The Thing
Dir. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Year: 2011
Aus Rating: MA15+
Running Time: 103mins
Enter any debate about “original versus remake” and John Carpenter’s
The Thing will inevitably arise. It’s a proverbial trump card in any argument with anybody who says remakes are never better than the original. Carpenter’s 1982 remake of
The Thing from Another Planet is a pulse-racing, terrifying, claustrophobic horror-thriller that featured (quite literally) out of this world make-up and visual effects that remain as gruesomely effective today as they were then. So, in this day and age of ad nauseum remakes it’s a pleasant surprise to see the filmmakers of the latest version of
The Thing have actually gone down the road of making a prequel rather than an out and out remake.
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