The Thing (1982) FULL Reaction!

Dude, the effects in this film hold up very well to this day. Rob Bottin is a master and it truly shows in his work on this film.

MotoDork

Loved when I first saw in 80s and is in my top 5 favorite films. I am also biased to 80s John Carpenter films.

TurtleInJersey

John Carpenter has confirmed one of them was infected. https://twitter.com/thehorrormaster/status/272063161832701953?lang=en

Björn Von Knorring

This is a great movie. The 2011 film is a prequel and shows the events in the Norwegian camp. Behind the scenes bonus: the American and Norwegian camps are the same location. They first filmed everything for the "American" research station, blew it up for the finale of the movie, then filmed the "Norwegian station" in the ruins. I don't think Childs or MacReady were infected in the end. There are some theories about Childs being an imitation, but I've never seen any good arguments for that being the case. Great reaction!

Murf

I wasn’t expecting too much when this came out in 82, as I remembered the Howard Hawks original. I was able to see it in a classic movie theater. One screen, a balcony, the works. The crowd reaction was as good as any “slasher” flick reaction, but obviously the film was in a different genre altogether. The ambiguous ending has been discussed for years. I tried to pay special attention this time for clues. In the end you see MacReady smirk after Childs takes a drink from the bottle. In the previous scene you see two bottles being used as Molotov cocktails, so it was theorized MacReady was laughing because Childs just drank gasoline with no ill reaction. However, the previous bottles did not match up, and the bottle MacReady shared seemed to be the same JB bottle from the earlier chess scene. In any case, MacReady knows that he is the Thing, or just is resigned to accepting Childs is, and they would freeze and be discovered in the spring, where the cycle would begin again with those unfortunate sounds who discovered them. Definitely a classic.

That was a fun reaction, glad you liked the film! I have no idea when exactly I first saw the film, but probably the late 80's. One of the best horror films ever. The ending leaves it open on whether either of them is infected, but it clearly suggests one of them is. The thing (LOL) is, the monster was frozen in stasis before, before the Norwegians got it from the ice, so it can 'hibernate' if needed. So either both of them are still human and they freeze to death, or one of them isn't and it could wait for help or just let itself freeze again. It's unclear either way, and that's what makes it so great (and it also leaves a door open for a sequel which never came, because initially this was a box office failure).

Marc Van de Klashorst

That was fun! Haven’t seen that in years (I told you the dog acting was good!) My guess is they both froze to death. If there was a sequel one of them would probably have been the Thing, but since there wasn’t a sequel, I think everyone just died. Happy Halloween! See ya on the next one.

Jai Nelson

You also might like a more current movie like A Quiet Place, it will definitely get your anxiety levels up !

Danny (Icarus)

Oh yeah, awesome movie. Effects are dated as hell, but ... don't care. :)

Cult classic horror movie !😱

Danny (Icarus)