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

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Critics were not kind to Carpenter’s film when it first opened, but as time has passed, “The Thing” has assumed its deserved status as a classic. The basic characteristics of the new Scream and Arrow are similar but the framing on the Scream seems wider and stretched.

He said the scripts were "awful", as they changed the story into something it was not, and ignored the chameleon-like aspect of the Thing. MacReady incinerates the Norris-Thing, but its head detaches and attempts to escape before also being burnt. Europe's busiest forums, with independent news and expert reviews, for TVs, Home Cinema, Hi-Fi, Movies, Gaming, Tech and more.These cookies can only be read from the domain that it is set on so it will not track any data while browsing through another sites. So, while in isolation, the new track is perfectly fine and has some fun moments in the verticality of it, in comparison to the older tracks it sounds odd in places and in some cases a little lacking. The basic plot about this movie is Horror-moister John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape from New York) teams Kurt Russell's outstanding performance with incredible visuals to build this chilling version of the classic The Thing. After watching a roughly assembled cut of filming to date, Carpenter was unhappy that the film seemed to feature too many scenes of men standing around talking. The remains of the malformed humanoid assimilate an isolated Bennings, but Windows interrupts the process and MacReady burns the Bennings-Thing.

When it becomes clear that the creature can take the form of any organism it so chooses, the tension within the team reaches breaking point. While finalizing the film, Universal sent Carpenter a demographic study showing that the audience appeal of horror films had declined by seventy percent over the previous six months.

Instead, he delivered a lengthy speech about the character being a stereotype, after which the meeting ended.

The Thing also features Norbert Weisser as one of the Norwegians, and an uncredited dog, Jed, as the Dog-Thing. This disc has a new English DTS:X object-based mix and is the only English language track included, omitting any of the previous 2. Units still remain from Scream Factory's limited edition (count of 10,000) 4K SteelBook of John Carpenter's THE THING (1982).It was set to go to print for theaters when the producers, Carpenter, and executive Helena Hacker decided that the film was better left with ambiguity instead of nothing at all. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. We reviewed the Region free UK Ultra HD Blu-ray release of The Thingon a JVC-DLA N5Ultra HD 4K projector with a Panasonic DP-UB9000 Dolby Vision HDR10+ 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player. After discovering that the Norwegians had stumbled across something horrific; they leave, but something comes back with them. 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.