“The Thing is a uninspired though full of splatter movie. Same setting, title, story of the original with nothing new or inspiring to fans of the original.”
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen
Screenwriter: Eric Heisserer
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Jonathan Lloyd Walker, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Eric Olsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Paul Braunstein, Trond Espen Selm, Jorgen Langhelle
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for strong creature violence and gore, disturbing images, and violence)
Official Website: TheThingmovie.net
Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller "The Thing," paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet.
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up.
When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.
"The Thing" serves as a prelude to John Carpenter’s classic 1982 film of the same name.
EN 5 Second Review: This is a uninspired though full of splatter movie. Same setting, title, story of the original with nothing new or inspiring to fans of the original. That said if you have not seen the original it is good enough horror fare.
Trailer:
Clip:
Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) gives Sam (Joel Edgerton) an offer.
Feature:
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton and the filmmakers discuss how their movie ties into John Carpenter’s original.
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