The Boys FREAK OUT Watching THE THING for the 1ST TIME!! // Manly Movie Mondays 

Sean TankTop Windows got the keys from Gary when he and Bennings were in the storage room. When Windows saw Bennings getting assimilated, he drops the keys before getting MacReady and Fuches. That’s the reason he starts running to get the shotgun. HE had the keys last so everyone would think HE sabotaged the blood packs.

I love this movie. I first watched it when I was 10. Little to young but loved it. Every time there is a blizzard out side and nothing to do this perfect movie to watch.

I saw this at a twin theater. Small town two screens bad popcorn, sticky floor, uncomfortable seats, rundown twin theater. Incidentally: the place held live music events because they had a stage in each theater room. The last show that was put on at the Foley Twin was a concert, by Three Dog Night. The bands name is a reference to an Indian technique for keeping warm in cold climates. A cold night you brought in a dog to sleep with you, a really cold night you brought in two dogs to help keep you warm.... A three dog night was a damn cold night.

@@ianstradian That is fucking incredible!! Awesome memory!!

Sean TankTop thank you I’m old...

Skill and art can always do more than all the money in the world blown on unartful CGI.

@@jazzycat8917 Almost literally.They actually had great practical effects, but the executives forced them to put cgi over them.

@@jazzycat8917 What prequel?!? :P

The problem with CGI is that it make the film all about the CGI. The special effects of the day were there to move the story on, not be the scary part. The horror and tension back then was created by the script, not a graphics designer. If this was made now it'd be a two-hour long alien-themed action movie, with constant human-alien battles. This uses the quiet moments instead to ratchet up the tension incrementally. It's almost a lost art now.

I always go back to this movie as an example of pratical always beat CGI. Same with the Howling, etc...

Prince of Darkness would like a word ...

@@IJohnSmith It can have the word: No. More seriously I enjoy it, but its not in the same league as the thing.

BirdBrainiac I’ll agree the lighting, acting, and practical effects in The Thing are un-comparable. PoD though, IMO, sets a better tone of dread and bleakness, and the score is JC’s best.

Close 2nd is Escape From New York.

@@IJohnSmith About what, because it definitely doesn't want a word about being best.

We can definitely see that he put some real work into those effects. They really hold up for a nearly 40 year old film.

In the interviews on the special edition dvd he himself says just that, and that he some nights just crawled under his desk to sleep, his assistant would wake him up when she got there in the morning, and then he just crawled out and continued working.

Rob Bottin was amazing! And when I was wondering what was going on with him I found an article that he was in real estate now. Hope he is doing well but loved his effects better than CGI!

@@players7686 he did the Howling as well a year earlier

@@patrickgogan3517 Oh I didn't know that! I remember seeing that movie such a long time ago. Now I have to go find it and check it out. I did like it a lot when I saw it. No wonder the effects were so good. Mr Bottin at his best! Thanks fo letting me know!

Justine Cooper, OH MY GOD!!!! I thought I was tge only 1! The dog NEVER MADE ONE PEEP of a sound. Smh. So dam creepy and perfect. And the dogs locked up in the cage with the thing were AWESOME acting.

That dog is called Jed. He also played White Fang in that film.

@@Lapinporokoira That's a really cool fact. Also cool that Jed is listed first in the Cast list on IMDB.

@@Lapinporokoira He's also in The Journey of Natty Gan. On the Shout Factory blu-ray, there's a new interview with John Carpenter where the interviewer mentions the dog's amazing performance, and Carpenter, some thirty-five years after the fact, looks down, shakes his head, and says, "Jesus, that dog was smart."

Jed only befriended two actors in his career. Ethan Hawke from White Fang being one of them.

It makes me feel like it's not just my fav horror movie, but one of my fav movies ever.

IKR!? When the dude said, "this is unpleasant," I fell out.

Lol. It REALLY IS.

@Samuel Black pretty sure middle guy has seen it before this reaction

ikr, i've seen 5 Thing reactions in the last week

big facts!

Which really goes to show the critics who trashed this movie at the time had no clue what a masterpiece it would become....though I wish Hollywood hadn't tried to make a prequel.

@@4sakend1 People were all loved up over E.T. when this came out and put the most disturbing alien ever on screen. You can imagine most weren't ready for it. Like a lot of great art, it is only appreciated long after it's release, usually because it is just too ahead of its time and the rest of the world has yet to catch up.

It actually "won" the Razzle for worst film of 1982.

I remember when this first hit cable. There was a slightly different cut. At the beginning of the movie it basically gave a on screen rundown of the different men at the outpost and how they wound up in Antarctica.

This was the first R-rated movie I ever saw. I was 10 years old and no one knew I had mild autism. Freaked me out so much I went the next 8 years without seeing another R-rated movie.

I'm 50 and I saw it at the movie theater when I was 12 still scary to this day

Woohoo VHS. I had to settle for Betamax. Still shit your pants scary lo. 💩

My Tia (thats Aunt in spanish) showed me this when i was about 10 and i loved it

Same here and I'm 51.. We watched it on cable in a hotel room. Jesus! This movie ruined our vacation to Vegas because I was traumatized by it for the remainder of our stay..

Erik Blankenship damn straight Erik!!!!

My personal theory is that last bottle of alcohol was actually more gasoline and he wanted to test the other guy with it.

@@probablypragmatic6893 if you notice, mccreedys breath is hella foggy while childs breath is invisible. Thats a pretty solid sign of some fuckery

@@NoProtect I've seen it so many times and never noticed this. Time to watch it again. October is coming up too!

And Carpenter considered this a HAPPY ending...there's an alternate ending that includes one last scene of the dog-Thing running away from the camp before the scene fades to the credits.

That's one of the big problems with the Prequel, watching the practical effects compared to the CGI garbage the studio Execs made them use instead makes it even worse.

I'd have to say the only effect I consider "dated" is the big monster at the end, and that's mainly because it doesn't really move much onscreen the rest is 10/10 and horrifying

The ONLY way to have done this movie justice is with practical effects. CGI would UTTERLY ruin it.

@@garysmith3037 prequel?! Wjat prequel?!?!?! I didn't know about that.

@@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935 , The Thing (2011). The idea was to tell the story of the Norwegian camp, and end right where The Thing (1984) starts. They wanted to do practical effects like the first one, but the Executives stepped in and messed things up. GoodBadFlicks id an in-depth look into it, as well as showing the better looking practical effects that were covered over with CGI.

My favorite movie period

Same.

Ionacus toy reviews Among the greatest character actors of all time.

Sean TankTop damn straight

Met Keith a few years ago with his wife while I was playing with a band in a restaurant in NY. Real nice guy and down to earth. We had him in stitches though we kept telling him "It's all gravy" which was one of his lines in Platoon.

Look up his work in IMDB sometime, there's a lot in there which speaks to just how much he can bring the "badass". Though my favorite line from him here is "Mac wants the *what?!*"

His first credited feature roll. His distinctive voice has helped him create a long career doing voice-over narration for documentaries.

These guys are all American, There's no way they'll get adequate testing done!

victorsixtythree this comment wins btw

You win the internet.

@Paul WT Or its also linked to poverty within inner cities and work that is deemed essential and communities more relliant on public transportation. Take your reactionary garbage someplace else dude.

Great comment! It hurts because it's the truth. 😠😫😷

But it's so cute :(

Or stabbing a kid in a church. And shoot the guy letting the infected, or possibly infected person, on the ship/in the compound. If everything's fine, and you should have done something different, just let them know you watched a lot of horror movies, so...

Agreed. If a normal person has to go out of their way to harm something that's outwardly innocent, like a dog or a child, then it's same to assume that cute thing is more than it seems.

Still not sure a bullet in the dog's head would have solved much... they would ve bring it inside... and scenario would be the same

Help them!

Go for the trifecta! Escape From New York!

@@dnllrnt Oh, how about "Prince of Darkness" as well?

Maybe conside watching Christine too

@@davidhonnay1540 Sorry to say but Christine was my least favorite Carpenter movie.

@@starbrand3726 I really NEED to see that, It's like the ONE Carpenter movie I havn't seen, it's so hard to find in a store, I probably should just order it online

JM RONIN true!!! That’s a “In Space No One Can Hear You Scream.” Level tagline.

The original Dawn of the Dead scared the crap out of me as a kid with "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth". I saw it on posters in a train station aged 8 😋

@Enzo 1965 I was a few years younger when I saw it back in the '80s.

I watched this movie for first time in 2017. This movie is masterpiece!

In Brazil this movie has as title :"Enigma de Outro Mundo" =Enigma from Another World . 👌

@@RoggerdaSilva haha 👍

Lucky bastard

Awesome mom and as Thinles said, lucky bastard!

The fact that 1982 is nearly 40 years ago boggles my mind, holy crap

Pinhead lover!

The fact it premiered the same summer as E.T, the "happy-go-lucky" in comparison blockbuster alien film, might have something to do with it.. talk about whiplash going from one to the other.

ya it was because the AIDS epidemic started and people flocked to see E.T. instead of a terrifying concept as The Thing.

@@gwagnsso I saw both that year. The Thing was by far the superior movie and the one I liked better. It was unappreciated in its time, but has finally gotten its due in recent years as an amazingly crafted scifi horror classic.

I mean, there were even people bashing the musical score. The music is probably one of the best, most tense, atmosphere-enhancing choices in this film.

@@travishimebaugh8381 Agreed. The music is one of the main things that makes this movie so effective as a paranoid mood horror piece. Fun Fact: same composer who did this score also did The Untouchables, and The Hateful Eight for which he won his first academy award making him the oldest composer to ever get one.

They would screw the whole movie up. It would be a girl playing Kurt Russell and all the characters have pronouns.

wait he didn't?

@@faizfuad8361 The thing can only be killed by fire, so it's entirely possible he wasn't missing.

@@faizfuad8361 Yep..bullet ain't work It's make condition even worse Since THE THING is lethal EVERY single cell.

Shooting at a moving target from a moving, flying object, good luck with that. Not to mention the norwegian guy wasn't a trained marksman, plus add all the tension and fatigue of the events. And if i remember correctly he actually hit the dog, you can see it being medicated when the doc fixes Bennings. Bullets of course do nothing to a Thing.

@@livingbeing1113 "good luck with that" You should watch some hog shooting videos. That is easy mode. "wasn't a trained marksman" You don't know anything about this characters training. "he actually hit the dog" Yes he did, over and over. But it doesn't matter, which is the point.

I am confident that's the first time we see him assimilated. Everything he does prior to getting put in the shack is to the detriment of the Thing. So his isolation then made him a perfect target. It probably got him when he was about to commit suicide.

@@nighthorder6542 Yeah exactly. He was probably in the middle of trying to commit suicide when he was taken over.

@@nighthorder6542 Most of his actions are purposely ambiguous, like most things in the film. He COULD be sabotaging the things ability to leave when he's wrecking shit... or he could be sabotaging the camps ability to communicate and warn the outside world. I think it's the former but I love how almost every scene can be read two ways.

@@crazykirsch the power of ambiguity.

Exactly, the fact that he actually hasn't USED the noose is proof enough that he's the Thing, and then he insists that he be let out of isolation (when the insanely paranoid blair would be all too fond of isolation from the other men)

Zzygyy well... unless you count Aliens as a sci-fi horror ;)

@@HistoritorJimaldus Alien... Yes. Aliens.... More of an action movie. I'd call it the best action movie of all time, but Terminator 2 happens to exist.

This and Lifeforce are tough to beat

Zzygyy yes!! Zero CGI crap

Top five, certainly!

It’s one of the best laugh breaks in all of horror!!!

And to think at the time it was a box office failure! Everyone was running to see shit like ET! Thank goodness for video stores!

It's a MUST HAVE AND A MUST WATCH for I think any Movie fan!

I think Alien would like to say something about that.

@@blazingsaddle166 Bro, imagine you were well armed with a team of 30 trained soldiers by your side in a mild urban environment. Would you rather face multiple xenomorphs, or a creature that can copy any one of those soldiers down to their personality and training? It could start out as a flea, a fly, a gnat or mosquito. All it would need to do is get a single cell onto the skin of one of those soldiers. Be aware that you have to go through the discovery phase where your group doesn't know what the danger is until one person turns into a monster. Then you have to lose several more people before you can devise a rough pattern of the monster's behavior. Finally, you have to devise a way to test one another almost constantly on top of being aware of tiny insects that could light on your skin. Give me xenomorphs any day.

You should watch "invasion of the body snatchers" and it's remake "body snatchers", the theme is the same but there is no mutation just an outworld organism that replace humans little by little, very scary though, you 'll love it.

@@duberdurm exactly. I'm a huge Alien fan but the creature isn't nearly as deadly as The Thing.

@@blazingsaddle166 The Thing is much more creepy, scary and dangerous. The Xenos look cool and are deadly but the Thing is a completely different kind of monstrosity.

Lolol

*Tony Shhtark

MR SLAV gay, straight, incel

Tony Stank

🤣🤣🤣 made my day

He is up there with the greats - Harryhausen, Dick Smith, Tom Savini's, etc.

And then that moment with Fuchs approaching the doorway with the camera in the hall...sure enough something's going to be there in the hall, right? And hells yeah there was. BUT. Nothing came of it. Just a blur and a noise and offscreen it went. Like the shadow turning earlier when the dog goes past the doorway. Little things that mean something, or nothing...who the hell knows. But the scenes are effective as all get out.

I watched a film called The Void a few weeks back it wasn't brilliant but the practical effects in it are pretty good for a budget film.

I even love the campy original The Thing from the 1950’s.

And a fishtank filled with cigarette smoke.

I miss the old days when people actually used their *imagination* to make special effects work.

@@TheColorOfCaramel hear hear. A small group of talented craftsmen using camerawork, precise timing and any other trick of the book instead of an army of special effects people who just want to get paid

You also gotta give a shout to Dean Cundey. His masterful use of minimalist lighting breathed life into Bottin's effects. Had they been brightly lit (as originally intended), the creature would have looked fake as hell.

Uhm you do know that the opening credit scene is an exact copy of the 50s movie so not really that groundbreaking. Still looks great though.

Once, ahem, things get back to normal. For Now we have 14 previous eps that have been available on Patreon since late 2018! So will keep the train rollin!!

Escape from New York is a must as well.

If Pat Morita was in Big Trouble in Little China, he was definitely under-utilized...because I don't recall him being in the movie at all! LOL. Perhaps you're thinking of James Hong (he played Lo Pan)? Or Victor Wong (Egg Shen)? Certainly not Carter Wong or Peter Kwong ("Thunder" and "Rain")...

YES!

and Escape From New York

Not to mention Palmer was the Thing here already... :P

I read about that! Kind of perverse when you think about it-- goreporn horror in a community where it's dark for four solid months and the only things to do are your job and drink.

😆👍

sweet heat

and he'll never be sick..... he won't get any older..... and he won't ever die.

Bastien Merindol not everyone knows the cinematographers by name. I did mention him in our uncut version tho!!!

We're all a big weird family, online and in the Burlington! I love Barcelona! Would love to knock back a few when I return! Thanks for hanging out and be safe!!

What's the next movie?

Not just a critical bomb, it received several Razzie nominations including one for ENNIO MORRICONE and his haunting score. Ridiculous. Stanley Kubtick also received a directing Razzie nomination for The Shining. I don't know what critics were smoking in those days.

@@kurtrivero368 It's pretty typical for the initial appraisal of movies to be wrong. Who the fuck remembers ET? Anyone? Hell naw. Same year though and it was a critical and commercial darling. There's tons of movies that got top honors in their day, but no one remembers now and movies that were ignored at the same time that are considered pure classics, not even cult classics, but just outright, full on, classic, full stop. A lot of modern reviewers cite The Thing as a masterclass in making a good movie despite the fact no one liked it when it came out. Some even cite the cold war as a reason for the dismissal. The cold war had just started and politically speaking, this movie was sorta like a microcosm of cold war paranoia of the day. So...maybe making a movie that both has disgusting effects and amplifies the general nature of the times is a bad mix in general.

@@kurtrivero368 " I don't know what critics were smoking in those days." They weren't. They should have.

jammernaught bro yesss! I remember my brother bought it and I used to watch him play!

Yes, it was the direct sequel to the film.

CageCat For all intents and purposes, that cash-grab is non-existent.

Even though the CGI is kind of buns, I like it better in certain ways. Hear me out, logically speaking, the characters make sense. All of the people at the camp are some sort of scientist. They bring in Americans so that it isn’t only in Norwegian. Norris is the only geographical based character in the original. I think the scene when Edvard thing attacks is insane. Especially when you hear Sanders scream in the quiet. The lack of character development is kind of how the Americans would feel as well. There are also lots of small clues in it as well. The only sucky part for me was the spaceship scene. It looked bad, but was still pretty intense.

Matthew Drinnenberg that’s amazing!!!

Yeah yeah my dude

This and The SHINING!!!

Sean TankTop Yup! That last major ice storm we had downstate (I live in Illinois) I was able to introduce friends who had never seen them to both films - they jumped just like your buddies did during the defibrillator scene... it was awesome.

The Applesauce Project it’s the ultimate ...... wait..... you haven’t seen this?!?!? kinda flicks for sure

@@SeanTanktop watching this movie is tradition for scientists at Antarctic research stations, swear to god. Amazing.

@@M12GProductions They traditionally show it at McMurdo base, the first week after the crew/scientists leave for the winter, leaving only the skeleton crew/maintenance people behind.