Village Voice
John Carpenter should approve of this reasonably respectful and tough-minded prequel to his 1982 The Thing.
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The Thing (2011)
Prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter sci-fi horror about the titular Thing, a shapeshifting alien and one of movie’s most iconic monsters.
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scott Pilgrim vs The World) travels to Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime: she joins a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice. Inside she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. When a simple experiment wakes the alien, Kate must join the crew's pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton, Animal Kingdom), to keep it from killing the group off one at a time.
2011Rating: MA15+, for strong creature violence and gore, disturbing images, and language103 minsUSA, Canada
HorrorScience FictionThriller
- Director:
- Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. (feature debut)
- Writer:
- Eric HeissererRonald D. Moore
- Cast:
- Mary Elizabeth WinsteadEric Christian OlsenJoel EdgertonAdewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
The Thing (2011) / Reviews
USA Today
A cinematic hot dog: It's full of body parts, but you won't get much from consuming it.
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In the annals of redundant remakes, The Thing is a particularly irritating example.
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Roger Ebert
It has a lot of gory Gotcha! moments, and many scenes in which an endless supply of Things are incinerated by flame throwers.
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New York Post
This creature splatter is excellent stuff but the director has no interest in the splatterees.
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A.V. Club
For a film that takes place in such a cold locale, it all feels awfully warmed-over.
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