Ice block room 2011
Ice block room 1982
Posted on 07/22/2011 4:59:17 AM PDT by tlb
Release Date: 14 October 2011
At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson. While Dr. Halvorson keeps to his research, Kate partners with Sam Carter, a helicopter pilot, to pursue the alien life form. Written by IMDb Editors
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. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen, the thriller is produced by Strike Entertainment's Marc Abraham and Eric Newman (Dawn of the Dead). Written by Universal Pictures
Ice block room 2011
Ice block room 1982
I believe the original film “The Thing” was filmed back in the early fifties and the 1982 version was the first remake.
So, now Fr is a Movie Review site...?
Another WTF? movie.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead = HOTT
ping
One of the mysteries of the 1982 film is what happened to the Norwegians and how did they find the Thing. This prequel covers that and should be quite interesting.
The 1982 movie was awesome. Even today, the special effects hold up (especially the “spider head”). And no Hollywood happy ending. I also like the concept of “The Thing”, where every particle of it was an intelligent, independent entity. No way you can fight something like that.
a better movie than the 1982 flick...
Creature in ice block from 1951 movie. Arness was the creature. Not a bad flick. 1981 version was so creepy good I cant beleive they are doing it again. Gotta see it though.
>>> I believe the original film “The Thing” was filmed back in the early fifties and the 1982 version was the first remake.
Not a remake per se. Both films based on the same story but the Howard Hawks movie took great liberties. John Carpenter stuck fairly close to John Campbell’s ideas.
This seems much more the remake.
The 1982 movie was good.
But I can’t see how a prequel would be a different movie, other than showing the same type of deaths with modernized special effects.
Hollywood has lost its imagination
I must agree...I like my monsters where I can see them, not living inside characters I have already met....IMHO that’s boring
Given how the ‘82 version started, we know how this one ends.
THEY ALL DIE.
Sort of takes the wind out of the sails.
The really funny part of the 1951 version was the liberal scientist who kept insisting that the Thing could be reasoned with and actually help mankind with its superior intellect and knowledge of the universe, despite all the dead bodies to the contrary. He met a most satisfying end just before the Army dudes juiced the Thing.
Originality left Hollywood long ago.
perhaps if I read Campbells novella I might feel differently, but I like the original movie best
now on the other hand, I thought the first remake of ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’(1978) was better than the original(1956)...(though I like the original)....I hear there have been other remakes since....but WHY.
and the first remake of ‘The Fly’ was incredibly disturbing...I loved it.
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