*THE THING* (1982) REACTION!! FIRST TIME WATCHING 

This movie is still effective and still one of the scariest movies ever to me from childhood to adulthood. A true masterpiece

Came here for the: "Aw, don't hurt the puppers." Stayed for the: "KILL IT WITH FIRE!"

100 years from now, Rob Bottins practical effects will still be masterful when people see it

"Aw man, they're really trying to get that dog 🥺" 12 minutes 20 seconds later: "Shoot it! Shoot it in the mouth!!!" 😂😂😂😂

The special effects in this movie were SO well done, they're still grossing out people 40 years later.

One of the points you might have missed is that the Thing is indeed intelligent- EXTREMELY intelligent. It's not just a mindless beast, it's intelligent enough to try and rebuild its spaceship from scraps. It's also smart enough to not reveal itself unless it gets cornered and doesn't have a choice but to try and fight

Blair wasnt an alien the whole time. He was a sitting duck out there in the shed and the thing got to him after he tied the noose but before he could hang himself.

This is the kind of movie you have to watch more than once to pick up on all the clues. You have to count how many of The Thing there are at any time. “Each piece is a separate animal”. Blair made the noose, but it was The Thing asking to “Come back inside”. The Thing has no “true form”. It’s a shape shifter (from a single cell).

One of the all time great science fiction/horror films. I love how everybody’s always wanting the dude at the beginning of the movie not to shoot at the dog, completely unaware of what’s to come lol…

“Nobody.. nobody trusts anybody now.. and we’re all very tired.” Is one of the best horror movie lines ever written.

It’s not just that there isn’t enough room for everyone on the helicopter, the helicopter wouldn’t be able to take them far enough to get somewhere safe. They would just be stuck out in the cold in the middle of nowhere, freezing to death.

The 2011 The Thing is actually a prequel! Shows what went down at the Norwegian camp

Kurt has been a working actor and non crazy, since childhood. Big as a kid and teen actor, and his first big adult movie, Used Cars, was a riot!

I love that you laughed at the "tied to this fucking couch!" part.

It is a Horror Masterpiece. Back in the Summer of 82', my older brothers took me to see it. They were suppose to take me to see Disney's The Fox and the Hound. No one was ready for we were about to see in the darken movie theater that Saturday afternoon. Everyone and I mean everyone was horrified, sicken and jumping out of their seats. People were running out of the theater thinking they were about to vomit. As a kid it scared me too death but it was fascinating watching everyone freaking out too. The funny thing, my neighbors had a Siberian Huskie for a pet and I wouldn't go near that dog for months!!! This was John Carpenter's first big budgeted movie and he wanted to touch every scare button with his audience along with a great story based on John W. Campbell short novel "Who Goes There?"

I love the reactions to this film! Especially the first couple of scenes, initially everyone's response is, ''Why are they trying to shoot the dog?!'' A couple of scenes later, everyone is shouting, ''Shoot the dog! Shoot the dog!'' Lol!

That dog is crazy well trained. Just sits there, staring.

It never fails. "Not the dog!" 😂

The fact about whatever or not if Childs is the thing will most likely forever be a mystery. There are some evidences points to him being the thing and some not. The scene where Childs was standing guard and MacReady tells him that he's going to Blair, there was a blue coat hanging in the background, similar to the one Childs is wearing. In the scene where MacReady and the others is burning the building down, the coat is gone. Earlier in the movie, MacReady realized that the thing ripped through a person's clothes when it takes him over and more likely Blair/thing took over Childs, ripping through his coat in the process and when Childs became the thing, he ditched the torned coat and took the other one. The ending scene where MacReady and Childs share one final drink. Chances are that it wasn't wine MacReady gave Childs but gasoline since he was using molotov cocktails earlier to test him. If he was human, he would spit it out. If he was the thing, he would drank because he wouldn't have no taste buds and MacReady was probably saying to himself "ain't this a b***h" when he chuckled. Around 2002 or 2003, the thing video game came out on Xbox and PlayStation 2 where you played as a captain of a special forces team send in to investigate the ruined and burned facility and while exploring the burned down facility, you'll discover Child's body, frozen to death, hinting that he wasn't the thing but not sure if this is canon.

42 years later and we still cant get enough of this movie....Its Stunning...And the ending,like The Sopranos...we still talk about it till this day

Interesting Facts: Norris (the guy who’s chest bursts open, chopping off the doctor’s hands with its bear-trap teeth) had a bad heart, and when the Thing took him over and perfectly imitated him, it also faithfully recreated his heart defect, which eventually caused Norris to suffer a heart attack for real during a high-stress moment. The Thing would have been happy to hide itself in a presumably “dead” body, but it couldn’t tolerate the electro-shocks from the defibrillator and was thus forced to reveal itself. (Incidentally, at the beginning of the movie, the spaceship was flying erratically because the crew was desperately trying to fight off the Things that were aboard their vessel and causing havoc. That’s why the spaceship attempted to make an emergency landing on the nearest planet and ended up crash landing in the Antarctic. Only one of the Things as survived the crash and made it out of the ship alive, only to freeze in the ice.)

It's two ways: 1)It can kill, absorb and then imitate. Which us the fast way. 2) It can infect, and then the proccess is done cell by cell on smaller and slower scale.

Loved hearing y’all’s theories at the end. Always cool to see how people interpret this movie in different ways.

This is one of my favorite movies. Whenever I see a first-time reaction to it, I click in. There's videos all over RU-vid deconstructing this movie, showing when each character might have been taken over.

The practical effects of this horror film are timeless. Great reaction! 👍🏿

Whether Mac or Childs are the Thing at the end has been being debated by experts and movie watchers for decades. Personally, I believe neither Childs nor Mac are the Thing. In which case, they probably froze to death. In any case, great reaction. Glad I found your channel.🙂 Also, the 2011 Thing is not a remake, but a prequel. It tells the story of the Norwegian camp.

3:40 The J&B Scotch label and green bottle is such a trope that you begin to admire filmmakers that use it even in hindsight. It's like an homage.

Outstanding reaction, you guys. I saw it when it hit theaters in 1982 with my best friend, both of us seniors in HS. Scared the crap out of us haha!! it really has stood the test of time with those special effects. Subbed so you can react to more John Carpenter films. Dude is a brilliant filmmaker. The remake is actually a prequel! 👊

80s practical effects were 🔥. Checkout out The Fly (1986), An American Werewolf in London (1981), and the blob (1988)

"Ugh Son.. UGGHH SON!!" 😆😆💀

Iv watched so damn many but this reaction was one of the best I really enjoyed this

Even in our FB groups we try hard for the ending, John Carpenter said awhile ago he will never reveal who survives & to this day he kept his promise. That's what makes this excellent film so much fun👾🛸

Over the last 40 plus years, I've had many discussions with people, over this movie. I've also watched many reviews from those in the business, such as Siskel and Ebert. To this day every person has a different theory about who, if any humans, made it at out alive to then feeze from snow. My belief- both who were left were aliens, by the end. An alien that advanced could easily trick tests.

The part where you said it felt like it was missing something was actually a good catch. There is a scene where Kurt Russell and Nauls go to the shack and see the roof torn off and Nauls finding the Macready name tag that was cut from the movie.

Its actually pretty easy tell about when Blair was infected. Pay attention to his dialogue the 2 times hes shown in the shed. His attitude is quite different

Keeping you guessing is the whole point of the film. It's what hooks you in.

Correction, my favorite couple The Thing 2011 is not a remake but a prequel that shows what happened to Norwegian station, how the group (American, French, British & Norwegian) found it and all hell broke loose

Yo! You had me HOLLERIN’ @ 39:19-39:20😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭💀

I went to see this movie in the theater when it came out. All of my friends went to see E.T at the time because it was getting all of the publicity. The theater was only half full and the people there were all gasping and hollering at the dog and stomach scenes. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and everyone on the theater for some reason started clapping. I think we all had a really good time. The special effects are top tier and still hold up today. After telling my friends about this movie, we all went the next weekend to see it. I enjoyed it just as much the second time.

The Thing originally came out in the 50’s in black and white and was way different as far as the alien goes.

In my top 3, it's so fun to see folks discover The Thing with fresh eyes.

This is a very good Movie..It's an older movie but the special effects are better than most movies out today. Great Great Reactions Y'all👍🏾💯👍🏾

I remember I played the games and read the comics of what happened after this movie, if you noticed at the end when childs speaks there is hardly any signs of his breath while macready’s breath is very visible. In the comics childs is the alien and a whole new crew finds them and it goes to a military base. You got to read it it’s very well written

13:00 Always gets a reaction 💯🤣👽 The crew did amazing with the practical effects!

I've often wondered if two things would recognize each other. Like, they got a secret handshake or something?

Those bottles MacReady had were filled with gasoline or kerosine....he gave one to Childs and he drank it at the end and didn't even flinch...that's the giveaway.

No se si se dieron cuanta. Pero el hombre negro que sale al final tomando de la botella es la "La cosa" ya que el otro tipo le dio un cóctel molotov y no alcohol

Blair’s crazy moment was not from being the thing, that was a genuine human reaction of pure fear of the situation. At some point, Palmer, Norris, or Palmer and Norris came out to infect Blair. He was very much in the know in the beginning act, it sets up our entire view and definition of the alien.

One of the best practical effect movies ever made! And that ambiguous ending! Love it. Personally, I feel Childs was a Thing when he showed up at the end. A little contingency that Blair left just in case his fight with the survivors didn't go as planned. Great reaction y'all

They didn't remake this film. They filmed a prequel and gave it the same name as this movie. It's set in the Norwegian camp.

Carpenter said only he knows who the alien is at the end and he will never tell.

Just in general- The 1980’s were Wild!

kurt russell started as a child actor. he appeared in a "gilligan's island" episode as a jungle boy. and in an episode of "lost in space." among many other 60s tv shows. he went into hokey disney films in the 1970s. his "break out" film was in a 1979 comedy film titled "used cars" where he played completely against his squeeky clean type. its a hilarious film. check it out. also, in 1979 he played elvis in a tv movie and provided elvis' voice in "forrest gump" (1994). following "used cars" he went into his bearded, long hair period, my favorite period of his, where he filmed "escape from new york" (1981) and "the thing." both are john carpenter films. he then became an established box-office star and made many films. some real good. others not so good. "the thing" is a remake of "The Thing from Another World" (1951) which ain't so good as its just a "man-in-a-monster-suit" film. but the 1982 version is one of my favorite films but i can't really explain why. i just love it. (i have a lot of favorite films, though.) for another GREAT remake of a classic sci-fi horror film watch "the invasion of the body snatchers" (1979). in this case the original (1956) is REAL GOOD too! thanks for the video.

49:07 At the very end of this movie , you see a Husky running away from the base. That’s to let us know that one of the Things got away.

I remember watching this movie for the first time long ago still wanted to get me off all time thank you guys

All carpenter movies should be watched! Specially Assault on precinct 13, escape from New York, escape from LA, Starman, Big Trouble in little CHINA, they Live, The Fog, Eyes of Laura Mars, Prince of Darkness, and others. Carpenter resented Spielberg for ET AND it took all the money and awards. But Carpenter had the last laugh! Because this movie is much better! Carpenter made his own alien love story with Starman! Carpenter also is the master of the minimalist creepy theme music! Kurt did 4 movies with carpenter! He even did an early TV Elvis movie, for John! This is one of the 3 most important sci-fi movies ever made. Plus Alien and Bladerunner, which are all related, by actors, and some other technicalities. Also the brilliance here is, when the thing busts out, it comes out of u anywhere, any size, shape, etc. The dog trainer should have won an Oscar and the special effects guy should have won an Oscar! He was a twenty one year old college student!😮😮😮. Pro tip, carpenter is still thinking about a sequel! But there's still a massive tie in here with Alien, predator Bladerunner this , and a movie with Kurt Russell called, Soldier! They are related by the beings called Engineers, for Aliens, Terminator, predator, Bladerunner this, and a movie with Kurt Russell movie called, Soldier. Common companies, technology, Replicants, synthetic humans, beings that Engineers created, and even writers and producers! And this is why, prosthetic, robotics, special/ effects, practical effects, are way better than CGI! The three main corporations... Cyberdyne (Terminator) Weyland Corp (alien) and Tyrell Corp (Bladerunner) all did cross work for each other, and also shared some employees!😮 Kurt better have kept the hat! Also the total brilliance here is, once u have been infected, even from just a scratch, u have no idea when u are being taken over! One of the absolute must watch Carpenter films u must watch! Along with Starman, escape from New York, escape from LA, Big Trouble in little CHINA, assault on precinct 13. Go with those, and his Halloween stuff, Eyes of Laura Mars, They Live, The Fog, Christine, In the mouth of madness, prince of darkness, memoirs of an invisible man, vampires! There are critics who say this is Carpenter's version of Communism Socialism, etc , and how it takes over countries, much as a film in the 50s by the same name, i think...the special effects guy here went on to do some great movies!

Was the movie audio dialog slowed down for copyright issues?? I can tell you 100% that is not the original version

According to Carpenter, Blair wasn't an alien when he was destroying the radio room. At some point after they put him out in the shed he was turned, and able to use his larger form to clear out the tunnel and quickly build the spaceship. There's a lot of debate over whether or not Norris or Palmer turned him, or whether he was being slowly infected after touching the pencil to his lips at the autopsy, but since Carpenter says the latter was just an unexpected little moment by Wilford Brimley, not something that was planned, it was likely the former. Either Norris or Palmer got him while he was isolated.

Supposedly the video game sequel is canon. In it, it shows that Childs died of exposure a human and MacReady actually survives.

Ooooh now this is the reaction I've been waiting for 😈😈😈

It doesnt just absorb ot digest them. It also gets all the memories ans manurisims. There are no trick questions and the girl next you could be a Thing and you would never know

Oh snap! It’s Ice Spice and Freddie Gibbs ,nah but for real dope reaction to both of you you earned a new subscriber,peace

I think why the Norwegian's dialogue wasn't subtitled because it's putting the viewer in the moment. If you were there, you wouldn't know what they were saying either. We're not supposed to know. Love the reaction

51:28 Can you imagine having a story you wrote in 1948 be made into a movie 1951, then 1982, then...

I always have to wonder if they couldn't have communicated with it if they just stopped freaking out for half a second.

Another classic.

The first rule of science fiction/horror from Frankenstein on down- scientists gonna science. Of course the Americans had to carry the Thing back to their basecamp for examination, just like the Norwegians had to dig it out of the ice in the first place. If not for such decisions there wouldn't be any movies like The Thing, Alien, The Terminator or all the others. Great reaction, new to the channel and I subbed, thanks. Btw I don't think Blair was a Thing all along- I think somebody went out to the tool shed and thinged him there. Why else would the outer locked door be open? The ice tunneling Blair Thing didn't need it open. I'm guessing it was whoever Fuchs chased into the night and who entered MacReady's shack to steal his name tagged longjohns, tellingly leaving the lights on inside. Don't know who that was tho, maybe Palmer or could've been Norris, who we know for sure were both things.

Blair wasn't the alien all along. It happened when he was locked in. As to how people get duplicated (NOT infected) the film showed you how twice before.

The Antarctic research station maintained a team of huskies because a dog sled team is the most efficient way to travel through snow and ice over a perpetually frozen landscape.

No one ever notices how Blair is elbowdeep the alien during the autopsy. Thats the most likely when he was contaminated. He was wearing gloves but watch what he was doing with his pencil too. It didnt overtake him immediately so you dont know what was him or the alien. You think hes trying to keep them from leaving but its a misdirect so he can be secluded from the others on purpose.

The film got us out of our cinema seats a few times in 1982. A really good John Carpenter just like The Fog, The Rattlesnake and a few others. Like the previous speaker, I recommend the 1951 template “The Thing from Another World”. A film in b/w,but good films don't need a lot of blood and RGB but rather a coherent concept and 1951 has this in particular. By the way, the whole thing was without any CGI. What do you think of the idea that Blair was already infected and used his "killing spree" to be separated so that he could then build the missile in peace and alone?

one of the greatest movies ever

I own the 1st ed of the book that this story originated from. John W. Campbell wrote the original story "Who Goes There." Shasta. 1948. The cynically funny part is that the owner of the book got a rejection letter thar he saved when Campbell was an editor.

For something a little different, check out Airplane which was made in 1980. (check out the trailer!) Yes, it was a PG13 movie LMAO.

The music makes rhis film. Its awesome

If only the crew knew the crazy pilot was saying before he was killed, it would have saved them a lot of bloodshed and heartache: He was saying in Norwegian: ""Get the hell away! It's not a dog! It's imitating a dog! It's not real! Get away, idiots!" Those who lived in Norway or spoke the language had the plot spoiled immediately.

Mcready was the one infecting people with the liquor bottle the entire movie

Hello! I love seeing you, greetings from Mexico City, I don't know English very well but I am translating this message, take care of yourselves! I love you 💕

this is part one of carpenters "apocalypse trilogy " part two is prince of darkness ,and part three is in the mouth of madness ! you really should check them out !

The one from 2011 is like a prequel showing what happened to the Norwegian team.

"Alien" was released in 1979.

Blair was human until they locked him in the tool shed. After that the Thing just waited for it's chance to stroll out there and change him cuz it knew he was stuck out there. That's an easy meal and it erased Blair, who was probably it's most dangerous enemy outside of MacReady 😵😵

Childs was the thing if you go back he says he doesn’t drink in earlier parts of the movie. Mac tested him by offering a drink and Childs failed he was the thing but both the thing and mac froze because neither had the energy to fight.

Kurt Russel is best know for his role as Snake Pliskin in Escape from New York. "Snake Pliskin....I thought you were dead." Just a heads up, you don't need to change the sound speed. Copyright law allows you to critique a movie if you are doing is as you are, in bits and pieces. Just be sure to not include any music, as that is RU-vid's policy to block any of that. But, reviewing a movie is fine. I'm not 100% sure how long each segment can be, but a few seconds here and there will suffice. 10:27 Probably smells better than my neighbors cooking. 28:20 He chose them because Blair told MacCready to "watch Clark" Blair asked Clark, "how long were you alone with that dog?" Garry and Doc are the only two people who had the key to the blood. Doc thought up the experiment, so Garry is most suspect. But, MacCready is taking no chances. Basically, they are the most sus. 36:51 I cut my thumb a few times, not even that deep. And let me tell you, that doesn't stop bleeding. You'd be surprised how much blood comes out of a cut to your thumb. So, this is totally fake. 39:49 They got infected because they let that dog wander around the camp for a few days unattended. Remember when it went into the room and the shadow of somebody turned around? 41:02 Remember the dog creature the busted its way through the ceiling of the dog kennel. They never found it or burnt it. Most likely that is what got Blair. 47:44 At the end, MacCready has a bottle of Jim Beam. He offers it to Childs and Childs drinks from it without a thought. If you were worried that MacCready was infected, you wouldn't drink out of the same bottle as him......unless, Child was already infected and therefore it didn't matter if he drank from the same bottle or not.

just an fyi, the noise it was making in the dog kennel is common here in south louisiana. we hear it a lot.

My favorite horror movie of all time. I first saw a bit of this when I was just eight years old. It was the dog scene and, needless to say, it absolutely freaked me out. I saw it again when I was fifteen and I've probably watched it well over a hundred times. John Carpenter gave us so many great movies, including two bonafide classics: this and Halloween. The "remake" is actually a prequel that tells the story of the Norwegian camp. I don't think it's as bad as most say, but it does have a lot of not so good CGI.

The Norwegians actually went and made the prequel

Blair said mumtiple.times he heard this is out there while he was locked up oit there. Blair wasn't originally infected. Until likely the last night when thw alien went to gt him

ONE OF THE GREATEST SCI-FI HORROR MOVIES EVER!!

4:51, I've heard that the guy is saying in Norwegian "Its not a dog, its a thing!". But unfortunately none of these guys speak Norwegian.

I have one Question i would like everyone to answer ! Who is the third guy at the crash site ? 18:42 shows three men but only 2 went ! How do i know when they get back to camp Norris and MacReady are the only ones who know anything the two tall guys Childs and gary are asking questions like they wasn't there ! So who was it ?

You guys will like Escape From NY. Same director and had Kurt Russel again and Issac Hayes

Also react to the film THE THING (2011). In this it tells the events in the other camp before the dog.

If you want to see what happened at the Norwegian camp, you should watch the 2011 prequel.

THIS MOVIE SCARES ME SO MUCH I HAVE SEEN IT WHEN I WAS ELEVEN YEARS OLD

Blair wasn't the alien the whole time. Blair was finally the alien. Maybe the alien, in the form of one of the guys, came out to him and told him, "Hey we've voted to let you come back," then struck as soon as it got close.

It wasn't a remake, it was a prequel. In other words, what happened at the Norwegian base.

ET came out a couple of weeks before this which is why it didn't do high numbers at the box office

Just stumbled across you guys. Great reaction. Hit the sub and rang the bell.

@ about 12:45, I'm thinking, ''Okay, here we go!''