Fall is approaching, and the time for horror flicks is upon us. The prequel to John Carpenter’s science fiction-horror classic hits theaters this October. As a sucker for any film within the sci-fic genre, I will definetly be seeing ‘The Thing’ when it comes out. What about you? Any interest in giving ‘The Thing’ a chance?
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-Film’s Synopsis via Collider:
“Antarctica: 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 when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, 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. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet. Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up. When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish. The Thing serves as a prelude to John Carpenter’s classic 1982 film of the same name.”
It looks exactly like the original movie, so it's great
The original is such a classic and one of my favorite horror/scifi movie. I excited for this one I hope it is as good or maybe even better.
Why is everyone referring to John Carpenter's The Thing as "the original" when it clearly was a remake itself?
It's because most people probably have never heard or seen the Howard Hawk's version. In terms of narrative Carpenter's remake counts more as the original since it's the truer adaptation of the Joseph W. Campbell short story it was based on. The Hawks version only shared the setting and the title.
Oh, ok, I get it now. Thanks. And also this is sort of a prequel to Carpenter's movie, so even that justifies it to call it the original as in 'it's the predecessor'.