![]() ![]() This version of The Thing possesses none of the raw terror that Carpenter's version elicits. ![]() It falls short of being a truly inspired retelling of the classic tale and it really gets to be nothing more than a straightforward horror story, and I use the term horror loosely. This puts a major obligation on the shoulders of the film to be highly imaginative and original in its own way. It's not the film's fault, it's just a simple fact. Because of this, we know exactly how The Thing is going to unfold. It follows the same basic storyline of researchers in Antarctica finding an alien and then being terrorized by said alien. ![]() The Thing is technically a prequel, however, it is in many ways just a remake of the 1982 version. However, in its attempt to fill the gaps and resolve the ambiguities this version of The Thing, to put it bluntly, does a very poor job. 2011's The Thing attempts to resolve that mystery by telling the back story of the events which led up to John Carpenter's film. All we know is that it was a disaster and it where the entire problem began. What exactly happened in that doomed research facility has long been a mystery. The creature came from another research camp located miles from their own, a desolate and abandoned Norwegian camp. It's a creature that kills off people and then copies them perfectly so as to blend in with everyone else before they attack again. It involved a group of scientists in Antarctica who must divert from their research to deal with a mysterious creature that has infiltrated their research center. In 1982 John Carpenter released his groundbreaking sci-fi horror masterpiece, The Thing. ![]()
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