The Thing (Complete Score) - Ennio Morricone
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- Complete score from "The Thing" by Ennio Morricone
00:00 A Ship of Some Kind
01:44 Main Title
02:00 Anarctica, Winter 1982
04:36 It Begins...
05:26 The Norwegian Camp
11:57 The Man-Thing
13:22 What Appears to be Normal
14:20 Weird and Pissed off
15:24 Burn It
16:34 Autopsy on an Alien
18:17 The Crater
21:18 The Probability of Infection
23:57 The Find of the Century
24:22 It's Bennings
25:28 The Chameleon Strikes in the Dark
26:32 The Thing that was Bennings
28:36 Nobody Trusts Anybody / Fuchs
31:00 Mac's Shack
33:50 No Way Out
36:38 The Garry Blair Thing
37:00 The Real Thing
37:57 One Last Thing
40:22 End Title
Composed by Ennio Morricone
I don't claim right, all ones belongs to the owners
00:00 A Ship of Some Kind
01:44 Main Title
02:00 Anarctica, Winter 1982
04:36 It Begins...
05:26 The Norwegian Camp
11:57 The Man-Thing
13:22 What Appears to be Normal
14:20 Weird and Pissed off
15:24 Burn It
16:34 Autopsy on an Alien
18:17 The Crater
21:18 The Probability of Infection
23:57 The Find of the Century
24:22 It's Bennings
25:28 The Chameleon Strikes in the Dark
26:32 The Thing that was Bennings
28:36 Nobody Trusts Anybody / Fuchs
31:00 Mac's Shack
33:50 No Way Out
36:38 The Garry Blair Thing
37:00 The Real Thing
37:57 One Last Thing
40:22 End Title
☠️💀🇺🇲A Great classic Sinister Theme to a Sucessful Iconic Horror Movie what time Magazine described as Horrific ☠️💀🇺🇲Watch Clark ,He was close to those Dogs ,Yikes 🧟🐉🕷️
"Why don't we...just wait here for a little while...see what happens..."
Best. Movie. Ending. Ever.
That's a damn good point.
Another very Carpenter influenced movie too.
@schimmel72 Idk man, the mist had no depth to its ending. It made you go "wow. That was anticlimatic."
@schimmel72 Of course, it's not like gory or anything. It's just a little surprising. Overly sad things and such aren't interesting.
100% agree. This is pretty much what would happen. I'd probably try and find more whisky though.
From the prelude THING, we now know neither Childs or MacReady were infected since they both were wearing earrings.
In my opinion, John Carpenter's best work!
By far !
@No1 Jack a Masterpiece !
i think they live is my favorite but the thing is a close second
"Prince of Darkness" is also really creepy...and so insane...
In Carpenter's opinion too !
"Now, if you don't mind, I'd prefer not to spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS F**KING COUCH!!"
One of the funnier moments!, especially when that thing is thrashing about next to him!...great scene!
Oh well if your gonna be like that you can stay there a little longer ok
Was 11 years old, my father took us kids to the Movie.
I still remember him saying “Kids we are not going to see that stupid ET movie, we’re going to see a real movie.”
Being a little disappointed, I sat in the back seat of the car as we pulled up to the movie theater. Sat down and was scare shitless that whole movie!
Years later still blown away how awesome that movie was.
😊😊
I'm at work alone at night listening to this. My office door whistles weirdly and its snowing outside. And a bunch of lights are out in my office. Good times!
Excellent!!!! Listen for the tiniest sound. If someone knocks, burn them!!!
I THOUGHT I SAW FUCHS !!
MAYBE IT TRIED TO BURN HIM ???!
Maybe he burned himself before it had a chance to get to him...
keep a close eye on Ted from accounting. Nobody can trust anyone in this damn office anymore …
Me too, actually
@@razorblade530 🤣
"The generator's gone."
"Can we fix it?"
"It's _gone_ MacReady!"
I often think about that scene, even if I haven't watched the movie in a year or two. Then MacReady slowly lowers the flare.... realizing they are in deep shit.
I thought you meant : " This Generation is gone " ; " Can we fix it ? " ; " It's gone MacReady ! "
@@GLORYNEVADASMITH nah like literally gone! 😂
Till we can figure out who's who this generation, I suggest we all start eating out of cans and prep our own food.
Any way we can fix it!?
I usually watch this movie during winter. It just makes it more fitting.
I did that + playing the PC game during one of Sweden's worst winters in modern time. Well, I was on high alert for most of the winter xD
I used to do that same thing as a teenager in the mid to late '90s. I'd watch 'The Thing' and play Doom.
The Shining looks like another good option to do that 😂
It s true!
or during the covid confinment ; )
5 dislikes failed the blood test
10 people are still tied to that fucking couch.
57 people are weird and pissed off
It's 58 now,it's spreading.......we gotta burn the rest of them.
hahaha! I know,right? :)
And remember...data suggest that upon 1st.contact,the organism would infect earth´s entire population within twenty-seven thousand hours.That´s a little over three years! So,be vigilant!
it's impossible that he was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for this music. Someone is crazy. Thanx for sharing.This music evokes shivers especially the main track . Great
Golden Raspberry Award?! What an insult to a musical genius. I think some a-hole was really jealous.
The razzies are stupid. Scarface was nominated for a bunch
Absolutely what a horror soundtrack should sound like.
check out “The Witch” soundtrack, scares the shit out of me
It's so foreboding, I remember the first time I saw the thing, the hair on my arms stood up
Just came here after hearing of Moricone's death. A real genius.
I was not aware Moricone did this one !
@@robertmanfredthurrigl9424 Morricone's score for this film was nominated for a Razzie, while his score for The Hateful Eight - which has some unused music from this film in it - won him his only Best Original Score Oscar
@@FuturePast2019 It's almost like people that do film awards are stupid and we should just ignore them.
@@balabanasireti hear hear
"The Thing cannot be described-there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. " - H.P. Lovecraft
Dan Warren Did you interview him in the Heaven or something???
Viktor Pedrova Oh, cool how the description of Cthulhu matches with that of the Thing.
Excellent comparison
Makes you wonder our place in the universe.
Carpenter made his tribute to HPL. Watch "In the mouth of Madness".
This is a rite of passage now in my family....all must pass through the terror of the Thing before the age of 13
The Thing 1982 is a crazy creepy sci-fi / horror movie with some wild fancy effects, music and sound effects. The claustrophobic atmosphere is absolutely fantastic. The different actors are doing a fantastic job in making the whole movie believable!
Great movie and Score !!!
Unforgetable kurt rusell was great
@Viktor Exactly my thoughts.
Yeah so much better than ET. This ET can kick Spielberg ET any day
Yes a great great cast like alien
It is amazing how a simple theme, instrumented equally simply, can so effectively induce that ominous "it's coming and there's nowhere to run" sense that underpins true terror. Ennio Morricone is an underappreciated giant.
No longer. The man's finally an Oscar winner, and for a film ("The Hateful Eight") that not only was heavily inspired by Carpenter's masterpiece, but even contained snippets (20:22) from its soundtrack.
Thanks, Organladen. Guess that answers my question directly below. By the way . . . . . . . . where's Blair?
Some of the most simple things are God. Nature is the most free and simple thing. The core of reality. Probably the majority of Bible-belt Christians in power (never a good thing) voted to witch-hunt brilliant geniuses like Carpenter ("An Alien? It contadicts God!"). Fucking stupid stubborn arrogant fucktard cunts.
Good grief, Dan. Way to kill the vibe. Witch-hunting Christians had nothing whatsoever to do with Carpenter's directorial demise. "Halloween" aside, the man, despite having created some true classics, simply never had a financial hit. Just like in sports where coaches who consistently don't make the playoffs get fired, in film if all your movies flop, eventually the phone stops ringing and the financial backers quit lining up. Simple as that. Lighten up, Francis.
But real. This film has ZERO hope. The only hope is the alien takes over the entire world population, and hopefully creates more smart people, like smart water and smart phones and in the future smart puppet people.
I remember my dad wanting to show me this when I was 16, I said what's it about?? He said, trust me Connor, it's good 😂😂😂 still one of my favs to this day
I saw this when I was 11.
that's a cool dad
A toast to cool dads. *hits flask*
my dad showed this to me when I was 6. I wasn't scared though, i thought it was rad. first r-rated movie i saw.
If my dad showed this to me when I was 6, I'd punch him in the face. Way too disturbing for a 6 yo.
Classic soundtrack. Ever since I was a kid, John Carpenter's The Thing has given me a genuine disturbed feeling. I really came to appreciate the soundtrack and how much it adds to the scenes. Just all around a brilliant film.
What if a thing like that is actually sleeping somewhere in the tundra and is going to wake up as the global warming goes on? That will be an awesome soundtrack for all of us!
"I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds."
Ennio Morricone, one of greatest composers to have ever blessed cinema has sadly left us. Me talking about this legend will not do justice to his legacy. With over 520 credited scores, it is a life worth lived. Every single one of his scores are so uniquely distinct, and yet fits so perfectly with the genre it's based on.
Some of the best written music ever, such as: 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly', 'The Untouchables', 'Once Upon a Time in America', 'The Mission', 'The Hateful Eight', and 'Days of Heaven'. Of course, not forgetting 'The Thing', with its two beats sounding like a heartbeat, but like an alien trying to imitate a human heart in order to blend in. Super eerie.
Also, the Razzie Awards don't know shit when it comes to movies. For those who do not know what I am talking about, let me briefly explain. The score for 'The Thing' was nominated for Worst Score at the ceremony. Like...what!?
Even if you haven't seen the movie, you would most certainly heard one of his scores. You just cannot escape it; it is that timeless and instantly recognizable. A titian has left the building.
Rest in power, Ennio Morricone.
Matthew Brady Oh! This is one of his best work in my mind...He was a real genius. We will miss him...
Matthew Brady I hate the Razzie awards. Besides just not getting how great this score is, what kind of jerks spend their time focusing on something being bad? Artists create, what do they do? RIP maestro, and thank you for all you have left behind.
Ennio Morricone, Jerry Goldsmith, and James Horner, rip to these legends.
I was lucky enough to have seen the movie in a theater when it first came out. It's still the creepiest movie I've ever seen. The alien was crazy weird.
Oh wow. I saw it on VHS around 1983...
It might be real
28:36 I'm gonna hide this tape when I'm finished, if none of us make it at least there'll be some kind of record. Storm's been hitting us hard now for 48 hours. We still have nothing to go on. One other thing, I think it rips through your clothes when it takes you over. Windows found some shredded long-johns but the name-tag was missing. They could be anybodies. Nobody...nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired. There is nothing else I can do. ...just wait.
R.J. MacReady, helicopter pilot, US Outpost No. 31.
You should read John W. Campbell's short story ''The beast from another world". It definitely worth it.
dega723 I think you mean The Thing from Another World. The book Campbell wrote was called Who Goes There?
@@adrianabundiz148: I wished John Carpenter named the movie same as the Book, "Who Goes There". Many people got the Carpenter's Thing mixed up with the original. I think that was part of the reason for Carpenter's [Thing] slow start in the theatre.
Ennio Morricone is such a brilliant composer..
He is indeed!
But, lets not forget the contributions of John Carpenter & Alan Howarth to the score.
JC and his damn synths.. I just love them lol
He's a true artist I've loved his music ever since seeing the good the bad & the ugly as a child
Carpenter did the first piece, the title sequence. Always fills me unspeakable dread, before the damn movie begins.
RIP Maestro
One of the greatest films I've ever seen.
Same
Yep. An unsung eighties gem along with 'Runaway Train'; a rather 'snowy' movie too...
When it comes to sci-fi horror, this is the greatest film I ever saw. If anyone makes one better I hope I'm alive to see it!!
@@jaleelel-shabazz5459 It's not at the same level as 'The Thing', but check out 'The Last Winter'. It's got a similar 'Thing' vibe and is really atmospheric.
@@outpost31mac: I'll look for it thanks.
Ever notice how the electronics only kick in when a Thing is active and plotting, and the traditional instrumentation picks up only when it's dormant or the scene is focused on humans (and passive Things)?
Electronics:
* A Ship Of Some Kind - The Thing's Ship Crashes.
* Anarctica, Winter 1982/It Begins... - The Thing comes to the camp and is accepted in.
* What Appears to Be Normal - Foreshadows the Norwegian-Thing not actually being dead.
* Weird and Pissed off/Burn It - No explanation needed.
* Find of the Century to The Chameleon Strikes... - Bennings is assimilated.
* Nobody Trusts Anybody / Fuchs - The Thing isolates Fuchs and tries to frame MacReady.
* Mac's Shack - Mac is framed, and the assimilated Norris features prominently while trying to keep him out.
* No Way Out - Blair-Thing destroys the generator.
* The Garry Blair Thing - Garry is absorbed by Blair.
Whereas the orchestra is thusly used:
* The Norwegian Camp - There is a Thing here, but it's inactive, and the scene is focused on Doc and Mac's discoveries.
* The Man-Thing - The camp regards the still-dormant Norwegian-Thing as Mac starts to suspect the dog.
* Autopsy on an Alien - Once again, another Thing is incapacitated while the camp looks on in fear and disgust.
* The Crater - Mac, Palmer and Norris fly to and investigate the crash site. NOTE: While at least one of the latter is probably a Thing by this point, Mac always accompanies one, meaning no assimilations could have taken place.
* The Probability of Infection - Blair's calculations start his paranoid downward spiral.
* The Thing that was Bennings - The team solemnly destroys Bennings and the other two inactive Things.
The last three tracks are the only ones which bend the rules, but for good reason:
* The Real Thing: The blend of of synth and strings underscores the ambiguity of Blair. We know by the end that he's a Thing, but it's impossible to say just when he was infected, and to what degree (if any) it influenced his actions throughout.
* One Last Thing/End Title: Played back to back, these two cues emphasize the ambiguity of just whether or not either of the survivors are infected at the end.
It's really a shame Carpenter and Morricone didn't see eye-to-eye on the final product, because that is truly genius-level attention to detail.
Its amazing to see what talented humans are capable of doing when they get together and cooperate. This perfectly demonstrates why humans are so far ahead of every animal on the planet.
When the thing attacks again after the dog kennel scene the music is almost non existent.
Pretty good synopsis of the OST and plot.
@@Vishnu_Karthik False impression !!!
psychokitty444 no
"Hey Sweden!"
"They're Norwegian Mac."
In a series "Hell on Wheels" avl on Netflix, there is a character who is Norsk and everyone wants to call him a Swede.
As a Swede I find that line hilarious.
Im Norwegian :) 🇸🇯
1st guy above is America's best ever foreign secretary.
@@johanneshaukanes4531 ❤🇳🇴❤
I still remember sneaking over to the neighbors house to watch this. I had no idea what I was in for.
The master has left us, but his work will live on. This piece sends chills through my bones every single time.
I don’t know how the hell I missed this news.
I know I will get hate for this but the main theme is more intense, terrifying, and just down right better than the Jaws theme
Mega MovieZ As a die-hard fan of John Williams, I'm inclined to agree. Even though the Jaws Theme is much more iconic, it doesn't have the sense of fear and unease that this soundtrack instills in the viewer. Jaws is a monster movie, while The Thing is a true HORROR movie.
Agreed.. this is so intense!
Mega MovieZ ur a bonehead!!!!
dat baseline though in the beginning
Mega MovieZ haters gonna hate
I can't believe this soundtrack was nominated for a razzie, what were they thinking?
yee-yee-ya haircut because u have no ears...that's y u cannot listen
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING
Nice reference there buddy, also might I request SIX HOT LOADS ON YOUR DI'S HAT NOW.
Surprised you didn't get me at 'WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING' tbh fam.. Next thing you'll be telling me you don't know who the boss of this gym is..
Oh I'll show you who's boss of this gym.
Literally one of my all time favorite movies, I can watch it any day.
Try to watch it after your death then :3
Same here!
I can too
I agree, but during a snow fall is extra special!!
First goddamned week of winter.
Lolol......he really gonna take the chopper up huh
One of the best film scores of all time :)
Definitely
''Watch Clark,and watch him close,you hear 'hwe' ''
Turns out Clark was human!
By far the most intense sci-fi horror of all time. Nothing compares. I think mostly because John Carpenter made the atmosphere of the film so serious. There was no comic relief, no spoons droping for a cheap scare. Nope. So real. So moody. So good.
I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is.
This movie *REIGNS SUPREME!*
One of the best Horrormovie and soundtrack ever made.
RIP, Ennio Morricone. May your work live on forever.
I think that's secure.
Greatest composer of our time..
The Thing is so Fing awesome - love it!!!!!!!
One of greatest soundtracks in history,better than Jaws.
Arise Necrotic hands down
Why is it better?
@@cosmojairzinho14 because it is
@@cosmojairzinho14:JAWS sounds symphonic, This music from the THING sounds more generic and subtle, and still it scares the shit out of you!!
That dog put on a incredible creepy performance, kudos to his handler. Watching the dog in the kennel and other dogs going ape; along with the epic 👽 transformation was amazing!!! And of course Mac calls in for a flame thrower because... our heroes just happen to have those on hand... classic weapon against monsters.
I always thought the flamethrowers were for burning trash.
people bring up the flamethrowers like 'why would they have them' but it makes perfect sense in an arctic enviroment surely? for melting ice etc, im guessing they travel out the station and surely it has it's uses in a cold enviroment if you need to get rid of snow or ice thats blocking your path etc
@@TheToxicPenguin They have snow blowers and dozers for that type of work; I know from experience not guess work, because I use to do that type of work for a living and am familiar with the equipment that is actually used. So your premise is really ridiculous. A genuine flame thrower would require special maintenance and training, not to mention they are less cost efficient for the amount of snow displacement required. That doesn't even begin to touch surface the potential danger involved to the operator and those working close by. Seriously before you give into criticizing others in comment... know what you are talking about!!
After seeing this back in 82, the dogs weren't allowed in the house for a month, or more.
@@RW4X4X3006 I get that, especially if one of them is giving you the 11 mile stare. Beside that...if the dogs watched the movie with you... don't want any of them getting any ideas when you're back is turned!?? 🙁
I know you men have been through a lot, but when you find the time I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIDE TO THIS FUCKIN COUCH!!!
tied. stop eating tide pods
That's why I did it
I'm glad you and everybody else got a laugh
At least he got to sit despite all the flamethrowers.
The actual story is worse....its a super virus that invades every living thing it can reach and the whole living ecosphere on the entire planet becomes part of the alien organism.
R.I.P. Ennio Morricone thank you we'll always love you. 😢🙏🙏🙏
This is just 1 of COUNTLESS reasons why Ennio Morricone is a LEGEND is win forever be remember as one of the best movie composer's of all time... If not THE best... His musical scores add just add much to a great movie at the story and the acting...
I LOVE Ennio but most of the synthy/bassline stuff is Carpenter's music, Morricone had to do his music before the film was finished and they realized they need more tension building pieces so John Carpenter and his music partner Alan Howarth deserve a lot of credit
@@KurdtLives very true.
@@KurdtLives I honestly had no idea. Just another reason why it's so sad that Carpenter isn't given NEARLY the amount of praise he deserves. Sure, he's made a few crappy movies, but he's also made some of the greatest movies of all time... As well as some of the most memorable scenes of all time. The part Mac yells "It's not Bennings", then when The Thing looks at him with its twisted "hands", and screams with that hellish howl, still gives me goosebumps to this day.
The movie is amazing, this soundtrack alone is amazing.
To me ''Humanity", "Solitude" and "Wait" are the best tracks, I can hardly say it's Morricone's. Concerning the movie, this is Carpenter's best work to date, along with ''Christine'' and ''In the mouth of madness".
@@vinzelrato you forgot "they live"
@@ts6603 i'm not a big fan of this one - except for the "consume & reproduce" or "obey" aspect
Listening to this today in honor of Morricone's death. This is one of my favorite movies ever made and part of that is thanks to the horrifying feeling created by Ennio's score.
Thank you, sir.
I completely agree. And some of the parts of his score (the synth ones) had been composed as a kind of game, and he perfectly saw that it matched with the atmosphere of the film. He was a genius and he will be missed. So missed. :(
This is why Morricone is Zimmer's favourite film composer.
Here is a quote.
Rather conveniently, producer Stuart Cohen has a blog devoted to his experience while working on The Thing, and it includes an entry about the score.
In a perfect world, given unlimited time and resources, I think John would have preferred to compose the music for THE THING himself. The realities of the work yet to be done, however, combined with the need for a more expansive and layered approach to the score led us to consider other options. We initially offered the film to Jerry Goldsmith who was unavailable, doing both POLTERGEIST and TWILIGHT ZONE for Spielberg. Availability on musician John Corigliano (ALTERED STATES) was checked. The legendary Alex North read the script, had ideas, and wanted to meet but at that point I felt the only composer John would possibly entrust his film to other than himself was Ennio Morricone.
The film was far from complete or coherent - John was still filming in Stewart, so the film lacked most of the exterior scenes as well as amost all of the special effects, save the kennel . Morricone complained about the lack of continuity ( normally we wouldn't have run a film for any composer in this shape, and with the director not present ,but we did not have the luxury of time - we needed to secure his commitment, and were trying to wedge ourselves in to his schedule ) but agreed that if we were to come to him in Rome he would "see what he could do".
Doubts were definitively dispelled two months later when Morricone opened up his tattered valise and removed a reel of two inch tape containing the now-emblematic "heartbeat " theme. As we heard this for the first time in the recording booth at Universal I looked over at John, whose expression was initially one of relief, followed by something close to wonder... it seemed that Morricone had understood John perfectly. At the orchestral recording session the next day, I remember John coming in late and shyly taking a seat in the back, an observer for the first time as Morricone recorded the rest of the music for his movie. Having been recorded in large brushstrokes of sound, there was still the need for more specific transition and suspense cues which John, along with his partner, Alan Howarth, then supplied.
So basically, Carpenter already had too much on his plate, and was forced to turn over responsibility for the score to an outside composer. The only person Carpenter trusted with his baby was Ennio Morricone. In the end, everyone walked away happy.
Update: I found a quote from Ennio Morricone himself:
Regarding The Thing, by John Carpenter, I've asked him, as he was preparing some electronic music with an assistant to edit on the film, "Why did you call me, if you want to do it on your own?" He surprised me, he said - "I got married to your music. This is why I've called you." I was quite amazed, he called me because he had my music at his wedding. Then when he showed me the film, later when I wrote the music, we didn't exchange ideas. He ran away, nearly ashamed of showing it to me. I wrote the music on my own without his advice. Naturally, as I had become quite clever since 1982, I've written several scores relating to my life. And I had written one, which was electronic music. And [Carpenter] took the electronic score.
Dude. Thanks for this.
thanks for sharing this! amazing, one of my favorite films and scores of all time.
RIP Incredibly versatile genius composer
Carpenter mixed his own (formidable) compositions to Morricone's most disturbing score ever!
You see, what we're talkin' about here is an organism that imitates other life-forms, and it imitates 'em perfectly. When this thing attacked our dogs it tried to digest them... absorb them, and in the process shape its own cells to imitate them. This for instance. That's not dog. It's imitation. We got to it before it had time to finish.
Blair must have been in Contact with this ,Cause he did a Great Performance the Actor who played him by Smashing up the Communications Room ,Screaming at his Colleagues ,No Dog makes it this far ,You think that thing wanted to be US
Finish What ?Finish Imatating these Dogs ,Creepy When he opens up what remained of The Thing 😯🐉🧟🇺🇲🕷️
This should had won the soundtrack Oscar for the year.
1982s "The Thing" and "Alien" are 2 of my favorite horror flicks. Shivers up & down my spine every time.
I agee!
Agree, The Thing is probably my fav horror movie.
I also recommend to watch The Fly, Brood and Scanners by David Cronenberg.
You're gotta have to sleep at sometime Macready!..
I'm a real light sleeper child's !
*Clark prepares scalpel*
Just the cover image of the figure with light coming out of their head is just so perfect. Because you don't know what's behind the light. It makes you wonder.
One problem with the 2011 prequel was the fact that the cover image shows that the figure is clearly an alien.
The whole point of The Thing was the paranoia, and fear of the unknown. The fact that it keeps you wondering who is who?
I still liked the 2011 version due to how it set the stage for the original. Although I disliked its excessive use of CGI, and the lack of claustrophobia.
The original was absolutely perfect however.
The 2011 prequel actually had a lot of practical effects, from what I've heard, but company executives covered it all up with excessive CGI.
Exactly right. i just got finished watching something on that. when the producers heard that they were going to go with CGI instead of their practical effects he wrote it broke their heart, but when it comes down to it it is the studios decision the reason why was said that because CGI is a lot is a lot easier to go back fix mistakes or missing parts.
@@PositiveOnly00
Still, I would like to see a non-edited version.
To me the real unique problem with 2011 one is the plot mistake they created with how the ice was destroyed over the flying sourcer. In 2011 the ice is melted by the engines. In original they used thermic explosives. How the hell did they missed that part?????
I could have considered 2011 as a real prequel, I could have buy it if this mistake was not there.
Nobody have explained to me why they commited this terrible mistake yet :(
I blame the director. He didn't know how to pace it. He didn't know what to emphasize and demphasize. Also, the original had better actors.
Saw The Thing for the first time when I was 12 years old. Summer of '83. Was instantly hooked. 40 years later I still ask myself "What the hell is it about this movie?" I never get tired of it. Whether it's watching it, listening to the soundtrack, in a group somewhere yapping about it, reading someone's (debunked 100 times over) theory about why Childs was infected 😁. All of it.
Try the book
I just purchased John Carpenter's "The Thing" & "Lost Cues" Deluxe Soundtrack Bundle. I absolutely cannot wait to listen to this beautiful vinyl. The music is so eerie & atmospheric. I love it! ❄❄❄
Mary Fox it's Ennio Morricones soundtrack .
Nobody is coming to save you. It's the movies theme and it's such a feeling of hopelessness and dread.
Thank you Ennio Morricone, you will be sadly missed.
This soundtrack and the soundtrack to Jaws are among the greatest soundtracks in movie history IMO. Also up there is the soundtrack to The Shining.
Unfortunately, the Simpsons ruined the Shining for me and my generation.
Ennio Morricone was a genius.
He made beautiful music for ugly film too...
The good, the beast and the thing
Carpenter, Morricone, two genius. A legendary movie.
I agree.
This soundtrack has the components of the 50's extraterrestrial sound, with the ominous horror that is to come. Such a masterpiece, I could watch this movie 100 times in the summer and never grow tired of it. To all of the haters that voted this down: CUT THE BULLSHIT!
It's amazing to read now the comments about Morricone's score (really??) and the "kudos" about the movie and how GREAT it is. I was 10 years old when I saw this in theatre with my sister. She screamed practically all the way through it, but I sat there stunned by the intensity and just great filmmaking from this movie. That was opening day. By the end of the weekend, EVERYONE hated vehemently this film and Carpenter. How could John Carpenter have perverted such a classic film like Hawks' THE THING? Carpenter was kicked to the curb from that point with his career never quite recovering. NOW - Carpenter's THE THING is revered and loved. THE THING '82 is now THE CLASSIC! Carpenter was way ahead of his time and paid the price. We now have Carpenter's version for ourselves and the future. Who's laughing now?
I don't give a rats ass what anyone ever said about J.C's "THING" In my opinion this is the greatest Sci-Fi movie ever!!
another example of why Morricone imo was the best soundtrack composer ever
Still is. He's still alive, and still doing what he does.
So good, I was 6 and my Dad let me into the world of sci fi horror - LOVE IT!!!
The greatest music score for horror and science fiction in the history of cinema. Indelible. Ennio Morricone outdid himself. If Carpenter's work is the physical body of this top masterpiece; Morricone's music score is its soul. A splendid example of what the artistic greatness of human genius can achieve.
One of the best opening's for a sci-fi movie. From the crashing spaceship, the epic movie title, the frozen landscape, the helicopter flying against the snowy background, and of course, the dog.
Best music to take your dog for a walk during winter.
Oh man I cackled at this too loudly at 2am
A wonderfully eerie and sinister score. Just perfect.
You got to be freaking kidding me???!!!!!
I first thought that John Carpenter did the music. This sounds like his compositions and he had done music to his films before. Magnificent score in every case and this movie is magnificent in every aspect.
Carpenter did a lot the synthy stuff, Ennio had do score it before it was done being cut so he just went off some of what was done and a convo from Carpenter; later some of what Ennio composed didn;t work for the tension building scenes so Carpenter added to the score.
Very unusual from Ennio to write such horror music but what he did there is just amazing... Ennio, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and more recently, Hanz Zimmer are the best film scores composers!
132 people are keeping Wilford Brimley company in that cabin.
I remember seeing this movie in the video store and passing it over so many times cuz of the name.. "ooh The Thing, yea what a crappy title for a movie I bet that sucks.." and then in 2002 the video game was released on the xbox and I played it and loved it and finally watched the movie and was absolutely blown away! Lesson learned, never judge a book (or movie) by the cover!
I agree, that title did throw a lot of people off, John Carpenter should have used the title of the book for the movie, "Who Goes There"?
Man is the warmest place to hide
The Norwegian Camp, with the eerie what sounds like harp or guitar, then the clarinets doing a reprise of the theme, then low brass and winds...MASTERFUL.
Total horror and despair!!
Still a classic.
Even the music is chilling.
Hard to imagine your options in Antarctica.
Literally.
Love this score. RIP Ennio X
I saw this movie as a kid and loved it. It wasn't until I was much older that I read that it got horrible reviews. Now it's a cult classic, and considered ahead of it's time. One of the best horror movies hands down.
That end title is one of the most haunting piece of music i've ever heard.
The movie touches on the vastness of the universe...as Norris states 'the backscatter effect has been bringing up things down here for a long time,I'd say the ice it's buried in is a hundred thousand years old...at least!
"And those Norwegians blew it up." - Mcready - (The Thing)
Intense, mournful and with an overwhelming sense of dread, the score is haunting and unnerving, very much like the film itself. Some of Morricone's best work.
Play this music over any video, even kittens playing in a basket, and it immediately makes that scene dark and foreboding. The power of music.
Incredible soundtrack. Love the synth sounds used. Possibly the best synth soundtrack ever recorded (Terminator 1 had really cool oldschool one too but this one is a little bit better).
And what a movie this is. Have seen it 10+ times and I still don't have enough of it.
Now this is a "thing" to see. I spent months putting this score back together as presented in the film, offered it up online as a two disc deluxe edition with the complete original Morricone score and fans have gone ahead and uploaded it on UA-cam as a single file. You didn't even change the track names I gave them. Lol. Glad you're all enjoying it. :)
I'm addicted to this soundtrack!...
Addicted , or infected?...
We will need to run some tests...
The Thing and Alien are the best.
I honestly hope NY gets a really bad snow storm so I can watch The Thing with proper ambience and atmosphere.
Thanks for the video.
Nothing like doing homework/drawing at night with this score.
Ernesto Gomes Bolaños Right on. Studying for a licensing exam right now!
Writing a paper to this!
Writing a reflection essay. But also occasionally looking over my shoulder. Just in case.
OMG this movie scared the living shit out of me when I was a kid.
There is nothing like watching this at 2am in December.
I've never been able to understand why the film underperformed at the time. Not just one of the best horrors ever, but one of the best movies ever IMO! Certainly, in my top ten - I never tire of watching it, and the soundtrack provides the perfect backdrop.
"I've never been able to understand why the film underperformed at the time"
two letters - E.T.
@@bozotheclown169 Thanks for that! When I first read it, I thought “what’s this bozo character on about?” but looked it up. It maybe doesn’t tell the whole story, but it makes a lot of sense!
RIP to the genius. I bought this on CD 30years ago. It's so good, Tarantino appropriated it for his Hateful Eight soundtrack. (Parts of it were never used by Carpenter, so Tarantino took whole tracks straight from it).
This music is fuckin amazing so powerful scary thought provoking and utterly terrifying. I remember watching this as a kid and it fuckin terrified me still does and I'm 43 ha!
Me too!
Hahaha. Music is great. It stirs up the tension, but terrified? Never. Must be I'm into killer aliens.
@@hadeseye2297 The only time The Thing scared me was when I first saw it as a kid. I had no idea what I was in for or the family for that matter.
One of the very few remakes I like better than the original.This version follows the story it's based on to the letter.John Carpenter and the entire crew and cast done a magnificent job. One of the best sc fi films ever made.Love Ennio Morricones score. Great performance by Kurt Russell as is the whole cast.
alien and this movie a truly masterpiece....
“You gotta sleep sometime Macready”, I’m a real light sleeper Childs.
If either one of us are that thing....neither one one us can do anything about it now.....want a drink???
@@anthonyperry8687 Cheating bitch.
maybe I'm gonna get stoned but - apart from that most of the themes are written by Morricone, the most epic parts of the soundtracks are the all-synth arrangements done by Carpenter and Howarth (like the very start and the Mac's Shack tracks) as they imply such "you are all alone in the end of the whole fucking world with something terrible happening" feeling which simply shivers down on my spine :)
No stoning, but I really like your point! I think Morricone's themes and Carpenter and Howarth's arrangements come together really well. It's how collaborations work!
I actually think it all works. But I hear what you say.
Carpenter and Howarth were very much in connection during this time. The subdued, but subtly complex incidental music to Christine, Prince of Darkness, even Season of the Witch are superb.
Right on.
No stones here. I could not agree more. While we're on the subject; we should all start mentioning Howarth's name more often.
I was a freshmen in College when I first saw this. Always heard of it. It was a Vermont Winter of more than a decade ago.
The dorms were empty since everyone went home. I choose to watch with no lights in the lounge room. Alone with a blanket and the icy cold outside at the windows, it was already a blizzard by the time I started the movie... Wind and terror and cold... This weird synthetic and orchestral music.
It shocked me. Especially the practical effects. Through my ignorance, I was completely immersed and horrified. like WHAAAT AM I SEEING!???
I don't think I'll ever experience something like that again.