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  • MacReady wants to put an end to this Thing spreading, and decides to turn up the heat by setting a fire trap and blowing it up with dynamite explosives!
    From The Thing (1982): A research team finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and is starting to hunt them down. Things take a sinister turn when they realise that the creature can take the shape of its victims.
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Komentáře • 696

  • @skar8009
    @skar8009 Před rokem +109

    I never get tired of MacReady's reaction. He quickly realized the moment Nauls and Garry didn't answer the first time they were gone. That is something you never see in movies, everytime a character is isolated, they keep calling their friends' names until the killer jumpscares them, even The Shining suffers from that goofy cliché.

  • @michaeldye8281
    @michaeldye8281 Před 5 lety +1148

    One of the most terrifying movies I saw growing up as a kid...the cold atmosphere, the pulsating soundtrack, the tension between the characters...one of the greatest horror movies of all time, imo....

    • @IntooleranceRieg
      @IntooleranceRieg Před 5 lety +27

      I saw that as a kid, never been afraid of any movie after this

    • @itsvox4398
      @itsvox4398 Před 4 lety +4

      @@IntooleranceRieg hereditary ?

    • @BaskBall2
      @BaskBall2 Před 4 lety +4

      No

    • @saiprimal98
      @saiprimal98 Před 3 lety +9

      1988's the blob remake was a contender that scared me when I was little right along side this movie

    • @arkturus3247
      @arkturus3247 Před 3 lety +4

      Then how old are you now when you watched them as kid

  • @riskyflash6812
    @riskyflash6812 Před rokem +129

    The way Nauls disappears is maybe the creepiest moment of the movie for me. We don’t hear or see whatever got his attention, then he quietly wanders off into the shadows, and just… vanishes.
    No scream, no struggle, no sound whatsoever. He’s gone, just like that.

    • @edwardkamau773
      @edwardkamau773 Před rokem +15

      There's is a deleted scene where it shows nauls is assimilated but in terms of drawing It was scrapped due to financial constraints

    • @Lowclasswarrior778
      @Lowclasswarrior778 Před rokem +26

      Good thing the deleted scene never got in the final cut. The way you described him disappearing is genius and terrifying. We can only use our imagination to figure out how he went out.

    • @andrewchin6211
      @andrewchin6211 Před 11 měsíci +5

      That's what's missing in today's horror genre. Every modern kill has to be on-screen. Nauls walking away into the darkness and not seeing when and how he gets off'd adds to the mystery and suspense of it all.

    • @swstopmotions4390
      @swstopmotions4390 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@edwardkamau773also because the audience laughed at the scene when shown which it was honestly better without the scene

    • @simonfeakes
      @simonfeakes Před 4 měsíci

      That's completely untrue. The scene was never even filmed. It only made it to storyboard. How could audiences laugh at it when it doesn't even exist? Did they screen test the storyboard? ​@@swstopmotions4390

  • @schawangus
    @schawangus Před 4 lety +169

    God I love how MacCready delivers that amazing last one-liner.
    “Yeah, FUCK YOU TOO!”

    • @gunnyakdo1653
      @gunnyakdo1653 Před 2 lety +4

      In the german dub: not with me

    • @henrysmith5784
      @henrysmith5784 Před 2 lety +4

      My brother said that to our Grandmother's dog because it wouldn't stop barking at him.............I immediately busted up 🤣

    • @pixiemountain
      @pixiemountain Před 2 lety +1

      I stood up and shouted it out loud at the age of five when my mother took us to see it in the movie theater at the time it was released. 👀

    • @syfe1972
      @syfe1972 Před rokem +10

      @@pixiemountain I feel bad for everyone who had to watch a horror film with a five year old in the theatre

    • @Upgradetitanzoman10000
      @Upgradetitanzoman10000 Před 3 měsíci +1

      ​@@henrysmith5784❤

  • @theusher2893
    @theusher2893 Před 2 lety +468

    What's even more amazing is that this movie was absolutely hated when it came out. It competed with ET, Star Trek...people wanted cute, friendly aliens. Carpenter took the loss very hard, it hurt him to his core. It goes to show that critics rarely recognize true genius in its time...The Thing is the greatest sci-fi/horror movie ever made, period, paragraph.

    • @deanladue3151
      @deanladue3151 Před 2 lety +35

      If they had waited until towards the end of 1982 this movie would have been an absolute smash hit! But the release date was out of Carpenters hands since he had spent one year preparing and shooting the movie. Universal Pictures wanted it released ASAP.

    • @dejapoo5508
      @dejapoo5508 Před 2 lety +48

      Critics are parasitic little ticks feeding on the work of others while giving zero back .

    • @231mac
      @231mac Před 2 lety +14

      To put any trust or merit into a self-imposed critic is beyond asinine anyway.

    • @sincm91
      @sincm91 Před 2 lety +4

      Alien is better. This is second

    • @och1443
      @och1443 Před 2 lety +14

      @@sincm91 they're both better in different aspects. The Thing was about who, whereas Alien was about where.

  • @michaelfennell3210
    @michaelfennell3210 Před 5 lety +698

    Kurt Russell was a true leader in The Thing.

    • @AltumNovo
      @AltumNovo Před 3 lety +15

      Unless he was the thing

    • @jamesalvisii8491
      @jamesalvisii8491 Před 3 lety +2

      Agreed

    • @princelevi3733
      @princelevi3733 Před 3 lety +17

      He always plays as a good leader. If I was in any horror movie with him, I would make sure he doesn't leave my sight.

    • @nodeberiaestaraqui93
      @nodeberiaestaraqui93 Před 3 lety +6

      He was also cute

    • @gregholman2431
      @gregholman2431 Před 2 lety +4

      Yes; despite not even being the station commander (I believe that was Garry), it perhaps could be said.

  • @AqibA.C.
    @AqibA.C. Před 5 lety +1211

    This movie and it's characters are just amazing, they all know they're doomed to die and instead of choosing not to accept that fact, they choose to sacrifice their lives to prevent anyone from having to go through what they just did.

    • @diegobernini6372
      @diegobernini6372 Před 5 lety +14

      They did both

    • @darksied1098
      @darksied1098 Před 5 lety +23

      I would too... I definitely do whatever it takes to survive.

    • @kennymichaelalanya7134
      @kennymichaelalanya7134 Před 4 lety +10

      But it didn't work.
      The thing froze until the sequel😫

    • @ChrisBrown-ir6sf
      @ChrisBrown-ir6sf Před 4 lety +28

      @@kennymichaelalanya7134
      They were successful to kill it but the makers made it frozen to carry on to trash sequels. I call it greed.

    • @ANGRYLUCAS
      @ANGRYLUCAS Před 4 lety +23

      @@ChrisBrown-ir6sf uh there hasn't been any sequels..... maybe a prequel but that's it.

  • @manlypowers9967
    @manlypowers9967 Před 5 lety +327

    6:47 That moment when you realize you're all alone now.

  • @tomatoesofdoom
    @tomatoesofdoom Před 2 lety +223

    1:09 What a great line at such a perfect time in the movie. "We're not getting out of here alive. But neither is that thing."
    Transforms the ENTIRE energy of the movie instantly. the music stops being dreadful. and becomes one of planning and anticipation

    • @casesoutherland4175
      @casesoutherland4175 Před rokem +4

      I think this is one of the reasons The Thing was hated when it first came out. It was such a nihilistic ending that it was ahead of its time! Audiences were used to happy conclusions of horror movies back then and this threw that idea right in the trash. On top of that, this is around the same time that E.T came out (a movie about a friendly alien).
      It's still a great movie regardless!

    • @hugomventura
      @hugomventura Před 9 měsíci +6

      @@casesoutherland4175 I find it insane how people view it as nihilistic, to me it’s the exact opposite. Selflessness isn’t nihilism because it shows a person values life they are just trading their own for the many. It shows the human capacity for hope that others will live on. I think it’s because I view this movie as a good example of the indomitable human spirit. It’s just that instead of hoping everyone is choosing to dread. Horror is supposed to create dread but you can’t have dread without hope.

  • @jamesfrank3213
    @jamesfrank3213 Před 4 lety +646

    Fun fact: the film crew had to be inside while real dynamite exploded each section of the camp, being directed when to pull back to catch the explosions. I don't which is scarier, the Thing, or the making of it...

    • @leonardotobiaslealespinoza7171
      @leonardotobiaslealespinoza7171 Před 3 lety +32

      Well. They say that the really is better than the fiction

    • @satireisnotdead5804
      @satireisnotdead5804 Před 3 lety +19

      Considering the effects master, Rob Bottin made himself ill working so hard and the fact that they shot nearly all the indoor and outdoor shots in a studio in the middle of an LA heatwave, I'd say the making of

    • @c.galindo9639
      @c.galindo9639 Před 2 lety +11

      They didn’t use actual dynamite but actual explosives. Dynamite would have a bigger explosion and not so much of a flame effect. Of course the explosives experts knows how to contain the explosion so it isn’t at all dangerous unless you are literally going to be inside the explosion radius

    • @satireisnotdead5804
      @satireisnotdead5804 Před 2 lety +7

      @Droxy 56 Just imagining Rob suffering a total burnout and one of his Thing creations stops for a minute and goes "Hey you okay, Rob, man?" XD

    • @deanladue3151
      @deanladue3151 Před 2 lety +3

      They used explosives to blow up the actual camp that was built for the movie in Canada, I remember Carpenter saying that the next day they had to re-use the set again so they could shoot it as the destroyed Norwegian camp. There are remnants of the set that are still there today. Interesting factoid, the opening scenes of The Thing '11 were shot about 3 miles away from the old Outpost 31 location in Stuart, British Columbia.

  • @rcesters
    @rcesters Před 3 lety +150

    "It wants to freeze now, its got no way out of here. It's just gonna have to sleep in the cold until the rescue team finds us." "We're not getting out of here alive, and neither is that thing." ~ MacReady

    • @dHybrid_351
      @dHybrid_351 Před 2 lety +13

      What do we do? What can we do?
      -Whether we make it out here or not. We can't let that thing freeze again. Maybe we can warm things up around here.

  • @RD-lt3ht
    @RD-lt3ht Před 4 lety +191

    I'm 51, read "Who Goes There?" as an 11 year old in '79 and thought: "hey, this is alot like The Thing "(1951 version). Saw Carpenter's version in a huge theatre on it's 1st Australian release in Sydney 1982, and then again at a drive-in. What you've all heard is true; audiences just didn't know what to make of it...not ONE of my school-mates had seen it, and I was mad as hell that it disappeared from screens so quickly, because I could easily have watched it the same number of times I saw Jaws with my big bro back in '75... about a dozen atleast. Collected every horror and sci-fi mag issue that had a piece about it, and still have the particular 1982 issue of Cinefantastique that had the THEN most extensive article on the "making of"...I treasure this mag, and my vinyl LP of Ennio Morricone's ice-cold score. By the way, if you've never read Alan Dean Foster's novelization of the original Bill Lancaster script...DO, it's different enough from the final movie to be engaging in it's own wright.

  • @Johnboi6969
    @Johnboi6969 Před 4 lety +304

    When a movie that was made over 35 years ago still gets you scared as hell, you know that this one stood at the test of time. The tension, cinematography, and special effects are still better than most horror movies that rely on cheap jump scares, CGI and dumb cliches. You can argue that horror flicks like Insidious, The Conjuring and IT are some great films but it doesn’t really give the creep factor that Carpenter has brought forth IN THE 80’s!

    • @eliterule1292
      @eliterule1292 Před 3 lety +4

      i think get out and us by jordan peele were pretty great.

    • @brainerror3168
      @brainerror3168 Před 2 lety +6

      The IT remake was pure garbage. Bar the fridge scene in pt1.

    • @jamestkirkcameron9189
      @jamestkirkcameron9189 Před 2 lety +4

      @@eliterule1292 I never saw Us, but "get out" was very average. There is a bigotry of low expectations in hollywood when it comes to black people so that anything they make is looked at as gold, even when it's quite average or just okay.

    • @Demowan
      @Demowan Před 2 lety

      I don't think Conjuring to be a good horror movie. Not remotely.

    • @subjectluka4450
      @subjectluka4450 Před 2 lety +1

      Totally agree, the Horror genre has basically been dead for over ten years now.

  • @camthehorrorfan
    @camthehorrorfan Před rokem +49

    When Garry gets killed/assimilated at 5:45, the sound design always made me think that thin tendrils or something were being spread throughout his body, before the Blair-thing's hand fused to his face. Makes it way more unsettling for me, especially the noises Gary makes and thought of how something like that would feel. Such a disturbing yet awesome film.

    • @skar8009
      @skar8009 Před rokem +1

      I thought that sound was the Blair-Thing's hand struggling with Garry's flesh as it slowly fuses them together.

  • @perunplague9794
    @perunplague9794 Před 9 měsíci +30

    “Generator’s gone.”
    “Any way we can fix it?”
    “It’s GONE McReady.”
    I love that line, even at this stage they underestimate how smart and strong the Thing is.

  • @SrChr778
    @SrChr778 Před 5 lety +187

    8:36 best punchline I've ever heard

  • @Gunners_Mate_Guns
    @Gunners_Mate_Guns Před 5 lety +185

    8:41 -That scream of defeat, yet another fantastic moment

    • @doom7ish
      @doom7ish Před 5 lety +15

      The things "Oh shit moment!*

    • @jurassicking112
      @jurassicking112 Před 3 lety +8

      you can hear Blair and Garry

    • @raymondjones5909
      @raymondjones5909 Před 3 lety +16

      That was everyone screaming that had been a victim of the Thing

    • @jurassicking112
      @jurassicking112 Před 3 lety +1

      @@raymondjones5909 ya his right

    • @Gunners_Mate_Guns
      @Gunners_Mate_Guns Před 3 lety +3

      @@raymondjones5909 An excellent point.
      That's certainly why the sound effects crew put some extra effort into that scream.

  • @satireisnotdead5804
    @satireisnotdead5804 Před 3 lety +53

    Tbh it's probably more merciful that they did die, if they'd survived the ordeal, upon getting back to the mainland they'd have mad PTSD and present a danger to their friends and family because being holed up with a shape-shifting Lovecraftian space-being is probably also going to give you severe trust issues

  • @Gunners_Mate_Guns
    @Gunners_Mate_Guns Před 5 lety +134

    0:55 - 1:16 - The most kickass bit of spoken words for the whole movie

  • @Fan_Made_Videos
    @Fan_Made_Videos Před 4 lety +252

    the whole film set was located just North of L.A., with the exception of the opening panorama sequence with the dog and copter. Practical effects here look way more convincing than the prequel's green screen/CGI fest.

    • @KonEl-BlackZero
      @KonEl-BlackZero Před 4 lety +12

      They used practical effects but the producers odered reshoots and CGI

    • @orlandojohnson5742
      @orlandojohnson5742 Před 4 lety +6

      Fan Made Videos John Carpenters The Thing had great special effects!
      Cgi has improved but I always loved animatronics & other things they used to get that real look & feel! Even the actors could work better with tangible stuff !

    • @reubenng9450
      @reubenng9450 Před 3 lety +1

      North of Los Angelas?

    • @miguelgcgamer9878
      @miguelgcgamer9878 Před 3 lety +2

      But practical effects have limits like moving, if it was fast like in the prequel, Kurt would be attack instantly instead of just standing and waiting to be blown up even though the practical effects are great

    • @MH-zg5yw
      @MH-zg5yw Před 2 lety +6

      @@reubenng9450 Not filmed north of LA. The Thing was shot on location in Alaska and British Columbia. It was also shot in sound stages on the back lot of Universal Studios during the summer of 81.

  • @notinmyworld8239
    @notinmyworld8239 Před 5 lety +298

    The noises of the lower body if the Thing, the dog, were used in the game version of the film. The sounds were used when the smaller Things die; damn those haunting growling noises, can't tell if they're still alive, they're dying, or more if them, creep me out.

    • @Jaden-Ring
      @Jaden-Ring Před 4 lety +6

      There was a game based on this movie and i haven't heard about it? Wtf?

    • @nickgodfrey1148
      @nickgodfrey1148 Před 4 lety +21

      General James there was a PlayStation 2 game back around 2002. It was set after this film. Your character has to find out what happened and you find the tape recorder with Mac’s voice on it. Really good game with some freaky, creepy alien creatures and transformations. Could do with a PS4 reboot I reckon.

    • @BlakeFerret
      @BlakeFerret Před 4 lety +5

      @@Jaden-Ring it wasnt good. Your teammates just automatically get infected at certain checkpoints throughout the game, making the blood test pointless

    • @magicman25103
      @magicman25103 Před rokem

      @@BlakeFerret wait they did? i kept resetting my game because i thought they were getting infected due to my lack of skill in killing the monsters, but it was scripted? so lame.

  • @joevines3428
    @joevines3428 Před 4 lety +506

    Hey guys we've been working as a team and playing it smart so far. Let's split up.

    • @raptorzilla0710
      @raptorzilla0710 Před 3 lety +27

      Basically Among Us

    • @andyroobrick-a-brack9355
      @andyroobrick-a-brack9355 Před 3 lety +36

      @@raptorzilla0710 Among us is literally the Thing or Alien. Another reason to like it so much.

    • @andyroobrick-a-brack9355
      @andyroobrick-a-brack9355 Před 3 lety +7

      @Commander Cody Why not? Yeah, many people surrounding it are cringe, but it's a giod gane overall.

    • @andyroobrick-a-brack9355
      @andyroobrick-a-brack9355 Před 3 lety +7

      @@OldZilla It is, though. In terms of themes and scenarios, ot fots with the Thing very well.

    • @rashinmanickam8151
      @rashinmanickam8151 Před 3 lety +2

      play starcraft 2 parasite zeta, the original thing not the among us imposter.

  • @jorgecaicedo1982
    @jorgecaicedo1982 Před 5 lety +725

    And to think that that creature could fly a spaceship

    • @noelanderson969
      @noelanderson969 Před 5 lety +205

      Well, it DID arrive in one. So it probably learned how to fly one by watching its alien captors fly it, and pretty much knew how to make it's own!

    • @jankoval
      @jankoval Před 5 lety +323

      @@noelanderson969 Apparently they absorb the victims' knowledge, so they probably encountered and assimilated a few spacefaring races before coming to Earth.

    • @dawnfinch8232
      @dawnfinch8232 Před 4 lety +35

      Yes Jorge thats a scary thought

    • @kymnoir6779
      @kymnoir6779 Před 4 lety +27

      @John Doe well... if we're including the 2011 variant, the girl survived we don't if she made it home but she survived. Lars and the helio pilot survived, but the helio got downed and Lars ded by one of the American team members in mistaken retaliation

    • @elimcdoogle6876
      @elimcdoogle6876 Před 4 lety +18

      It has the collective intelligence of all it had absorbed it isn't stupid and sure they more than it takes the shape of a form more suited to piloting the craft.

  • @brute6896
    @brute6896 Před rokem +32

    I like how Gary managed to pull his stuff together once McCready explained how the thing was trying to freeze itself, and instead of thinking of how to stay alive he asked on what they could do about seemingly knowing what the end goal was.

    • @Lowclasswarrior778
      @Lowclasswarrior778 Před rokem +5

      Yea kinda scary actually. They had no way of surviving at all either way

  • @alejandromolina7270
    @alejandromolina7270 Před 5 lety +107

    The novelization of the movie was essentially the Thing ramming through the facility chasing and killing the crew, then chased after MacCready, who was on the tracktor hooting and hollering, essentially losing his mind, and finally ends with an explosion. In essence, a very Carpenter movie final.

    • @plasticweapon
      @plasticweapon Před 2 lety +1

      i find alan dean foster to be pretty overrated. i think his reputation rests on the physical fact that he wrote novelizations for classic sci fi/horror movies.

  • @Lava91point0
    @Lava91point0 Před 4 lety +95

    The ending always gave me serious chills, the creatures screams of everyone and everything it absorbed, my god just horrifying.

  • @UndeadGunslinger1997
    @UndeadGunslinger1997 Před rokem +38

    This scene clearly demonstrates contrast between man and the Thing, importance of trust, and also shows how badass and deeply worked out MacReady is as a horror movie hero. That man, that the Thing both follow survival and self-preservation. From the very beginning it instilled fear and paranoia among the group, removing them one by one and cunningly waiting until they killed each other. But difference is that a man has something more that is not peculiar to the Thing - it is courage and self-sacrifice. Instead of escaping, Mac and the others chose to doom themselves to certain death and destroy hostile alien at all costs, so that humanity would not experience this nightmare. But it's worth noting, given the overwhelming horror of the Thing, this scene looks much more sinister and terrifying when actions unfolds in such dark rooms, where danger of becoming assimilated awaits at every corner. And death of Nauls in early concept arts is an excellent confirmation of this.

    • @bruhtnt4258
      @bruhtnt4258 Před rokem +2

      Now imagine Thing disguised as Colourful little jellybeans in space suits in a video game.

  • @tomthebomb557
    @tomthebomb557 Před 5 lety +261

    The greatest sci fi horror movie of all time

    • @KobaLenk
      @KobaLenk Před 5 lety +12

      Along with Alien 1978

    • @Slaiter130
      @Slaiter130 Před 5 lety +16

      @@KobaLenk 1979, but yeah.

    • @KobaLenk
      @KobaLenk Před 5 lety

      @@Slaiter130 sorry my bad

    • @Slaiter130
      @Slaiter130 Před 5 lety +11

      @@KobaLenk No worries. People make mistakes. Plus, you were only one year off, so it's good.

    • @capgpro100
      @capgpro100 Před 4 lety +2

      .
      ...and Aliens.

  • @raymondjones5909
    @raymondjones5909 Před 3 lety +34

    The blinking lights in this scene is what made the atmosphere scary in this scene it doesn't look like a storage area it looks like hell.

  • @einhornisaman2973
    @einhornisaman2973 Před 6 lety +268

    Man, I love this movie.

  • @ShasOSwoll
    @ShasOSwoll Před rokem +11

    It's a shame at the end they chose to split up and get picked off. But extra creepy that all you see of Nauls is him walking down the hallway

  • @shawnallen2022
    @shawnallen2022 Před 5 lety +38

    The dog kennel scene scared the shit out of me. Then this amalgamated abomination at the end left a permanent scar in the back of my brain.

    • @mr.jx5n324
      @mr.jx5n324 Před 2 lety

      welcome to the club, i also got a mental trauma from those two scenes when i watched this movie as a 13 year old kid 🙉

  • @ballybunion9
    @ballybunion9 Před 5 lety +44

    It's GONE, MacReady.

  • @coasternamegenerator5611
    @coasternamegenerator5611 Před 5 lety +74

    One thing I've always wondered is how and when Blair gets infected, but hey, the lack of knowledge makes it better.

    • @turnpiketumbler8938
      @turnpiketumbler8938 Před 5 lety +39

      I think it happend when Fuchs interrupted the Palmer assimilation. Fuchs gives chase and in the process of either trying to kill the thing or prevent himself becoming assimilated burns himself.
      The Palmer assimilation continues in McReadys shack. Palmer thing the plants evidence in McReadys stove. Palmer thing then visits Blair and assimilates him.
      Later, when Nauls and McReady are looking for Fuchs they call to Blair, not knowing that he's already been assimilated. Blair Thing then attempts to assimilate McReady but is thwarted when McReady closes the latch on Blair's things face.
      Blair Thing then takes up a new hobby!
      That's my theory anyway.. But who knows

    • @johnmcnamara8741
      @johnmcnamara8741 Před 4 lety +3

      @@turnpiketumbler8938tumbler good theory actually.

    • @Shanethefilmmaker
      @Shanethefilmmaker Před 4 lety +23

      How it happened, I don't know however there was a moment where you could tell he was before the reveal. When McCready checks on him, he goes from giving warnings to demanding to be let back inside The Outpost. The real Blair would have stayed in the shack or kill himself.

    • @TheLAGopher
      @TheLAGopher Před 4 lety +16

      @Han Lockhart
      I think Blair may have been infected slowly and knew it after he was placed in the shack.
      Notice he had made a hangman's noose in the shack. I think he was working up the nerve
      to kill himself when the thing took him over from the inside.

    • @littlesneets8026
      @littlesneets8026 Před 4 lety +13

      Well, there was the scene where blair is doing an autopsy on the split face thing they found at the norwegian camp. Putting his hands into the raw insides of the body to examine the organs. And then the dog thing which he later did another autopsy after the attack. Honestly, seems it may as well of happened from the very moment he touched the bodies, and without realising, was slowly being assimilated without even knowing.

  • @Galantski
    @Galantski Před 6 lety +231

    "I said: _'Watch Clark.'"_

  • @thenoobsyt9772
    @thenoobsyt9772 Před 4 lety +375

    The Comics revealed that nauls killed himself in order to prevent from becoming assimilated. I’d choose suicide over assimilation any day.

    • @adamswing6115
      @adamswing6115 Před 4 lety +12

      The comics and game are not canon

    • @SethWolf900
      @SethWolf900 Před 4 lety +141

      In the script, (which is canon, the scene just couldnt be shot in time) Nauls is assimilated by the Gary+Blair thing. Nauls was supposed to come up through the floorboard, tendrils writhing all over him, and exclaim "Help me" to MacReady beefore a massive tendril burst up through his torso and out of his head, ripping him in half.
      That's actually what happened, as Carpenter said, but the scene was like 6x the budget of all the other creature scenes, so instead we got this version with the beanstalk-thing and the dog coming out of it.

    • @wolfshade5020
      @wolfshade5020 Před 4 lety +41

      zucc man the game is canon. John Carpenter gave the game his blessing and said that the game serves as a proper sequel to his movie. The comics I’m not so sure about though.

    • @dalton2845
      @dalton2845 Před 4 lety +3

      Useless. As long as your body is still fresh, you're still its host

    • @satouchiha1825
      @satouchiha1825 Před 4 lety +31

      @@dalton2845 It wasn't to deny the thing his body but to not be brutally and painfully assimilated while you're still alive and can feel everything which honestly I don't blame him.

  • @sweetcinnamonpnchkin
    @sweetcinnamonpnchkin Před 4 lety +46

    Creepy how Nauls just vanishes

    • @heaven-sent_and_hell-bent
      @heaven-sent_and_hell-bent Před 3 lety +9

      In the original scene he and Gary were supposed to be apart of blair.

    • @sweetcinnamonpnchkin
      @sweetcinnamonpnchkin Před 3 lety +17

      @@heaven-sent_and_hell-bent I know. Really horrifying scene. Glad they opted for silence (which is equally terrifying)

    • @jermasus8600
      @jermasus8600 Před 3 lety +9

      @@sweetcinnamonpnchkin They ran out of budged near the end.However,they still managed to make it epic.Nauls was supposed to have a on screen death,but im happy that we got a creepy just wandering and vanishing also

  • @CoolPandaTheMovieNerd
    @CoolPandaTheMovieNerd Před 2 lety +23

    40 years later and this movie still holds up IMO

    • @tireiron33
      @tireiron33 Před 8 měsíci

      the prequel doesn't, that's for sure

  • @bagsikdangal
    @bagsikdangal Před 5 lety +120

    5:41 The sound of Diabetus attacking😆

    • @k9cobra728
      @k9cobra728 Před 3 lety +2

      Blair did a full *take all states* on garry there

  • @johnnyhui3950
    @johnnyhui3950 Před 5 lety +67

    Man………I still hope they can make another great movie with this horrific creature and more background stories…

    • @velveetaslingshot
      @velveetaslingshot Před 5 lety +9

      I want a prequel. Like where did the thing come from and what is its ultimate goal? Conquer the universe?

    • @UnclePhil1112
      @UnclePhil1112 Před 5 lety +6

      velveetaslingshot the 2011 movie is a prequel if you haven’t seen that yet.

    • @velveetaslingshot
      @velveetaslingshot Před 5 lety +4

      @@UnclePhil1112 I guess I mean a pre-prequel then!

    • @skeletonentertainment4201
      @skeletonentertainment4201 Před 4 lety +21

      @@velveetaslingshot there is a theory where the thing we see in the movie isn't the actual alien.... apparently actual smart aliens were driving the ufo while keeping the thing inside a container because it is some sort of war weapon...... The ufo was just some sort of transportation vehicle until the thing broke out and crash landed on earth

  • @movienerd202
    @movienerd202 Před 4 lety +46

    "Maybe we're at war with Norway."

  • @Dutch_bastard_23
    @Dutch_bastard_23 Před 3 lety +60

    I'm no gay man, but this main charachter guy is handsome as hell.

  • @mistyeyes5883
    @mistyeyes5883 Před 4 lety +24

    The ground: moves in a line
    My brain: ah, graboid

  • @deadchannel332
    @deadchannel332 Před 4 lety +22

    Fun Fact: Dr. Blair Thing was operated by 50 People.

  • @FIatIined
    @FIatIined Před 4 lety +23

    As Blair changed into the Thing, he must've experienced one hell of a headache.

    • @joshuastrittmatter4188
      @joshuastrittmatter4188 Před rokem

      A headache, permanent scarring, and a *very* severe case of Type-II Diabeetus.

  • @COGjedi117
    @COGjedi117 Před 3 lety +25

    8:05 You can see Blair's face on the side.

  • @garywilson3042
    @garywilson3042 Před 5 lety +17

    Ultimately, if it came down to it, I would sacrifice my life to destroy the Thing, to save humanity, but fuck it would be horrible to be in that situation.

  • @jim6820
    @jim6820 Před 5 lety +41

    Outstanding performances right across the board. Every performance was flawless.

  • @Warhero1171
    @Warhero1171 Před 5 lety +33

    Best horror film ever made.

  • @fatdaddyeddiejr
    @fatdaddyeddiejr Před 3 lety +15

    If you're an American or British scientist heading to Antarctica. This movie is required viewing the night before you fly out to Antarctica.

    • @awayforlong
      @awayforlong Před 10 měsíci

      Good. Then they will be ready.

  • @russellelton5098
    @russellelton5098 Před 3 lety +10

    7:54 the same sound thats heard when Norris Thing's chest splits open, and the Dog thing when its head splits open, that's got to be the Thing's hiss.

    • @jermasus8600
      @jermasus8600 Před 3 lety +4

      Good attention to detail!Although the Thing doesnt exactly have a "form" it has a few consistent things(hehe) about it.That hiss is definitely one of things natural sounds.

  • @c.galindo9639
    @c.galindo9639 Před 2 lety +9

    What really is unsettling is not only do they split up but they don’t keep up any communication with each other to verbally check if they are doing ok.
    Still a great movie

    • @231mac
      @231mac Před 2 lety

      But MacReady did communicate, remember?

    • @c.galindo9639
      @c.galindo9639 Před 2 lety +1

      @@231mac yeah like over a minute or two giving enough time for the Thing to get one of them. Constant communication should have been maintained

  • @RJ_MacReady13
    @RJ_MacReady13 Před 2 měsíci

    The cold atmosphere, the nihilistic tone and the bleak ending, I love this movie. You really sense the paranoia, dread and loneliness, amazing movie

  • @TheEricJBotelho84
    @TheEricJBotelho84 Před rokem +2

    8:36 best comeback one liner

  • @ghostoftheoldworld5104
    @ghostoftheoldworld5104 Před 4 lety +12

    Okay, the surprise "Twaeer" at 8:40 was pretty funny

  • @mckoolio1997
    @mckoolio1997 Před 2 lety +7

    RJ Macready imo is the best protagonist in the horror genre and that was made possible due to Kurt Russell's electrifying performance

  • @99mainpure99
    @99mainpure99 Před 5 lety +46

    It's goooooone MacReady...

  • @jbac5767
    @jbac5767 Před 4 lety +11

    Yes. Let's begin to split up knowing that the Thing needs us to do just that. It should've been one person laying charges and the other two with their backs to that one weapons HOT.

  • @talkaboutwacky
    @talkaboutwacky Před 7 měsíci +1

    The score as Kurt Russell’s character talks to his friends about their plan to go on the offensive against the Thing and that their fate being already sealed is amazing

  • @hankyboy42594
    @hankyboy42594 Před 3 lety +11

    When you ask friends to hangout but they say they’re “busy” 8:36

  • @danieldevito6380
    @danieldevito6380 Před 3 lety +16

    The score for The Thing is just fantastic! One of the best ever!

  • @TheMrSugar
    @TheMrSugar Před 2 lety +8

    8:36 Greatest Heroic Quip against any Monster before Killing it!

  • @HamilcarBarca-jm3ey
    @HamilcarBarca-jm3ey Před 7 měsíci +1

    Alan Dean Foster's book The Thing is one of the best adaptation novels I've read.

  • @ernestoescobar1967
    @ernestoescobar1967 Před 4 lety +85

    Damn I keep forgetting Ennio Morricone made the music for this

  • @fatdaddyeddiejr
    @fatdaddyeddiejr Před 5 lety +21

    Now that is a true boss battle at the end of the game!!!!

  • @steampunkastronaut7081
    @steampunkastronaut7081 Před 4 lety +9

    1:50 The music here creeped me so much... Something is wrong.

  • @ReelGuyTv
    @ReelGuyTv Před rokem +3

    "We're not getting out of here alive but neither is that thing." Macreedy lead his two man crew to abandon their instinct to survive knowing death was certain and turned their fear of death into resolve in their final moments.

  • @gloriesgiftsandmore.8764
    @gloriesgiftsandmore.8764 Před 3 měsíci

    8:31
    the best line I've ever heard

  • @k9cobra728
    @k9cobra728 Před 3 lety +11

    8:40 - 9:04
    If this was real and people knew about it, this would probably be counted as one of most important events in earth history

  • @victormiranda9424
    @victormiranda9424 Před 3 lety +4

    Hands down the greatest extraterrestrial horror film of all time. I can simply watch this movie everyday. Bravo Carpenter 👏🏽

  • @badimpulses17
    @badimpulses17 Před 5 lety +20

    These old movies with the special effects are far better than the CGI shit they use now on the new movies.

    • @karldunsonlll8556
      @karldunsonlll8556 Před 3 lety +1

      Not all cgi is bad i mean I love practical effects too but I love cgi as well when it’s good and handled with care and love i hate bad cgi it looks so fake and unrealistic and cringeworthy personally In my opinion I don’t think which one is better I love both and I want to used both in my movies when I become a filmmaker I have a passion for filmmaking

  • @dicksontrainsperson5840
    @dicksontrainsperson5840 Před 3 lety +7

    The fact you can see blair's face

  • @SSGLGamesVlogs
    @SSGLGamesVlogs Před 3 lety +31

    When the lights when out, we see Mac saying that it blew the generator. He reasons that the Thing wanted to freeze until the rescue team finds it because it supposedly realized it had no way out.
    But I thought the generator was meant to serve as a power source for the ship the Thing was constructing, so it can get out.
    Hence...
    "Generator's gone."
    "Any way we can fix it?"
    "It's *gone* MacReady."

    • @zfurr8629
      @zfurr8629 Před 3 lety

      I think the motives shifted after they blew the base up

    • @SSGLGamesVlogs
      @SSGLGamesVlogs Před 3 lety +2

      Well, if the Thing witnessed the destruction of the toolshed, which was the first building to go, I suppose.
      But Mac's reaction when Gary told him the generator was gone, gave me the impression that he may have hoped to have a warm place to wait for the rescue team. That while attempting to weed out The Thing by blowing up the base.
      But, surprise surprise.

    • @zfurr8629
      @zfurr8629 Před 3 lety

      @@SSGLGamesVlogs so are you suggesting mac is the thing

    • @SSGLGamesVlogs
      @SSGLGamesVlogs Před 3 lety +1

      I believe Mac was not a Thing.

    • @zfurr8629
      @zfurr8629 Před 3 lety

      @@SSGLGamesVlogs ok I'm just not sure what the generator point was about

  • @meathead6155
    @meathead6155 Před 2 lety +2

    5:42 RIP both Wilford Brimley and Donald Moffat.

  • @laramieperez816
    @laramieperez816 Před 4 lety +8

    The thing alien is soo cool and crazy looking, I believe the thing is the ultimate alien, especially in it's abilities to absorb other life forms

    • @laramieperez816
      @laramieperez816 Před 4 lety +1

      The thing as we call it, truly has no limits to what it can do like being able to shapeshift and take perfect shape and form of whatever it absorbs, I believe the alien xenomorph and predator are really cool too, but there is just something about this one that makes it unique in it's abilities to absorb other life forms

    • @dmin5782
      @dmin5782 Před 4 lety +1

      The entire pantheon of Lovecraftian Mythos species and entities make the Thing looks child-friendly, or scrap that, insignificant. We got Shoggoths, which is the closest we get to The Thing in the Mythos, can modified their bodies to perform impossible tasks and can assimilate other life forms. Then we got the Yithians who are blessed with omniscience and has the abillity to switch their minds with almost any living being in all of time, be it past or future. And then we got the Mi-go, which can block the Yithians' special mind switch abillity due to their unique insectoid bodies and have built a colony across several solar systems. And let's not mention the alien gods.

    • @MrFragranceReview
      @MrFragranceReview Před 4 lety +1

      Duc Minh Ngo Lovecraftian monsters translate extremely poorly in movies and often books because their entire lore and power comes from us not being able to understand. So trying to make a movie about that is counterproductive.

  • @davidjskelet
    @davidjskelet Před 4 lety +14

    1:27 2:16 2:26 2:48 8:40 all explosions

  • @rainforesthk2181
    @rainforesthk2181 Před 5 lety +10

    classic soundtrack uptill today

  • @ExopMan
    @ExopMan Před 3 lety +6

    *this is the perfect time to walk away quietly and not saying anything*

  • @dylanmorgan2374
    @dylanmorgan2374 Před 4 lety +6

    Horror movie 101. You never go in the shadows alone.

  • @putch1773
    @putch1773 Před 11 měsíci +1

    garys death scene is still so scary. He couldnt even scream. He was a good man

  • @mmmoroi
    @mmmoroi Před 2 lety +4

    I happened to be walking in front of a cinema showing this film, to come across a bunch of scar-faced mobs coming out of the exit, when I overheard the boss (apparently) of the group speaking to his men "I nearly peed my pants". I instantly went in there only to appreciate the truth of his word half an hour later.

  • @dumpstercratsforextinction3493
    @dumpstercratsforextinction3493 Před 6 měsíci +1

    First movie I remember watching in the theater when I was 6 years old!! And it’s been my favorite horror movie ever since!!!

  • @Gitfiddle
    @Gitfiddle Před 4 lety +5

    I watched this when I was a little kid. Bad idea! It was playing on NBC for their Saturday movie if I remember correctly. Cut for TV of course. I couldn’t keep my eyes on it but I couldn’t look away. Gave me nightmares. Awesome movie. Still blows me away all these years later.

  • @nonameman7114
    @nonameman7114 Před 2 lety +4

    Fun fact: this isn’t Kurt Russell’s only encounter with aliens. He was the pilot who reported the Phoenix lights.

  • @psychokitty444
    @psychokitty444 Před 3 lety +3

    5:49 When the cat bites your hand and you're not in a forgiving mood.

  • @blockmasterscott
    @blockmasterscott Před rokem +4

    “The generator’s gone!”
    “Is there any way we can fix it?”
    “It’s GONE MacCready”
    😳

  • @march228103
    @march228103 Před 2 lety +3

    That thing looks like what people who claim they’ve been to hell have seen. Imagine spending eternity w creatures like that tormenting you

  • @georgecouch1762
    @georgecouch1762 Před 5 měsíci

    This film has you gripped from the second it's starts to the very last second it finishes quality.

  • @drivethrufilmzz
    @drivethrufilmzz Před 4 lety +1

    That’s a gorgeous shot of the explosion at the end

  • @davidjskelet
    @davidjskelet Před 5 lety +7

    6:31 oh no nauls

  • @gart4575
    @gart4575 Před rokem +2

    8:05 Blair’s face is on the side of that Thing, if you look listen closely you can hear his normal mouth inhale before it roars

  • @AaronQ1222
    @AaronQ1222 Před 4 lety +7

    Entire Movie Theme: Burn it with fire.

  • @alexandervladimirov9874
    @alexandervladimirov9874 Před 2 lety +8

    What did the Thing do to Garry? It looked as if it spread his mouth wide open trying to prevent him from screaming. On the second scene it looked as if their skin was combined with Garry's head.

    • @deanladue3151
      @deanladue3151 Před 2 lety +3

      You can see almost the same thing in the 2011 prequel where the 'Edvard' spider thing grafts its head onto its victim so it can assimilate it. Super creepy!

    • @mr.jx5n324
      @mr.jx5n324 Před 2 lety +5

      it basically melted it's palm onto the guy's face. also probably started spreading it's inards down Garry's throat

    • @LegendaryFox52
      @LegendaryFox52 Před rokem

      Look good Blair's fingers first scène, tout will understand ^^

  • @karanvirkooner1993
    @karanvirkooner1993 Před 4 lety +5

    I wonder how good The Thing(1982) would look on 4K UltraHD BluRay

  • @pixiemountain
    @pixiemountain Před 2 lety +1

    One of my fav movies! It is eerie when the Thing's tentacle pulles the detonator down the hole.

  • @pacghost9970
    @pacghost9970 Před 2 lety +2

    I love this scene so much especially Wilford Brimley as Dr. Blair. My favorite line was yeah you too.

    • @hunterku9520
      @hunterku9520 Před 2 lety +1

      8:36 Yeah, f*** you, too!

    • @pacghost9970
      @pacghost9970 Před 2 lety +1

      @@hunterku9520 did you know that was a real dynamite. Kurt Russell almost died in that scene.

  • @karanvirkooner1993
    @karanvirkooner1993 Před 3 lety +2

    another classic textbook example of how to build an excellent perfect climax even if it involves explosions

  • @Tom-jq8kf
    @Tom-jq8kf Před 7 měsíci

    My God ,how I Love this movie! Seen it a hundred times and like good Fellas and they live a several others. I'll NEVER get tired of watching it!!
    Outstanding 💯👍🏻

  • @orlandojohnson5742
    @orlandojohnson5742 Před 4 lety +7

    One my favorite parts.... rolling that dynamite down to that DIY spaceship!
    "Nice build sorry can't fly away!" Kaboom! U ain't leaving here! Lol!!!!
    One of my favorite horror flicks!
    The Thing , Terminator 1&2, Aliens & Predator(s)!
    Many others but top 10.... these are always in the list!!

  • @johnnyrats7083
    @johnnyrats7083 Před 4 lety +14

    This could have happened somewhere in time to a group of men. But because they killed ‘it’ and sacrificed themselves we’ll never know

    • @johnnyrats7083
      @johnnyrats7083 Před 4 lety +2

      Vela S ok

    • @nathanielmazo3934
      @nathanielmazo3934 Před 4 lety +4

      Vela S way to sound like a dumbass lol Putting him down makes you come off as pretentious, arrogant and not smart or interesting in any way