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| The Thing [1982] | ![The Thing [1982]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SRW6JAAVL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Kurt Russell, T.k. Carter, Richard Dysart, Richard Masur
Studio: Uca
Category: DVD
List Price: £9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 2104
Format: Dubbed, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled), Italian (Dubbed), Polish (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Running Time: 104 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582049039
ASIN: B00004D07X
Theatrical Release Date: June 25, 1982
Release Date: October 6, 2008
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Amazon.co.uk Review
John Carpenter's apocalyptic The Thing was released in cinemas just two weeks after E.T. in 1982. The two movies could hardly have presented more contrasting ideas about extra-terrestrial life, and it was Carpenter's uncompromisingly bleak vision that lost out at the box-office. But his audacious remake of the Howard Hawks 1951 B-movie The Thing from Another World has since been acknowledged as a classic in its own right, not only for its pioneering makeup and special effects techniques, but also for its bold treatment of an alien "infection" that eerily foreshadow s AIDS-inspired blood contamination scares. Whizzkid Rob Bottin was responsible for the surreal and stomach-churning make-up effects that are so crucial a part of the film's success--without his utterly convincing creations Carpenter would never have been able to make a monster movie without a "man in a suit"--and filming on a glacier in British Columbia ensured the complete authenticity of the Antarctic setting. Kurt Russell leads a strong all-male cast who powerfully convey their isolation and distrust of one another--in more ways than one this is a film about alienation. The uneasy atmosphere is enhanced by an icily monochrome score from Ennio Morricone, as a series of unforgettable horror set-pieces lead to a wonderfully downbeat finale. On the DVD:: The bonus features are exemplary, notably the excellent 80-minute documentary, "Terror Takes Shape", which covers all aspects of the production; and the relaxed, friendly, informative commentary by director John Carpenter and star Kurt Russell--a model for how all commentaries should be. There's also an outtakes reel with some tantalising stills of unused footage. Text and stills-based montages illustrate the location design, conceptual artwork and various other aspects of the production. The sound mix is Dolby 5.1, although the non-anamorphic widescreen picture is not all it could be. --Mark Walker
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 I could be it... and you... November 20, 2008
When i watched this movie, I said God don't let it come here. this is a brilliant film about horror and the human fight for survival against an unknown monster.
Buried beneath the ice for thousands of years, a team of Norwegan scientists find the space craft and something else...
An American team get a rude awakening when a gun crzay Norwegan scientist goes berserk on a snow dog running for its life. The Americans kill the Norwegan, welcome the dog and Kurt Russel and a friend back track to the madman's station.
they find the ship. they find the carnage. they find the monster but don't know they did. Soon, the twisted form of the creature reveals itself. the attack is silent but deadly. the discovery is terrifying. the paranoia is beyond belief. you won't know who the thing has immitated till it comes out of your friends body- just kidding- the actor's body.
It betters other extraterestial based flicks for other world monsters finding humans irritating to live with. In Alien, you knew who was the monster. In Predator, you could see the ghost hunter. In The Thing, you don't know who is who, what is what and you don't know if they made it alive. only when Carpenter returns to do a sequel.
Enjoy this but watch the 1951 original (The Thing from another world) and compare.
this THINGS a classic November 19, 2008
this film might have been made in 1982 and it is still amongst the best horror films that i have seen ,the suspense is superb has you try and figure out who will be the next victim and i don't think a better sci-fi horror film will ever be made .i have seen this film so many times yet i was still messmerised while watching my new dvd copy of the film , go and get it you won't be dissapointed.
 Wait for the Blu-ray! November 11, 2008
This landmark film is let down on DVD by an unsympathetic transfer from a less than wonderful print which jiggles about during the titles and betrays a lot of grain, scratches, and other flaws. As noted, the non-anamorphic picture doesn't help - you have to "zoom in" to get the picture to fill your screen - although the sound is pretty good and the extras are excellent.
The Blu-Ray release is on 1st December 2008, and we should end up with a much better-looking picture. It deserves no less.
once upon a time.... August 22, 2008
Contains one little spoiler.
once upon a time not so long ago film makers did not have computers and the magic of, say a human head ripping itself of its shoulders, sprouting spider legs and scuttling across the floor, was done by skilled effects artists and model builders and shot in front of the camera. Unlike the films of today these effects were convincing and brilliant. they actually made the audience gasp out loud, hey they still do which is more than you can say for most CGI imagery in movies today. Am I alone in hoping that the days of Computer fakery is almost over and realism will return. The Thing is an awesome horror.
More Carpenter than him you die August 3, 2008
This film is a sort of Matrix for many modern films about aliens. It has antecedents for sure but they did not have enough special effects and big enough budgets enabling them not to show the zipper in the back of the monsters. The original element is the location: the Antarctica. A place that has been re-used since by a certain Predator when he met with some Aliens of a more recent generation. There, if an alien life form that can penetrate any living organism and take it over completely appears it can disrupt any human group so much that they will self destroy in order to destroy the alien thing forgetting that anyway the alien form can survive even centuries of glaciation because it is not human or animal and hence it is not even sensitive to cold. The alien is always the winner and it will sooner or later manage to learn how to be patient, penetrate a living organism and stay rampant in it long enough to be taken to real society, to millions of people concentrated in small areas That's the idea of the film. And it ends the way it has to end. Two apparently human beings are still alive. One is contaminated, probably not two, but they are going to die of cold in their human form, their human organism. Carpenter even makes one black and the other white and the circumstances he uses makes the black one dubious, suspicious, whereas the white one seems to be the normal one, but who really knows? The alien or aliens will go dormant in the cold, in hibernation. There is no escape, no end. Our human world is bound to be taken over not by more intelligent beings but by biologically more advanced life forms. And we may wonder if our intelligence will be enough to compensate for the handicap.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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