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Beards, Blood And Beasties: The International Trailer For The Thing That Isn't The Thing, But An Entirely Different Thing (From Another World)

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (11)

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There isn’t much more to say about the Matthijs van Heijningen Jr’s confusingly titled The Thing, the film that isn’t a remake of The Thing, but rather is a remake of The Thing From Another World. It’s a project that I’m annoyed by, but that annoyance has waned somewhat recently. I still think it’s a little silly — both the 1982 and 1954 film stand up well over time, but hey. Remakes, death and taxes, right? Fuckers.

Anyway, after seeing Warrior, I’m a bit more interested because of the Joel Edgerton factor. It’s also nice to see Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje getting work, and I like Eric Christian Olsen, even if he’s been in some truly awful movies — he gets a pass for his role as Vaughn on “Community” and for the better-than-it-deserves-to-be Fired Up!. So maybe, you know, it’ll… um… I’m trying here, people. Maybe?

No?

Shit.

Here’s the trailer. Enjoy. Oh, it’s in Russian, but who gives a shit. You get the gist of it easily enough. It’s got some nifty new footage that wasn’t in any of the earlier domestic trailers, so quit your goddamn crying.









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Comments

How is it there's like one blond Norwegian in all that?

Posted by: , at October 5, 2011 11:11 AM

I saw the trailer in English, and think this was vastly improved for being in Russian.

Posted by: RhymesWithSilver at October 5, 2011 1:25 PM

Ummmmmmmm...it's not a remake of either. It's a prequel to the John Carpenter film. The director has stated this several times in interviews.

Posted by: Juicy Weatherbee at October 5, 2011 1:58 PM

Yep, prequel. The last ten minutes will just be the first ten minutes of Carpenter's The Thing (1982) stapled on to the end.

Posted by: csb at October 5, 2011 2:36 PM

Everything's scarier in Russian.

Posted by: OldSchool60 at October 5, 2011 3:11 PM

I would love to jump on the fanboy negativity bangwagon and complain about how this movie's very existence is an insult to John Carpenter and how CGI is ruining horror movies, but I just can't do it. I keep watching every new trailer, and it just keeps looking better and better.

Posted by: Craig D. at October 5, 2011 4:49 PM

Ehhh, but does the prequel thing really hold up?

It's all just based on John Campbell's story 'Who Goes There'. The '51 film tossed out the entire point of the story (you know, how they're isolated and dependent on their small group but they can't trust anyone because anyone could be a 'Thing'?)

Carpenter completely got the point and made a good movie about it, but for some reason the main difference is that MacReady and the other characters all match up to the story, except that they're not the ones to actually FIND the Thing in the ice. They find the people who did that. And those people clearly already went through what they're about to go through, but then...if you now make THAT story, what are they going to do with it?

MacReady and the other's story from Carpenter's film IS what happens to the team who first finds the Thing in the ice in the original tale. The change worked in Carpenter's film because we never see what happens to that first team specifically.

But now...you can't use the original story because that's Macready's team's tale. So....this chick and her team are going to go through *almost* the same stuff?

But slightly different?

Sorta-but-not?

They already got the dog kennel for frak's sake! And I bet someone figures out a blood test...

Posted by: Arco at October 5, 2011 5:02 PM


No matter what story you tell with this subject it is the same story.

All you change is the time. the place, and who.

If they truly wanted to be creative they would have had the thing trying to escape from us.

Or, have the Thing change its tactics and be harmless. Instead of a gory run-in with the Thing you end up a certain concrete feeling that something is very wrong, but you can't figure out why. This is the true nature of much of the slow-motion horror that happens in real life.

In the end in this second scenario the Thing takes over the World, and you hardly notice.

Posted by: eman at October 6, 2011 1:55 AM

Don't you guys remember the Norwegian camp that Macready and his team check out? THIS is that story...it's about what happened to them. I hear the ending of this is the Thing turning into a dog and running off into the snow, with the remaining survivors chasing it in a helicopter, essentially ending where Carpenter's film begins.

Posted by: Juicy Weatherbee at October 6, 2011 9:23 AM

That's what I had heard as well. It looks like it's a similar story nonetheless, though I guess that's to be expected. The effects look pretty cool, especially that one guy's face kinda 'cracking' into place. It's just nice that the camp looks similar too, not updated like that ridiculous structure in Whiteout.

Posted by: Protoguy at October 6, 2011 9:51 AM

eman has a cool idea.

I can't see the trailer here at work, but would be a lot more interested in seeing the movie if it had that kind of storyline.

Posted by: GMan at October 6, 2011 9:53 AM