Several things in "The Thing" is advertised as the rights of the excluded assets. On the one hand, built in a half hour in the first place, as a paleontologist at the University of Columbia played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead is recruited to join a research team in Antarctica. The group made an important discovery in the history of UFOs. That means you found one. Nearby, on its own piece of ice, a frozen creature.
The Dutch by birth, first-time feature director Matthijs van Heijningen tighten the screws slowly, as expedition leader (Trond Espen Seim, despicable guard for Mr. Smith, "Lost in Space" way) live in the ice block to extract a tissue sample. We do not know if something terrible will happen immediately or very little, or what. Or to whom.
Another advantage Winstead. It's good. The skeptic in cold blood in a mass of bearded Norwegians, and one or two Americans and one Australian, who has hair patriarchy implicit remote control, the operation by the wind. It also has a flamethrower (there are many flamethrowing in this image - a lot) like a champ when the happen again occupied, impale and gnashing of teeth, its terrible terrible. The actress is right for this type of paper, his dark eyes serious intention of the task. Despite his impassive character or insufficient number of occasions remind horrible places his work in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World", she brings a light, cold touch of hard questions.
This "thing" was filmed mainly in northern British Columbia, with me more than a Carpenter. This does not mean you can keep the candle superb 1951 "Thing from Another World," directed by Christian Nyby grants producer Howard Hawks, starring James Arness as cloves, clumsy, carrot enemy heads there. This film is a celebration of the indirect, the camaraderie and the gang in front of the Cold War period is unknown.
Compared to this picture, this new one just entertainment, oozefest well played. All three "things", along with all the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "Alien", owe their key ideas in the Depression-era story "Who Goes There?" John W. Campbell, Jr. There, the concept of a solid story that a stranger can not take the human body and the cause of pure paranoia in the population. What is real and who is not? Why, and seems a little 'out today? And why is my dog looked at me weird?
