How come after all these years there's still not a single movie monster that could top The Thing in sheer terror and and repulsiveness?
I'd rather be locked up in a room with all Serial Killers and Urban Monsters that exist than to know The Thing actually exists.
t. 12-year-old
>>69972994
>Fucking non aggressively adaptive species meatbag
>GET OUT REEEEEEEE
I didn't ask for your age faggot.
it's that weird head monster, man
fucking odd as hell and twice as creepy
when this movie is shown on reg. TV, they cut this scene out
love when the one character shouts "what the fuck is that?!??!?!"
>>69973262
He said "You've got to be fucking kidding"
>>69973262
>what the fuck is that?!??!?!
That character is named Palmer, and he neither shouts nor says that.
He is the first to see it and, barely above a mutter, stupified, says, "You gotta be fucking kidding..."
Watch the fucking movie.
>>69972994
bitch pls
obviously you don't read mangas
>>69973773
>not posting the body of naked women form
>>69973813
Now is not the time to fap
That comes later.
>>69973342
Even better that he was a thing at the time.
Which raises the question: are things so devious they will sell out other things for their own cover, or do things even know they are things?
>>69973773
>fucking Gantz of all things
Nigger kill yourself.
>>69973773
>reading
>chinese cartoons
>black and white
why haven't you killed yourself yet?
Starcraft Zerg got their inspiration from Aliens and The Thing.
>>69973309
>>69973342
I fucking love you guys. This is one of my favorite movies, and that was my knee-jerk reaction.
>>69974038
No the inspiration was from Tyranids in Warhammer.
>>69973262
The head monster is kind of cute. All the other things want to kill people but the head just kind of wants to get out of there and chill on its own. And then fucking Palmer (who's already a thing) goes and betrays it like a cunt. I feel for the head.
>>69973979
>>69973946
>>69974038
WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE?
>>69974247
Gantz is fucking shit m8. You are the only one on this entire website that actually thinks it's good
>Ayy Lmao Hitler Alien
>>69974300
I'm not that anon and I like it, it's ultraviolent and has girls with huge tits, that is enough to satisfy my basic interests.
Reminder that he pours the drink INSIDE the computer, not on the keyboard like some nigger once said.
>>69973939
Yes
>>69973773
goddamn fucking weebs always ruining the thread gtfo here ya putz
>>69973773
Its just an inside out person with big fangs?
I guess its scary for a 8 year old to read black and white spooky motionless horror with no room for imagination or terror of the unknown when its all being drawn there.
>>69973773
Genuine basic scary skeletor, oh I'm lafin at your weeb art.
>>69975556
Fucking, generic*
>>69972994
The stuff from Alien and Prometheus gets close IMO. Prometheus may have disappointed, but the goo and various creatures that come from it creeped me out very well.
>>69973773
Nah, monsters in Gantz aren't scary at all. At the end of the manga, characters have extremely powerful weapons that can kill anything so monsters aren't much of a threat.
>>69973309
The guy who said that was himself a thing. Even the thing freaks itself out.
>>69972994
Creepiest movie I've ever seen.
Sucks that Hollywood is not able to top this like you said
>>69974876
>not bringing a Nintendo gameboy to Antarctica
that's his fault
>>69975599
hello reddi.t
>>69973262
I loved when he shouted that too, then Macready screams "Get the hell down you onery sons of a bitch!", then blows the spider head sky high with his taped rifle/flamethrower.
>>69973773
dumb weaboo
>>69975195
>>69972994
Because The Thing attacks so many of our fears. It drives paranoia, you don't who is infected until it's too late, and it manifests itself in such horrible ways.
I've seen scarier movies but I swear to god I've never seen anything with better gore. It's not just the fact that it remains gross to this day, it's how creative it is in its nastiness. I showed it to my 15 y/o cousin and the scene when thedog's head splits in halfand the part wherethe guys arms get taken off as he goes to use the defibrillatorgot genuine 'WHAT THE FUCK's out of him. Great stuff.
Del Toro just blew a big load writing about the Thing on twitter
>>69974165
You should maybe look up what Tyranids looked like before StarCraft.
>>69972994
The thing about the Thing is that it's just terrifying in so many different ways.
Obviously, its really creepy and repulsive to look at. But it doesn't really have a "true form" either, so it never really loses its shock value. It always assumes some new horrifying appearance every time we see it.
Then there's the paranoia factor. You never know who is/isn't a thing. You yourself could be a thing and wouldn't know it until you start transforming, which is arguably the scariest aspect of the Thing.
Finally, there's the existential terror of just how effective the Thing is at assimilating everything. If it had landed pretty much anywhere but Antarctica, the entire Earth would have been fucked.
Never experienced a holy fucking shit moment like channel surfing and landing on the defibrillator scene
>>69976640
I was like 8 years old when I saw it... I swear it really changed my life forever.
>>69976360
just checked his twitter.
He posts more about Carpenter films than he does his own projects. Yet another reason to love pappy McPoyle.
>>69976962
He's mostly just been gushing about Carpenter the past few days. The rest of the time he's gushing about a variety of movies, artists, comic books, and whatever else he likes. Pretty excellent selections too.
It was an ingenious choice to have the creature look different every time really.
The audience is never allowed to get accustomed to a certain look or beast so every time it reveals itself its ugly and unpleasant in a whole new way.
Also here is the obligatory post of the video no Thing Thread is complete without.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wolVJV5tNqM
>>69973773
All I remember about Gantz is I would use my left hand to click back on the progress bar to loop nude scenes to jerk off, as soon as I came I lost all interest.
Dumb show, kill yourself.
>>69972994
It's a reddit movie.
>>69977377
go back to 4chan, kid
>>69977654
>he unironically thinks that The Thing was scary
>>69977377
The Thing is /tv/'s anthem you filthy pleb.
>>69977377
If any sci-fi horror movie is Reddit it won't be the one that's deemed not "inclusive" enough by modern standards.
>>69977777
checked
>>69973939
Survival is its first instinct, replication second, so yeah "Things" will absolutely sell each other out in a dangerous situation but will preferably work together.
There were some examples of this in both movies but the prequel comes to mind a little clearer since I saw it more recently. One confirmed thing accuses another thing of being a thing and tries to flame thrower it just to deflect attention away from itself lol.
Don't let yourself be memed by tv btw. The thing prequel is a solid movie and is autistic in detail in how it sets up the original thing and ends literally seconds before thing 1 begins (helicopter chase).
>>69978623
The only good thing about 2011 The Thing was Winstead's cute butt
>>69978623
I think the biggest issue people have is the shitty looking CG. The Thing looks far to clean and neat instead of something that tears apart it's innards and splatters it all over the place.
As an exmaple compare the Palmer transformation and head disconnection to that one scene where The Thing basically disconnects it's hands/arms, the "wound" from the disconnect look neat and clean as if it was already healed for at least several months or years.
>>69978730
I liked the set of thul station because it matched the original film perfectly. The broken ice chamber, the random axe in the wall, dead guy in the comms room, Norwegian who couldn't speak english to warn the americans, thing's behavior, twinfaced thing, etc.
The only thing people here ever complain about is muh cgi!!!! but even then it's solid in that film and at least the DESIGNS are faithful to the original.
>>69978803
I wouldn't even call the cg shitty because it looks no better or worse than cg in other films. I judge films compared to other films released in a similar timeframe. Cg is the current standard for sfx so going by that metric it's fine imo.
>>69978803
>>69979080
Movie was full of practical effects. Watch the making of. Videos on YouTube show it off.
Producers hired another company to cover it all with CGI. Director and crew wanted to be faithful to the 82 film.
Look up "CG or not CG war crimes" on YouTube to listen to the makers of the practical effects talk about how their works were coveted up.
OP does need to watch more anime, even if it's not Gantz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8faq5amdK30
>>69979440
I know about that which makes it pretty sad.
>>69979599
Boy I watched more anime than you know about movies.
Iczer One is the only OVA that managed to actually create mutations similar to The Thing but even then it was only transformation and it all lacked the terrifying nature of The Thing.
>>69975280
There was enough terror of the unknown in the gantz desu.
>>69972994
I think it's mostly because The Thing is not just a horror movie, it's also about an existential fear and paranoia.
What is a human? What are the persons around us? Do we really know what it is to be a human in our own flesh?
Carpenter, even though he probably wouldn't claim to be an intellectual about it, touched something in this film that can resonate beyond the genre of horror.
Most horror films don't really want to scare you or put the audience into an uneasy terrain...though that's exactly what they should do!
Horror is not entertainment for me, it's a serious exploration of human psyche and the monsters it tries to hide.
>>69978623
Structurally its a fairly boring film though. Outside of the fan service moments of setting up the stuff we had already seen in the 82 version its a fairly bog standard monster film.
It is certainly not the worst late in the game prequel/spinoff ever, not even close in fact, but it does lack anything outstanding like the excellent ensemble cast or memorable tense sequences (the 82 bloodtest sequence is a masterclass of creating tension within a scene)
But none of it ever reaches that level so overall it was still a disappointment for me.
Honestly being that we already know pretty much what happened to the Norwegians without it I would have preferred a proper sequel over a prequel
God only knows what nightmares would await us if the thing managed to reach the sea and cross it. Half the shit at the bottom of the ocean is already fucking terrifying tbqhfam
>>69973773
>all this people falling for such an obvious bait
we did it, we finally become reddit
When the Thing could absorb the knowledge of its victims, can it learn compassion, sympathy & communication? For example, would it feel bad for inflict pain upon others when killing/assimilating them?
>>69980375
In the original short story you had a Priest that would in the night alone cry for god and pray for his help just to be alter found out that he was one of the first that were infected. I'm sure The Thing queues stuff like emotions and behavior from a database like clicking on a soundfile on the desktop and plays it.
>>69976294
One of my greatest regrets is that I'll never watch this movie for the first time again. I didn't even know this movie was a gorefest going into it so when the dog scene happened I was fucking floored.
>>69977777
You've got to be fucking kidding me.
I first saw this when I was about 7. My parents are monsters worse than The Thing.
>>69981199
Maybe they are The Thing.
I remember the first time watching it in high-school and knowing there's something wrong with that fucking dog. God fucking dammit, it shellshocked me for days to come.
>>69974876
Hey, don't call me a nigger
You were the fag that was flipping out over that scene saying it made the movie awful
>>69981386
That dog was a fucking amazing actor. The way he stares...
>>69977138
I've never seen that. Thanks anon <3
>>69981755
There was just something unsettling about him, I fucking knew those Nordic fools wouldn't bother chasing him for miles if something wasn't way off.
>>69981842
Of course. When you said that, i remembered how perfect it was that one of the first lines in the whole movie is one from a crazy norwegian about to lose his mind because he needs to kill a dog.
It definitely sets the tone.
Also, everytime that first norwegian gets shot by...Garry i think? He just shakes a little as he dies, and after the first time you saw the film, you can't help but wonder if he shakes because he is a Thing.
>>69972994
What was the purpose of this form? I can understand the spider head would allow it to escape and sneak-assimilate someone down the line, and Palmer once transformed could maul someone.
What function does this thing serve?
>>69982182
I always figured that since it had assimilated so many different creatures from other planets or whatever, that it was just panicking and taking the shape of whichever one could help in that situation
>>69977777
Checked for truth
>>69982182
That form was just a distraction the other body part to escape.
>>69977777
HOLY FUCK CHECKED
>>69976360
Deltaco is pretty fuckin rad dude
>>69977138
This doc is pretty really awful, but I'm having fun anyways. Thanks fella.
