Comments on: The Thing (1982)

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:26:19 +0000

In your review, you said you you didn’t understand who destroyed the blood. Bennings tells Windows to get Garry’s keys before he’s assimilated. When Windows returns and sees the assimilation in progress, you can hear him drop the keys when he takes off. I assume Norris or Palmer planned ahead, took the keys, destroyed the blood, and then returned them. The blood was frozen, so that would explain why it’s running all over the floor looking fresh when they arrive.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:58:44 +0000

@guts3D,

Maybe they should call it the same as Campbell’s original short story: “Who Goes There?”

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:05:10 +0000

That’s a good point about the radioactivity. It was the major part of what made her scary – so I SHOULD have been afraid of getting radioactive presents in the mail. That I wasn’t shows a major lack of imagination on my part. Oh the shame!

By: Guts3d

Guts3d — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:05:23 +0000

Yeah, I remember “Terror from the Year 5000″ fondly as well, but she didn’t scare me as much as the radioactivity that they talked about. Remember the “gift” he sent that was “hotter than a firecracker?” I worried from then on that some evil %$#@! would irradiate something cool and send it to me as a gift. Luckily, I am kind of boring and none of my enemies don’t have access to radioactive materials.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:30:43 +0000

I always loved Godzilla, even when he was a bad guy. My most humiliating fright experience was the radioactive woman in “Terror From The Year 5000.” She actually gave me a real nightmare. Now she just seems like a crazed drum majorette with a bad case of acne.

By: Guts3d

Guts3d — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:18:22 +0000

I must be a wuss, because the only monster that really scared me as a kid was Godzilla (Before he turned good!)Now the only thing that scares me as an adult is unemployment.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:42:19 +0000

I know actually what you mean. I was traumatized by the cat being teleported into nothingness in the original version of “The Fly.” And the only time I can remember hating a giant monster was in “The Giant Behemoth” when he radiates a young boy and his dog. I ended up forgiving the Behemoth, of course, because unlike a human or an alien, he didn’t really know what he was doing. (Monster Movie Ethics, 201)

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:18:42 +0000

I remember as a credulous 11 year old watching this on cable one 1983 summer night in my family’s newish vacation home with just my unsympathetic dad with me. I loved dogs at the time and I have never before or since been so repelled or terrified as I was when I saw the dog pen scene. I was so horrified that I couldn’t manage to watch any further, and I still have never been able to watch the movie all the way through. I couldn’t sleep that night, and had difficulty the next. It’s been nearly thirty years, and yet the visceral reaction I had as a child can still affect me today. I’m still not sure I’d be able to handle watching it again.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:20:19 +0000

I remember watching JC’s The Thing when it came out, but I don’t remember it winning an oscar for it’s effects. So I did some google research, and appallingly, it looks like it wasn’t even nominated. (!?!)

By: guts3d

guts3d — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:36:03 +0000

Looks like they are making another one.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372/

The 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, so making a remake would be like “painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa”. However, the prequel still has the title of the original film, because they couldn’t think of a subtitle (for example, “The Thing: Begins”) that sounded good.