There’s no denying that it’s going to be difficult to top John Carpenter’s chilling 1982 horror movie The Thing, but the upcoming prequel from relative newcomer director, Matthijs van Heihningen Jr., (also titled The Thing) looks to be aiming to do just that, and has just had it’s firs Red Band trailer released online (now available to view below).
Being a prequel, The Thing is obviously set before the events of the 1982 classic, and will see paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scott Pilgrim) joining a Norwegian research team out in the Antarctic, to investigate what appears to be a crashed alien spaceship underneath the ice, and what also appears to be its long-since deceased occupant.
Given what we already knew about the fate of the Norwegians, it goes without saying that the alien is far from deceased, and soon begins both murdering and replicating the various members of the research team; leading Kate, pilot Sam Carter (Joel Edgerton, Warrior) and the rest of the team (including Oz’s Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Fired Up!’s Eric Christian Olsen) struggling to survive, and wondering which of their friends they can trust, and which of them are still human.
While it certainly looks to be capturing the tone of the original (which was actually a remake of the 1951 movie The Thing From Another World), and even fairly accurately representing Carpenter’s creature, many fans have been vocally expressing their disgust at the use of CGI effects; over Carpenter’s all practical approach; and don’t believe that a new film will be able to live up to such a well crafted horror classic; something which will be openly debated when The Thing enters US theaters on October 14th, and UK cinemas on December 2nd.
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Source: IGN.
