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The Thing (DVD)

Joel Polis (Actor), Charles Hallahan (Actor), John Carpenter (Director) Format: DVD

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Genre	Horror
Format	DVD, PAL
Contributor	Kurt Russell, Keith David, Donald Moffat, Wilford Brimley, Joel Polis, Richard Masur, David Clennon, T.K. Carter, Richard Dysart, Peter Maloney, John Carpenter, Charles Hallahan See more
Runtime	1 hour and 43 minutes

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Sci-fi horror prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 cult classic 'The Thing'. Set on a research site in Antarctica three days before the action of the original story, the film focuses on the Norwegian camps that were the initial target of the alien invasion. When they discover an alien spacecraft on the site, science graduate Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and experienced researcher Dr Sander Halvorson (Ulrich Thomsen) disagree about how to act. When Dr Halvorson refuses to abandon his research, Kate teams up with tough Vietnam veteran Sam Carter (Joel Edgerton) to pursue the alien intruders by helicopter.

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Product dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 15 x 12 cm; 31.75 Kilograms
Director ‏ : ‎ John Carpenter
Media Format ‏ : ‎ DVD, PAL
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 43 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ 13 October 1999
Actors ‏ : ‎ Joel Polis, Charles Hallahan, T.K. Carter, Peter Maloney, David Clennon
Studio ‏ : ‎ Universal
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000CCQQ9U
Country of origin ‏ : ‎ Australia
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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cadman rossignoli

The best remaster of this film.

Reviewed in Australia on 12 November 2021

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The best version of the film. This remaster is the clearest and all the dark scenes are vastly improved.

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Da-dum, da-dum

Reviewed in Australia on 27 February 2018

Quality moviemaking rule: Only produce a remake of a movie if it has/can do something the original can't/didn't. It may be special effects, an amazing actor, or fidelity to source material.

One of the best examples of that is "The Thing," one of the few remakes that easily outstrips the original -- not because the original was bad, but because the remake is just better, bringing new depth and intelligence to a relatively simple story. It's a the borderline between horror and science fiction -- a dark, icy masterpiece of claustrophobic paranoia and flesh-melting nightmare fuel, where anyone might be a malevolent alien who could bring an end to all life on earth.

In Antarctica, a Norwegian helicopter chases a dog to the edge of an American base, and the panicked pilot accidentally destroys his own chopper before being killed by the station commander. Pilot MacReady (Kurt Russell) and Doctor Copper (Richard Dysart) are sent to the Norwegian base to find out what is going on, only to find that the Norwegian base has been burned. Even more bizarre, there is a corpse with two faces outside it -- and when the Americans dig deeper, they find a buried UFO that has been there for hundreds of thousands of years..

But something far worse is waiting for them. When the dog is put in the kennel, it absorbs all the other dogs, becoming a monstrous mass of flesh and teeth. This alien creature can infect any living thing and "become" it, with all its knowledge and skills, and can only be killed by incineration.

Since the Dog-Thing has been wandering freely through the base, anyone might be infected -- and if they don't figure out who is infected, it could spread outside of the frozen wasteland. Once it's reached the rest of the world, there will be no stopping it. MacReady is able to deduce that not everyone has been infected, and paranoia reigns as the men try to figure out which among them is infected -- but even if they find a test, they may not be able to stop The Thing.

The original "The Thing From Another World" was actually a very well-written, progressive movie in its time, but it wasn't able to be faithful to the original John W. Campbell novella because... well, it had 1950s special effects. That makes all the difference in "The Thing," allowing the alien creature to be an amorphous, insidious threat rather than a man-shaped carrot who just charges around bashing down doors. It inspires not only basic fear, but paranoiac terror.

And that sense of claustrophobic, shadowy terror is what truly defines this story -- arguments, accusations, hysterical shouting as the men point fingers at all the wrong people. This carries a lot of the story's terror, because like many classic movie monsters, the titular Thing actually doesn't appear that often. Only when cornered or attacked will it unleash tentacles, green ooze and giant torso mouths that will rip a person's arms off. And when it does do that, it's pure nightmare fuel -- think a bloated severed head oozing off its body, sprouting spider legs and scuttling across the floor.

But what really sets "The Thing" apart from most such horror movies is that... well, the characters don't do stupid things to advance the plot. Despite their all-consuming fear, the men spend most of the movie being pretty intelligent about their situation -- for instance, one of the men suggests to MacReady that each person should prepare his own food, and only from cans. There are a few scenes where they do dim things (tying up all the men for the hot wire test, which leads to them being attacked by a melty-faced Thing), but it is plausible when you consider how terrified they are.

And of course, the gnawing horror is even greater when you consider what the stakes are. Failure means the destruction of all life on earth, and even success might just put the Thing into a sort of torpor.

It also has a very strong cast, led by Kurt Russell (and his mountain man beard). Russell plays MacReady as a steady-eyed, intelligent man who gradually is worn to a frazzle by the threat of the Thing and the men around him. And there are solid supporting roles for Dysart, Keith David as the peppery-tempered Childs, Donald Moffat and Wilford Brimley... although sometimes it's hard to tell the men apart in their massive coats.

There's a reason that "The Thing" is a modern classic -- the haunting sense of crushing paranoia, the grotesque alien, and the ambiguity of what may have happened down at the South Pole. Terror, slime and fear.

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The Inquisitor

Thanks amazon !, I got this crushed..

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 September 2021

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My previous review was censored, typrical amzon covering up this issue.

I'll say this again, my order arrived badly crushed.

Shame, such a good film

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R. G. Hancox

Review of the 4k, NOT the movie

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 November 2021

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This has to be one of my all the.fsvourite films. So you can imagine my excitement when I saw it was out on 4k.
Well, disappointed if I'm honest. The 4k highlights the grain, which can't be seen on the blu ray version. The colours etc are far more muted and duller than the blu ray version ! I was hoping the whites,blues of the opening scene in the snow would pop out. They didn't. Just looked darker.
A few times I played this along with the blu ray version, and have come to this conclusion. If you have a 4k player and this film on blu ray, don't waste your money on the 4k version. Your 4k player will upscale the blu ray far better than the 4k film produces.

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Josh Waller

Damaged on delivery!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 September 2021

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Disc looks great but box and case damaged and bent!

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Bizzle

Good set but....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 September 2021

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...arrived crushed. Which was frustrating to say the least, especially when it's the sold out collectors edition!!

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DarkSkies

Superb

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 September 2021

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It's hard to imagine how poorly received this film was at the time of its original release because it has certainly stood the test of time.

This 4k set has a decent amount of extras. The soundtrack is good. The poster and booklet are nice. The blu ray...is not the best version you can get...and is probably the weakest part of the box set. Overall the package is pretty good.

The 4k though is exceptional. This is one of those releases where you can see that the effort has really been made to make the film look good. Noticeable upticks in detail, clarity and texture. Improved colour throughout. I did wonder whether the practical special effects would be less convincing in 4k. They actually look better than they ever have and some of them are exceptionally unpleasant in the best possible way.

Some 4k releases end up being very much "for the fans" and have little to recommend them to new viewers. This is not one of those films and you could probably use this disc to show off what a good 4k conversion can be. It's not the best I've seen but it is up there with the best. Definitely recommended.

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