Thanks to my current residence here in Toronto for the next eight days, I couldn’t watch this even if I wanted to as the following first clip from The Thing won’t play in Canada. I usually don’t watch these things but I was sort of curious and was actually going to check this one out. Oh well.
So instead of offering an opinion of my own, I’ll turn to SlashFilm‘s Russ Fischer who after watching the creature’s first emergence from a block of ice writes, “I’m afraid of a Michael Bay-style decibel level in those scenes, when the horror might be a lot more effective as a quiet thing.”
Check out the clip below and let me know if you have the same concerns.
The Thing is a prequel to John Carpenter’s classic early ’80s original and is set to hit theaters on October 14. The film is directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Eric Christian Olsen and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agabaje. If you haven’t yet watched the trailer you can do that here.
Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet.
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up.
When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.
The Thing serves as a prelude to John Carpenter’s classic 1982 film of the same name.
