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Finally, realizing how pervasive the infection is and that there is little chance for survival, it is proposed that they blow up the base so the Thing can't get to the rest of the world. Childs runs off, and MacReady, Nauls and Garry set fire to the complex with dynamite to prevent the Thing from freezing itself again. In venturing down into the basement of the camp to set TNT charges, Garry is killed by the infected Blair.

The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film that was released on June 25, 1982. June 25, 1982.

[Editor's Note: Stan Winston designed the dog-related special effects.] • Carpenter: I'm always concerned about safety, so any time you set somebody on fire jeez. We also held our breath every time the actors used [flamethrowers]. [Laughs] These things shoot gasoline and are on fire! And these are actors. You just don't know. They might turn around to ask you a question and burn you up. We trained the actors to put out the fire during the scene in the dog kennel.

The team also watches a videotape of the Norwegian team working at a remote location, using Thermite to uncover an object in the ice. The following day, MacReady flies with Palmer and Norris to the site where the Norwegians were working. They find an alien spaceship in the open crater and haul themselves down to look around. Mac asks Norris how long the ship has been entombed; Norris estimates that it's been there for at least 100,000 years. Up above the crash site, they find a block of the ice cap missing where the thing was discovered and removed by the Norwegians.

Numerous publications have ranked it as one of the best science fiction films, including number four by (2016); number 12 by (2018); number 17 by (2018); number 31 by (2018); number 32 by (2015) and (2017); and number 76 by (2017) based on its average review score. Similarly, The Thing has appeared on several lists of the top horror films, including number one by; number two by (2018); number four by Empire (2016); and number six by (2016). Empire listed its poster as the 43rd best film poster ever. In 2016, the named it one of 10 great films about aliens visiting Earth. It was voted the ninth best horror film of all time in a Rolling Stone readers poll, and is considered one of the best examples of. Contemporary review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes offers an 84% approval rating from 61 critics—an average rating of 7.4/10, which provides the consensus, 'Grimmer and more terrifying than the 1950s take, John Carpenter's The Thing is a tense sci-fi thriller rife with compelling tension and some remarkable make-up effects.' The film also has a score of 57 out of 100 on based on 13 critical reviews, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'.

The only indication of Nauls' fate is sealed by a lone noise MacReady hears from the other underground chamber. Alone, MacReady prepares to detonate the charges when the, larger than ever, emerges from beneath the floor and destroys the detonator. MacReady attacks it with a stick of dynamite, which sets off the rest of the charges and destroys Blair and the entire facility.

Carrington becomes obsessed with the alien. In the lab, he shows Nicholson and the other scientists an experiment: using seeds taken from the severed arm, he has grown plants by feeding them from the station's reserves. Hendry finds the plasma missing when it is needed to treat Stern, leading him to confront Nicholson, whose notes lead back to Carrington. Fogarty sends orders to keep the alien alive, but it escapes from the greenhouse and attacks the airmen in their quarters. They douse it in kerosene, burning it and forcing its retreat. As soon as the camp regroups, they realize that the temperature is falling rapidly—the furnaces have stopped working, sabotaged by the creature.

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Developed in an era of tensions between the United States and the, the film refers to the threat of nuclear annihilation. Diabolique 's Daniel Clarkson Fisher notes that MacReady destroys the chess computer after being, and similarly vows to destroy the Thing, even at the expense of the team. The Cold War-style isolationism hurts the group, while a lack of trust destroys it.

The story follows the events after the Norwegian team discovers the Thing. Although released years apart, and unrelated in terms of plot, characters, crew, or even production studios, Carpenter considers The Thing to be the first installment in his 'Apocalypse Trilogy', a series of films based around, entities unknown to man, that are threats to both human life and the sense of self. The Thing was followed by in 1987, and in 1995.

Matthijs's film takes place right before the first film, and focuses on the original that discovered the alien. Paleontologist (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) joins a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across a crashed extraterrestrial spaceship buried in the ice of. They discover a creature that seems to have died in the crash eons ago.

The team attempt to unbury the craft using explosives, destroying it. However, their detects a frozen body buried nearby, which is excavated in a block of ice. Returning with the ice block as a storm moves in, Hendry assumes command. He denies Scott permission to send a story, and denies the scientists' demands to examine the specimen. Tex sends an update to Fogarty, and the airmen settle in. A watch is posted; Barnes relieves McPherson and, disturbed by the creature's appearance, covers it with an which he does not realize is plugged in.

It's only personality comes form what it has assimilated. — Preceding comment added by ( • ) 22:24, 9 December 2018 (UTC) Ending speculation by HAL333 [ ] wishes to include speculation in the article that paints the deliberately ambiguous ending in a certain light. That is that Childs is the Thing because MacReady's bottle of Whiskey is actually a molotov cocktail (despite having no fuse) and that despite knowing everything the assimilated knows such that they can perfectly imitate them, they won't know what Whiskey should taste like. It's a theory, it's also entirely speculation and the only thing we see in the film for definite is that MacReady hands Childs a whiskey bottle and it ends with neither knowing who is the Thing. Two of the sources HAL333 has used to support the inclusion of this theory are WhatCulture and ScreenPrism, neither of which are reliable sources and the one that is reliable, the Huffpost article here, specifically has Kurt Russell ignoring the theory entirely and asserting the ending is only about the ambiguity between the two men.

•: When we meet MacReady, he loses a game of chess to the computer, accuses it of being a 'cheating bitch', and then pours whiskey into the CPU. - which is what he does at the end of the movie, burning down the camp in order to deny the Thing victory. This was noted in an article in Script Magazine. •: Although for once this is actually a rather sensible policy, given that the 'corpse' is a really contagious alien organism.

In venturing down into the basement of the camp to set TNT charges, Garry is killed by the infected Blair. Nauls disappears and is never seen again. MacReady comes face-to-face with the huge, tentacle Blair/Thing, which destroys his detonator.

Kate eventually manages to pursue and kill the monster and heavily damages the ship to be beyond any repair. After reuniting with Carter, Kate resolved herself to catch him off guard and incinerated him when he is discovered that his earring he previously wore was missing and pointed to the wrong ear when confronted. When Carter was set aflame he emitted an inhuman scream, another evidence that Carter was The Thing.

Recovered Norwegian data leads the Americans to a large excavation site containing a partially buried alien spacecraft, and a smaller, human-sized dig site. Norris estimates that the alien ship has been buried for at least 100,000 years. Blair grows paranoid that the creature could assimilate all life on Earth in a matter of years. The station implements controls to reduce the risk of assimilation. The 'dead', malformed humanoid creature assimilates an isolated Bennings, but Windows interrupts the process and MacReady burns the Bennings-Thing. Blair sabotages all the vehicles, kills the remaining sled dogs, and destroys the radio to prevent escape.

•: A painful-looking variation by Blair. •: Ah, the flamethrower. •: In theory, all it takes is one Thing cell to infect someone. Alan Dean Foster, in, seemed to think this is implausible, and has Blair talk in detail on the subject.

With the assimilation of Blair happening in this manner, imitation Blair can carefully remove the floor boards and dig underneath the shed, freely scavenge for parts from the helicopter, tractor, and communications room that Blair destroyed to thwart the creature (ironic) to build the small ship located there because the crew thinks he is securely locked in his shed with no way out. The rest of the group are awaiting Fuchs to devise a new blood serum test to reveal who is infected, and the crew that are not suspected of being infected are watching Garry, Doc Copper and Clark while drugging them with morphine periodically. It’s not likely that anyone human visited Blair once they had him drugged during the night of his blowup and once they drugged him initially the next day in the toolshed. It locks from the outside and is boarded up from the outside, and as MacReady states in day 6, a major winter storm has been going on for 48 hours. Day 5: Presumably, the same and/or similar events to day 4 have occurred.

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If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it's won. • We're gonna draw a little bit of everybody's blood. 'cause we're gonna find out who's The Thing. Watching Norris in there gave me the idea that maybe every part of you bastards is a whole.

The dog runs toward an American research base, Outpost 31, where a 12-man research crew is getting ready for the upcoming winter. The helicopter, which they see is from a Norwegian research base, flies in and lands. The Americans watch puzzled as two men that emerge from the helicopter jabber frantically in their native language. One of them pulls the pin on a grenade but clumsily throws it behind him. As he frantically tries to find it in the snow, it explodes, killing him and taking the helicopter with it. The pilot (named Matias in the prequel) is shooting his rifle hysterically and talking frantically; no one can understand what he is saying and the man shoots Bennings (Peter Maloney) in his left leg.

Problems playing this file? Composed the film's score, as Carpenter wanted The Thing to have a European musical approach. Carpenter flew to Rome to speak with Morricone to convince him to take the job. By the time Morricone flew to Los Angeles to record the score, he had already developed a tape filled with an array of synthesizer music because he was unsure what type of score Carpenter wanted. Morricone wrote complete separate orchestral and synthesizer scores and a combined score, which he knew was Carpenter's preference. Carpenter picked a piece, closely resembling his own scores, that became the main theme used throughout the film.

Dog Beasts Thing beast that similar with mutated form of Lar's dog as both formerly has assimilated dogs. But unlike the latter, Dog Beasts still retain their limbs (though the said bodyparts also mutated to the point where they could support their weight as well as enable them to run at the tremendous speed). Ruptures They are form of huge Things that take up an entire room or even be part of the room integrated into the architecture. Typically, they have human forms imbedded in them and attack with tentacles, teeth and fluids. They are immobile and are confined to the location in which they are met, which made them vulnerable due to unable to avoid their enemies' attacks.

One abandoned idea included a series of dead baby monsters, which was deemed 'too gross'. Bottin admitted he had no idea how his designs would be implemented practically, but Carpenter did not reject them. Carpenter said, 'what I didn't want to end up with in this movie was a guy in a suit. I grew up as a kid watching science-fiction monster movies, and it was always a guy in a suit.' According to Cundey, Bottin was very sensitive about his designs, and worried about the film showing too many of them. At one point, as a preemptive move against any censorship, Bottin suggested making the creature's violent transformations and the appearance of the internal organs more fantastical using colors.

They ran in and put it out. They actually put out the fire too quickly.

Blair: [showing the remains of the dog-thing to the entire camp] You see, what we're talkin' about here is an organism that imitates other life-forms, and it imitates 'em perfectly. When this thing attacked our dogs it tried to digest them. Absorb them, and in the process shape its own cells to imitate them. This for instance. That's not dog. It's imitation.

A sled dog appears at their Outpost, pursued by two apparently insane Norwegians in a helicopter. After a brief gunfight, the Norwegians are killed and the dog taken into the base.

But on this occasion, it seemed necessary. These things did not look like puppets. They were hideous. I mean, the dogs in the movie — the real dogs — were nice to be around. But the creatures that that kid Rob created were horrible!

While Windows (Thomas G. Waites) and Bennings prepare the room to store the remains recovered from the Norwegian base, it begins to move under the blanket it's been covered with. Windows returns to the room to find Bennings being attacked, wrapped in tentacles. Windows gets the other team members but Bennings has vanished, running out the back door. They find him in the snow, his transformation by the alien nearly complete except for his hands, which are hideously large and grotesque shapes. Mac and the team incinerate him alive and bury his charred body in the snow.

•: There really is not a word other than 'The Thing' to call it, because no one even really knows what it is. It is capable of perfectly replicating anything it has ever come in contact with, and every single cell of its body is a separate, hostile organism. It's so utterly alien that people aren't even sure if it has a true form or not, even the huge, grotesque monstrosity it forms in the end.

Was 'timely' for him, meaning he could make it 'true to [his] day' as Hawks had in his time. Carpenter, a fan of Hawks's adaptation, paid homage to it in Halloween, and he watched The Thing from Another World several times for inspiration before filming began. Carpenter and cinematographer first worked together on Halloween, and The Thing was their first big-budget project for a.

• 'If I was an imitation, a perfect imitation, how would you know if it was really me?' • 'Is there some kinda test, Doc?' • 'Well, yeah, possibly.

Special effects transformations were 'let loose on us by the bucketful, and satiation rather than horror is the result'. Stomach-turning special effects. There was grudging general agreement that the special effects, though 'far too gory'. Were amazing, but this went hand in hand with an evident distrust of their presence in the first place. Special effects, according to the received critical wisdom, are cheap stunts with no integrity. They pander to the baser instincts of the vulgar crowd and, if they involve blood, they're especially tasteless and unnecessary.'

When attacked, your blood will try and survive — and crawl away from a hot needle, say. • [on finding a partially-assembled spaceship beneath the tool shed] Blair's been busy out here all by himself. • [the Thing roars at MacReady] YEAH, FUCK YOU TOO!!! [throws stick of dynamite] Others [ ] • Clark: I don't know what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is. • Garry: [after passing the blood test] I know you gentlemen have been through a lot. But when you find the time. I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!

Possibly it was intending to play dead in both cases but was forced into action by the defibrillator shocks and in the other case by an opportunity to attack a large group at once. Griggs-Thing In another feat of reasoning a Thing destroyed a test that would have lead to its exposure, demonstrating awareness of biology and medical practices that would have exposed it. Interestingly, the second time this same method was proposed as a test the Thing had seemingly preempted the idea, this despite the fact that the Thing that had arrived at the second base was spawned long before the first test was thought of and was in a non-human form.

In certain cases after discovery or high chance of discovery, The Thing will sometimes perform 'divide and conquer' tactics, as in the case of the assimilated Edward which split up into three separate forms: One on his hand quickly detaches and animated itself before engaged and began assimilating Jonas, another limb scuttled away soon after detaching for potential assimilation in a safer location, and the main body of the Edvard thing killed Derek and successfully assimilated Adam Finch, resulting a form of The Thing named Split-Face. This is also performed, albeit much less successfully, by the Norris-Thing. When exposed, Things will react depending on how big they are compared to the threat. Smaller Things will generally attempt to escape and ambush prey when the individual is more vulnerable. However, a larger Thing will usually attack prey head on and attempt to overwhelm any hostiles instead of escaping, although if it has not completely lost its cover it will attempt to flee. In terms of intelligence, The Thing's intelligence depends on the size of their manifestations: Smaller ones are quite stupid, dimwitted, nonsensical and reckless while the larger ones, especially those who imitate a human are quite cunning, manipulative and formidably calculating.

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MacReady is then forced to torch Windows with the other flame thrower, since he is now infected and the Thing is coming back through him. MacReady and the three remaining survivors, Childs, Garry, and Nauls (T.K. Carter) are revealed to be not infected. While ordering Childs to stay behind to watch the camp, MacReady, Garry and Nauls go to check on Blair to give him the blood test, and discover the shed empty, save for a space craft Blair had been building under the shed.

Along with the films of David Cronenberg, The Thing is one of the prime texts to explore the themes of bodily invasion that pervade horror and sci-fi movies of that decade. It is one of the first films to unflinchingly show the rupture and warp of flesh and bone into grotesque tableaus of surreal beauty, forever raising the bar of cinematic horror.' --Paleface Jack 17:52, 19 February 2018 (UTC) Thanks Jack. / 18:46, 20 February 2018 (UTC) No problem.--Paleface Jack 18:59, 20 February 2018 (UTC) There seems to be a lot of similarities with the X-Parasites of Metroid Fusion, so it might be appropriate to add it to the video game references sentence towards the bottom of the article. — Preceding comment added by () 14:58, 29 March 2018 (UTC).