REVIEW: Why You Don't Remake "The Thing"

[scottwoods]

Part of what made the 1982 version of “The Thing” cool was the way it started: opening shot of an Antarctic landscape, a screaming Norwegian in a helicopter firing a rifle at an innocent dog making its way through mounds of snow to find solace at a nearby camp of Americans. We don’t know why the man is shooting at the dog. We don’t know why he’s

Comments

[wonderdave]

I was wary. Thank you for confirming my suspicions. Will I want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon over the DVD version? We shall see. Will I go rent the old version again. yes.

[stefan11]

Re rental -- funny, Scott's review will do it to you.

I used to see it like 15 times as it was a staple of the late night TV long time ago, when I did not have a cable.

[stefan11]

(*) ... sort of like "Alien"
both SF and horror, but more horror than SF.