The Thing [VHS]
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Actor: Adrienne Barbeau, David Clennon, Keith David, T.K. Carter, Wilford BrimleyPrimary Contributor: Wilford Brimley
Primary Contributor: Keith David
Primary Contributor: Richard Masur
Primary Contributor: Kurt Russell
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; Norwegian (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 109 minutes
Release Date: 1992-03-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Universal Pictures
Studio: Universal Pictures
VHS Movie Reviews of The Thing [VHS]
Movie Review: One of my best purchases !!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Perhaps one of the best sci-fi movies ever. The commentary with Kurt Russel and John Carpenter is awesome. I highly recommend this.Movie Review: If You Liked 'Alien,' You'll Like This
Summary: 4 Stars
This intense sci-fi film is almost horror in nature, a la "Alien" as it features a tremendous amount of suspense. In fact, if you liked "Alien," you'll probably like this, the main difference of the two films being the different setting and a different cast.
The cast may be different but the characters are the same: scientists-heroes who are all profane low-life-types who you would never see in professions and positions like this. Only in the world of film do you see sleazy people like this in high-tech intelligent positions such as astronauts or scientists. Who better to exemplify this in the 1980s than self-proclaimed macho man Kurt Russell?
Back to the positives: besides the great suspense, the story is an involving one that hooks you in fairly early and never lets go. I have a widescreen VHS copy which looks nice, too, since the visuals definitely warranted a widescreen viewing experience. I suspect a Blu-Ray verson of this would really look great.
Movie Review: "The Thing" about a classic...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the best, if not the best horror/Si-Fi movies ever made. I saw this movie when it firt came out and was blown away by the great craft that went into it's making. This is by far John Carpenters crowning achievement. When it first came out critcs were not kind to this remake. It is not really a remake of the black and white film. John Carpenter's interpretation is remarkable!! I guarantee, if you are a fan of horror/Si-Fi films, you will find great pleasure in watching this great film.
... it can be watched over and over again!!!
Billy
Movie Review: great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie arrived in excellant shape and contact with the seller was easy and fast. I recommend this seller to anyone who wants a good movie !!Movie Review: Best remake of all time!
Summary: 5 Stars
Most people consider Halloween carpenter's best. I believe The Thing has it beat. The Thing is a special fx tour de force, filled to the brim with fantastic suspense sequences. The dvd is awesome with loads of special features. In a day of awful remakes and bad CGI, this movie beats them all!
Summary of The Thing [VHS]
Howard Hawks's original 1951 production of The Thing from Another World can be glimpsed playing on a TV that fateful October evening in John Carpenter's blockbuster hit, Halloween (1978). A few years later, Carpenter reteamed with his Escape from New York star Kurt Russell to do a remake. But while the first movie version of The Thing was in atmospheric black and white, Carpenter's 1982 version is in widescreen, full color, and features some of the most revoltingly explicit, surreally imaginative special effects (courtesy of FX-meister Rob Bottin) that have ever been seen on the screen. Researchers in the remote Antarctic dig up the remains of a spacecraft that has long been frozen in the ice. But the alien life unthaws and infects the living (not only humans but sled dogs too), living and gestating inside them. (This horrific concept was also explored in the two versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the Alien movies.) This Thing is chilling in every sense of the word, with plenty of terrifying, adrenaline-pumping moments that build it to a powerful and shockingly nihilistic conclusion. It's a harsh and uncompromising movie (hewing more closely to the original 1930s story "Who Goes There?")--so much so that it probably never would have been given a green-light by any studio in the more cautious and doggedly upbeat 1990s. --Jim EmersonGeneral Video
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