The Thing (1982) KILL COUNT
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Peyton Adams really
Imagine dying and on your tombstone the name is “Norwegian 1”
Lmao
LMAO
"lampo"
HSHSJJSSJIA
better than norwegian 2
When u realize the Norwegians were actually trying to save them, but they get killed by the people they were trying to save
Good thing theyre batshit cuckoo and got it coming
@@finnishlaplandlife8274 Nope, they were actually trying to kill the dog (that was btw where the Thing came from in the first place), and that's why you see them shooting it and trying to kill it, infact in Norwegian he even warns them to not let that dog there cuz he is just an immitation, but they got killed by the people they were tryna save.
Ironic
Yeah they were right to attempt to kill that ailen dog thing
SiKo I mean that’s usually how it works. In real life the people who are trying to help get the most hate.
Irony is a cruel bitch
Personally the idea that neither Mac or Child’s are Things is probably my favourite interpretation.
Two normal men freeze to death out in the Antarctic spending their last moments paranoid that the other isn’t human.
Macready actually survives we see him at the end of the thing video game
I'm more of the preference that Child's is a Thing, but since it wanted to be re-frozen in order to wait for the rescue team, it is choosing to spend its final moments of consciousness with Macready, who will soon be dead.
@@theonsight7 would it not be doubly advantageous to turn macready and then freeze them both?
I don't think childs is a thing because, as a "thing" they don't carry fire packs like childs was wearing or actually drink, which i think shows that neither one really cares to get infected as they are both going to die.
@@hmm8445not sure if that’s canon though
This particular episode is probably the best case for a recount on the channel right now. To see 2022 James run through this one, delving into the practical effects and behind the scenes work, or going even deeper into theories with deleted scenes (or adding context, like the cut Nauls death scene) would be an amazing one-off.
I agree
Probably saving it for bday or anniversary
Agreed
It would make for a perfect wintery recount
YES
Also, if you can speak Norwegian the plot of the film is somewhat given away by the screams of the scientists in the opening sequence. Lars says "Get the hell away! That's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! GET AWAY YOU IDIOTS!"
I think that that's one of the best details!
Oh that's pretty cool.
It isn't totally given away, you might just assume they're crazy
@@laurene988 Kinda, but at the time of the film's original theater run, and if you saw any trailers, and knowing it's a body snatching horror film, it could potentially ruin the ending prematurely. The Norwegian dialogue was not dubbed for Norwegian audiences, and many original viewers complained that the twist was kinda given away. Newer movies do this a bunch, by changing the foreign dialogue to preserve plot twists. This happens a lot in videogames in current times.
@@MrFreddieComedy that's a weird oversight, you'd swear they'd throw in some other language or even just gibberish to hide it
There's a word for this: foreshadow. If you understood the Norwegian dialect, you just got told that something bad is going to happen. Even if you don't understand what they're saying, it still sounds like a warning. The story was not necessarily given away; you still don't know what is going to happen because you don't know what exactly the "thing" is.
This movie is the first horror movie where the characters are actually clever
@Justin Yeh first horror movie. cabin in the woods was released in 2012. the thing in 1982.
CZcamsTM algorithm Think you need to see Psycho, my friend.
So true
Clearly you haven't seen scary movie
CZcams Algorithm also why tf do they have flamethrowers????
I always liked the theory that the introduction of Mac's character foreshadows the ending; him pouring whiskey into an inhuman opponent he knows has ultimately beaten him (the chess computer at the start and Childs-Thing at the end). I also like the theory that the whiskey bottle is filled with gasoline from all the molitov cocktails he was throwing around and Childs-Thing drinks it without knowing the difference. Explains Mac's bitter chuckle at the end too. Whatever the "real" ending I like things being left open to interpretation and speculation. It's part of the reason my friends and I still talk about this movie so long after it came out.
childs isnt a thing as explained by another comment
@@TaskinrulesChilds is a Thing. It made the mistake of taking a drink when MacCready offered. That's the tell. If Childs wasn't he wouldn't have taken a drink due to potential Thing infection. Were he human he'd have been wary of that and declined in case MacCready was a Thing which he isn't.
@@ZombifiedBuizelthe alcohol could kill off any thing cells lying around
@@juliandacosta6841 I'm not talking about the inside of the bottle. There's no alcohol on the outside. Simply touching the bottle is enough
@@ZombifiedBuizel at that point, i think theyve both been resigned to their fate, knowing that they are going to die, and they dont care anymore about the contamination, which is why mac chuckles to himself.
When I first watched the blood testing scene I got frustrated trying to wonder why Mac wanted to test Gary last. A few years later I realized that Mac was smart enough to know every human he confirmed meant someone else that could back him up in a fight untied. He was confident that windows was human so he did him first. He just didn't expect that Palmer was a thing and that was his big mistake.
Dog: “are you an actor too?! I’m an actor! I’m supposed to be a really mean alien thing but I also love you and can’t stop wagging my tail! Do you have treats?!”
*Shoots him*
Patrick Star wait,that’s illegal
He might be evil
*but he's still best boy in our hearts 😔*
Fun fact. In modern movies they use a lot of CGI to remove dogs wagging tails in scenes. They are just so happy to be on set and doing a good job that they can't stop wagging their tail. It's really important to stop the wagging especially during a scene where the dog is suppose to be angry.
@@razzyrazberries I LOVE YOU, YOU JUST MADE MY DAY.
something i LOVE that almost only norwegians(like me.) can apreciate is that the norwegian said: hold dere unna det er ikke en bikkje det er en TING som immiterer en bikkje det er ikke virkelig HOLD DERE UNNA. which means: get the hell away thats not a dog its a THING imitating a dog it isnt real GET AWAY.
man i love this movie.
I heard that when this movie came out in norway they didnt edit that scene and it spoiled the movie for many people as they got told too early in their native language that the dog was an alien
Didn’t he also say “GODDAMNIT YOU IDIOTS!”
@@sol2544 What a F-ing BRUH moment
Wow that's cool to learn, and very cool it wasn't translated. Bummer for @day r fact about those watching it in Norway!
Man thank you for translating that to us
12:20 "I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!!!"
“Gentlemen, I know you’ve been through a lot” such a funny understatement to me where this dude’s biggest problem isn’t having witnessed the alien commotion- but that he’s the last one tied to a piece of furniture 😭
I like to think both Childs and MacReady are human and that they’re just both waiting for one of them to make the first move. You can just barely see Childs’s breath and since he’s closer to the fires it makes sense for his breath to not be all steamy. I also like to think that Childs either forgot about the whole rule about not drinking or eating off of someone after his whole venture off to find Blair or that he’s at a point where he knows he’s gonna freeze to death (as seen in the video game) so he’d rather risk having one final drink before he dies. This ties pretty good to the video game’s story since you come across a frozen Childs who is also proven human in the game.
There's a game?
@@Mandi_Paranormal There's a game, and a couple comics
Fun Fact, John carpenter intentionally made the silhouette of the person confusing. He used a person on his film crew and not one of the actors for that silhouette shot so the audience wouldn't know who was first assimilated. Brilliant👌
Too bad he resembles A LOT like Norris, and the collar was quite similar.
Konrad Foyle but you don’t know for sure. The movie purposely didn’t show the when or who was assimilated
@@eriksanchez1721 maybe, but even though it wasn't the same actor, the shadow, the collar, and the hair are super similar to Norries. It couldn't be Palmer since his collar doesn't match, nor the size of the shadow.
Konrad Foyle again, the movie purposely didn’t show the face, Only the shadow. Just because something resembles something else, doesn’t necessarily make it the same thing, especially if just a shadow because shadows themselves can also be somewhat deceiving.
@@eriksanchez1721 still. There's a point that Norris and Palmer are both assimilated. Both of them are the "suspects" on the shadow. Compare them, and you will see that Norris is the first one to be assimilated and also the one of the shadow.
I know it's intentional, but he's the one that matches.
To the person reading this,
We all know that the doggies got treats for being so good actors!
Yes I needed this
True
*sighs in relief*
Good
And the alien dig did such a good job too. I remember watching this many a year ago and being amazed at how well the dog acted. To me you could almost tell something was wrong with said dog long before it was revealed as a thing.
10:57 “Next up in the test is Clark, who is also a human” “Which makes you a murderer, don’t it?” “Yeah, or just the fastest draw in the south chiles” man I fucking love that line
What’s crazy and great about the Thing is yes all the characters are smart in an insane moment but also the thing itself is godlike genius entity. It retains all the knowledge of who it replicates and as when cloned Blair, it built a small ufo outta spare parts within a couple hours from scratch within the story mode.
Just looking at Kurt Russell's beard made me more of a man.
ever since i watched this movie (about 2 weeks ago) i am trying to grow a beard like that
Cameron Steele
Don't Tussle with the Russell
YES
sortasmart lol that's good
James Hardens made Kurt Russels beard look like a newborn baby
“This movie should be called Amon-“
“Don’t you dare finish that sentence! Don’t you dare! I’m sick of it!”
-g us
@@brandongamingtv7545 WHYY-
@@brandongamingtv7545 r/madlad
Among US was actually based on this movie
It's A.M.O.N.G U.S
i want to come back here because this video was made before james did full bts on stuff so this went unmentioned: the good/bad boy's name is Jed, and he was quite the dog. A lot of doggy actors are excitable, but Jed was calm, collected, and eeriely quiet. someone on tumblr in a post about it pointed out it feels like every move he takes is calculated. this might be up to him being part wolf, honestly. he died in 1995 sadly.
at least the doggo lived a long life :(
This is my favorite Dead Meat Kill Count, because of how much James loves it. He is talking like he is our buddy during this, and giving his favorite things and foreshadowing. His comments and jokes are far more personal than any other movie I have seen him do. I love it because of his enthusiasm.
"The Thing" kill count, also known as "james spends 20 minutes talking about how cool he thinks Mack is"
Well, Mac is a certified badass.
Quinn McG Mac is cool but Jack Burton is a god among men or maybe Snake Plisken. Lol. Kurt Russell is my favorite actor he kills it no matter the role. Hell I even watched that Christmas movie when he was Santa Claus a few years back
*how cool Mac is.* James doesn't think it bro, it's just reality
I loved him as Captain Ron too!
Jack Washington because Mac is actually that cool
I hate all of these "Among Us: the movie" comments. For now on, I'm going to refer to Among Us as "The Thing Video Game"
Yes!
Oh, stop your grousing and let the children engage with the media.
@@LizLuvsCupcakes yeah... I guess you're right. Alright, I'mma go play The Thing Video Game
Youngster Kelp don't knock it til you've played it.
@@LizLuvsCupcakes I do play it? Pretty fun. I suck though. I need to look up how to get better at the thing.... don't rely on me to tell good lies
"The Thing"(1982) is a horror sci-fi movie masterpiece and probably the best movie of all time for this Kind!
They Played Among us before it was made 🤣🤣
Man, 6 years... That's hard to believe man, soon it'll be 10 years
Im coming back to watch this since I am once again obsessed with The Thing
The fact everyone is still talking and making theories about this movie, just shows how well made it was.
I kinda feel - and maybe I am wrong - that this movie was the inspiration of the game series resident evil
but the Thing game says that Mac was the thing, so Mac is the thing.
GingerBreadMan1178 is that game cannon tho?
@@ryleighbark7353 "game was first announced on September 20, 2000, when Universal Interactive and Konami confirmed the game would be a sequel to the 1982 film"
Ik
"Which makes you a murderer."
No. That kill was definitely in self defense. Guy pulled a blade on him.
He did kill someone. It was just justified. The way the law works is that you are actually technically guilty of the crime. It’s just you aren’t being punished for it.
He was holding them hostage. Legally speaking Windows was in the right and Mac murdered his captive. Mac could argue that he was acting in self defense since one of the others could be a shape shifting hostile alien. Idk if since one of his hostages turned out to be a thing if Mac would be able to get away with killing Windows.
d tczyk small correction, technically murder isn’t just killing someone, it is unlawfully killing someone with intention. At most, Mac would of been charged with manslaughter and would of been given a very light sentence at most because he was attacked with a scalpel, which might be a bit unique because even though is a blade, it is unlikely to be deadly and one might be able to argue that Clark is not posing a danger to Mac’s life (one could also argue that Clark was going for the neck and if he hit the jugular vein Mac might of died). Most courts would probably find him innocent because self defense, keep in mind even places that require someone to flee before defending themselves would probably find him innocent, he is in the Arctic, where is he supposed to flee to?
@@jaketheberge1970 he killed Clark, not Windows
Redbird7311 Just because it’s a small blade doesn’t mean it’s any less deadly. Just a little knick to the right, or I guess wrong, artery (carotid, vertebral, femoral, etc.) and you’re pretty much done for. Unless it happens like right outside a hospital or something.
I think Childs was The Thing as well. But out of respect of everything Mac just did. He just chilled with him rather then fight him and decided to just take the L and go back to hibernation. A great ending where the hero is so badass that even a crazy ass Alien just bows out and has a drink with him.
That also might be because it'd be a lot easier to hide the fact that he's a Thing. If Childs was completely fine while Mack was a mangled, unrecognizable corpse, that would absolutely draw attention. Even moreso if Mack and Childs show no signs of Hypothermia after being stuck in the Arctic outside for God knows how long without proper protection.
I still think James needs to recount this. It's just too good of a movie.
I'm happy that theres no Thing movie that takes place in the city, all it has to do is infect a fly and BOOM end of the world.
SuperTomServo true
SuperTomServo dont fucking say that
You can just cover your house inside and out with fly tape :p
SuperTomServo that already happened. #plaugelife
What about . . . *flex tape* ?
Fun Fact: the Norwegian actors were screaming the whole plot of the movie in Norwegian so when It came out in Norway it ruined the movie
Jarno Datema no why?
Jarno Datema oh I see
Jarno Datema I lost brain cells by reading your comment.
@@jarnodatema Are you like 10? Jesus...
@@jermainallen7176 wait what did the comment say LOL
I think this should get a recount like the Friday films. There’s so much to this film. I love it and got right into The Thing because of this video.
Fun Fact: john carpenter said the scream at 6:44 was the dying screams and cries of all the things it's taken over across the universe. You can even hear Bennings in there
Everyone gangsta before the spider dog starts spewing liquids
Its Weird and Pissed off
everyone gangsta till the scientist guy starts smashing the radios and shooting at you
everbody gangsta
till the marshmallow start walkin
Spider dog... hmm maybe. I always got the impression it was a plant/dog. Like a big tuber body.
Til Palmer starts escaping from the chair
“I know I’m human, and if y’all are one of those things then you’ll just attack me right now. So some of you are still human.” Now that’s just something you don’t see in the movies these days
Hi,im thing
I don’t think I would even be able to figure out that fact I would just shoot everyone
@@xyzynx3190 there is a thing among us
What i like about this film that it doesnt have cringe, unnecessary sex scenes or nudity that every horror movie has
Everything from the music to the commentary in your videos are perfection and you’ve only gotten better as the years went on. Keep doing you bro you’re absolutely top notch!
Thank you!
@@DeadMeat no, thank you guys!
@@DeadMeatbro do a recount
If only he hadn’t dropped the grenade the movie would’ve been over in 10 minutes
Why taco burrito
Habib Raaziq because they were trying to kill the thing because the dog was a thing
The Norwegian guy shouted get the heck away that not a dog that’s a thing in Norwegian
Habib Raaziq cuz the dog was the first thing. If the guy that tried to throw the grenade actually had thrown it there woud be no thing
But wasn’t that crazy big old guy was already a think from the beginning? Because he was already working or the spaceship
Myshiteu what? He only started to work on it after being put inside the cabin thingy. Even if he was. How woud he of been thingified. The only ones that met the thing first were the norwegians
The Thing is the greatest horror movie ever made. Tragically underrated.
In your opinion
Def not underrated everyone has heard of it
Personally I prefer Cabin in the Woods
it’s definitely one of the best. everything about it, the score, the effects, the story, the character, the tone absolutely MAKES this film
WRONG that would be nosferatu buddy, horrible effort.
This is one of my favorite horror movies ever. The effects look so good even today. There are things I notice each time I watch it that I never noticed before.
Man dead Meat come a long way. From ''Oh yes that guy that count how many people die in horror movies'' to ''Super detailed, great observation, count death and great work''. You earned that James.
There is not one bad scene in this movie, it had me on the edge of my seat the whole time, I can watch it over & over again & never get bored.
Gold standard of sci-fi horror
@@corusameoccasum1274 alongside alien
@@nattyism and psycho
@@thekaijuuniverseplayer701 👍
The credits was the worse scene
I want more
Hopefully the popularity of Among Us will give this movie some more attention.
I really hope so. I just want more people to watch this movie in general
yea lol i just came from a meme ab how this is the real among us
@@MrPhantomsDream I mean, it's the comment section, no one has to ask for you to reply
i had the movie on my shelf for a while, and now after playing Among Us i finally decided to watch it
The Thing is a very good movie
Sadly it wasn't based off this movie if it was I bet it would beat league and others
7:26 It sounds like "Watch Clark. And watch him close. Do you hear we?"
Is that not just... what he says?
The third detail about Childs being a thing at the end is the complete lack of confusion when confronting Mac. He was never there when they decided to destroy the research center and would have questioned Mac immediately. He didn't though, because as a Thing, it would have already understood Mac's actions knowing it's own plan.
“I fear no man”
“But that thing, it scares me”
Hehe
I’m hehe
This is the worst joke
No just no
We all know that it's a heavy reference
I spot a pun ._.
"You laughed when I wanted to bring a flamethrover to the station, but look who's laughing now." -MacReady (in his thoughts)
Actually, the flamethrower is very useful in the Arctic. It's usually used for melting ice. I use something like this back home.
@@correxis4546 oh, that is cool to know.
Nice Kelbeam profile pic! It's not everyday I see an Ultraman fan online :)
@@ApexOfUnova *ah, I see you're a man of culture as well*
No one really should have to justify their flamethrower tbh
The David Cronenberg - Salvador Dali joke at 4:10 is sooooo good
I was 8 yrs old the first time I saw (the first part of) this movie. I told my dad to rent a scary movie, expecting thrills and jump scares. I had no concept of gore back then. So he brought this back, saying it was one of his favorites...
By the time the dog-transformation scene happened (btw huskies were my top favorite dog back then), I was in high-screaming hysterics and we had to turn the movie off. Word spread across our neighborhood and I was tormented about being scared of this movie well into high school. It wasnt until after I was 20 that I watched the full movie. And I still find it disgusting. For those of you who love it, I applaud you. Bravo. You're forever braver than me. I dont blame anyone for liking it, to each their own. But it will forever be a trigger memory for me.
I really like Dead Meat's vids, so I couldnt help but come by to see what they had to say about it. ✌
14:22
If you look closely on Childes’ ear, he has an earring. Given the information that was provided in the sequel, Things can’t copy inorganic material. So this technically confirms that Childes is not a Thing. There is still the possibility that the Thing tried to counter this by forcing in the earring to avoid suspicion.
It probably remembered the metal test and blood test from the other facility
@@tim6454 He could have put it back in.
if i recall correctly in the 2011 version the thing put an earring on when it assimilated someone.
@@tim6454 there could’ve probably been blood there too
It's also revealed in the game sequel that Childs was human as well.
James: There is a lot of unclear kills, so we will just go with the present kills.
Also James: Ok folks, we had 800 kills in The Purge
Coliando Here love that pfp
onalleus cycillyus purge is only USA
@onalleus cycillyus yeah its only USA crazy ass that has the purge
@John Lorton nah for real
@John Lorton shut up dude
This and the prequel need their own recounts; I’d love to see the behind the scenes for both of ‘em
after just watching the 2011 kill count one it is earie how they got every detail so accurate and also how much dread I feel seeing the guys attempt to stop it from happening again only to be shot down.
Edit: all hail the fire ball.
Here’s an idea: That bottle Charles was drinking out of at the end, it’s filled with gasoline, not alcohol. I remember a little bit about the discussion, saying that Mac had filled it with gasoline to make Molotov and he still carried some by the end of the film. He wanted to drink it in order to commit suicide if the Thing is still alive trying to get him, but instead gave it to Charles as a trick in order to confirm if he’s the real Thing.
Mac was also staring at Charles, waiting for him to drink it. Seeing as he drunk it, your idea basically confirms Charles as a Thing
No! The Thing makes a PERFECT copy. (keyword: PERFECT). You would cough after drinking gasoline. Since The Thing makes a PERFECT copy, it would cough too (just like Norric Thing had an actual heart attack). Still Childs would reject the drink if he was human, as he would have knew that he can get infected like that.
@@friendlyneighborhoodkelbea7258 if the thing made a perfect copy then it wouldve made child's breath be the same as macreadys but in the comics don't know if they're canon child's is a thing
@@coreywilliams2242 you can clearly see Childs breath, he was outside for much longer than Mac was and that is why it is not as visible as Mac's breath
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The Among Us comments here are the equivalent to JoJo comments in rock songs.
help I like all four of those
well if you like jojo you literally would like anything. so....you're a lost cause.
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Tbh the jojo comments are actually better than the cringe *i wish i was alive during this time* and *if ur listening to this now your a legend* comments
Same as Kim k commenting on a science project by brian cox
I just realized that this movie is 40 years old now. Damn, I wasn't even around when it came out and I feel old.
I have a really soft spot for this film, since it's the only movie where I've actually met one of the actors, Wilford Brimley. He was actually from my hometown and was doing a play at the theater my dad worked at. He sat and chatted with me for a long time, and he never talked about himself, just asked me how my schooling was going and things I liked to do. Such a sweet man.
A few hot takes:
- Norris was the first thing, the Silhouette assimilated by the dog in the early scene
- Blair was assimilated by either Norris or Palmer tampering with his food rations when they were still faking and took supplies out to him in the shed
- Chiles was converted in the generator room by Blair thing when the lights were cut
- When the blood bag tampering things happens and Gary says he only gives the keys to copper, it’s a lie. He gave the keys to windows earlier in the film and windows audibly drops them when he sees Bennings being assimilated. You can hear the metallic klink, and it was done intentionally by the film creators. Then the keys are magically back with Gary afterwards, so to say one of the secret assimilated got their hands on the keys, tampered with the blood, and returned them to Gary or put them somewhere for him to find would be reasonable. And Gary wouldn’t want to admit he gave the keys out nonchalantly as it would make him look irresponsible and suspicious, more so than he did already.
This comment is way too underrated.
@BULL But the Dog thing was torched, so it can’t infect someone as it’s dead tissue. Even then, Blair was throughout the entire scene touching the thing with reckless abandon, so I doubt just the pencil would be the only problem.
@BULL also part of the dog thing escapes before they burn it
Yeah I watched that video too
Hopefully one day James will redo this Kill Count- I really wanna hear what James has to say about this movie and all the development stories it has.
As well as a more in depth look into the movie that Speedrunner James doesn't do.
Norris didn’t die from the heart attack. He was actually assimilated long before then. I think it’s by the dog in the silhouette scene. The hair and collar match him well. I think palmers death was linked to the dirty clothes in the kitchen trash can that nauls found
Haha. I think you and I have seen that same video.
@@alexcaruso8766 the WhatCulture one? I just watched it lol
@@eylonavraham8921 Theres one video by Zack Cherry that shows more stuff. Palmer was assimilated somewhere at the time after he, Norris and Mac come back from the UFO and the 48 hour time shift. Yes those dirty longjohn's are Palmers because of proof from a deleted scene of the crew finding more longjohns that is Norris's size. That is the right time Norris is assimilated
Oh yeah I've watched that video for Watch Culture, but the stuff about Blair in it is false. Blair was still human when he was put into lockdown in the tool shed. How do we know this? When we watch the movie, Mac takes a drink out of a bottle of Vodka that belongs to Blair. Later on though, in the famous blood test scene, Mac is human. Blair was human on lockdown is what this means.
Same also I don't think he was getting heart issues during that scene. I think it was the thing forming the chest jaw while he is still alive.
fun fact:
Those who don't speak Norwegian will probably miss the fact that when the Americans find the dog, the Norwegians are screaming a bunch that basically translates to, "Get away from that dog, it's not really a dog!"
Fun bit of foreshadowing for those in the know.
I can’t wait to show this movie to my daughter. Just waiting until she is 15. One more year
Please let us know how it goes!
Fun fact: The silhouette of the Thing's first human victim was actually stuntman Dick Warlock, last seen on the Kill Count with his face equally obscured by a Shatner mask as "The Shape". That's right folks, in this movie the Thing's first human victim is technically Michael Myers... That's somehow more terrifying.
He was only in Halloween 2 though. I loves his acting and would have loved to see him stay.
There is no fucking way that a human is walking this earth right now with the God-given name Dick Warlock.
@@ryantalley5284: You'd be surprised. XD
@@ryantalley5284His name IS Richard Warlock, but he's more well known as Dick Warlock.
what warlock?
Rest in peace Wilford Brimley. We will never forget your spine chilling performance in this and your amazing performances in many others.
I'm gonna be honest, on the same day that he died, a couple of hours earlier, we inquiried about if he was still alive. Next day he was dead. Me and my family killed Wilford Brimley.
KingJrex 365 tf
Charlie Hallahan, Richard Dysart, Donald Moffat, Bill Lancaster and Ennio Morricone too 🙏🏻
Fun fact: He was the internet's lovable diabetes guy.
I remember him most from diabeetus and diabeetus testing supplies and his cameo on family guy
“Sometimes I get cross and beat my wife. And then I remember my wife’s been dead for years. WHO WAS I BEATING?!”
Ah, finally. A horror movie where the characters aren't fucking braindead.
Except for Clark he was brain dead hot himself killed and he want even assimilated
I personally believe Childs is human considering there were multiple spots Blair could've been instead of outside. (The basement looking for scraps to build the spaceship, is probably the most likely.)
11:56 Apple was founded in 1976. Microsoft in 1975. I think you mean neither of those operating systems existed.
Indeed, both were very well-established by that point.
Well they were named Mac and windows
Windows 1.0 came in 1983. And it was not really a separate operating system, but a program running on DOS os.
Correct
"Hey Blair. Ya seen anythi-" *Sees noose* "What are you doing?"
"Nothin', Mac. Was just gonna hang out for a bit!"
Yo bro everyone gansta until 6ix9ine gets released
XD
Still love puns, even suicide puns, like this dream I had where someone wanted to commit suicide due to my puns and I literally yell *"if you trip I'll be seeing you next fall"* right at him... and then I wake up
Blair is Sayori confirmed?
@@sargentsteve7148 quality friend goals
I was introduced to “The Thing” through this video; it’s now one of my favorite movies I bought it on blu ray and watch it all the time! Thanks for introducing me to it!!! As a side note; I would ADORE a remake of this kill count!
I just rewatched this movie and decided to rewatch your kill count! I've been a fan for years and love that you've been remaking your kill counts. I would love it if you could do a remake of this one. I think a more in-depth version of this skill count would be excellent. It's a masterpiece of a movie, and one of your favorites, so I think one that really shows off what makes this movie so great would be wonderful for this year. Either way, keep on doing what you do. You helped revitalize my love for the genre, and I'm much appreciative of that.
Fun fact about the scene where Copper's arms are bitten off:
The teeth inside the prop for Norris-Thing's stomach had the strength of a hydraulic press, so there's no way they could have done that with a real human. The effect was achieved by creating two prosthetic arms filled with gelatin, rubber bones and fake blood. They were then attached to a body double that the casting team found who also happened to be a double-amputee. Some judicious editing and over-the-shoulder camera angles helped complete the illusion.
Man that‘s sick. They made a masterpiece with that
@@Saka_Fischli If you get a chance, watch it with the commentary track. There are a lot of crazy anecdotes from what went on behind the scenes.
I love when movies use amputee stunt men
@@EllaAngeli Amputee stuntmen are TIGHT!!
TimeToChange121 flex tape could’ve fixed coppers hands and kill infection.
Judging by the fact that Childs still has an earring by the end of the movie he may not be a thing, then there's also the possibility that the thing learned from it's mistakes in the prequel and put it on after Childs' assimilation.
There's also the possibility that they didn't think that far ahead
It is already established that the Thing can’t merge with inorganic material as it already was shown not able to merge with cloths.
he was a confirmed thing in the thing comics
czcams.com/video/AZD-R6xVk3w/video.html
Theirs a odd shine off one of his teeth too that I always thought might be a metal tooth, food for thought.
I hate the child’s not breathing theory because you can clearly fog coming out of Bennings mouth when he’s found outside mid transformation
I've never truly seen this movie, but the Thing is definitely one of my favorite. It's realistic, it's horrifying, ect.
That thumbnail is me when I see a bug on my thigh.
More or less when the filter goes off or what your friend sees when below you
@Listhil creates
What does the Alien's true form even look like? Is it never shown?
?????
The dog is wired
@@gideonbudd8945
And the gross and nasty part is where the Alien dog's face tears off revealing an ugly deformed dog like face man even Smile Dog from Creepypasta would throw up at that.
I fear no man
But that ... Thing
It *SCARES* ME
my disapointment is inmeasurable and my day is ruined
Vili Nurminen my life.
So you still fear no man.
*cuz its a Thing.*
Nice heavy quote mate
TF2 4 life
Would love to see a Recount of this film! I adore the little tidbits of behind-the-scenes info, and I bet The Thing has a ton of awesome stuff.
THE KILLS 🔪🩸
1:43 Norwegian #1
1:54 Norwegian #2
4:29-4:50 I know he didn’t count them but r.i.p those dogs
6:30 George Bennings
7:07 the rest of the dogs r.i.p
8:51 Fuchs
9:32 Norris
9:53 Copper
10:30 Clark
11:10 Palmer
11:27 Windows
12:38 Blair
13:25 Garry
13:42 Nauls
Damn they playing the Among Us alpha
Bro it's pink I saw them vent
Yoshikage Kira
AY I SAW YOU KILL GREEN WHILE HE WAS TRYING TO OPEN A DOOR ITS KIRA GUYS
I was just in Admin
Bro i was gonna say among us 1982 version xD
Idk why but red is always a sus one but... - : *. ~
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red was not The Impostor
I kind of expected this comment section to now be filled with a lot of among us jokes
It kinda is, but I too was expecting more
None of them are funny too
How about this?
The company Mira discovered the planet "Polus". Polus had all the things for life. Water, warmth, and sufficient gravity. They started to launch missions to Polus for colonization. However, they didn't consider that something was already living there...
Mira's Polus outpost discovered an alien bacteria on Polus, and they left it in the specimen room. Unbeknownst to any of them, this alien sample was actually a parasitic shape-shifting organism that could infect a crewmate. When the parasite infects a Crewmate, they kill the crewmate and take control over their body. These infected crewmates are now known as "Imposters". A few crewmates were infected, and turned into imposters. They started to attack the crew in Polus, spreading fear and panic. The crewmates manage to overcome this and kill the imposter, and they abandon Polus and their outpost.
They board the spaceship "Skeld", in hopes of returning to their home planet. However, a few of the parasitic aliens managed to sneak on the Skeld, turning more Crewmates into imposters. Fortunately, they manage to kill those imposters as well, and they land on Mira's Headquaters. The same thing that happened on Skeld happens on Mira HQ, however, unlike on Skeld, all the imposters and Parasitic aliens are eliminated, and all samples were incinerated.
Except one...
When the crewmates returned to Mira HQ, they took the dropship home and they abandoned the Skeld. Unbeknownst to any of them, a few Crewmates were left behind on the Skeld. The remaining alien samples on the Skeld attacked the abandoned Crewmates. In a last ditch effort, the abandoned Crewmates flies the Skeld into a solar system with 8 planets and a G-type main-sequence star. They then crash land on a snowy continent on a strange planet, however, all the crewmates died in the crash, and the remaining imposter freezes into a block of ice. 100,000 years later, a Norwegian research team finds the ruined Skeld and a frozen impostor. It's time for the Things to shine again.
Edit: TL;DR The Skeld is the UFO in the thing. The Thing in the ice block was a mutilated impostor.
@minecraft sucks not saying it would be a good movie.
There will be jokes among us
12:10 Sgt. Kilgore starts getting mad😂😂
Please, PLEASE do a recount of this one! I’m don’t know if anyone would see this, but please. I would love to see the behind the scenes with a lot of these effects.
omg i love your pfp bro
6:43 This is supposed to be the collective screams of every being the Thing has killed and assimilated. Thousands or millions across the galaxies.
Not terrifying at all 😳
It’s quite the cosmic horror creature, the many species are still stuck within its cells making a collective torment
what the hell
When I was 6 I accidentally came across the blood test scene on CZcams and watched it. That traumatized me and ruined my childhood but I got older and was brave enough to watch it again, I got interested with the movie and “The Thing” became my first favorite horror movie.
Same thing happened to me it wasnt my first horror movie but it was my first gory movie
I got scared from the chest eating hands scene
Same it's one of my favorite video and now it's age restricted 😭
same was brave to watch it at the show and the blood pops out scene i jumped so hard screamin lol after the movie had problems lol i dont think i could be friend that thing at all
Fun fact: in the script Palmer has a greenhouse full of pot he's growing which he and Child's are ordered to incinerate out of Mac's suspicion that the plant may be assimilated
*Childs was the THING.*
_The cinematographer admitted in an interview he used special lighting techniques whereby he highlights who is human and who is not by the sheen in the eyes of the uninfected/unassimilated._
*In the final scene, Mac has that sheen in his eyes but Childs doesn't.*
THERE ARE CONLFICTING REPORTS, DUDE.
The video game, the comics, hell the actors all say different things.
That's actually why I like it so much. There is no answer and that's the point of paranoia
This is a movie about Kurt Russell getting in some Kurt Trouble by getting in a Kurt Tussle with a Kurt Hustle that allows it to be Kurt Subtle and camouflage into things that can be Kurt Cuddled. Kurt Russell uses a flamethrower to kill the Thing (that came from a Kurt Shuttle) and turn snow into Kurt Puddles. They kinda Kurt Fumble the situation and wind up being Kurt Humble when they die.
this comment is criminally underrated XD It deserves the golden chainsaw award
@@vkjungenberg4110 Agreed
Holy Sh!t You actually typed that
Awesome man!
No
I think Blair became a thing when he said he wanted to be let in, he didn’t trust anyone and being isolated from them might seem like a good choice so the moment he said he wanted back in something was off
Good point!
agree, the way he emphasised the fact that he’s “okay now” too
abby
And the noose in the background.
Actually, while that does make sense on some level, there’s also the chance that he was a Thing ever since he smashed up the radios. If you notice he’s always seen as wearing a yellow shirt before that scene, but during it he wears a grey one, while clothing continuity is an important factor of the movie. Think about how one of the signs someone has transformed is torn clothes.
It might seem counterproductive to smash the radios and helicopters, but actually it makes a lot of sense. The thing doesn’t need to contact anyone to bring it to the base, supply and rescue teams will come no matter what and it knows it, and the radios could be used to warn the others and stop them from ever coming. They provide no real benefit to it, and a lot of risk, it makes sense to destroy them. As for the helicopters wrecking it provided the Thing with the parts it needed to try and make its own ship.
Just an interesting idea, and could show exactly how insidious the Thing could be. Also notice how when placed in the shack, one of the last things Blair does after being left in the shack is building paranoia.
And for when he was infected? It could have been any moment when he was sleeping, or perhaps he got a few live Thing cells on him while dissecting one of them, and was slowly from the inside. He could’ve been a dead man walking from the second he first put that scalpel into the burned thing from the Norwegian camp.
Just some interesting thoughts to stew over.
@@lingon18 damn i never thought about that. good point.
Even though the 2011 prequel isn't as good and like you pointed out had alot of bad looking cgi instead of practical effects, it is cool how they kept almost all the story elements in so they would link up with this movie(the continuity is great)this movie really is creepy and Kurt Russell is awesome, great job James 😎👌👏
Man I love your channel. I don't know who writes the scripts but they are like genius. So much fun :D Thank you man and mans team!
When I saw the dog scene when I was a little kid, it truly terrified me to death for weeks. I will never forget that scene.
I first seen this movie when I was 8
That scene still scares the shit out of me ;-;
That scene scared the shit out of me now. At least the dogs got treats after.
First time I saw that movie i was 12 and i couldnt sleep after that scene
me too, Palmer's transformation into the Thing didn't help either
Same
What I love about the detail of this movie is that when The Thing assimilated Norris, it copies his heart condition. So when it has a heart attack; it legit goes into shock. The only reason it killed Copper with the belly mouth was because it instinctively reacted to the electric shocks. Brilliant.
Shade the Wolf yep
300th like
Actually the Thing doesn't need oxidized blood to survive, so a heart beat is not mandatory, it most likely acted a heart attack not only to distract and convince the others, but take them out when their guard was down.
My theory i dont think people know they are the thing and it completely blocks the memories of the person and lets them stay in control until it wants to attack someone else in which case it fully takes over
Liberty Prime I personally think that it works like Get Out. The original person is aware of what’s happening, and The Thing is in the driver seat.
Fun fact about Copper’s death
John Carpenter hired someone who had no arms and made fake arms out of wax and jelly along with a mask of copper plus the stomach mouth was a bear trap device that opened up on command
This film could be the prototype for how to write a compelling mystery horror film.
Not even now, having watched this movie half a dozen times if not more, do I fully understand who gets infected when or where and every time I watch I try to sort it out. It brings me back every time and I love the practical effects, the performances, the music, the whole overall *atmosphere* it's all just so completely perfect.
Pointing out that the characters aren't all idiots, too, is definitely another mark in the pros column for this film.
The fact that it came out so long ago and yet is still my absolute favorite horror film, and it's still so entertaining, is just nothing short of remarkable to me. I'm _actually_ amazed.
There are so few things that are sacred to me. The Spyro the Dragon trilogy of games, the Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Chrono Cross... but this movie is on that list, easily, and I refuse, _absolutely refuse_ to entertain criticism of it. Not because it's free of faults, although I actually think it might be, if not close, but because it's just so damn good the faults could never outweigh what it does right. _Never._
I can't believe how I managed to see the whole movie when I was just a kid. Right now, just seeing the kill count makes me flinch.
As part of my scriptwriting class in college, I had to analyze a whodunnit mystery. I chose this film because a friend had shown me it Freshman year and I thought it was the most successful example of unpredictable suspicion & mystery I'd ever seen. So I decided to go through the script and figure out exactly who got Thing-ed, when, and by whom.
I spent 11 hours at my laptop figuring it out. It's so cleverly done you can't even believe. I was enthralled. It's fucking hard to figure out because you've got the actual Thing, people who have been Thing-ed, and the one that you don't really get explained in the film itself; things that become contaminated by the Thing. The biggest shock for me was realizing one of them got contaminated by _the weed he was smoking._
I was fortunate to have the prequel come out that same year. As someone who knew the original's screenplay backwards & forwards, I got a lot more out of it than most audience members. The writers got the Norwegian Camp down to the last detail, which was so gratifying to see. I know it isn't a popular sentiment, but I absolutely adore both films.
For 15 years, I always wondered how Blair got infected and when. Then I realized that part of the Kennel-Thing escaped through the roof. This is further backed up by how we see that little bastard pop out of Blair-Thing’s stomach.
@@jameswazowski5362 Maybe - you have a decent point but we still can’t say for sure on a lot of it
Holy shit, as weed is an organic flowering bud Things could theoretically copy it too? How'd you figure this if you remember? That's pretty damn detailed if that's truly the case.
The Thing, making potheads even more paranoid for nearly half a century going. Fuck. Genuinely terrifying, ain't ever smoking that Thing pack.
I think the director of the 2011 movie and the art department and all the people working on it were full of passion for the original, but got completely curb stomped by studio suits. They actually removed practical effects from the movie to overlay it with CGI, and I am pretty sure nobody working on that movie wanted that
wait, someone got infected from the goddamn weed. How the fuck 😭
I love to know now that the painting in the background was done by James' wife. She is so talented! I love this couple . These two were meant to be together and getting scared together. This channel has taught me so much about films. What an awesome job.
Childs and Mac were both humans at the end. If either were assimilated, there would be no reason for the thing to keep the charade up and would instantly assimilate the other.
There is also a theory that the bottle that Mac gave childs was actually one of the ones used to make the Molotov cocktails earlier showing that he is a thing when he drinks it like it’s beer.
The theory is also that bottle was a test and child’s is a thing also comics are made I am unsure what happens in them howver
@@threefour5684 that’s what blank just said.
That's just the bottle he was drinking out of earlier in the movie in his shack. Also, if you look at Childs when his head is turned he has an earing in. Going off the prequel rules that means he is not in fact a Thing.
@@tjg801 it was not gas tho that the point that I was making cause Mac drinks out of them
@@logan9679 what
that dude shadow at 3:13 isn't actually any of the actors. While filming they realized you can sorta determine which person that was from their shadow, so they just had some guy on the film set stand it to cast a random shadow
It does look like Palmer though, right?
Always 1906 coincidence
@@STaLLoNe86 I think it's actually Blair. At the end when the final thing is attacking Mac ot has dogs coming out of it and half of Blair's face. It would make sense for it to be Blair as well since you never see him get assimilated and it would explain how Buchs died. Plus if Blair was the shadow it would make sense for the final thing to have the ability to replicate both the dog's and Blair's DNA.
@@skylightsblade9468 Nah, I'm pretty sure that it was Norris.
BTW. The guy who did it is named Dick Warlock. Whom I'm pretty sure plays Michael Myers in H5 or H6, maybe H20.
What I would give for James to do a recount of this and the 2011 prequel...