How to Survive 'THE THING' (1982)
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- John Carpenter delivers the ultimate in alien terror in this chilling story about an Antarctic research team that discovers a form-changing alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Let's work out how we're going to survive this thing!
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I guess the Thing is a Christmas movie now? Hell yeah.
Snow = christmas
It's a story with snow, coming together, surprise gifts and learning to trust each other. Basically it's the grinch with murder.
@@theDreadedBlur I strongly agree, if it has snow then its christmas time!!
It also takes place in winter
@@maxlangley8478 and what's why they all died because they trusted each other.... So much for a Christmas story..🤷🏼♀️😂😭
Kurt Russell's glorious beard and hair combo is enough to survive the thing
Still the greatest hair combo in a movie to date
@@JennaTilwertz facts
i had the same hair and beard not too long ago
currently saving my hair to be like that lol
@@jacekstankiewicz1594 I’m bald so I’m going to shave off my pubes and mount them to my head.
One of the most genius movies in many senses of the word. The effects, the music, the absurd tension, paranoia, terror... everything is top notch. Hands down one of the best movies ever.
Also calling an emergency meeting and have everyone vote out the imposter is effective as well.
Yeah
> When the impostor is sus
If it's not him you guys can vote me next...
That's something an imposter would say...
God I remember the 'thing' after being reduced to a mere head and four legs trying to not-so-subtly scurry away like no one was going to notice lol! The expressions on their face when they turned to look at it was priceless!
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@@loturzelrestaurant The fuck are you saying with that vague bullshit? Fuck outta here.
To me even as a kid the person who made the most sense was Blair pre assimilation. He understood that the Thing already had the upper hand and the base had become an extinction level event for all life on earth. What good was it to get rescued and the Thing get out into the world.
So basically "Hans get ze flammenwerfer"
Hanz...
_Shtart ze panzer_
@@TheCorrodedMan "Hans get ze Oven!" 🔥💀 XD
NUKE IT!
Yes a Christmas classic...because of all the snow of course.
Love this film.
No. For all the festive red of course.
1:20. Yep. If you see a group of Norwegians in a helicopter chasing after a dog, you should probably assume they know what they're doing.
“Hmm these guys really want this dog dead. I guess I’ll shoot the guy and keep the dog.”
@@howitzer4041 Thats exactly this Muppets Logic 😂
Facts, lol XD
This movies is perfect for a spooky Christmas
This movie is okay for Halloween. Christmas is NOT supposed to be spooky. Are you insane or something? Or just high on dope?
It’s perfect period
@@JohnVKaravitis it’s a joke
@@thescarletcultist113 no its not its a perfect spooky movie
Especially in 2020
When NASA announces that Aliens are visiting Earth: *Hears the intro music to The Thing*
Hans, get ze flammenwerfer
@@markgallagher1790 Get ALL the flamethrowers.
Dun dun...dun dun...dun dun....dun dun...
They have.
“Mack want the flamethrower” “Mack wants the what!?”
Ah the best christmas film! just makes you feel all nice and warm inside.
I remember the blood-test by hot needle scene. That was a real jumpscare.
It works so well because we are lead to believe Clark was a Thing because he spent so much time with the Dog Thing and he let it explore the base unimpeded. Blair even tells MacReady to watch him and Clark is the one who tries to kill MacReady with a scapel when he is enforcing the blood test at gunpoint. But Clark's blood comes up as negative, something Childs points out and MacReady even looks over at Clark's body like he is starting to question whether this test even works. So we are lured into a sense of thinking MacReady is being paranoid and is possibly wrong about his theory before Palmer's blood reacts to the hot needle.
Greatest horror movie of all time in my opinion. Kurt Russel was the man
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5:09 Distrust of each other is the key element of the movie, as the predator/alien/threat can completely mimic and hide within the appearance of anyone. If you remove that element of distrust, you remove all the suspense. It's why this movie is so clever, terrifying, and well done!
🤦♂️ The Video is literally about HOW TO SURVIVE THE THING, not how to change the Movie.
I would have loved to have a computer game based off The Thing. But to a great extent, The Thing is fvcked if the protagonist knows about it in advance.
I liked Macready's plan on how to flush out the alien: when Mac and the others found out that Blair got back inside and blew the generator, he realizes that the Blair-Thing plans to freeze himself til a rescue team arrives, starting the process all over again. Mac knows they won't survive, but they they blow up the camp to flush out the alien and kill it once and for all.
To be fair, it was kinda his fault there was a Blair thing in the first place.
Well I just learned snow blindness is a thing
Don't judge snow blindness until you at least give it a blood test
In the event Hollywood attempts to make a movie adaptation of the game "Among Us", they should look at this classic film
If you look at game theory, the thing is a major inspiration for the imposters in among us.
Polus map is basically the American camp.
since it assimilates conscious beings, it's internal dialogue must have thousands of entities in an endless state of mental torment
This movie has a whole lot of “nope” in it
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Ok, jokes aside and seriously now:
CZcams gets a lot of criticism, but just complaining wont do much.
I personally managed to got lots of stuff removed - and you can do that too.
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Glad you aint a bot though
in the comic, the thing can fool the blood test if it can interact with the blood
This “How to survive” series is by far my favorite on your channel! Please please please keep it up! And happy holidays 😁
I ment to watch this video when it came out and here I am watching it like a day before March 1st.
You got there in the end, friend!
The only thing that the thing will assimilate is my laziness and procrastination.
Assimilate the world? Nah don’t wanna maybe another day. Just get me my snacks and stable internet connection and we are good.
But grammar?
I suspect testing everyone whenever they come and go would be a little harder than making some people wear their facemasks to get into my shop
I'd love to see a prequal film on how that alien ship got to earth with the Thing onboard
Err I'm not sure you would considering the real prequel
@@danbrown5736 ?
Among Us The movie
A PREQUEL PREQUEL
That's a more interesting prequel than the actual official prequel.
"How to survive "the thing" movie"..
Step one: you don't
Step one: get everyone in one room and burn everyone else
@@changedcj007 not just people, otherwise you just burned all your friends just to see a malformed dog running at you
@@justapillow2443 alright bad plan. Use a bunch of tnt, and dynamite don't care if I die or others
Step One: don’t sign up for Antártica expeditions
@@ceaser273 step two: don't have friends.
This movie was awesome.
The only thing that's ever really bothered me is that they should have known something was wrong with that "dog"
the second they put it in the kennel.
Those other dogs should have been going absolutely apeshit the minute they caught its scent.
If the thing was biologically a dog would its scent be really any different then other dogs
It may smell like a dog but the other dogs will probably recognize it's malicious intent and go apeshit at that
@@jeambeam3173
A valid question.
Biologically, I don't think it's ever anything but the Thing, regardless of appearance.
It was shown to have a different cellular structure than its host.
I would assume that means organic compounds that provide chemical by-products
different enough from any known scent that the dogs would have at least been curious
enough to investigate. A creature can hide a lot of things. But it can't hide its chemical exhaust.
Plot wise, I also suspect that may be why the dogs were removed from the equation so early in the
story. I just think it would have made more sense if the alien had snuck into the kennel and killed the dogs
while it was allowed to roam around earlier in the day. That would have been the easier fix.
I mean, the other dogs DID all start growling and backing away the second after Copper locked the kennel & left.
Plus how were the people supposed to guess the dog’s odd behavior was because “it’s an alien monster” and not just “it’s still kinda spooked from being shot at by a dude in a helicopter”?
I think alien replicated the cells so well that it can even hid from keen animals like dogs
Honestly when dr Blair did go insane and wreck every communication and trasporation, it would make it a lot harder for the thing to spread and basically meant that it was now isolated to the camp, which is a good thing becuase like they did in the movie you can blow up the entire camp room for room and root the thing out. Because by the end they know that they have to make sure that everything is purged so it makes sense to torch the entire place.
Yes that is literally why he does it, he sees the computers projection that it would eventually take over the world if it reached civilisation and destroys all their communications and transport to prevent that.
loved this movie beginning to end, great pacing without being too slow where you get bored or throwing everything at you at once to overwhelm.
Happy holidays. This is hype!
Happy holidays!
Also be careful with the gasoline since it’s more explosive then other fuels like kerosene
Thanks obvious safety sally.
@@jaxturner7288 that’s not really obvious
@@knowtheplan472 no its def obvious ...
If it isnt well... :-/
@@knowtheplan472 yeah I mean if you live under a rock or your a 8 year old girl.... y’a might not know, so please ask a parent first. Otherwise you deserve a Darwin, so please go play with both.
Can we get a ranking of all petrochemicals in order of danger? Haha
By the time you realize the thing is even around it's too late...
Nope, I'm sure I'd die faster than a Star Trek red shirt crew.
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One of the most iconic horror movies EVER! that should never ever be remade/rebooted and don't even do sequel. Should be just left alone as it is.
Cringe.... when you realise this movie is a remake of another film 🤣
@@Zainicus 1956
@@Zainicus and a book(comic?) I believe too right
@@cavemanlovesmoke4394 it’s an adaption of a novella called “Who goes there” which mirrors the 1982 film quite closely, while the 1956 adaption “The Thing from another world” is quite different.
Imagine if the Trixon 245 gas combines with The Thing.
Yeah, also triOxin gas would, too.
B R A I N S
And then it gets impregnated by a Xenomorph.
@@thescarletcultist113 We are so doomed.
@@keynanmartinez yup
Make friends with it & give it access to your helicopter 🚁. Sorted 👍
Survivor: *gets atacked*
Arsonist: I tink this is a job for me
This movie still holds up. the practical effects are out of this world
Not really
@@Deathcardcodwaw oh its true.. its damn true
Been waiting on this one a really long time. Hands down my go to movie when friends ask me about a movie they should watch.
It's my favorite movie. The directors commentary is great, too. I swear Carpenter and Russell are getting drunk.
“Let’s just rush him. He can’t blow us all up!”
My favorite line in this, my favorite movie
I'm sorry... Even after telling me how to survive the Thing... Imma die to the Thing lol.
Lok
I'd just walk out into the oblivion and freeze to death before taking the chance at becoming ...the thing!
This is my favorite movie of all time & for you to do a “How to survive...” on Christmas eve. is a real Christmas miracle
THANK YOU!!!! I have been arguing with people about the child’s breath thing for YEARS!!! It’s good to know I’m not the only one who noticed
In my opinion 1982 was one of the best years for movies. I like the part at the end of this movie when he asked." Where were you Childs"?
Nah.
@@changedcj007 yah
This is just a fantastic channel and has so much rewatchable content! Thanks so much Niyat!
Saw this when I was about 6-7 yrs old, fast forward to today, at 41 yrs old this still scare the hell out of me, one of my favorite movies of all time!
I only just now realized the significance of that noose in the shack with Blair....
Well put together and very informative, thank you.
I can't appreciate you enough for what you do, thank you so much for your content!!
Doesn’t he drink gasoline at the end? Instead of it being whiskey?
Some people still debate on that thinking it’s another Molotov or a final bottle to enjoy the end. Those that say it was a molotov reason Mcready did that knowingly at the end to see if child’s reacts to the mixture and when he doesn’t mcready laughs since it unknowingly gave itself away
@@arecipeforhate193 interesting. I haven’t seen the sequel which from other comments I read it said child’s wasn’t the creature after all... but I like the ambiguous ending 😊
There's multiple interpretations. It's definitely not gasoline because the Thing would mimic human tastebuds and know the difference. But it's still suspicious though because the infection can be passed through saliva.
It's possible that Childs was a Thing and didn't care about the infection, so he took a sip and Mac laughed because he exposed him.
Or Childs wasn't a Thing but thought he'd die anyway and didn't really care at that point and Mac laughed because he incorrectly thought he exposed him.
Or Mac was a Thing and infected Childs, and laughed because he infected him.
Or the massive hot take: they were both Things but neither of them realized the other one was, since it doesn't seem to be a hivemind.
Yes he’s sharing a drink to infect Childs
@@wekashipo7507 ok I love the final theory. I’m gonna go with that one from now on 💕
Oh by the way MERRY CHRISTMAS to you Niyat. Thanks for all the GREAT reviews. We look forward to seeing more in the new Year👍😊👍❤
These are great, thanks for posting quality videos
Aaaahhh finally, I remember back in the early day of this channel is all about the thing with comics and stuff.
thanks filmcomicsexplained for this christmas gift to every the thing fan in your subs, im very very grateful
Yay!!! a new filmcomicsexplained video!!! Now thats a nice christmas present!!!
One of my fav horror movies of all time ! Glad to see ya FCE - merry Christmas to you and all :)
This is a perfect Christmas gift thank you
I’ve forgotten most of this movie and it deserves a rewatch. Great video 👍🏼
I have never heard a noise more terrifying than the sound Bennings thing makes when he looks up at Macready
9:49 the problem is that the rescue team isn't coming in "a few days" like you said, in the film after Blair destroyed the hardware for the radio communications, Garry said that no one was coming until spring so they had to hold up until then, but when these events happened, it was, according to Mac, the "first damn week of winter." So you see, that's three months in extreme weather, especially since the Thing blew up the generator.
Nothing like reaching into a toothed hungry ribcage on a crisp Xmas morning 🤗🤗🤗
How to tell a thing? Take a cigarette and put it out on a friend. The skin of thing will react.
The thing imitating as a friend would know better to not react. Only a small enough bio mass of them will be “less intelligent” enough to expose itself
I mean, if you're alone with that friend and don't have any incediary weapon with you, that's a good way to lose a hand.
Yes! You said your line at the end. I can sleep tonight now, Thanks Niyat.
And Merry Christmas to all who read this.
How to survive the thing
*when everyone goes down to see whats in the ice , you GET TO DA CHOPPA
Love that intro. Glad you're using it more! Great video my friend
This was very well done!
Yes!!!! Keep it coming with these, how to survive, videos!
Oh ma, this is the very tutorial I was looking for! Thank you!
The one movie where not sticking together may be a good idea. That could still be dangerous but not if you’re only out to survive solely.
Thank you for another amazing video! I always look forward to seeing new videos of yours on my recommendation! And merry Christmas btw :)
I'm new to the channel and I LOVE the content. Thanks and keep killing it! Pun intended!
I'm loving this new series dude 👍
I can watch your Videos on The Thing all day. I wish there was more videos that can be done on this movie
NOW THIS is a Christmas movie! Besides DIE HARD, Which is now declared a Christmas movie after all this time!
I would love to see your your take on "At the mountains of madness", the godfather of it all.
Yasssss been waiting for this
Everyone always asks what is the Thing but no one asks how is the Thing. Maybe that's why he's so upset and hostile.
This counts as a Christmas movie right? Can I watch this with my kids?
Of course. A movie for the whole family.
Definitely one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. The remake was great also.
Great video! ❤
i love ur content bro have a merry christmas
Wilford Brimley's diabetic freakout in the radio room was the best part for me.
merry christmas man you’re like my favorite youtube nerdy just like me!!
Happy Christmas dude. Enjoyed the video. When I first came across your channel I really enjoyed the comics your where explaining and telling us the story as well.
Can you do more of the Alien Comics please ?
Or any of the dark horse comics.
Love your channel dude. keep up the good work. Stay safe 🤙😁😁
Please do more of these. Awesome 😎
Nicely explained mate
Hans get the flammenwerfer: The movie
Who else has this masterpiece movie on Arrow blu ray?
I recently came across your channel,
I watched so many videos,
Content Quality is Excellent, Professional😎
You make Perfect videos!
Keep it up !🎉
&
Merry Christmas 🎄🎉
Definitely make this into a series!
This film is fantastic.
Pls keep making these vids they are awsome also merry fraggin xmas and a bloody new year!
Merry Xmas!
@@filmcomicsexplained ty
This type of films (some kind of monster hunting a team of people in some remote and isolated camp-like facility or larger vechicle, usually a huge space ship) has always the logical flaw that the most rational and safest thing would be to stay tight together as a group and not separate, but no, every man/woman walking around for themselves and the monster (never actually seen properly, it's always half-dark, somehow lights starts to blink when it attacks, smoke/steam pours out from somewhere etc) can decimate the group one by by one, always sneaking up practically from nowhere. But then the theme would not work., would it.
The thing could just play a different game if that were the case. In reality they were screwed from the start, they didn’t have any heads up and it’s kind of hard in real life to realize and grasp there’s an alien pathogen that mimics any life form and likes to brutally murder you and eat you when you alone or if you piss a replica off. That alone would destroy most mentally and would cause distrust and terrible decision making, even if they were all in a room the thing could choose to run away and hide and plan a way to take them out another way.
Nice,more videos like this. Thumbs up
I never understood who would rather get their fingers sliced open rather than your arm. You need your fingers 24/7
Please read the thing comic book series, it takes place after the movie, and it answers the question who is the thing at the end of the movie
So does the game.
@@aaronpop0083 the game doesn't rap up the story well, u got almost ah whole new staff of characters, with there own problems, plus the ending to it doesn't answer all the questions
INSIDE the game ,, a massive amount of content to go over and a lot of deeper narratives at work would love for you to play/ go over it
Nice, Happy Holidays!
Happy holidays!
Props. Boys played among us before it was popular
Love your content