Little China and listen to the commentary with John Carpenter and Kurt Russell. Spoiler ALERT it isn't either of them....they are both humans
The thumbnail looks like it reads "The Thingy" with how his jacket is positions after "Thing".
I had a nightmare which focused on this movie. I dreamt I was watching it but soon I was in it! The Thing was trying to get to my close friend & her boyfriend, K. I don't remember most of what happened other than we were running a lot & trying to hide.
As I woke up I saw a bright red flashing sign in front of my eyes, ＪＥＡＬＯＵＳＹ
I had no idea what it meant as I wasn't jealous of anyone. I thought about this for several hours.
I decided to go to the shop where she worked as a beautician. Another friend was sitting in her chair getting a haircut. I felt safe to tell her about the dream I had & was now very concerned for her & K.
She laughed it off, not unusual for her as she was a happy person & not serious as I am most of the time.
A bit later her K came in. She threw both of us out. We went across the street to the restaurant where I repeated the horrible dream I'd had. He told me, "I've often had a feeling S______ would try to kill me if he got a chance".
This was beginning to look like a novel so I deleted most of it knowing no one would probably take the time to read it anyway. My dream was somewhat of a premonition, I'd had these before.
What the hell?! You talk about the deleted scenes and pictures but don't show any of it!
I know right...
Clickbait, mate 🙄😕
@@prigmatus2012 Exactly!
YES!! FINALLY!!
Rob Bottin was in his early 20's when he created these visual effects. and they still make people weep to this day.
If you can, see an original print in a theater. It will show you stuff that the theorists who only have seen small screen digital copies don;t see. Like the fact that you can indeed see Childs' breath
Blair was fully taken over by the thing early in the film when he went off the deep end,then gets locked in a tool shed when it's forty below zero outside and it doesn't even seem to phase him.
I watched this movie in the theaters several times. I remember that at a certain time I went to see it, and it had an extra scene. They actually entered the Alien Spacecraft. This was at the late 80's, maybe early 90's.
Do anybody also remember that version with the spacecraft scene?
I thought I was the only one that remembered that. Yes! I saw a version where they briefly walked in the spaceship. I remember the interior kind off reminded me of the millenium falcon.
@@goldenboy2674 Yes, exactly! So I'm not the only one who remembers that scene. Thank you so much for your reply!
I would have said the same thing had I of seen a head growing legs " you gotta be fucking kidding " 😱😱😅🤣😂 Dec twenty two
R. J. (Ripped Jeans) MacReady, I believe, was The Thing throughout the end of the film all along.
@Misanthrope yeah, kinda hard to dismiss that
Classic
4:48 First time I saw this shot of the monster's head, I didn't notice the human face on the left. The side with the large fangs tends to draw attention away from it. They should have done a slow panning shot around the whole head to show it, because it's even more gruesome. Rob Bottin's work on these effects was fantastic.
They filmed this movie right on the USA and Canada border. Stewart in BC and nearby Hyder Alaska was thier drinking playground. Kurt Russell said thier travel to and fro the old mining sight on a bus to a peak near Stewart was often dramatic and hair-raising. Stewart was chosen because of its generous snowfall per annum. All production equipment was brought in over a winding and often dangerous poorly maintained road. Be well
Kurt Russell**
@@undeadmedia5343 thank you. Edited.
Funny thing the classic is a remake itself
I was born in 1982, first time I saw "The Thing" was around ten years later, and I was scared shitless and _very_ impressed at the same time. To this day I love to watch this movie every year or so. The claustrophobic and isolated setting just ring my bells, the story is quite complex (for a horror movie, especially the "Swedish camp part" adds a lot), cast and acting is superb and overall quality of the movie is great too. Of course one can clearly see it's age, but - c'mon - it is 41 years old, watch "Avatar" when it reaches this age...
Definitely one of the BEST horror movies of all timies! And if you disagree: 5:25. Cheers!
As far as I'm concerned they could delete the whole movie I knew the man who was My best friend who created the original Thing for the 1982 remake and I watched it being created from start to finish you can look it up his name is Dale Kuipers.
It is one of the best horror movies ever made 👏👏👏❤❤❤
I’m glad no women actresses were in this classic. I think that’s partially why the prequel flopped. The stress response men and women have are completely different and in this situation a woman crying would totally have placed the focus on her survival at the expense of the last man instead of on the fact that each of these men faced the fact of their own inferiority in the face of such a advanced alien. Perfectly written and executed. Can’t say the same for the prequel!
I thought the thumbnail said 'Thingy" for a sec and laughed my ass off.
Big Trouble in Little Chiney
Movies with great practical effects will always be better than CGI.
John Carpenter's Masterpiece.
I seen that deleted scene with the dog it was on TV in the early nineties and nobody believe me when I told them
The doll thing was stupid
You missed out the stop go animation towards the end of the movie that was cut.
Well done. Love the commentary!
It's the worst place 🤨🤔 they stoked in isolation from the hole world 🌎 it's so good movie 🍿🎥 happened 1 every 100 years 😅
At the time I would have placed Alien above The Thing but as time has gone on I find I'm not interested in re-watching Alien but I can watch The Thing over and over. One of the all time greatest horror films...possibly the best.
I like The Thing but feel the same way about periodically rewatching Alien mainly due to Cobb & Gigers brilliantly convincing production design which immerses the viewer & still looks plausibly retro-futuristic today...
@@darania1 don't get me wrong, Alien is amazing and the only film where I wanted to run out of the cinema because of the incredible realism (at the time). I think, for me, the practical effects of The Thing continue to be icky but maybe it's also because Alien became horribly diluted by the poor (post Aliens) sequels. It might also be because The Thing is set in our time, I can associate with it more. Either way, it's an opinion and yours is as valid as mine :-)
@@crippsuniverse Well both Alien & The Thing are equally iconic movies which probably still tie for the greatest SF cosmic horror movies ever made. As both feature similiar plots about a group of hapless humans being relentlessly killed by equally lethal aliens. I also suspect both species share a hostile universe with the equally iconic predators & a dramatic film or series featuring all three species fighting an epic interstellar war of annhilation against colonial marines would possibly trump Star Wars & Star Trek for truly epic SF movie franchises...
@@darania1 I think we'd both happily enjoy a beer or four while chatting about iconic sci-fi :-)
@@crippsuniverse Or mayhap several pints of klingon blood wine or romulan ale...😉
There was a scene where McReady was saved and took a blood test proving he wasn’t assimilated it was filmed in case audiences didn’t like the ambiguous ending. There was also a scene where Palmer and Childs contemplate burning their marijuana plants in case the thing is able to spread through them. It’s not known why it was deleted but people think it might be because it would have been too comical or because Palmer was already assimilated at that point and it wouldn’t make sense for him to not attack Child’s if they were alone. There is a a screenshot of that scene but that’s all we have
Childs wears an earring in his right ear, he must be human.
Thank you for calling The Thing a masterpiece .
Well, at the end, you KNOW Childs is not The Thing, he has an earring in and The Thing cannot replicate inorganic material.
Not established in the film. You can’t retroactively apply plot points from the sequel and apply it to the original.
@@jekw23 Not only IS it established in the 1982 film, but it's also established in the novel "Who Goes There". The Thing cannot replicate articles of clothing (therefore it cannot replicate jewelry) and can only assimilate "living" biomass. It cannot assimilate plants, corpses, food or compost. The Thing 2011 is a prequel to The Thing 1982 which is a remake of The Thing from Another World 1951 which is a direct adaptation of the short story "Who Goes There" 1938. Get your facts straight.
@@franknb7827 goodness you are all over the place. We’re not talking about prequels or origin stories or adaptations.
Please humour me and evidence where it is established (tearing through your clothes when it takes you over doesn’t count)
Just the facts
PS: who goes there is not a novel
@@jekw23 Not only are you too dense to understand but I don't have the time to explain to you why Bill's theory, albeit flimsy and most likely a director oversight, is viable without the prequel film. The fact that you don't even realize The Thing 2011 is a prequel kind of makes your argument moot.
@@franknb7827 at least you had the time to write a patronizing message explaining that you don’t have time to explain yourself.
I should not have to explain that you do not judge a 1982 film based on element introduced almost thirty years later by an entirely different group of people. Unless Carpenter or Lancaster factored an element in you don’t retrospectively apply someone’s else’s plot points (prequel or not).
I’ll assume that since you can’t back up your own comments you’ve realised your error. No need to respond as I know you don’t have the time.
All good action movies must have a least one female cast member. Since a deleted scene shows one in vinyl form, we can have an alternate ending. While waiting to perish, they hear a noise behind them. They turn around and see, you guessed it, the vinyl love doll. The alien has taken the doll and assimilated it. The movie ends with the words, "Who's Next?" Please forgive me, as I do have a weird sense of humor.
Every Deleted Scene - BAD Joke
It’s a fuckn sitting with your mates after watching Newcastle get beat again, having a drink accompanied with big lad’s tabs. Proper Geordie Irish
There’s no way humans could defeat this if it made it to civilization, unless some had a natural immunity to it.
Oh thank GOD IN HEAVEN they decided to leave out that stupid frekin' doll !.. Just have him glancing through a Playboy or something if you need to touch on that subject.
Check out the Promotional Cut of The Thing here on UA-cam. It's got a bunch of alternate takes and deleted scenes in it.
this movie scared the ever-living-fck outta me as a kid 🤣
In the thumbnail, Kurt's blue scarf matches the color of the title, so it looks like it says "THE THINGY" 😂
When a big-budget film actually loses money, then it can be considered a flop. The Thing made just under 20 million during it's initial theatrical release on a production budget of 15-ish million. Ergo, not a flop. Obviously, the studios would have liked a bigger initial haul but if any of them were the slightest bit prescient, they would have known that righteous bucks would start rolling in when the movie got a home video release. It's made a fuckload of money on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray (maybe Laserdisc as well.) I personally have spent at least a grand on the movie over the years, including seeing it about 2 dozen times in the theaters in Summer of 82, then all the rental fees and purchases over the years of various home media. Plus about another 100 bucks in t-shirts.
The critics did hate it though, and therefore it was a critical "flop" when released.
@@OroborusFMA The critics hate all horror films
The Thing is one of the best sci-fi horror films ever made! E.T. is the main reason why The Thing didn't do well at the box office and only lead to other films such as Blade Runner, Rocky 3, The Road Warrior and Annie just trampling over it in 1982?
“A Cult Classic that Every Critic Hated” - not true. Gene Siskel, who as part of the “Siskel and Ebert” show was one of the two most influential critics at the time, liked it. I’m sure there were more
While 'every critic' is an overstatement, the critics' response was overwhelmingly negative.
@@coyoteboy5601 Who pays attention to critics though? These days in particular, when there’s about a thousand self-styled movie critics on UA-cam alone, half of them just looking to get into a tizzy when they think they see something “woke” in a film
@@coyoteboy5601 BTW, all they had to do was insert the word “almost” into the title and it would have been 100% accurate. Not click-baity enough, though, I suppose
That episode of Sneak Previews is on UA-cam. Ebert said it was the most disgusting thing he'd ever seen on-screen.
Mcready sure did drink a lot during that movie…. He almost always had a drink in his hand 😂
Watched the thing when it came out on rental, I was 11yrs old. In my top 3 off all time.
At the very end, you can tell who the Thing is. When MacReady is talking, you can see his breath from the cold air. When Childs speaks you see nothing. I think John Carpenter wanted people to see this. What happens after, we will never know. I hope they don't make a sequel. It will be awful, just like the prequel.
Already explained in the video game
Omar, that's completely and utterly untrue. Child's breath is 100% there. See an original print, not a digital copy, and on the big screen. The lighting is different fir each character as well, but the breath is inarguably there.
@@kinglistosas5010 it was meant to make money.
When Bennings was about to be set on fire you could see his breath. No go on the breath/no breath theory.
His shirt makes the thumbnail look like it says thingy lol
Yes how the thing absorbs creatures is horrific and ghastly. The dog scene was horrific.
fun fact: windows also played in the 1979 movie the warriors.
I totally regret never seeing this in the movie theater back in the 80's I was in 11th grade. I dont recall even knowing about it, and I am a horror fanatic.
Macready had a blow up doll 🤭😆🤣
SO glad they took that out, because it wouldn't be my all time favourite horror film, instead it would have been categorized as B movie cheese. Have to say though, a doll can't be a "cheatn' bitch" 😅😝
It's a cool and creative decision to not have the Husky at the end. Ambiguity is golden.
The thing and alien are my two favorite monsters movies
The game that released in the early 2000s was a sequel to the movie where you play as a member of the rescue team that was mentioned. So yes. The Thing survived
Macready had a blow up doll XD
Glad they cut that out, but man that is still hilarious XD
Love your accent. Would like more videos from you.
No mention of the stop motion monster, that got mostly cut?
Good video, nice narration, subscribed! 👍
There was a game that sorted things out.
I absolutely love this woman's manner of speaking
No one know how many times I have watched this film. Oh so many times.
Dammit, you just had to make me like you didn't ya? I was gonna dislike because I don't like change, but now I can't even do that
Great video 👍
Had a nightmare last night where the thing got me lol. I wasn’t even one of the last survivors
THEY HAD A ENDING SCENE WHERE RUSSEL MAKES IT BACK TO CIVILATION IN A DOCTORS OFFICE AND LEARNS HES NOT INFECTED
It was not J. & B. it was kerosene from the cocktail Molotov.
Probably not. I've been hearing that hypothesis for 35 years and that's all it is... a hypothesis. Occam's razor.
Then why did Macready chuckle when Childs drank the gasoline and didn't react??