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John Carpenter’s
The Thing
File:ThingPoster.jpg
Film poster by Drew Struzan
Directed byJohn Carpenter
Screenplay byBill Lancaster
Produced byDavid Foster
Lawrence Turman
Wilbur Stark
Stuart Cohen
StarringKurt Russell
Wilford Brimley
Keith David
Charles Hallahan
Donald Moffat
Richard Dysart
David Clennon
Richard Masur
T. K. Carter
Joel Polis
Thomas G. Waites
Peter Maloney
CinematographyDean Cundey
Edited byTodd C. Ramsay
Music byEnnio Morricone
John Carpenter
(uncredited)
Production
companies
Universal Pictures
David Foster Productions
Turman-Foster Company
Distributed byMCA / Universal Pictures
Release date
June 25, 1982 (1982-06-25)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
Norwegian
Budget$15,000,000
Box office$19,629,760 (North America)

The Thing (also known as John Carpenter's The Thing) is a 1982 science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster, and starring Kurt Russell. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a parasitic extraterrestrial lifeform that assimilates other organisms and in turn imitates them. It infiltrates an Antarctic research station, taking the appearance of the researchers that it kills, and paranoia occurs within the group.

Ostensibly a remake of the classic 1951 Howard Hawks-Christian Nyby film The Thing from Another World, Carpenter's film is a more faithful adaptation of the novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr. which inspired the 1951 film.[1] Carpenter considers The Thing to be the first part of his Apocalypse Trilogy,[2] followed by Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness. Although the films are unrelated, each features a potentially apocalyptic scenario; should "The Thing" ever reach civilization, it would be only a matter of time before it consumes humanity and takes over the Earth.

The theatrical box office performance of the film was poor.[3] This has been attributed to many factors, including Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, which was released at the same time and features a more optimistic view of alien visitation.[4][5][6][7] However, The Thing has gone on to gain a cult following with the release on home video. It was subsequently 'novelized' in 1982, adapted into a comic book miniseries published by Dark Horse Comics, and was followed by a video game sequel in 2002, with a film prequel due for release in 2011.

Plot

In winter 1982, an American Antarctic research station is alerted by gunfire and explosions. An Alaskan Malamute is trying to evade a Norwegian helicopter with an on-board sniper frantically trying to kill it. The helicopter lands and the pilot attempts to volley a thermite charge, but accidentally drops the grenade and dies in the subsequent explosion; unable to communicate with the team in English, the surviving sniper fires at the dog, grazing George Bennings (Peter Maloney), one of the researchers. The sniper is shot and killed by Garry (Donald Moffat), the station commander. Not knowing what to make of the incident, the station crew adopts the dog, placing it in the hands of Clark (Richard Masur), the sled-dog handler. Unable to contact the outside world via radio, helicopter pilot R.J. MacReady (Kurt Russell) and Dr. Copper (Richard Dysart) risk a flight to the Norwegian camp for answers, but find the entire compound in charred ruins, its personnel missing or dead from mysterious means. In the process of collecting evidence, they discover a large block of excised permafrost with a hollowed cavity, and the burned remains of a mangled humanoid corpse; they bring the twisted body back to the camp, but an autopsy by Dr. Blair (Wilford Brimley) is inconclusive aside from some otherwise normal internal organs.

At Bennings' request, Clark kennels the stray with the rest of the station's sled dogs. Moments later Clark returns only to find the rest of the dogs being violently assimilated and the stray Malamute transformed into a chaotic biomass. Alerted by the noise, MacReady and Clark summon the crew to the kennel with weapons, which prove ineffective, and MacReady orders Childs (Keith David) to burn the creature with a flamethrower. A subsequent autopsy by Blair reveals that the stray dog was a mimetic extraterrestrial life form that assimilates and imitates other life forms on a cellular level, giving it an unlimited ability to regenerate and conjure the collected abilities of all the lifeforms it has encountered at any time. Realizing the implications of this, Blair quickly becomes withdrawn and suspicious of the others. Using the Norwegian research materials, MacReady and Norris (Charles Hallahan) fly out to a field site to discover a massive crater containing an ancient spaceship; Norris' evaluation of the ice strata lead him to conclude that the ship had been in the ice for 100,000 years until the Norwegians found it and excavated it with thermite. The alien pilot was likely reanimated from hibernation when the block in which it was frozen was thawed.

Bennings and Windows (Thomas G. Waites) quarantine the creature remains in the storage room, while Fuchs (Joel Polis) confers with MacReady in a Snowcat that Blair is becoming unstable and his research indicates the burned creatures are still alive. Windows returns to find the creature assimilating Bennings, and alerts MacReady, who activates the fire alarm; the team corners the alien in mid-transformation and burn it with fuel. Blair, meanwhile, has calculated that the creature will assimilate the entire planet within three years upon reaching civilization and suffers a mental breakdown: to prevent the alien from escaping, he disables the helicopters, tractors, kills the remaining dogs, and proceeds to wreck the radio room until the team overpowers him and lock him in the tool shed. Now isolated, the crew realizes that they might be contaminated and speculate on how to determine who is human. Windows finds that the medical blood supply has been destroyed, eliminating the chance of blood tests that could reveal the infected party; because the perpetrator used Garry's keys to access the blood, the team nearly dissolves into rampant paranoia as to who is guilty. MacReady puts Garry, Copper, and Clark into isolation, and orders Fuchs to continue Blair's work before an encroaching Arctic storm forces them inside tight quarters.

Fuchs goes missing shortly after a power failure and his burned remains are found outside as the blizzard approaches. MacReady suggests that Fuchs burned himself to prevent being assimilated. Station chef Nauls (T. K. Carter) returns to the others after finding MacReady's torn clothing in his shack's oil furnace; suspecting MacReady as infected, he severs the safety guideline stranding him outside. During a heated debate about MacReady's fate, MacReady breaks in and commandeers dynamite, forcing the others into a standoff that causes Norris to suffer a heart attack. When Copper attempts to revive him by defibrillation, Norris' torso transforms into a giant mouth and bites off Copper's arms, who quickly bleeds to death. MacReady burns the body, but the head detaches and sprouts crab-like legs to scurry away before it is killed. MacReady orders everyone to be tied up for an improvised blood test, but Childs resists; during the confrontation, Clark tries to stab MacReady but is shot down in self-defense. By observing the Norris-Thing, MacReady explains his theory that every individual piece of the alien is a distinct unit capable of independent life, with its own survival instinct. Therefore, a sample of the alien's blood will react defensively and try to move away when touched with a heated metal wire. Drawing samples from each member, the test reveals MacReady, Windows, Copper, and Clark were human, but when co-pilot Palmer's (David Clennon) blood is tested, it shrieks and jumps out of the dish. Exposed, Palmer transforms and kills Windows before MacReady burns and kills him with dynamite; MacReady then burns Windows' body. Everyone else is proven human, and all that remains is Blair.

Leaving Charles behind for security, the others find that Blair has escaped the tool shed by tunneling underground; they find that Blair has been scavenging parts of the helicopter and radio equipment to build a small, uncompleted flying saucer in a makeshift workshop under the shed. While awaiting Blair's return, Nauls believes he sees Childs inexplicably leaving his post just before the entire camp loses power. MacReady concludes that the alien intends to freeze itself in the storm and await the arrival of the rescue team in the spring; acknowledging that they will not escape alive, the team begins to dynamite the entire complex, hoping to rout the alien out in the open. While rigging the generator room to explode, Garry and Nauls are killed by Blair, and MacReady finds himself alone. Blair transforms into a large monster and destroys the detonator, but MacReady uses a dynamite stick to set the charges off, destroying Blair and the remaining parts of the base.

The fire from the explosion had raised the outside temperatures up around the camp. MacReady wanders the burning ruins to face his fate with a bottle of Scotch and encounters Childs. Childs claims to have been lost in the storm after pursuing Blair, but MacReady is unconvinced. With the polar climate closing in around them and with no way to determine whether or not either of them is really human, they acknowledge the futility of their distrust, sharing a drink as the camp burns and the cold returns.

Cast

One of the film's associate producers, Larry J. Franco, has a credited cameo as the Norwegian rifleman from the begining of the film, whose name is Jans Bolen according to the original workprint. Director John Carpenter and his then-wife Adrienne Barbeau have uncredited cameos as a man in the Norwegian video footage and the voice of the chess computer, respectively.

Production

The screenplay was written in 1981 by Bill Lancaster, son of Burt Lancaster.[1] The film’s musical score was composed by Ennio Morricone, a rare instance of Carpenter not scoring one of his own films. The film was shot near the small town of Stewart in northern British Columbia. The research station in the film was built by the film crew during summer, and the film shot in sub-freezing winter conditions. The only female presence in the film is the voice of a chess computer, voiced by Carpenter regular (and then-wife) Adrienne Barbeau, as well as the female contestants viewed on a videotaped episode of Let's Make a Deal.

The film took three months to shoot on six sound stages in Los Angeles, with many of the crew and actors working in cold conditions.[1] The final weeks of shooting took place in northern British Columbia, near the Yukon Territory, where snow was guaranteed to fall.[1] John Carpenter filmed the Norwegian camp scenes at the end of production. The Norwegian camp was simply the remains of the American outpost after it was destroyed by an explosion.

The Thing is notable in Carpenter’s career; it was his first foray into major studio film-making.

The Thing was the fourth film shot by cinematographer Dean Cundey (following Carpenter's Halloween, The Fog and Escape from New York) and the third to feature Kurt Russell as the lead actor. Russell would appear in two additional Carpenter films following The Thing: Big Trouble in Little China and Escape from L.A.. Most of the horrifying special effects were designed and created by Rob Bottin and his crew, with the exception of the dog creature, which was created by Stan Winston.

In the documentary Terror Takes Shape on the DVD, film editor Todd C. Ramsay states that he made the suggestion to Carpenter to film a "happy" ending for the movie, purely for protective reasons, while they had Russell available. Carpenter agreed and shot a scene in which MacReady has been rescued and administered a blood test, proving that he is still human. Ramsay follows this by saying that The Thing had two test screenings, but Carpenter did not use the sequence in either of them, as the director felt that the film worked better with its eventual nihilistic conclusion. The alternate ending with MacReady definitively proven to be human has yet to be released.

According to the 1998 DVD release, the "Blair Monster" was to have had a much larger role in the final battle. However, due to the limitations of stop-motion animation, the monster appears for only a few seconds in the film.

Reaction

The Thing fared poorly at the box office. It was released in the United States on June 25, 1982 in 840 theaters and was issued an "R" rating by the Motion Picture Association of America (limiting attendees to 17 and older without a guardian). The film cost $15,000,000 to produce, and debuted at #8 at the box office, with an opening weekend gross of $3.1 million. It went on to make $13,782,838 domestically.[8] Carpenter and other writers have speculated that the film's poor performance was due to the release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial two weeks earlier, with its more optimistic scenario of alien visitation (which received a "PG" rating from the MPAA). The Thing also opened on the same day as Ridley Scott's science fiction film Blade Runner, which debuted at #2.[8]

Critical reception

I take every failure hard. The one I took the hardest was The Thing. My career would have been different if that had been a big hit...The movie was hated. Even by science-fiction fans. They thought that I had betrayed some kind of trust, and the piling on was insane. Even the original movie’s director, Christian Nyby, was dissing me.

John Carpenter on the reception of The Thing[9]

The film's ground-breaking make up special effects were simultaneously lauded and lambasted for being technically brilliant but visually repulsive. Film critic Roger Ebert called the special effects "among the most elaborate, nauseating, and horrifying sights yet achieved by Hollywood’s new generation of visual magicians", and called the film itself "a great barf-bag movie" He criticized the lack of clarity in the plot and added that there was nothing wrong with the film's gross-out ambitions (noting that he both liked being scared and WAS scared by many scenes) ultimately giving the film 2½ stars.[10] In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby called it "a foolish, depressing, overproduced movie that mixes horror with science fiction to make something that is fun as neither one thing or the other. Sometimes it looks as if it aspired to be the quintessential moron movie of the 80s".[11] Time magazine's Richard Schickel wrote, "Designer Rob Bottin's work is novel and unforgettable, but since it exists in a near vacuum emotionally, it becomes too domineering dramatically and something of an exercise in abstract art".[12]

In his review for the Washington Post, Gary Arnold called the film "a wretched excess".[13] Jay Scott, in his review for the Globe and Mail, called the film "a hell of an antidote to E.T.".[14] In his review for Newsweek, David Ansen wrote, "Astonishingly, Carpenter blows it. There's a big difference between shock effects and suspense, and in sacrificing everything at the altar of gore, Carpenter sabotages the drama. The Thing is so single-mindedly determined to keep you awake that it almost puts you to sleep".[15]

Legacy

Despite mixed contemporary reviews, the film maintains an 80% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes[16] and was listed as one of the best of 1982 by Filmsite.org and Film.com.[17][18] The film ranked #97 on Rotten Tomatoes’ Journey Through Sci-Fi (100 Best-Reviewed Sci-Fi Movies), and a scene from The Thing was listed as #48 on Bravo’s 100 Scariest Movie Moments.[19] Similarly, the Chicago Film Critics Association named it the 17th scariest film ever made.[20] The Thing was named "the scariest movie ... ever!" by the staff of the Boston Globe.[21] In 2008, the film was selected by Empire magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.[22]

Awards

The Thing received nominations from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films for Best Horror Film and Best Special Effects.[23]

Release

After its cinema run, the film was released on video and laserdisc, and a re-edited version was created for television by TBS and Universal Studios. The edited version was heavily cut to reduce gore, violence and profanity; additionally it featured a narrator during the opening sequence (in the same manner as the original 1951 film), a voiceover during Blair's computer-assisted study, and an alternate ending. In the alternate ending, a "Thing" which has mimicked one of the sled dogs looks back at the burning camp at dawn before continuing on into the Antarctic wilderness.[24]

The Thing has subsequently been released twice on DVD by Universal in 1998 and 2005. The 1998 edition was a Universal Collector’s Edition, featuring The Thing: Terror Takes Shape, an extensive 83-minute documentary. It details all aspects of the film and features interviews from many of the people involved. There are detailed stories from the cast and crew concerning the adapted screenplay, the special effects, the post-production, the critical reception, and more. Other features include deleted scenes, the alternative ending shown in the television version, a theatrical trailer and production notes. Additionally, John Carpenter and Kurt Russell provide commentary throughout the film. An anamorphic widescreen transfer was not included, but this omission was remedied with the second DVD/HD DVD release in October 2004, which featured identical supplements to the 1998 release, with the exception of the isolated score track from the documentary. The film was released on Blu-ray in Europe on October 6, 2008.

Unlike the American version of The Thing released on Blu-ray, the European version features most of the extras from the 1998 and 2005 DVD releases. These extras include the documentary The Thing: Terror Takes Shape although several extras, most notably the alternate ending, were not included. The Blu-ray version also includes various Blu-ray only features, such as a HD version of the film (although the extras are still presented in 480i/p, depending on the extra) as well as a picture-in-picture mode that pops up at various points of the movie. Although the feature is new, the footage included in the picture-in-picture mode are all taken from "The Thing: Terror Takes Shape" documentary. The Blu-ray versions of The Thing are Region Free, making any version playable in any BD player.

The original soundtrack, composed by Ennio Morricone, was released by Varese Sarabande in 1991 on compact disc. It was also available as an isolated score track on the 1998 DVD release, but is not present on the 2005 edition. The soundtrack is currently out of production.

Legacy

Sequels and prequel

The Sci-Fi Channel planned to do a four-hour mini-series sequel to the film in 2003. Carpenter stated that he believed the project should proceed, but the Sci-Fi Channel later removed all mention of the project from their homepage. In February 2009, a positive review of the abandoned screenplay for the Sci-Fi miniseries was published on Corona's Coming Attractions.[25]

In 2004, John Carpenter said in an Empire magazine interview[26] that he has a story idea for The Thing II, which centers around the two surviving characters, MacReady and Childs. However, Carpenter felt that due to the higher price associated with his fee, Universal Studios will not pursue his storyline. Carpenter indicated that he would be able to secure both Kurt Russell and Keith David for the sequel. In his story, Carpenter would explain the age difference of the actors between the two installments by having frostbite on their face due to the elements until rescued. The assumption of the sequel would rely on a radio signal being successfully transmitted by Windows before Blair destroyed the communications room. Thus, after the explosion of the base camp, the rescue team would arrive and find MacReady and Childs still alive. Carpenter has not disclosed any other details.

In September 2006, it was announced in Fangoria magazine that Strike Entertainment, the production company behind Slither and the Dawn of the Dead remake, is looking for a writer or writers to write a theatrical prequel to The Thing.[27] After accepting a script from Eric Heisserer, Strike Entertainment began production to the prequel, also titled The Thing and was filmed in 2010.[28] The prequel focuses on the Norwegian crew that first discovered the alien three days prior to the dog arriving at Outpost 31. The film was shot in Toronto and will be released on October 14, 2011.[29]

Theme parks

In 2007, the Halloween Horror Nights event at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, the film property was designed as a haunted attraction called The Thing - Assimilation.[30] Guests walked through Outpost 3113, a military facility where the remains of Outpost 31 were brought for scientific research. Scenes and props from the film were recreated for the attraction, including the bodies of MacReady and Childs. In 2009, the event's icon house, Silver Screams, contained a room based on the film.

In 2011, Universal Studios will feature a house based on "The Thing"'s 2011 prequel at both the Florida and Hollywood editions of Halloween Horror Nights.[31]

Books and comics

File:The Thing From Another World 01.jpg
The Thing From Another World #01

A novelization of the film based on the second draft of the screenplay was published in 1982 by Alan Dean Foster. Although the novel is generally true to the film, there are minor differences: the Windows character is named Sanders, and an episode in which MacReady, Bennings and Childs chase after several infected dogs which escape into the Antarctic tundra was added (this sequence was featured in Lancaster's second draft of the screenplay). The disappearance of Nauls is also explained in the novel; pursued by Blair-Thing into a dead end, he kills himself rather than allow it to assimilate him.

Dark Horse Comics published four comic miniseries sequels to the film (The Thing From Another World, The Thing From Another World: Climate of Fear, The Thing From Another World: Eternal Vows, The Thing From Another World: Questionable Research), featuring the character of MacReady as the lone human survivor of Outpost #31 and depicting Childs as infected (The Thing From Another World: Climate of Fear Issue 3 of 4).[32] Questionable Research explores a parallel reality where MacReady is not around to stop the Thing and a suspicious scientist must prevent its spread, after it has wreaked destruction on Outpost 31. The comic series was titled The Thing from Another World after the original 1951 Howard Hawks film in order to avoid confusion and possible legal conflict with Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four member, the Thing.

In January 2010 Clarkesworld Magazine published "The Things", a short story by Peter Watts which retells the film events from the alien's point of view. The story received a nomination to the Hugo Award in 2011.

Video games

In 2002, The Thing was released as a survival horror third-person shooter for PC, PlayStation 2, and Xbox, acting as a sequel to the film. The video game differs from the comics in that Childs is dead of exposure, and the audiotapes are present (they were removed from Outpost 31 at the start of The Thing from Another World: Questionable Research). At the completion of the game, R.J. MacReady is found alive and helping the main character complete the last mission. The game used elements of paranoia and mistrust intrinsic to the film. Some retailers, such as GameStop, offered a free copy of the 1998 DVD release as an incentive for reserving the game.

In Spore Galactic Adventures, there is a Maxis-made Adventure called "It Came from the Sky". It was based on the movie.

Action figures

In September 2000, as part of the third series of its "Movie Maniacs" line of toys, McFarlane Toys released two figures based on the film. One was the Blair Monster[33] seen near the ending of the movie, and the other is the Norris Monster seen during the defibrillator scene. The latter included a smaller figurine of the disembodied head with spider legs also seen in the film.[34]

Annual viewing on "The Ice"

The Thing is typically viewed by members of the winter crew at the U.S. South Pole station after the last flight out (usually in a double-feature with The Shining).[35]

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Further reading

The Last Winter - similar horror themed film, but with ghosts over aliens

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