| skizzerflake |
08-18-20 01:07 AM |
Re: Movie You're Watching Tonight
Tonight, it's a movie with lineage - The Thing. It started back in 1939 with Campbell's story, Who Goes There, about a shape-shifting extrerrestrial invading a remote antarctic outpost. Then in 1951, it was The Thing From Another World, this time in the Arctic, a BW classic with minimal FX and a rubber suited alien. Tonight, it's a 1982 John Carpenter classic, The Thing, back in the Antarctic and a shape shifter and better FX. It was done again in 2005 (not so great). It's been a comic, a computer game, a board game, a radio show (!). It inspired episodes of The X Files and Deep Space Nine.
It's frigid paranoia, you never know who might be the next thing and each time you burn one of them with a flame thrower, the outpost gets smaller. It's 20 below outside and getting dark, the wind is picking up and it just keeps getting grimmer. The slow, somber music really helps. It's Carpenter at his best, far better than most movies of its type.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Z44BIDPPc |
