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Film Title: The Thing
Year: 1982
Directed by: John Carpenter
Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, T.K. Carter, Donald Moffat
Running Time: 109 mins, 1 hr 49 mins
Language: English
Rough Plot Synopsis: A group of researchers in the Antarctic discover a thing encased in ice for over a 100,000 years. It turns out to be a parasitic extra-terrestrial life form that is able to imitate those life forms that it absorbs. Tensions run high amongst the researchers at the research station as paranoia takes hold of their minds trying desperately to determine who is human and who is...The Thing.
Thoughts
Arguably one of my favourite horror movies of all time, John Carpenter's The Thing still thrills me every time I watch it. Unlike those horror movies that merely rely on cheap shock-scares, The Thing creates in the viewer the unsettling sense and dread of what is to come. Visually, even with the limitations of the effects at that time,The Thing is disturbing up to this day, with the absorbing/assimilation scenes being forever ingrained in my head. But while those sequences are satisfying(let's face it, it's disgusting but yet pretty cool) spectacles to behold, I feel what The Thing truly succeeds in is its ability to mess with the viewer's head. Like the characters in the film, viewers will find themselves sucked into the experience, lost and confused and desperately trying to separate friend from foe, human from alien. When The Thing hides itself amongst the humans, it is like playing Cluedo in a creepy isolated research facility somewhere in Antarctica. Everyone is a suspect(even the dogs) and the only one you can trust is yourself. The Thing developed something of a cult following after its release on home video. With its gripping plot, likeable and believable characters and of course its ever elusive but deadly antagonist, it's small wonder why. I highly recommend it to any film lovers out there who haven't already had the pleasure. You're welcome in advance.
Film Title: The Thing
Year: 1982
Directed by: John Carpenter
Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, T.K. Carter, Donald Moffat
Running Time: 109 mins, 1 hr 49 mins
Language: English
Rough Plot Synopsis: A group of researchers in the Antarctic discover a thing encased in ice for over a 100,000 years. It turns out to be a parasitic extra-terrestrial life form that is able to imitate those life forms that it absorbs. Tensions run high amongst the researchers at the research station as paranoia takes hold of their minds trying desperately to determine who is human and who is...The Thing.
Thoughts
Arguably one of my favourite horror movies of all time, John Carpenter's The Thing still thrills me every time I watch it. Unlike those horror movies that merely rely on cheap shock-scares, The Thing creates in the viewer the unsettling sense and dread of what is to come. Visually, even with the limitations of the effects at that time,The Thing is disturbing up to this day, with the absorbing/assimilation scenes being forever ingrained in my head. But while those sequences are satisfying(let's face it, it's disgusting but yet pretty cool) spectacles to behold, I feel what The Thing truly succeeds in is its ability to mess with the viewer's head. Like the characters in the film, viewers will find themselves sucked into the experience, lost and confused and desperately trying to separate friend from foe, human from alien. When The Thing hides itself amongst the humans, it is like playing Cluedo in a creepy isolated research facility somewhere in Antarctica. Everyone is a suspect(even the dogs) and the only one you can trust is yourself. The Thing developed something of a cult following after its release on home video. With its gripping plot, likeable and believable characters and of course its ever elusive but deadly antagonist, it's small wonder why. I highly recommend it to any film lovers out there who haven't already had the pleasure. You're welcome in advance.