THE THING



Starring: Kurt Russell, A.Wilford Bramley and Keith David.

Directed by: John Carpenter.


This is a classic 1982 Sci-Fi Horror.  In the winter of 82 at a research station in Antartica where a 12 man research team finds an alien being that has been thawed out and is unleashed causing havoc as it changes
forms for the various members of the team.

I thought this was 100/100 10/10 5/5. MY FAVOURITE EVER FILM! The
greatest.

So what did you guys think?

I have NEVER seen the film the whole way through. Always caught it from different points and never seen the whole thing. But what i did see of it entertained me and kept me on the edge of my seat. So, so far I must say that i like what i've seen and would probably agree with you if i had seen it all (except for the greatest film bit). But there ya go...

Hell, the script's on the site, download it dude-have a party.

THE THING, along with Ridley Scott's ALIEN, is the greatest scifi/horror film ever made, and a testament to Cold War paranoia.  John Carpenter does a masterful job of both disgusting and scaring us as we watch...and are unable to look away.

5 out of 5.

THE THING...

It is a masterpiece indeed!

What I always wonderd is, would you know it when The Thing has taken you over?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're dead and it just assumes your appearance.

I am an expert on the thing. There are two ways to find out who's the thing:

1. Stick a blowtorch up his @$$

2. Do Dr.Cooper's blood test.

Hey, what about the ending. Who thought MacReady was the thing and Childs wasn't
in my script "Thing versus Predator" that's what I thought. It should be posted soon.

The effects, even though they are twenty years old, stand up better than some of the CGI stuff they're making today.

Yep.

What I like about The Thing (apart from the gore, that bloke having his arms bit off made me laugh till I pissed) was that it was more true to the original source material than the 1950's Thing From Another Planet, as the original story on which it was based was about a shape shifting alien and the paranoia the people felt as they didn't know who was human and who was an alien killing machine. 

All in all a good movie by John Carpenter unlike his more recent pile-o-crap Ghosts of Mars.

**** out of  *****

I enjoyed the film a lot but I think it had violence for the sake of violence in it, which can be enjoyable but not to a certain extent. Although its just another Carpenter/Russell classic like Escape from New York and L.A, Elvis, and Big Trouble in Little China.

*** out of ****

I think the violence is just right, it's better than over violent crap like friday the 13th or all the halloweens apart from number one.

The best thing (no pun intended) about THE THING is the sense of claustrophobia that Carpenter created. This film is far better than either of those crappy Snake Plissken movies...c'mon!

I also feel that the original HALLOWEEN is far and away one of the top 5 horror films of all time.

This is one of my favourite horror films of all time.
I love John Carpenter films, mainly his early ones, and this is an outstanding lesson in what horror should be.

The music, the atmosphere, the characters, the effects even to this day are outstanding.

Classic.

The Thing is truly a masterpiece, scary and just well scary... If you get the chance, get the game, its really good ....