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Published: 2007-07-12 08:00:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 72435; Favourites: 1998; Downloads: 900
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My tribute to one of the greatest horror films ever made, John Carpenter's 1982 version of "The Thing".This is easily Carpenter's best film. All the elements - the writing, direction, acting, special effects, and music work together perfectly. It's got the fear of isolation AND paranoia, and some of the most brilliantly insane horror sequences ever put on film - thanks to Rob Bottin who, like Carpenter, was also doing the best work of his whloe career here. A perfect movie by any standard.
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When I first saw this film (at my relative's house), they were just channel-flipping and we came upon the near end of the film. Specifically, it was where we find Blair assimilating the one guy, and then MacReady's final confrontation with the Thing (of course, this being the "for television" version, they bleeped out Kurt Russel's "YEAH, FUCK YOU, TOO!"). Even this tantalizing glimpse into John Carpenter's sci-fi horror masterpiece scared the heck out of me.
Having seen the full film in my later years, I can honestly say Carpenter got robbed by Spielberg's own alien-themed movie.
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This is one of my favorites. An excellent film, I think!
The composition captures the highlights of the film very well.
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Watch Director's commentary as well : )
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Thanks for your kind words!
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This is so terrible I put it in my favorites. Great fan art!
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Totally joking about it being terrible, it's obviously not. I just have a bizarre sense of humor.
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This my all time favorite art and one of the best movies great job man
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My #1 favorite horror movie of all time! Now this is freaking amazing!! The colors, the details, everything about it! I love it! If this was sold as a shirt, I would get this so fast! XD I also agree with everything you said about this movie, the characters, effects are just amazing! I love your artwork on this! I'm such a horror movie fanatic!! XD By the way, what were your thoughts of the 2011 version? (If you saw it XD) I actually really liked it in my opinion.
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I can hear that score in my head while looking at it.
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I'm not sure if you're aware, but there is a facebook page called "The Thing Club", selling a tshirt with this artwork on it. Thanks to a comment on the post, I was finally able to find out who they stole it from.
I just want to say, I really do like this piece, and would love to have it on a shirt, but I do not support art thieves. I'd rather get it straight from you, if at all possible.
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Thanks so much for letting me know. I will look into it. Any comments posted there, from friends like you, will be much appreciated.
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Awesome! I just watched the new movie Harbinger Down because I love The Thing and it's heavily influenced by that movie. Cool pic!
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I watched both the original (1982) and the prequel (2011) and my first thought was: so that is where the idea for necromorphs came from. (Fantastic job.)
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The concept goes back way further than that. Actually the idea of shape-shifting aliens that can make themselves look like a perfect flesh and blood imitation of any living thing, was first introduced by H.P. Lovecraft. In several of his stories there are these monsters called Shoggoths - which are essentially the same thing as The Thing. Check out Lovecraft's novel "At the Mountains of Madness" as probably the best example of what Shoggoths are all about... This novel was the obvious inspiration for "Who Goes There" by John Campbell, which was the inspiration for The Thing.
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hmm, I see. so, again, lovecraft is the source of another nightmarish creature. plus, that is a funny name shoggoths. but will have to check that out. thanks for the info.
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I used to be scared of this movie but it took some time and I've finally got over my fear and I did like the black and white version and yeah the plot was different from the book and the 2011 prequel was pretty awesome the first time I saw that I had to brace myself cuz I still get nervous seeing a new scary movie.
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one of the greatest monster movies of all time. Everyone in the cast was fantastic. And the special effects were fantastic.
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Few movies can match the brilliant, yet nightmarish visuals of the Thing.
Though I always wondered why the titular monsters insisted on performing such messy, gory mutations? Maybe it actually uses it as a defense mechanism, keeping its enemies too petrified by fear to hurt.
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Cause it looks cool that way! Haha.
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i wonder what the movie would be about if it was called
the thang (slang for thing)
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probably the same thang, but in the geto.
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i bet it would be full of ghetto
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I wish that was a movie know.
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This is my absolute favorite horror film ever made.
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"I take every failure hard. The one I took the hardest was The Thing. My career would have been different if that had been a big hit. ..The movie was hated. Even by science-fiction fans. They thought that I had betrayed some kind of trust, and the piling on was insane. Even the original movie's director, Christian Nyby, was dissing me."
-John Carpenter on the reception of The Thing
ET hit theaters around the same time, and perhaps people were more interested in family friendly alien visitation at the time. Either way, The Thing is damn fine film.
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Very awesome drawing to one of the best sci-fi/horror movies of all time.
I don't consider John Carpenter's The Thing to be a "remake" of The Thing From Another World because they are completely different films. They use the same source material, which comes from a short story entitled Who Goes There, but the movies take different directions with that material and are nothing alike because of it. I would consider Carpenter's version to be a remake if he had tried to reinvent the 1951 film and borrowed aspects from it, but he did not.
A remake to me is The Blob or Hills have Eyes because they uses the same plots, takes aspects from it, and what not. Carpenter didn't do that. He made his own movie. He did not remake The Thing From Another World, which is why, and I repeat, they are entirely different films with different themes.
In 1951, Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby made a film called "The Thing from Another World" and it was the first adaptation of the novella "Who Goes There" and it was a terrible terrible adaptation that hardly resembles anything like the book, there never was a film called "The Thing" in 1951.
In 1982 John Carpenter unleashed a film called The Thing, sure there were 2 homages to the Howard Hawks film like the similar title card sequence and circle of men but everything about the 2 films like the location (one in the north pole and the other being the south), the characters, the discovery and origin of the spaceship, the discovery of the alien, the nature/methods of the alien including the monster itself (one is a humanoid plant frankenstein alien being that has only one form being that as it could reproduce itself/suck blood but it wasn't the shapeshifting bodysnatching being that imitated anyone or any creature like the actual "thing" in the novel where the other creature is a organism that could imitate other lifeforms by cell structure) etc. are worlds apart from each other.
I consider them 2 separate and completely different adaptations of the same original source material "Who Goes There", the 1951 film was the first adaptation of it as it was quite a good movie but in truth it was a terrible terrible adaptation and Carpenter sticked closely. Carpenter has stated that it's not a remake but it is it's own independent film and a separate adaptation.
Calling The Thing a "remake" is like saying every Dracula film is a "remake" of Nosferatu 1922 or Dracula 1931 or saying I Am Legend is a "remake" of Omega Man or saying Omega Man is a "remake" of Last Man on Earth, NO they are all separate adaptations of the same original source materials as even the I Am Legend movies have nothing to do with each other and very different from each other too.
I consider remakes and re-adaptations to be 2 separate things, remakes are only for those based on original films and original screenplays not based on source material like say The Blob for example which is a TRUE remake. Re-adaptations are based on source material (books/comics/novellas) like say The Thing, Dracula, I Am Legend, Girl with Dragon Tattoo, Carrie etc.
This film is the quintessential faithful adaptation of the novella
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I love all 3 movie versions of The Thing.
The original 1951 version is a classic, with some great scares (even if the physical appearance of James Arness as the walking vegetable Frankenstein leaves something to be desired). Plus I'm a Howard Hawks fan and the human characters in the original have that great, rapid Hawksian dialogue banter. It's like His Girl Friday in the Antarctic with a monster from outer space trying to kill you... I LOVE that vibe.
John Carpenter's 1982 remake of The Thing is simply one of the greatest horror films ever made, and easily Carpenter's best film. All the elements - the writing, direction, acting, special effects, and music work together perfectly. One of my all-time favorite movies.
I went into the 2011 Thing prequel with very low expectations, but ended up enjoying it a lot, too. It not only does a beautiful job of recreating the world of Carpenter's film but also answers questions and offers explanations to many of the Carpenter film's most tantalizing mysteries - the origin of the melty two- faced monster being the best of them.
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Carpenter's film was NOT a "remake" it's a different movie, it was a remake in name only, it wasn't the same as the first movie. Even Tobey Kenneth agrees that the film should had not been called "the Thing" but "Who Goes There" and that he said "Carpenter is smarter than that and he should had never used references to my film".
They are 2 separate completely different movies
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Okay well maybe you and Tobey Kenneth should go yell at Carpenter about this, instead of me!!
Sorry, but I am not an English teacher. Quibbling over different peoples' definitions of the word "remake" doesn't interest me very much. I just love The Thing!
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While some of the stylistic tendencies of the 80's it was accused of at the time hold true in the 2010's, it is one of the few films where genuine terror and desperation can be felt in both the audience viewer and those characters for which the actors conveyed. The special effects were at best minor and nowhere near as overly-grandiose as those of that era, they fit the scene and atmosphere perfectly.
Your work was impeccable, a grand tribute to such an overlooked cult classic. Perhaps my only criticism I can offer you, the artist, is that the dog in my opinion was less animalistic then you have allocated such time to convey. I felt that you could've offered a higher degree of terror from that part of the piece, but overall it is fantastically done.
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I just draw and it turns out, however it turns out. Thank you very much for your equal-parts very flattering and somewhat bizarrely heady analysis. I would enjoy hearing your thoughts on any of my other images.
I would only disagree with your opinion that Carpenter's The Thing was overlooked. I am old enough to remember when this film was actually a new release playing in theaters. It may have tanked at the box office (Speilberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial was out at the same time and people were a little more taken with "nice" alien life forms at the moment), but from the start the talk about The Thing among monster movie fans and the discussion in the scifi and horror fan magazines was pretty positive. Genre fans seemed to recognize right away that this was a modern classic that had flown right over the heads of the general public.
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