
Village Voice
John Carpenter should approve of this reasonably respectful and tough-minded prequel to his 1982 The Thing.
Full reviewPrequel 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.
LessJohn Carpenter should approve of this reasonably respectful and tough-minded prequel to his 1982 The Thing.
Full reviewA cinematic hot dog: It's full of body parts, but you won't get much from consuming it.
Full reviewIn the annals of redundant remakes, The Thing is a particularly irritating example.
Full reviewIt has a lot of gory Gotcha! moments, and many scenes in which an endless supply of Things are incinerated by flame throwers.
Full reviewThis creature splatter is excellent stuff but the director has no interest in the splatterees.
Full reviewFor a film that takes place in such a cold locale, it all feels awfully warmed-over.
Full reviewThe Thing (2011) is available to stream in Australia now on Google Play and Apple TV and Foxtel and Binge and Prime Video Store.
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