The Thing (Collector's Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Thing (Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: It's macready, man, HE'S the thing!
Summary: 5 Stars
All the way back from the early 80's, John Carpenter's "The Thing" was the hottest Sci-Fi/horror film to be seen. I remember seeing a copy of Cinefex magazine, dealing with the production of the film. There was a ton of imagination and special effects that went into the making of "The Thing".
What makes "The Thing" so creepy is the nature of the "Alien" menace. A creature that attacks and "takes over" it's intended victim at a cellular level, in essence becoming an exact copy of it's victim! What is perhaps it's most disgusting and surprising trait, is when it is either surprised or found out (identified). The laws of nature are thrown out the window, and you are witness to some of the most shocking mutations to ever come from a sick and depraved mind. To this, Carpenter puts into the mix a group of men who have undergone extensive psychological testing, just to be able to work in an isolated environment (no one wants these men going koo-koo a couple of months into their stay).
Well, let's just say that it wasn't enough. Once the menace is identified, little by little, these men come apart at the seams! It's every man for himself (itself?)!
"The Thing" is LOOOOONG on suspense! At times, it's well, nigh unbearable. This is John Carpenter's best film. Rob Bottin's special effects deserved an Oscar. Kurt Russell was just coming out of his "sqeaky clean" teenage image that followed him from his early films.
There is one thing I find curious. On some copies of this film, a Stevie Wonder song is being played in the kitchen scene, and on others, it's different music. Also, there are copies with narration! Perhaps it was added when the film went to cable. This film, like Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho", are must-see (if not must-own) films for the horror fanster!
Movie Review: Best (and nastiest) shapeshifter, ever!
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, you've read all the praise, and it's all true, this is a helluva scary movie, well-made, the effects are outstanding, and it holds up well over time.
But that's not all there is to it.
We've all seen morph effects, one critter transforming smoothly into another, we were pretty bored with them by the early 1990's. Big deal.
But this was made before cheap, cheesy CGI morphs. There's nothing smooth about these transformations. Much the opposite. What's so monstrous about this Thing, is that everything about its transformations is so WRONG. This critter has a rather nasty disregard for the rules, it doesn't care that heads aren't supposed to sprout legs and walk off on their own.
Very imaginative special effects.
Movie Review: Best (and nastiest) shapeshifter ever
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, you've read all the praise, and it's all true, this is a helluva scary movie, well-made, the effects are outstanding, and it holds up well over time.
But that's not all there is to it.
We've all seen morph effects, one critter transforming smoothly into another, we were pretty bored with them by the early 1990's. Big deal.
But this was made before cheap, cheesy CGI morphs. There's nothing smooth about these transformations. Much the opposite. What's so monstrous about this Thing, is that everything about its transformations is so WRONG. This critter has a rather nasty disregard for the rules, it doesn't care that heads aren't supposed to sprout legs and walk off on their own.
Very imaginative special effects.
Movie Review: One of Carpenters classics
Summary: 4 Stars
I haven't seen The Thing in many years and was quite happy to catch it late last night. As far as remakes go this one is one of the best. The film involves a team of scientists as they come across a frozen spacecraft in the artic. They stumble across a body in the wreckage and deide to thaw it out, unknowingly opening the door to a mysterious alien force that can take shape/replicate anything it comes into contact with. This is a truely terrifying concept.
The atmosphere is exceptional. Taking place in the artic leaves you with a dark chilling feeling that could not be duplicated. This film is an abosulte classic with some great effects for the time. I wouldn't say that it beats out Halloween for Carpenter's masterpiece by any stretch. But it is without a doubt a close second. I would absolutely recommend this for any horror/sci-fi fan if you aren't already aware of it.
Movie Review: The Scariest Film Ever Made
Summary: 5 Stars
I am 54 years old, and have been watching horror movies since I was old enough to talk. I saw all the old sci-fi's going back even to "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," "Nosferatu," the original "Frankenstein" and "Dracula," and the original of this film by Howard Hawks, which was excellent in its own way. I've seen many current horror films, as well. (I do not count the current spate of movies about sadistic killings, as I find they have no reason to exist but to excite a vicarious interest in bloodletting. Evidently, I don't share that taste, so I find such films vapid and ultimately unengaging.)
John Carpenter's "The Thing" is the scariest of them all. It uses no CGI, ironically relying for its thrills on a series of visually loathsome burlesques of alien birth. The suspense is provided by combining a low-level, background fear of being cut off from rescue in the Antarctic with the more immediate terror of being dependent upon a small group of companions, any of whom may have been imperceptibly transformed into voracious aliens. The resulting paranoia jumps off the chart.
The cast is uniformly excellent, led by Kurt Russell's wonderfully understated performance, which is so down-to-earth as to render the remainder of the proceedings positively plausible and therefore the more terrifying.