The dog at the beginning, whose real name was Jed, was a wolf-husky hybrid. He was in several movies. He was born in 1977 and died in 1995. I've seen Norwegian rectors react to this movie, for example Centane, and they translated what the Norwegian was saying at the beginning. He was saying, "It's not a dog. It's some kind of thing." The composer, Ennio Morricone, was not allowed to see a foot of film and had to produce the music as a sort of kit for Carpenter to apply as he saw fit.
That's some great stuff, my friend! Really love the info about the pup. Jed had a hell of a life and 18 is pretty dang good for a larger dog :) Thank you so much for watching and the info, my friend!
They only stopped using dogsleds in Antarctica during the 90s because they posed a threat to seals, dogsleds are actually pretty great for traveling over frozen terrain.
So funny you posted this! I just watched a video today that mentioned the sound of the keys dropping. Watched it and there it was...in plain sight (hearing). This movie, and the storyboarding behind it, is a masterclass in storytelling. Thank you so much for watching and the info, my friend!
I used to think so, too, but then I read the novel, "Who goes there?", and there Blair was already infected when he broke everything, knowing they will put him in isolation and he will have time and space to build his spaceship. They found out about it in the end. So now I wonder... 🤔
@@Paul_1971 You're right. Didn't think about it. Not saying it's the same in the movie, just saying it made me wonder. In the novel, Blair didn't leave the shed, on the contrary, he blocked it from the inside, too. They had to burst it open to get in. That's when they found out what's really going on. He was there for a week, building a spaceship, everything that happened with the crew, was the thing's way to keep them busy while building it.
Interesting Facts: In the preque to “The Thing”l, they were able to identify people who had been imitated because the Things were unable to duplicate inorganic matter, which meant that items such as pins inserted to hold together broken bones and fillings in your teeth would be missing in people that had been taken over. That would certainly be the case for anyone that had a pacemaker as well. When the Thing imitates someone, it perfectly duplicates every cell with such precision than it actually retains the memories, knowledge, and personality of the individual it copies. Norris (the guy who’s chest bursts open, chopping off the doctor’s hands with its bear-trap teeth) had a bad heart, and likely a peacemaker. When the Thing took him over and perfectly imitated him, it also faithfully recreated his heart defect, but not his pacemaker, which eventually caused Norris to suffer a heart attack for real during a high-stress moment. The Thing would have been happy to hide itself in a presumably “dead” body, but it couldn’t tolerate the electro-shocks from the defibrillator and was thus forced to reveal itself. Of course, the amazing scene where Norris’ head separates from his burning body, slides onto the floor, and pulls itself away, transforming into a crab/spider with his upside-down head as its body, and tries to crawl away unnoticed, is an iconic moment! (Incidentally, at the beginning of the movie, the spaceship was flying erratically because the crew was desperately trying to fight off the Things that were aboard their vessel and causing havoc. That’s why the spaceship attempted to make an emergency landing on the nearest planet and ended up crash landing in the Antarctic. Only one of the Things as survived the crash and made it out of the ship alive, only to freeze in the ice.)
I consider using the 2011 "The Thing" as a source for explaining events in the 1982 "The Thing" a classic case of retconning. So... If 30 years later someone other than Quentin Tarantino made a prequel to "Death Proof" that revealed Stuntman Mike never wanted to hurt those women, and was only doing the things he did because of... reason... then that becomes fact? I don't think so. And as for Norris having a pacemaker, that's adding unknown elements to make a narrative true or more believable. Anyway, judging by his first two reactions (taking the flame-thrower off, and looking out the window), it's pretty obvious he wasn't aware of any heart issue.
21:21 Yes. It digests him, absorbs him. It leaves no body behind, it's a definitive process, the person gets eaten, and the alien cells imitate perfectly the victim. That's the reason I find a mistake when ppl say "he must be infected" or things like that (even the movie, in some point does it, I think I'm a lousy way); cause what I see is not the person, or his body, it's the alien itself disguised as ur old pal. And every piece can do that. Perhaps even one alien cell? Not so sure about that. It's a similar concept to "The body snatchers" , another wonderful movie.
Also, this is based on a 1951 movie called "The Thing From Another World," that's excellent, but has never been reacted to in UA-cam, and that movie is based on a 1938 novella called "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell Jr. Campbell was primarily an editor, but would write a story once in a while. He was a very interesting guy and important to the history of science fiction, but that's a whole other story.
I love the idea that an editor created one of the inspirations for The Thing. Given the absolute narrative precision Carpenter needed to pull off his masterpiece, it makes a ton of sense. Awesome stuff, my friend, thank you for sharing!
The Antarctic research station maintained a team of huskies because a dog sled team is the most efficient way to travel through snow and ice over a perpetually frozen landscape. Blair killed all of the dogs to prevent anyone who might have been infected from escaping via a team of sled dogs and reaching another research station, and eventually making it to civilization.
You're the first reactor I've seen question the dog; good survival instincts! And the practical effects were just totally amazing. Unfortunately the 2011 prequel (which covers the Norwegians) did the franchise a bit of a disservice with its overuse of CGI, but still worth checking out if you enjoyed this.
@@WarpReactor A lot of people think it's a remake because it's also just titled "The Thing", but it is a prequel, and yeah, it uses way too much cgi. But it is kind of fun to see how the Norwegian camp ended up the way they found it in this movie.
2011 "The Thing" was going to use practical effects. There are numerous videos out there showing the effects, including the face-melding. But the production company stepped in and insisted on CGI for some stupid reason, probably financial.
This movie freak me out as a kid, it freaked me out so much, I rewinded the tape and watched it again... There is a deleted scene where they make it back to the US and took a blood test..
HaHa You are far braver than I, my friend :) Wow I'd like to see that deleted scene! Do you know if they actually shot it or was it just in the script to shoot? Thank you so much for the information!
The creature was dropping parts of itself throughout and finally reamalgamated to form the T. Rex at the end. And that was the creature that helped Blair make the tunnel and ship. I mean, it could burrow through ice!
My favorite horror movie. I cant think of a worse scenario to find yourself in. Youre battling an intelligent enemy, you dont know if its malicious or simply trying to survive, if it touches you...youre dead, its almost impossible to detect, it can only be killed with fire/acid and if it gets to water or transportation its not just the end of humans but THE ENTIRE WORLD. Every Winter when the wind howls i think of this movie. It inspired me to get a flamethrower cause...you never know 😅
HaHa When in doubt, get a flamethrower! It really is the worst imaginable situation. Plus the paranoia of having this 'thing' take the face of your friends and coworkers...just the worst of the worst. Thank you so much for watching and the laugh, my friend!
I watched this with a couple friends one night in a very out there mindset, and he asked WTF do they have US Army M2 Nepalm Flamethrowers? I thought in 2 seconds, Antarctica, Emergency heating. He thought and said yeah ok
Yup that's what I was thinking too. In addition to 'clearing' ice/snow from exterior points around the base, it makes sense for them to have them on hand. Thank you for watching, my friend!
HaHah Thank you, my friend! Full disclosure...it was touch-and-go there for a few minutes :D The chest turning into a maw just about put me down for the 10 count!
@@WarpReactor That scene is mind-boggling. Again, considering the lack of CGI. Apparently the effects had a lot of melted plastic and craziness, and the doctor losing his arms? They got a double amputee stunt double for the effect.
Fun Fact: This movie was Quintin Tarantino's inspiration for Reservoir Dogs. He loved the circumstance where no one trusted one another, and developed into a Mexican standoff.
This is great to know! In hindsight with the misdirection and paranoia, Reservoir Dogs absolutely seems like it was inspired by The Thing's themes. Great info, my friend! Much appreciated
HaHa! In your story I definitely fall waaaay closer to your stepdad on the 'how-did-you-feel-watching-The-Thing' scale :D Thanks for watching and the laugh, my friend!
Man, with your talent for building horror atmosphere in rpg games, and the amount of Call of Cthulu you've played, it's very surprising to me that you're not a horror fan and haven't seen The Thing before)
Thank you for the compliment, my friend! I'm sure I'd do better with horror movies now but as a kid, I was utterly terrified of them...full stop :) Of all the 'classic 80s' horror movies the only ones I can remember seeing are the original Nightmare on Elm Street and Nightmare on Elm Street : Dream Warriors (which I think is 3). Strangely enough, as a kid, I LOVED Stephen King. Never saw The Shining (even though I love Jack Nicholson) but I read the book and loved it :) I can't explain it other than a profound fear of visual horror...and The Thing was at the top of my scaredy-cat list! Guess I don't have any excuses any more...yikes Again thanks for the kind words, my friend!
@@WarpReactor I mean it's more sci-fi/action than a straight horror anyway, so i hope you liked it) Alien is a classic, though i myself love Aiens much more, seen them like ~50 times or so)
I'm gonna have to come back to finish this but I love your reactions and commentary xD I never would have guessed you didn't like the horror genre. I love horror, though I've never seen The Thing.
HaHa I am at heart...a 'fraidy cat! I love READING Horror but actually watching 'pure' horror movies? That's a big 'NO' and 'THANK YOU' from me :) Thank you so much for watching, G!
Its similar to a Virus but its not a virus. We never find out exactly what this is, but cutscenes had Doc, Fuchs and Blair talking about a new or different kind of Cell structure and Blair says thats the point I'm not sure it is any kind of cell structure or at least Cell structure as we've known it. So, my thought is theres animal and plant cells, this is simply a new kind of cell, a cellular organism that infiltrates and conquers other cells. We never learn that it has effect on plant cells though.
Also, the movie was intentionally filmed so that a perfect timeline of infections is not achievable. We can get close, but, for example, you never see who goes with Norris and Mac out to the crash, so you can't know who remained at the base, and the room the dog goes into first they used a stunt man for the silhouette instead of a cast member so you can't be sure who was first taken.
McMurdo is a real US Antarctic outpost. I believe it is the largest US base on the continent. The original 1951 version, while substantially different, is a must see for any true fan of science fiction cinema. The 50’s was a rich breeding ground for science fiction: “The Thing,” “The Fly,” “The Day The Earth Stood Still,” “Invasion of The Body Snatchers” were all remade later. Except for “The Day The Earth Stood Still,” the remakes are pretty good, though you gotta go back and see the originals. I don’t know what list you are using, but I can only hope you aren’t going to dismiss the old flicks in favor of prettier newer movies.
I am using the Rotten Tomatoes Top 150 Sci-Fi movies ( editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/essential-sci-fi-movies-of-all-time/ )! When given the choice, I will always default to the older version (or whatever version the list presents). I normally despise remakes or 'tech-up' reboots. I'm old so as a sign of solidarity, I'll always side with the originals :D Did not know McMurdo was the actual base! Awesome stuff again, my friend! Much appreciated!
It's common for reactors to suspect that the infection can simply be spread by contact, but the fact is that we never see anybody get taken over that isn't at least somewhat violent. I think a person would definitely know that they had been infected and were being replaced.
HaHa! My friend, I am a talker :D Trying to control myself with the intros and outros but I am here to tell you...I am failing :) Thank you for watching! Much appreciated
I've said this since i was 7, this is the absolute worst and most horrifc fictional situation ever put to film, and likely literature too, animation, Comics/Manga videogames, Religious books all of it, being in winter of Antarctica with this alien preys on primal fears of being eaten/consumed/absorbed and a creature can imitate your former self, friends, dogs everything animal cell. This is horrifying and the very fact they have US Army M2 Nepalm Flamethrowers is their only true saving grace. IF they didn't have these flamethrowers, this movie/situation would be a hell of a lot worse.
I saw this in the theater with my brother when I was 12, and I remember us laughing our butts off, especially when Windows gets eaten. It was so over the top and ridiculous, we LOVED it. It was forgotten for a good twenty years, and has emerged as a cult classic, thanks to my generation getting older. I enjoyed your reactions SO much! Thanks for sharing.
You are FAR braver than I was at that age, and it sounds like a hell of a great memory for you and your brother to share :) Thank you so much for watching and thank you for the kind words. So happy you enjoyed it, my friend!
One of the classic questions of this movie is 'were either of them The Thing at the end?' A bunch of folks have said Childs is The Thing because he has no breath fog! Except... he does, if you look close. Also, the idea that The Thing doesn't have breath or warm breath or whatever doesn't make sense because when Bennings had been partially transformed he had a lot of breath fog. There's another intriguing idea that MacReady was infected earlier and much of the plot was him defusing potential threats and manipulating people. Part of that is accepting that there's no reason different infected Things would cooperate or be aware of each other or anything. Another element to all of this is that it seems reasonable to assume that while a regular infection from a single cell is possible, The Thing isn't content to wait around for that process and will attempt any method it can to take life forms.
I love all of these theories! My guess at the end was that Childs was the red herring and Mac was actually The Thing (the 'real' Mac having succumbed to the explosions), but the more I see and read now...the more I'm second guessing the whole movie :D I mean, honest to G-d, what an amazing piece of art that forty years later so much positive debate and genuine mystery remains around the final product. Just amazing. Thank you for all the wonderful tid-bits, my friend!
My favourite is the gasoline bottle theory. Mac slips gasoline into the bottle he gave to Childs at the end. Childs drinks it and doesn't react to the gasoline taste like a normal human would, Mac figures out that Childs is The Thing.
“The Thing” is suspicion, mistrust, and paranoia personified! It is the story of desperate men, isolated and hopelessly trapped in the middle of nowhere, caught up in a terrifying life-and-death battle with an inhuman enemy, in which the fate of the entire world hangs in the balance. What would you do?
They split up at the end because they had a lot of work to finish. Staying together would've meant one maybe two of them would've been idle, and they were on a suicide mission by then.
Agreed. I think he turned down the wrong path because of Blair's notes which likely weren't overly scientific but more theoretical. Thank you for watching, my friend!
Now you have to watch the 2011 movie The Thing. It's the prequel story that tells the story of the Norwegian scientific research center and how they had accidentally discovered the alien space ship by chance. Its make-up and special effects are not as good as the John Carpenter film because it only has video game-like C.G.I.s instead of practical effects. But the writing is very good and it blends into the 1982 movie perfectly.
I've heard its a good watch! Definitely going to check it out. Absolutely amazing to me that over forty years later and The Things practical FXs might still be the gold standard. Thanks for watching and the recommendation, my friend!
Childs was The Thing. The assumption is that it is perfectly fine sitting there until they freeze because that is what it wants, but you can see that while McCreedy was speaking there was steam in his breath but not when Childs spoke. It didn’t have a body temperature that would cause it. Love this movie. There is a prequel too, but it lacks the same gravitas as this film.
Great reaction, always a pleasure watching first timers to this classic. Btw, am I watching a standing Warp Reactor? I don't think I've seen a standing reaction before today😂
Thank you so much for watching and the kind words! I actually tried sitting down but I apparently have waaaaay too much energy when I react :) Have a great one, my friend!
this movie is has some of the greatest practical monster effects ever, before cgi could do much more than Tron. But it's not just some schlocky monster movie, it's ALSO brilliant at establishing tension and anxiety. A bottled up environment where people are at each other's throats. And then the music. Man. This was probably the first movie I saw Keith David in, and I've loved him ever since.
1000% !!! The special effects are absolutely next level but the real magic is absolutely the tension/paranoia! DUDE, the music...holy smokes I thought I was done for during the damn OPEN :D Those single notes will haunt my dreams. Completely agree! Keith David is baller, always has been, always will be! Great stuff, my friend! Thank you!
If you watched the original Halloween, you can see the kids watching the original version of The Thing from the 1950s. So obviously John Carpenter was already a fan. This is a very different film, but the original is worth watching.
I have so much faith in you for the rest of this React Journey, lmao! I would never put you through it, but if you ever played scary video games I'd be 1000% down with that content xD I've also never saw The Thing, the body horror was next level! I look forward to your next one!
Thank you so much, G! I am REAL bad with horror video games. I tried a few of the latest Resident Evils but ended up bailing :) Appreciate you, my friend!
Ive always believed Childs was Thing at the end but honestly i do not anymore and here is exactly why. First debunk: Childs is showing breath, its just lighting and you can see it and even if, The Thing is a perfect imitation and it will have human formed lungs and it will breathe like a man. His coat is different. I do not see it, hes been in Antarctica blizzard for 15-30 minutes his navy blue coat will be caked with ice and snow. Now why i don't think Childs is a Thing: IF Childs Thing was true it would do 2 strategies: MacReady is only armed with a Colt Trooper Mk3 .357 Magnum revolver which is useless on Thing but useful on men and if nothing else if you have to do that thing its a good tool for the job. MacReady is unarmed to Thr Thing and i bet as a retribution Childs Thing would just light him up with US Army M2 Nepalm Flamethrower he has strapped to his back. Othsr thing Thing Childs would do is not make contact, not risk because MacReady is the biggest threat behind Blair, Fuchs, Doc Copper, and Childs is a very careful man in this. Fuchs is possible Thing Blair killed him setting him on fire, think about it Fuchs is number one threat, Blair was an easy target once in the tool shed. If its easier to just end Fuchs instead of assimilation, its an important person to have off the chessboard. So if it was Childs i think it would simply not risk confrontation and sit down on other side of camp and go to sleep and freeze. Or it would fry Mac. I honestly do not believe its goal is assimilating Mac as much as removing him off chessboard with the framing of shredded clothes. However yes it is possible Childs is the thing but most of the evidence used in theory or mystery solved videos. This is what i think, Childs is human at the end.
At the very end, you see MacReady unmask Childs. Look at him chuckle in the last shot, and remember the beginning where Mac gives the computer a drink. That refers to the ending.
Someone else told me that there's a theory that Mac put kerosene in the bottle as a 'tell'. If a human drank it, they would react accordingly but if The Thing drank it...it wouldn't know the difference and act like everything was fine. I still like to imagine a scenario where Childs is human and Mac was turned :) Its absolutely amazing that a 40+ year-old movie can still generate theories and debates. I guess that's one of the definitions of a masterpiece :) Thanks again for watching and all the great info, my friend!
@@WarpReactor Yes, but there's a fatal flaw in that. Right as Childs enters the scene behind him, Mac is lifting the bottle to take a swig. Therefore, the bottle isn't poisoned. Recall the first scene when Mac gives the computer "a drink" when it cheated. (Yes, chess computers at the time did that. Computers didn't become chess champions until about 2001.) Mac and the creature have been "playing chess" all the way through the film. In fact, the script makes chess central to Mac's character. Childs' accepting the drink means he doesn't fear infection, and the terror of infection was real, even if Fuchs and Blair had it wrong. I wouldn't doubt if Mac anticipated Childs would reappear and has his countermove planned. Neither guy is acting in character, and one way of looking at it is both men were spent. Another way, though, is that Mac was trying to unmask Childs. "If either of us have any surprises , we're in no condition . . " But Mac chuckles when Childs takes the drink. Why? It's not a funny situation, and we already know Mac is willing to die to stop the creature. What's Mac's countermove? BTW, I will note that Mac consumes what must be a fatal amount of alcohol during the course of the movie! The hard drinker who can hold a superhuman amount of alcohol is a very common, unrealistic, Hollywood trope.
No I haven't...really need to see that and Near Dark. Hopefully my spine has strengthened to the point where a watch of both is on the table :D Thanks for watching, my friend!
You can listen to "Who goes there?" by John Campbell audiobook. There's an explanation about howi t works with the thing's biomass when it imitates someone. There are also no Norwegians in the story, the americans are those who find the thing frozen in the ice, so you can see what happens from the moment they find it, while it's free, and to the moment they kill it. It's short, and great story.
Windows dropped the keys when he walked in on Bennings being assimilated, thats when the keys were stolen. Who stole it? Either Norris or Palmer and my vote is on Palmer. Go back and rewatch, pay close attention to when Palmer and Norris is in and NOT in scenes.
Definitely going to notice and record the 'missing members' of each scene whenever I do a rewatch! I've started watching a couple videos that theorize on the timeline of contamination, assimilation, etc, and I think I agree with you about Palmer. Also to me Norris seemed to be actively fighting the conversion to the Thing (with his abdominal pain and eventual cardiac arrest). I'm not sure what to make of that since it looked like he was still in a form of self control/awareness before his heart attack (or whatever the medical event was). So much going on in this movie! It amazes me that decades later, theories are still being developed and/or refined. Great stuff, my friend! Thank you!
First reaction of yours I have seen, GREAT JOB! If you stomach was having fits over this movie, then, in my humble opinion, IT would love to see the under rated sci-fi/action/horror /monster films, Starship Troopers.
Thank you so much! I've actually seen Starship Troopers and the ultra violence nearly did me in :D The one that I'm really worried about is Event Horizon. I haven't seen it and its on the Rotten Tomatoes top 150 Sci-Fi movie list *yikes* Thank you so much for watching and the kind words, my friend, they are greatly appreciated!
Event Horizon is a brain smasher for sure, another franchise, if you have not seen it yet, is the original Evil Dead series from Sam Rami, keep up the great reactions.. @@WarpReactor
It's an awesome whodunit for sure, and actually really interesting to rewatch when you _know_ who is human and who isn't, and see how the imitations act. Re: your question about one creature or different ones; each part acts as (and in practice, is) a separate creature. You can even see things work against each other at some points, e.g. when Norris' head-spider tries to crawl away unseen it's Palmer who exposes it ("You gotta be fuckin' kidding...") -- and Palmer himself is a thing at that point. It's just what the real Palmer would have done, so the imitation... imitates.
Wow that's right! Palmer already was a 'Thing' when Norris transformed! I am looking forward to scouring a few theory videos at some point :) Thank you so much, my friend! That's some good info...disturbing as HELL but damn good :)
The Thing is such a consummate survivor it'll sell out it's own kind to maintain the masquerade and preserve itself. While the ending is ambiguous as to who might be a Thing, it's darkly ironic to think that both men could be Things paranoid that one of them is human.
I would not call Beta "less efficient". It did deliver a better picture quality than VHS and, for that reason was used by TV news until digital tech came on line.
Now you need to watch it again, knowing who's a Thing and who isn't. A lot of behavior of both the humans and the Things will make more sense. Most folks think that Norris was the first guy taken, by the dog-Thing. Clark was a red herring, both in a film sense and that the Thing left him alone to be a suspect.
I personally think berserk Blair was human, and when he's asking to come back, i think he's Thing. The ship is not interstellar, Thing Blair is likely trying to get to a Soviet or a Japanese Station, whatever is the closest station and do it all over again. Thing Blair is NOT trying to eacape and go back home, its looking for the 1st ignorant, unprepared station to infiltrate morr humans and any animals. If it got to the coast it could absorb and imitate Penguins or whales or Orca (that would be really really bad) and make it back to Australia, South America, South Africa or New Zealand, whatever closest land it is with people. Remember this Thing won't likely settle for humans, it will likely take all animal cell organisms and... maybe plant cells, which everything organic would be a thing. That is how serious this is.
Completely agree with you on Blair! I figure he was turned sometime after having fashioned the noose in the shed (can't see The Thing taking the time to do that). Loved how Wilford Brimley shifted gears in his performance! Really great stuff!
@WarpReactor there was a fan sequel called The Things and it's onr of those man is worst, thing just wants to go home. Fascinating read but no. Humans can suck, Thing sucks so much more. I just don't buy that notion that Humans are the dangerous factor in the equation of Man VS Human. Plus especially a couple decades of man is worst type theme
Enjoyed the reactions so much. I'm curious if you've seen In the Mouth of Madness - if not, I think it would be another good candidate for a reaction/review video. Carpenter and Sam Neill make a great combo.
Having never watched the film, I'm not sure whether I credit you or the movie itself, for building the tension. Sheeesh. By the time it got to spider/dog scene, I had to nope right out of there. (To be fair, I am a complete coward and do not watch the genre.) I jumped forward to get all the commentary goodness at the end. Thanks for another great video.
Thank you, Melissa! And make no mistake, it took everything I had to make it through a couple of these scenes :) It is an excellent movie though, definitely worthy of cult classic status. I appreciate you, my friend!
This movie and a handful of others are the reason why Gen-X,,as adults,,will fight 3-4 men at once 😅... Best practical effects horror suspense movie ever made 🤘🔥🤘
I tell people all the time that The Thing is arguably the greatest horror movie of all time. Now of course you can definitely make a case for Alien, The Exorcist, and Psycho, but other than that, everything else is 5th and lower.
To complete your Carpenter collection, why not watch Halloween in a couple of months? Halloween is my second favourite movie after Pulp Fiction. The Thing is my top 100 though.
Carpenter is not gentle for people on this film. At first minute you see , there is a big problem. Norwegian are crazy or they are killers on south pole ??? Off course no. Americans have a big problem and can't understand. You look at the film , Carpenter give pressure to you since start and show you , 1 mn before there was nothing. It is not gentle at all for people. This film was not at all to please you. It was Carpenter's choice. People HATED this film just because he was not gentle with them. Young, I saw it and never spoke to anyone because ME , not because the film was bad. Carpenter's carrer was "over" even he made "A monstruous film". Everyone said "Don't look at it." After time Carpenter said "Why didn't you understand before? I made my best on this film and had some money to do it. Now , it's too late for me. I don't care about what you think now !". People says "Sorry, we made a mistake."
The dog at the beginning, whose real name was Jed, was a wolf-husky hybrid. He was in several movies. He was born in 1977 and died in 1995.
I've seen Norwegian rectors react to this movie, for example Centane, and they translated what the Norwegian was saying at the beginning. He was saying, "It's not a dog. It's some kind of thing."
The composer, Ennio Morricone, was not allowed to see a foot of film and had to produce the music as a sort of kit for Carpenter to apply as he saw fit.
That's some great stuff, my friend!
Really love the info about the pup. Jed had a hell of a life and 18 is pretty dang good for a larger dog :)
Thank you so much for watching and the info, my friend!
They only stopped using dogsleds in Antarctica during the 90s because they posed a threat to seals, dogsleds are actually pretty great for traveling over frozen terrain.
I did not know the reason why they stopped using dog teams. Great stuff!
Thank you for watching, my friend!
@@WarpReactor Cheers
Somebody got to the blood!!
That was the exact moment I knew everyone was screwed :D
Thanks for watching, my friend!
Windows drops the keys he got from Garry. Listen for it
So funny you posted this!
I just watched a video today that mentioned the sound of the keys dropping. Watched it and there it was...in plain sight (hearing).
This movie, and the storyboarding behind it, is a masterclass in storytelling.
Thank you so much for watching and the info, my friend!
Missed this one when you first posted it. Great review of a great movie!
Thank you so much for watching and the kind words, my friend!
Glad you realised Blair wasn't infected before he went into the toolshed & that someone got to him while he was out there - not many people get this.
Thanks for watching and the kind words, my friend!
I used to think so, too, but then I read the novel, "Who goes there?", and there Blair was already infected when he broke everything, knowing they will put him in isolation and he will have time and space to build his spaceship. They found out about it in the end. So now I wonder... 🤔
@@disturbed1013 So what anout Nauls' "It was locked from the outside" line re: The toolshed?
@@Paul_1971 You're right. Didn't think about it. Not saying it's the same in the movie, just saying it made me wonder. In the novel, Blair didn't leave the shed, on the contrary, he blocked it from the inside, too. They had to burst it open to get in. That's when they found out what's really going on. He was there for a week, building a spaceship, everything that happened with the crew, was the thing's way to keep them busy while building it.
Interesting Facts: In the preque to “The Thing”l, they were able to identify people who had been imitated because the Things were unable to duplicate inorganic matter, which meant that items such as pins inserted to hold together broken bones and fillings in your teeth would be missing in people that had been taken over. That would certainly be the case for anyone that had a pacemaker as well.
When the Thing imitates someone, it perfectly duplicates every cell with such precision than it actually retains the memories, knowledge, and personality of the individual it copies. Norris (the guy who’s chest bursts open, chopping off the doctor’s hands with its bear-trap teeth) had a bad heart, and likely a peacemaker. When the Thing took him over and perfectly imitated him, it also faithfully recreated his heart defect, but not his pacemaker, which eventually caused Norris to suffer a heart attack for real during a high-stress moment. The Thing would have been happy to hide itself in a presumably “dead” body, but it couldn’t tolerate the electro-shocks from the defibrillator and was thus forced to reveal itself. Of course, the amazing scene where Norris’ head separates from his burning body, slides onto the floor, and pulls itself away, transforming into a crab/spider with his upside-down head as its body, and tries to crawl away unnoticed, is an iconic moment! (Incidentally, at the beginning of the movie, the spaceship was flying erratically because the crew was desperately trying to fight off the Things that were aboard their vessel and causing havoc. That’s why the spaceship attempted to make an emergency landing on the nearest planet and ended up crash landing in the Antarctic. Only one of the Things as survived the crash and made it out of the ship alive, only to freeze in the ice.)
I consider using the 2011 "The Thing" as a source for explaining events in the 1982 "The Thing" a classic case of retconning. So... If 30 years later someone other than Quentin Tarantino made a prequel to "Death Proof" that revealed Stuntman Mike never wanted to hurt those women, and was only doing the things he did because of... reason... then that becomes fact? I don't think so.
And as for Norris having a pacemaker, that's adding unknown elements to make a narrative true or more believable. Anyway, judging by his first two reactions (taking the flame-thrower off, and looking out the window), it's pretty obvious he wasn't aware of any heart issue.
Based on John W. Campbell JR. novella "Who Goes There?" (1938) and the film "The Thing From Another World" (1951).
Amazing! I am definitely checking both out. As always thanks for sharing your knowledge, my friend!
21:21 Yes. It digests him, absorbs him. It leaves no body behind, it's a definitive process, the person gets eaten, and the alien cells imitate perfectly the victim. That's the reason I find a mistake when ppl say "he must be infected" or things like that (even the movie, in some point does it, I think I'm a lousy way); cause what I see is not the person, or his body, it's the alien itself disguised as ur old pal. And every piece can do that. Perhaps even one alien cell? Not so sure about that. It's a similar concept to "The body snatchers" , another wonderful movie.
Also, this is based on a 1951 movie called "The Thing From Another World," that's excellent, but has never been reacted to in UA-cam, and that movie is based on a 1938 novella called "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell Jr. Campbell was primarily an editor, but would write a story once in a while. He was a very interesting guy and important to the history of science fiction, but that's a whole other story.
I love the idea that an editor created one of the inspirations for The Thing. Given the absolute narrative precision Carpenter needed to pull off his masterpiece, it makes a ton of sense.
Awesome stuff, my friend, thank you for sharing!
There is a reaction video of the 1951 version... I saw it about the time you wrote this, so look again. ;-]
@@robertcartier5088 Thanks. I have a vague memory of it. I'll check.
The Antarctic research station maintained a team of huskies because a dog sled team is the most efficient way to travel through snow and ice over a perpetually frozen landscape. Blair killed all of the dogs to prevent anyone who might have been infected from escaping via a team of sled dogs and reaching another research station, and eventually making it to civilization.
You're the first reactor I've seen question the dog; good survival instincts! And the practical effects were just totally amazing. Unfortunately the 2011 prequel (which covers the Norwegians) did the franchise a bit of a disservice with its overuse of CGI, but still worth checking out if you enjoyed this.
Thank you!
OH I didn't know they made a prequel?!?
I will definitely add that to The List.
Appreciate the information, my friend!
@@WarpReactor A lot of people think it's a remake because it's also just titled "The Thing", but it is a prequel, and yeah, it uses way too much cgi. But it is kind of fun to see how the Norwegian camp ended up the way they found it in this movie.
2011 "The Thing" was going to use practical effects. There are numerous videos out there showing the effects, including the face-melding. But the production company stepped in and insisted on CGI for some stupid reason, probably financial.
Warp...youre one of my new favorite reactors. When i saw you had Alien and The Thing up, i had to start binge watching!!!
On a side note I hate most horror but if their is a sci-fi element I'm all on board. One except is the awful event horizon...
This movie freak me out as a kid, it freaked me out so much, I rewinded the tape and watched it again... There is a deleted scene where they make it back to the US and took a blood test..
HaHa You are far braver than I, my friend :)
Wow I'd like to see that deleted scene! Do you know if they actually shot it or was it just in the script to shoot?
Thank you so much for the information!
The creature was dropping parts of itself throughout and finally reamalgamated to form the T. Rex at the end. And that was the creature that helped Blair make the tunnel and ship. I mean, it could burrow through ice!
Those reactions. XD Well done.
Thank you, my friend!
My favorite horror movie. I cant think of a worse scenario to find yourself in. Youre battling an intelligent enemy, you dont know if its malicious or simply trying to survive, if it touches you...youre dead, its almost impossible to detect, it can only be killed with fire/acid and if it gets to water or transportation its not just the end of humans but THE ENTIRE WORLD. Every Winter when the wind howls i think of this movie. It inspired me to get a flamethrower cause...you never know 😅
HaHa When in doubt, get a flamethrower!
It really is the worst imaginable situation. Plus the paranoia of having this 'thing' take the face of your friends and coworkers...just the worst of the worst.
Thank you so much for watching and the laugh, my friend!
I watched this with a couple friends one night in a very out there mindset, and he asked WTF do they have US Army M2 Nepalm Flamethrowers? I thought in 2 seconds, Antarctica, Emergency heating. He thought and said yeah ok
Yup that's what I was thinking too. In addition to 'clearing' ice/snow from exterior points around the base, it makes sense for them to have them on hand.
Thank you for watching, my friend!
Kudos for making it through the movie. :)
HaHah Thank you, my friend!
Full disclosure...it was touch-and-go there for a few minutes :D
The chest turning into a maw just about put me down for the 10 count!
@@WarpReactor That scene is mind-boggling. Again, considering the lack of CGI.
Apparently the effects had a lot of melted plastic and craziness, and the doctor losing his arms? They got a double amputee stunt double for the effect.
Absolutely amazing...and STILL amazing 40+ years later :)
Great, great stuff, my friend!
the forest trees at the back of you remind me of a youtube pasta story " Accounts from a Lonely Broadcast Station ".
Great hat, great look 😊
Thank you for the kind words and for watching, my friend!
Fun Fact: This movie was Quintin Tarantino's inspiration for Reservoir Dogs. He loved the circumstance where no one trusted one another, and developed into a Mexican standoff.
This is great to know! In hindsight with the misdirection and paranoia, Reservoir Dogs absolutely seems like it was inspired by The Thing's themes.
Great info, my friend! Much appreciated
This film also inspired The Hateful 8
Saw this, on BETA, when i was 3. Watched it while eating spaghetti and it made my stepdad sick. LOL.
HaHa!
In your story I definitely fall waaaay closer to your stepdad on the 'how-did-you-feel-watching-The-Thing' scale :D
Thanks for watching and the laugh, my friend!
Man, with your talent for building horror atmosphere in rpg games, and the amount of Call of Cthulu you've played, it's very surprising to me that you're not a horror fan and haven't seen The Thing before)
Thank you for the compliment, my friend!
I'm sure I'd do better with horror movies now but as a kid, I was utterly terrified of them...full stop :)
Of all the 'classic 80s' horror movies the only ones I can remember seeing are the original Nightmare on Elm Street and Nightmare on Elm Street : Dream Warriors (which I think is 3).
Strangely enough, as a kid, I LOVED Stephen King. Never saw The Shining (even though I love Jack Nicholson) but I read the book and loved it :)
I can't explain it other than a profound fear of visual horror...and The Thing was at the top of my scaredy-cat list!
Guess I don't have any excuses any more...yikes
Again thanks for the kind words, my friend!
@@WarpReactor What about Alien/s though? You have seen them, right?...right?
Aliens...not Alien (will have to remedy that)
I was actually tricked into Aliens because my friends framed it as a 'sci-fi action movie' :)
@@WarpReactor I mean it's more sci-fi/action than a straight horror anyway, so i hope you liked it)
Alien is a classic, though i myself love Aiens much more, seen them like ~50 times or so)
Love Aliens! As Alien is on the Rotten Tomatoes top 150 Sci-Fi movies, I am adding it to the list!
Thank you for the suggestion, my friend!
I'm gonna have to come back to finish this but I love your reactions and commentary xD
I never would have guessed you didn't like the horror genre. I love horror, though I've never seen The Thing.
HaHa I am at heart...a 'fraidy cat!
I love READING Horror but actually watching 'pure' horror movies? That's a big 'NO' and 'THANK YOU' from me :)
Thank you so much for watching, G!
Its similar to a Virus but its not a virus. We never find out exactly what this is, but cutscenes had Doc, Fuchs and Blair talking about a new or different kind of Cell structure and Blair says thats the point I'm not sure it is any kind of cell structure or at least Cell structure as we've known it. So, my thought is theres animal and plant cells, this is simply a new kind of cell, a cellular organism that infiltrates and conquers other cells. We never learn that it has effect on plant cells though.
Also, the movie was intentionally filmed so that a perfect timeline of infections is not achievable. We can get close, but, for example, you never see who goes with Norris and Mac out to the crash, so you can't know who remained at the base, and the room the dog goes into first they used a stunt man for the silhouette instead of a cast member so you can't be sure who was first taken.
Best content on UA-cam by far, not even remotely close, love the lower decks reactions as well
Thank you so much for the kind words, my friend!
@@WarpReactor absolutely, keep up the good work
McMurdo is a real US Antarctic outpost. I believe it is the largest US base on the continent.
The original 1951 version, while substantially different, is a must see for any true fan of science fiction cinema. The 50’s was a rich breeding ground for science fiction: “The Thing,” “The Fly,” “The Day The Earth Stood Still,” “Invasion of The Body Snatchers” were all remade later. Except for “The Day The Earth Stood Still,” the remakes are pretty good, though you gotta go back and see the originals.
I don’t know what list you are using, but I can only hope you aren’t going to dismiss the old flicks in favor of prettier newer movies.
I am using the Rotten Tomatoes Top 150 Sci-Fi movies ( editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/essential-sci-fi-movies-of-all-time/ )!
When given the choice, I will always default to the older version (or whatever version the list presents). I normally despise remakes or 'tech-up' reboots.
I'm old so as a sign of solidarity, I'll always side with the originals :D
Did not know McMurdo was the actual base!
Awesome stuff again, my friend! Much appreciated!
It's common for reactors to suspect that the infection can simply be spread by contact, but the fact is that we never see anybody get taken over that isn't at least somewhat violent. I think a person would definitely know that they had been infected and were being replaced.
That intro was longer than one by Pink Floyd😂.
HaHa!
My friend, I am a talker :D
Trying to control myself with the intros and outros but I am here to tell you...I am failing :)
Thank you for watching! Much appreciated
I've said this since i was 7, this is the absolute worst and most horrifc fictional situation ever put to film, and likely literature too, animation, Comics/Manga videogames, Religious books all of it, being in winter of Antarctica with this alien preys on primal fears of being eaten/consumed/absorbed and a creature can imitate your former self, friends, dogs everything animal cell. This is horrifying and the very fact they have US Army M2 Nepalm Flamethrowers is their only true saving grace. IF they didn't have these flamethrowers, this movie/situation would be a hell of a lot worse.
Right!?!
I mean this is just about as bad as it gets!
The suicide: I think he cut his wrists and somebody else cut his throat, probably out of mercy.
I saw this in the theater with my brother when I was 12, and I remember us laughing our butts off, especially when Windows gets eaten. It was so over the top and ridiculous, we LOVED it. It was forgotten for a good twenty years, and has emerged as a cult classic, thanks to my generation getting older. I enjoyed your reactions SO much! Thanks for sharing.
You are FAR braver than I was at that age, and it sounds like a hell of a great memory for you and your brother to share :)
Thank you so much for watching and thank you for the kind words.
So happy you enjoyed it, my friend!
McMurto is the oldest, most famous US base in Antarctica.
“Antarctica, winter 1982”
Yeah… as opposed to the warm Antarctic summers 😂
Mate they have dogs because sometimes machines break down...but dogs tend not to so they're good as a backup. 😉😊
Makes sense!
Thank you for watching, my friend!
One of the classic questions of this movie is 'were either of them The Thing at the end?'
A bunch of folks have said Childs is The Thing because he has no breath fog! Except... he does, if you look close. Also, the idea that The Thing doesn't have breath or warm breath or whatever doesn't make sense because when Bennings had been partially transformed he had a lot of breath fog.
There's another intriguing idea that MacReady was infected earlier and much of the plot was him defusing potential threats and manipulating people. Part of that is accepting that there's no reason different infected Things would cooperate or be aware of each other or anything.
Another element to all of this is that it seems reasonable to assume that while a regular infection from a single cell is possible, The Thing isn't content to wait around for that process and will attempt any method it can to take life forms.
I love all of these theories!
My guess at the end was that Childs was the red herring and Mac was actually The Thing (the 'real' Mac having succumbed to the explosions), but the more I see and read now...the more I'm second guessing the whole movie :D
I mean, honest to G-d, what an amazing piece of art that forty years later so much positive debate and genuine mystery remains around the final product.
Just amazing.
Thank you for all the wonderful tid-bits, my friend!
My favourite is the gasoline bottle theory. Mac slips gasoline into the bottle he gave to Childs at the end. Childs drinks it and doesn't react to the gasoline taste like a normal human would, Mac figures out that Childs is The Thing.
I like that one too, my friend! It certainly seems viable considering that little smile Mac gives when Childs takes a sip. Thank you for watching!
“The Thing” is suspicion, mistrust, and paranoia personified! It is the story of desperate men, isolated and hopelessly trapped in the middle of nowhere, caught up in a terrifying life-and-death battle with an inhuman enemy, in which the fate of the entire world hangs in the balance. What would you do?
They split up at the end because they had a lot of work to finish. Staying together would've meant one maybe two of them would've been idle, and they were on a suicide mission by then.
Fuchs was wrong about how it spreads
Agreed. I think he turned down the wrong path because of Blair's notes which likely weren't overly scientific but more theoretical.
Thank you for watching, my friend!
Now you have to watch the 2011 movie The Thing. It's the prequel story that tells the story of the Norwegian scientific research center and how they had accidentally discovered the alien space ship by chance. Its make-up and special effects are not as good as the John Carpenter film because it only has video game-like C.G.I.s instead of practical effects. But the writing is very good and it blends into the 1982 movie perfectly.
I've heard its a good watch!
Definitely going to check it out. Absolutely amazing to me that over forty years later and The Things practical FXs might still be the gold standard.
Thanks for watching and the recommendation, my friend!
Childs was The Thing. The assumption is that it is perfectly fine sitting there until they freeze because that is what it wants, but you can see that while McCreedy was speaking there was steam in his breath but not when Childs spoke. It didn’t have a body temperature that would cause it. Love this movie. There is a prequel too, but it lacks the same gravitas as this film.
Great reaction, always a pleasure watching first timers to this classic. Btw, am I watching a standing Warp Reactor? I don't think I've seen a standing reaction before today😂
Thank you so much for watching and the kind words!
I actually tried sitting down but I apparently have waaaaay too much energy when I react :)
Have a great one, my friend!
this movie is has some of the greatest practical monster effects ever, before cgi could do much more than Tron.
But it's not just some schlocky monster movie, it's ALSO brilliant at establishing tension and anxiety. A bottled up environment where people are at each other's throats.
And then the music. Man.
This was probably the first movie I saw Keith David in, and I've loved him ever since.
1000% !!!
The special effects are absolutely next level but the real magic is absolutely the tension/paranoia!
DUDE, the music...holy smokes I thought I was done for during the damn OPEN :D
Those single notes will haunt my dreams.
Completely agree! Keith David is baller, always has been, always will be!
Great stuff, my friend! Thank you!
If you watched the original Halloween, you can see the kids watching the original version of The Thing from the 1950s. So obviously John Carpenter was already a fan.
This is a very different film, but the original is worth watching.
I've never seen any of the Halloweens but I am tempted now just to see this scene.
Very cool information!
Thank you, my friend!
I have so much faith in you for the rest of this React Journey, lmao! I would never put you through it, but if you ever played scary video games I'd be 1000% down with that content xD I've also never saw The Thing, the body horror was next level!
I look forward to your next one!
Thank you so much, G!
I am REAL bad with horror video games. I tried a few of the latest Resident Evils but ended up bailing :)
Appreciate you, my friend!
Ive always believed Childs was Thing at the end but honestly i do not anymore and here is exactly why. First debunk:
Childs is showing breath, its just lighting and you can see it and even if, The Thing is a perfect imitation and it will have human formed lungs and it will breathe like a man.
His coat is different. I do not see it, hes been in Antarctica blizzard for 15-30 minutes his navy blue coat will be caked with ice and snow.
Now why i don't think Childs is a Thing:
IF Childs Thing was true it would do 2 strategies:
MacReady is only armed with a Colt Trooper Mk3 .357 Magnum revolver which is useless on Thing but useful on men and if nothing else if you have to do that thing its a good tool for the job. MacReady is unarmed to Thr Thing and i bet as a retribution Childs Thing would just light him up with US Army M2 Nepalm Flamethrower he has strapped to his back.
Othsr thing Thing Childs would do is not make contact, not risk because MacReady is the biggest threat behind Blair, Fuchs, Doc Copper, and Childs is a very careful man in this. Fuchs is possible Thing Blair killed him setting him on fire, think about it Fuchs is number one threat, Blair was an easy target once in the tool shed. If its easier to just end Fuchs instead of assimilation, its an important person to have off the chessboard. So if it was Childs i think it would simply not risk confrontation and sit down on other side of camp and go to sleep and freeze. Or it would fry Mac. I honestly do not believe its goal is assimilating Mac as much as removing him off chessboard with the framing of shredded clothes.
However yes it is possible Childs is the thing but most of the evidence used in theory or mystery solved videos. This is what i think, Childs is human at the end.
I'm with you!
I actually think Childs is the red herring and Mac is The Thing at the end :)
Awesome stuff, my friend!
At the very end, you see MacReady unmask Childs. Look at him chuckle in the last shot, and remember the beginning where Mac gives the computer a drink. That refers to the ending.
Someone else told me that there's a theory that Mac put kerosene in the bottle as a 'tell'. If a human drank it, they would react accordingly but if The Thing drank it...it wouldn't know the difference and act like everything was fine.
I still like to imagine a scenario where Childs is human and Mac was turned :)
Its absolutely amazing that a 40+ year-old movie can still generate theories and debates. I guess that's one of the definitions of a masterpiece :)
Thanks again for watching and all the great info, my friend!
@@WarpReactor Yes, but there's a fatal flaw in that. Right as Childs enters the scene behind him, Mac is lifting the bottle to take a swig. Therefore, the bottle isn't poisoned.
Recall the first scene when Mac gives the computer "a drink" when it cheated. (Yes, chess computers at the time did that. Computers didn't become chess champions until about 2001.) Mac and the creature have been "playing chess" all the way through the film. In fact, the script makes chess central to Mac's character.
Childs' accepting the drink means he doesn't fear infection, and the terror of infection was real, even if Fuchs and Blair had it wrong. I wouldn't doubt if Mac anticipated Childs would reappear and has his countermove planned. Neither guy is acting in character, and one way of looking at it is both men were spent. Another way, though, is that Mac was trying to unmask Childs. "If either of us have any surprises , we're in no condition . . " But Mac chuckles when Childs takes the drink. Why? It's not a funny situation, and we already know Mac is willing to die to stop the creature. What's Mac's countermove?
BTW, I will note that Mac consumes what must be a fatal amount of alcohol during the course of the movie! The hard drinker who can hold a superhuman amount of alcohol is a very common, unrealistic, Hollywood trope.
Have you ever seen John Carpenters The Fog ?
No I haven't...really need to see that and Near Dark.
Hopefully my spine has strengthened to the point where a watch of both is on the table :D
Thanks for watching, my friend!
I still can't believe that Wilford Brimley was only 48 when this movie was made.
You can listen to "Who goes there?" by John Campbell audiobook. There's an explanation about howi t works with the thing's biomass when it imitates someone. There are also no Norwegians in the story, the americans are those who find the thing frozen in the ice, so you can see what happens from the moment they find it, while it's free, and to the moment they kill it. It's short, and great story.
Windows dropped the keys when he walked in on Bennings being assimilated, thats when the keys were stolen. Who stole it? Either Norris or Palmer and my vote is on Palmer. Go back and rewatch, pay close attention to when Palmer and Norris is in and NOT in scenes.
Definitely going to notice and record the 'missing members' of each scene whenever I do a rewatch!
I've started watching a couple videos that theorize on the timeline of contamination, assimilation, etc, and I think I agree with you about Palmer.
Also to me Norris seemed to be actively fighting the conversion to the Thing (with his abdominal pain and eventual cardiac arrest). I'm not sure what to make of that since it looked like he was still in a form of self control/awareness before his heart attack (or whatever the medical event was).
So much going on in this movie! It amazes me that decades later, theories are still being developed and/or refined.
Great stuff, my friend! Thank you!
First reaction of yours I have seen, GREAT JOB! If you stomach was having fits over this movie, then, in my humble opinion, IT would love to see the under rated sci-fi/action/horror /monster films, Starship Troopers.
Thank you so much!
I've actually seen Starship Troopers and the ultra violence nearly did me in :D
The one that I'm really worried about is Event Horizon. I haven't seen it and its on the Rotten Tomatoes top 150 Sci-Fi movie list *yikes*
Thank you so much for watching and the kind words, my friend, they are greatly appreciated!
Event Horizon is a brain smasher for sure, another franchise, if you have not seen it yet, is the original Evil Dead series from Sam Rami, keep up the great reactions..
@@WarpReactor
I've been watching Thing reactions for a while and your TOS reactions as well, so why is this only popping up on my feed now?
It's an awesome whodunit for sure, and actually really interesting to rewatch when you _know_ who is human and who isn't, and see how the imitations act.
Re: your question about one creature or different ones; each part acts as (and in practice, is) a separate creature. You can even see things work against each other at some points, e.g. when Norris' head-spider tries to crawl away unseen it's Palmer who exposes it ("You gotta be fuckin' kidding...") -- and Palmer himself is a thing at that point. It's just what the real Palmer would have done, so the imitation... imitates.
Wow that's right! Palmer already was a 'Thing' when Norris transformed! I am looking forward to scouring a few theory videos at some point :)
Thank you so much, my friend! That's some good info...disturbing as HELL but damn good :)
The Thing is such a consummate survivor it'll sell out it's own kind to maintain the masquerade and preserve itself. While the ending is ambiguous as to who might be a Thing, it's darkly ironic to think that both men could be Things paranoid that one of them is human.
I would not call Beta "less efficient". It did deliver a better picture quality than VHS and, for that reason was used by TV news until digital tech came on line.
Now you need to watch it again, knowing who's a Thing and who isn't. A lot of behavior of both the humans and the Things will make more sense. Most folks think that Norris was the first guy taken, by the dog-Thing. Clark was a red herring, both in a film sense and that the Thing left him alone to be a suspect.
I personally think berserk Blair was human, and when he's asking to come back, i think he's Thing. The ship is not interstellar, Thing Blair is likely trying to get to a Soviet or a Japanese Station, whatever is the closest station and do it all over again. Thing Blair is NOT trying to eacape and go back home, its looking for the 1st ignorant, unprepared station to infiltrate morr humans and any animals. If it got to the coast it could absorb and imitate Penguins or whales or Orca (that would be really really bad) and make it back to Australia, South America, South Africa or New Zealand, whatever closest land it is with people. Remember this Thing won't likely settle for humans, it will likely take all animal cell organisms and... maybe plant cells, which everything organic would be a thing. That is how serious this is.
Completely agree with you on Blair!
I figure he was turned sometime after having fashioned the noose in the shed (can't see The Thing taking the time to do that). Loved how Wilford Brimley shifted gears in his performance! Really great stuff!
@WarpReactor there was a fan sequel called The Things and it's onr of those man is worst, thing just wants to go home. Fascinating read but no. Humans can suck, Thing sucks so much more. I just don't buy that notion that Humans are the dangerous factor in the equation of Man VS Human. Plus especially a couple decades of man is worst type theme
It did not need to be anything that big. Microorganisms at the ocean’s edge are good enough.
@@gabrielestrada8523 true, but it would reach those organisms
One of the best reactions ever! Relax a little and watch one of the the 1950's best sci-fi movies, "Forbidden Planet".
Enjoyed the reactions so much. I'm curious if you've seen In the Mouth of Madness - if not, I think it would be another good candidate for a reaction/review video. Carpenter and Sam Neill make a great combo.
I haven't seen In the Mouth of Madness but will most definitely put it on...The List!
Thank you for your kind words, my friend! Much appreciated :)
I second this recommendation! Especially if you're a Lovecraft fan.
Having never watched the film, I'm not sure whether I credit you or the movie itself, for building the tension. Sheeesh. By the time it got to spider/dog scene, I had to nope right out of there. (To be fair, I am a complete coward and do not watch the genre.) I jumped forward to get all the commentary goodness at the end. Thanks for another great video.
Thank you, Melissa! And make no mistake, it took everything I had to make it through a couple of these scenes :)
It is an excellent movie though, definitely worthy of cult classic status.
I appreciate you, my friend!
This movie and a handful of others are the reason why Gen-X,,as adults,,will fight 3-4 men at once 😅... Best practical effects horror suspense movie ever made 🤘🔥🤘
Why do they have flamethrowers? Because Warrant Officer MacReady is a paranoid Vietnam vet, and he ordered them. (Just my theory.)
I would say in the coldest environment imaginable, a flame thrower would almost be mandatory for numerous uses, as well as a healthy supply of fuel.
There’s a prequel from 2011 that covers it but ymmv on how good it is
Definitely plan on watching it at some point if only to see how much they tie into the original.
Thank you for the info and for watching, my friend!
For those who've enjoyed ALIEN and The Thing, I like to recommend the '79 Invasion of the Body Snatchers -- the cast is amazing!
I tell people all the time that The Thing is arguably the greatest horror movie of all time. Now of course you can definitely make a case for Alien, The Exorcist, and Psycho, but other than that, everything else is 5th and lower.
To complete your Carpenter collection, why not watch Halloween in a couple of months? Halloween is my second favourite movie after Pulp Fiction. The Thing is my top 100 though.
Carpenter is not gentle for people on this film.
At first minute you see , there is a big problem.
Norwegian are crazy or they are killers on south pole ??? Off course no. Americans have a big problem and can't understand.
You look at the film , Carpenter give pressure to you since start and show you , 1 mn before there was nothing.
It is not gentle at all for people. This film was not at all to please you. It was Carpenter's choice.
People HATED this film just because he was not gentle with them.
Young, I saw it and never spoke to anyone because ME , not because the film was bad.
Carpenter's carrer was "over" even he made "A monstruous film". Everyone said "Don't look at it."
After time Carpenter said "Why didn't you understand before? I made my best on this film and had some money to do it. Now , it's too late for me. I don't care about what you think now !". People says "Sorry, we made a mistake."
Rob bottin was no joke.