There was a time — and that time may yet return — when I used to watch John Carpenter’s The Thing at least once month. I still believe it’s unarguably one of the top five best horror films ever made and, to anyone who disagrees, I can only echo the sentiment of David Clennon’s Palmer as he notices a human head scuttling across the floor on alien legs (“You gotta be f—ing kidding me!”).
The first poster for the forthcoming Thing prequel has just been released, which you can see to the left and below. It’s very reminiscent of the poster for Carpenter’s film — a similarity that is helped by the fact that the new movie, which stars Scott Pilgrim actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead, is also called The Thing. (Hey, who’s naming films these days? George Foreman?)
What do you think of the poster? Are you psyched for the return of The Thing?
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I remain cautiously optimistic. I still enjoy the 50′s and 80′s versions. The poster does look nice though.
OHHHH YEAH! THIS GOTTA BE GOOD !
Gotta see this one. I really really want this to be as much fun as the John Carpenter film. PLEASE be good.
Wow, it’s already gotten an MPAA rating.
I saw the Carpenter version in the theater with my Dad when I was about 12 maybe. There was a crying baby and he dragged me out to complain to the manager. As embarrassing as this was, we missed about 15 minutes of movie and it spared me from seeing dog massacre scene #1. I still have to turn the movie off during that part (and during dog massacre #2.)
Isn’t this supposed to be about the Norwegians who originally found the crash site? No happy ending here.
wow
Seriously? The prequel has the same name as the original? Okay, then let’s just follow that and call all forthcoming Star Trek movies “Star Trek”, all forthcoming Batman movies “Batman” and so on. That’s just… inconceivable.
By the way, not sure if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that I can always tell it’s one of Clark’s blog entries without looking at the byline just from the opening fannish sentence or two. Actually, I do think it’s a good thing.
I like the ’50s version, it’s fun, but the remake in the ’80s was a little too gross.
“Hey Sweden!”
Hey you two-we gotta see this! OK? Hope it is good! Even if it is half as good as the Carpenter classic it will be worth seeing…too bad Willford Brimley can not reprise his role- “I’m better now you guys-let me come back inside,I promise to be good”
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