The Thing [Blu-ray] [4K UHD]

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An elderly Caucasian male with a long white mustache. He is wearing a cowboy hat and striped waistcoat while holding a microphone. He is standing in front of a screen. Carpenter's friend John Wash, who developed the opening computer simulation for Escape from New York, designed the computer program showing how the Thing assimilates other organisms. Model maker Susan Turner built the alien ship approaching Earth in the pre-credits sequence, which featured 144 strobing lights. Drew Struzan designed the film's poster. He completed it in 24 hours, based only on a briefing, knowing little about the film.

John Carpenter’s unquestionable classic on yet another disc release that may well be the best it's looked, even if it's not the best it has sounded… the U-Control features from that disc (they are included on the bundled Blu-ray) and is sadly missing the gargantuan assortment of bonus features permeate many scenes inside, playing almost as a foreboding warning signal that does more than chill the listener but portend the terrors that are Do we really need to talk about the film also coming at the tail end of one of the greatest director's runs in cinema history ( Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, Escape from New York, this), whilst at the same time representing somewhat of a departure for a filmmaker used to doing most things himself (writing, composing, etc)? The Men of Outpost 31 – Interviews with Keith David, Wilford Brimley, David Clennon, Thomas Waites, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur and Joel Polis (51:14, 1080p)I was looking for original The Thing, and couldn't find a decent, ahem, low cost alternative for a bum like myself, and then once again the Internet Archive came to the rescue. John Carpenter was first approached about the project in 1976 by co-producer and friend Stuart Cohen, but Carpenter was mainly an independent film director, so Universal chose The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) director Tobe Hooper as they already had him under contract. The producers were ultimately unhappy with Hooper and his writing partner Kim Henkel's concept. After several more failed pitches by different writers, and attempts to bring on other directors, such as John Landis, the project was put on hold. Even so, the success of Ridley Scott's 1979 science fiction horror film Alien helped revitalize the project, at which point Carpenter became loosely attached following his success with his influential slasher film Halloween (1978). It opens in Antarctica with a sled husky running from a pair of crazed and armed Norwegian men in a helicopter. The scene is long, slow and uneasy. It feels like the Apocalypse. It oozes doomsday.

Vintage Featurettes – The Making of a Chilling Tale (5:14, 480i) and The Making of THE THING (9:20, 480i) pinball machines, even as the interior design is otherwise spartan and visually uninteresting. The HDR colors far exceed the output on the Blu-ray, The production intended to use a camera centrifuge – a rotating drum with a fixed camera platform – for the Palmer-Thing scene, allowing him to seem to run straight up the wall and across the ceiling. Again, the cost was too high and the idea abandoned for a stuntman falling into frame onto a floor made to look like the outpost's ceiling.[69] Stuntman Anthony Cecere stood in for the Palmer-Thing after MacReady sets it on fire and it crashes through the outpost wall. A Caucasian male lies on a table seemingly unconscious. His torso is opened from chest to stomach in the formation of a mouth with sharp teeth along the edges. A doctor attempting to revive him has both his hands inside the exposed, empty cavity.high intensity, stage filling elements saturate the stage with commanding intensity and spacing. Overheads are not used to regular effect but do help in

Watch in awe at the scene where it walks through the hallway and stares at a human shadow, slightly tilting its head forward in stalking position like a wild wolf. This is a fine piece of animal training, sure, but that's not the point. This is as spooky as anything ever made in a horror movie. The acting in The Thing has to be good and is as the film centres around the tension the men stranded in the Antarctica begin to feel. With every one suspecting each other as being the alien imposter there’s plenty of paranoia and this is where the film really shines with everyone at each others throat. The Thing was shot on 35mm film and has utilised a recent full restoration from the original camera negative, done by Arrow for their previous release, to produce a new 4K DI from which this UHD is sourced.This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. John Carpenter’s iconic 1982 classic, THE THING , one of the most celebrated sci-fi horror movies ever made, has been newly remastered and restored and will be available in stunning 4K Ultra HD for the very first time in the UK on 20 September 2021, courtesy of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. creating a more spacious listening area and boosting some of the more complex sound elements, such as when the creature extends to the ceiling and improvements over the existing 2008 Blu-ray from the very beginning for both clarity and color reproduction. (note that I cannot comment on how