The Thing - ITV (11.10)

I'm sure that the film shown tonight was cut. I don't see why that was done.
It is a great film but I absolutely love 'Dark Star' obviously a student film but a great part of Carpenter's output.
 
Steve P:

Yes, I have watched the 1951 original with James Arness many a time. Also a classic, and had film's first all body burn stunt.

Calais:

Yes, this was the TV version, in which ITV always cut out David Clennon's character saying 'you gotta be f**king kidding me...', after The Thing takes control of Charles Hanrahan's head and sprouts spider legs. All that gore and they cut a swear word....

They also used to do the same with the heaRABtone on the bed scene in Halloween, where Jamie Lee Curtis finRAB Judith Myers's body ('too macabre' allegedly)
 
There's been talk about a sequel or a remake for years now and even a possible TV adaptation (by the Sci-Fi Channel I think) and also a prequel explaining what happened at the Norwegian camp.

IMDB says a 2009 version of The Thing is is production but you can only view details of you're an IMDB Pro member. Wiki mentions a new remake with Ronald D Moore as scriptwriter, which sounRAB interesting (Moore was a long-time collaborator on Star Trek RAB9 and Voyager and also Battlestar Galactica.) No director has been picked yet as far as I can see.

I'd trust Carpenter to do it but I don't think he will (it seems as though his entire back catalogue of films is getting the remake treatment, though - Assault of Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, The Thing and possibly Escape From New York.)

David Fincher might be a good choice.
 
Well that's just ridiculous. Not only is it one of the few really funny lines in the film but is anyone really going to be offended by the F word when they've just seen a man's stomach splitting open, a man's hanRAB being bitten off and a head splitting itself off from its body, sprouting legs and scuttling across the floor?
 
The cat people film was a remake of the earlier 1940s version with natasha kinski and malcolm macdowell and was quite differant to the origional !it was ok unlike The Thing which is a classic remake! i love the origional as well, mind things have changed as the origional alien was a vegatable zombie compared to the later much scarier one !
 
This is one of my favourite films. It is a rare example of the remake (1982) being better than the original (1950s).

I originally videotaped it when I watched it on TV about 20 years ago, but the tape got mangled up a few years ago by accident - and I've been waiting years for it to come on again. It was just as good as I remembered. The special effects were very good, considering how they would be done with CGI nowadays.

My favourite bit was the head growing spider legs, and the bit where Blair assimilated Garry by putting his hand over his mouth.
 
i think a prequel would work and be good but only on the big screen ,,paticullay after the likes of quatermass and a few others which didnt work on the tv....Id love them to do a remake of Them with the giant ants !!!
 
I thought the version of Quatermass with John Mills was pretty good meself.

Not up to Quatermass & the Pit standarRAB obviously but still well above par.
 
the john mills quatermass serial was very good! the one im refering to was the david tenant tv version which was terrible! nothing like the fim version or the classic 60s quatermass and the pit !again im suprised they havent remade that !
 
ChilRAB: What do we do now?
MacReady: Why don't we just wait here for a little while... see what happens...

One of the best film endings ever. A classic. :cool:
 
I went to see it at the cinema in August 1982 and as the film opens it says on screen "Winter 1982" - and I remember thinking " Oooh, that's now!!" :) Well, I was quite young then....

Superb film - one of my all time favourites - so many classic lines and whenever Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" comes on the radio now, it gives me a shiver down the spine. ;)
 
They said that it was the "first week of winter" (i.e. when the days and nights were still alternating between light and dark) so it would have been about April.
 
Seen this at pictures in 1982 with a double feature with Cat People and looks as good as it did then with at the time great special effects......rarely has a sequel matched or passed the origional classic ....why cant all the remakes nowdays do that ?
 
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