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Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost. The Thing from Another World is the original The Thing film long before the one in 1982 and the prequel in 2011 and to be honest? It was better than i thought it was going to be, really fun and even tho we don't see the alien alot of times it does keep you quite hooked on it plus the ending was pretty cool how they defeated it and i think if you loved the other 2 you're going to love this version as well that holds quite well in my opinion. (7/10)
ma-cortes
The earlier first version loosely based on short story ¨Who goes there¨ by John Campbell (published in 1938) is titled ¨The Thing from another world¨ by Christian Nyby and under the guidance of Howard Hawks with Kenneth Tobey , Margaret Sheridan , Edward Franz , Dewey Martin , John Dierkes , and James Arness as the monster , later to win fame as Marshal Matt Dillon from ¨TV's Gunsmoke¨ . Being a potent lesson how to direct a film in low budget and it holds a subtle but efficient intrigue . It deals with a team of military and scientists at a remote outpost discover a buried spaceship , as the astonishing crew form a ring around the flying saucer frozen in the ice (it was shot at the RKO Ranch in the San Fernando Valley in 100-degree weather) . Monster movie in which an alien menaces an isolated scientific community , it is a giant seed-dispersing vegetable and runs amok . It is set in Arctic : an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty . It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival . It deals with a lonely group of scientists who take on the most dangerous creature of universe that sucks the blood from sled dogs and scientific alive and unaffected by missing body parts , cold or bullets . Then , the creature , accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony , in this vast , intense land a parasite will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish . In the thriller ¨The Thing¨ , paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers when an accident frees the alien from its frozen existence . Acceptable , estimable and well-made action/terror/thriller in which scientists and military in the Arctic are confronted by an alien craft and a monster that is accidentally thawed and wreaks havoc . Being professionally directed by Christian Nyby , assisted substantially by Hawks (and its said filmmaking) , who provides a punchy suspenseful Sci-Fi about an unwelcome alien survivor alive . The gradual as well as notable built-up suspense is quite superb as when the monster is shown largely to create a real menace , though some moments looks a little clumsy as well as awkward and when the creature is doused with kerosene and set ablaze is believed to be the first full body burn accomplished by a stunt man . There are also some implausibities but they are carried some measure of conviction thanks to Howard Hawks . This exciting film packs chills , thrills , guessing , paranoia , absence of all characterization and spectacular FX by that time , though nowadays dated . It takes a liberal stand in exposing the tension of men when confront an alien that is unearthed by a crew of international scientists . It packs a thrilling and intriguing musical score by Dimitri Tiomkin . Cameraman Russell Harlan contributes an evocative as well as appropriate cinematography , though there is available a horrible colorized version . And being partly filmed in Glacier National Park and at a Los Angeles ice storage plant . ¨The thing¨ emerges as a distinctly Sci-Fi/terror movie and one might be recommending for its solid cast , FX , special makeup , cinematography by Harlan , and being masterfully made by Christian Nyby and supervised by the great Howard Hawks . It is one of the best of the Cold War allegories and a lot of filmmakers cited the movie as a key , influential film in their lives. This one was remade in 1982 , being the best version directed by John Carpenter , it was starred by Kurt Russell and an all-star-secondary cast as Wilford Brimley , T.K. Carter , David Clennon , Keith David , Richard Dysart , Charles Hallahan , Peter Maloney , Richard Masur and Donald Moffat ; here the monster has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being , it can look just like you or me , but inside , it remains inhuman . And the modern version in which producers convinced Universal Studios to allow them to create a prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing instead of a remake , as they felt Carpenter's film was already perfect with a shape-shifting alien .¨The Thing (2011)¨ by Mattijs Heijmingen with Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton resulting to be inferior to previous but still being acceptable . This ¨The Thing¨ serves as a prelude to John Carpenter's classic 1982 film of the same name that is one of the great Sci-Fi classics . However , the filmmaker copies several scenes from Carpenter movie and Christian Nyby film .
JohnHowardReid
"The Thing" doesn't date well and seeing this now after the remake, I must admit that the remake, despite its gorishness, is more suspenseful after all. Despite a good build-up of atmosphere at points (the team forming a circle around the ice, the electric blanket melting the frozen alien) and some effective staging in the action spots, the film tends to be over-weighted with dialogue and one-dimensional characterizations (the scientist who wants to communicate, the army man who lives by the book, the eager-beaver subordinate. But by far the most irritating of all is the single- mindedly-after-a-scoop newspaperman breezily perpetrated by Douglas Spencer. Why the other characters defer, kowtow and play along with such a cretin is not satisfactorily explained despite a lot of lip about freedom of speech, the U.S. constitution and the taxpayer's money). Some of the special effects are not much either (e.g. the plasma-grown "plants"), despite all the hoo-haa that is made about them in the film, and continuity tends to be somewhat choppy. Just as suspense is being built up, the alien is pushed out of focus for some dull dialogue scene frequently featuring the tedious Mr. Spencer. The very careful staging of the players and the way they are grouped and the careful cutting indicates to me that a lot of the film was certainly directed by Nyby and not by Hawks as is often claimed. It's dull, over-respectful-to-the-script direction which, despite a great use of overlapping dialogue, does not ultimately convey the realism or the semi-documentary approach the director is obviously aiming for. A music score which is silent for many sequences and then suddenly obtrudes doesn't help either. Production values are very moderate. Despite the film's classic status it is not — and never was — all that good. It would have been more suspenseful with much tighter direction, with slicker continuity, with about 15 minutes trimmed from the running time and with more concentration on atmosphere rather than talk. The players are an uninteresting, B-grade lot too!
