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There’s just over a week left until The Thing (2011) begins
its 2 month worldwide roll out and opens in North American cinemas. (Release
dates at the end)There’s a handy featurette to remind fans that this film is a
prequel to the John Carpenter film from 1982. There’s also an attempt to show
us that the film-makers are aware that there is a story they have to fit this
film into and that their film must gel with the film that follows this one,
chronologically. Oddly enough when they showed us the Thing trapped in the ice
from the prequel and the empty Ice block from the 1982 film, I thought it just
highlighted a discrepancy. The Thing
bursting out of the frozen ice, in this new film, doesn’t seem to mesh with the
‘melted out’ look of the other film. (Obsessive geek alert? Maybe. Unnecessary
error / retcon? Likely...)
The Thing (2011): A paranoia filled clip for the sci-fi horror prequel...
Yesterday I mentioned the need for this film to really make
the atmosphere claustrophobic and full of paranoia. Here’s a couple of scenes
that seem to show the film-makers are definitely aiming for that mood...
Shelter...
This next scene seems to parallel the end of the 1982 film
with Kurt Russell & Keith David; surely one of the best, and most
frustrating, ending in the movies.
Storage...
This clip is another that seeks to show the film will have a
suitably tense feeling. Of course there’s no getting away from the fact that
the film has any elements in common with the Carpenter film. I’m interested in
seeing if they manage to come up with a different test to see who is a ‘Thing’
and who / what isn't.
Filling...
Synopsis...
“Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It
is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific
possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew
of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally
unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a
perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but
inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an
epidemic among a group of researchers as they're infected, one by one, by a mystery
from another planet. Palaeontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has
traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a
Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship
buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the
crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up. When a simple experiment frees the
alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew's pilot, Carter (Joel
Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast,
intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human
against human as it tries to survive and flourish. The Thing serves as a
prelude to John Carpenter's classic 1982 film of the same name.”
RELEASE DATES
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