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Fathom Events ...Bringing Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ Back to Theaters for 40th Anniversary in June! Break out the younens !
And scare the s*** out of them !

I seen it on the big screen back in the day, in the winter time to .... it was rough getting back to the car to go home!

I saw it back in the day, still occasionally have nightmares about it.

That’s the wrong “Thing”

This is the right one. Skip to 2:20.

I remember the 1951-version "The Thing from Another World". Our parents were out, we were watched by our paternal Grandma while she was watching the film. I was ten, my sister seven years old. Grandma was later scolded by our Father because of my nightmares. My sister didn't have that problem.

Better than most of the crap they are producing now.

One of the best horror movies ever made.

A Wilford Brimley meltdown is not soon forgotten.

In the original black and white movie version Gunsmoke's James Arness played the monster

And the movie sucked!

“Hey Sweden”!!! “They’re Norwegians Mac”. 🤣🤣🤣

At that time that was one scary movie for a little kid.

There have been three such movies made, all (to one extent or another) based on a science fiction short story titled "Who Goes There," by John W. Campbell. That's a great read, by the way. I've read it several times over. Always chilling.

There's a short story based on "Who Goes There," (titled The Things ) also, that takes the same exact story line, but tells it from the viewpoint of the alien. That's a great read, too.

The above reminds me that there's another great read for fans of Beowulf, written from the perspective of Grendel, the monster who was eventually defeated and killed by Beowulf. Well worth a read. Short book.

I read it in a book many years ago. This movie brought it out very close to how I imagined it.

kwg

Frankenstein was the one that got to me. Saw it when I was 5 at the show then later on that night was convinced "F" was gonna pop out of the closet and get me. Went and crawled in bed with one of my older sisters where she promptly gave me a good shot in the kidney with her knee and pushed me out of bed on to the floor. Frank could have taken lessons from that girl.

I've had a few of those nightmares, too. One I remember very clearly.

The Thing had almost completely absorbed humanity and all life on earth. Myself and my dog were among the remaining few still not absorbed, and there were several harrowing scenes of us making close escapes.

Then suddenly the scene shifted to the bridge of Darth Vader's Star Destroyer.



Vader was advised by a junior officer at a control panel that the location of the creature he had been seeking had been discovered. It was currently, Darth was informed by the officer, on a small blue planet, third from its star (Earth). The camera shifted to Darth Vader issuing the command in an ominous voice, "Navigate a course to Earth," along with an appropriate Imperial musical accompaniment. Then I woke up.

I loved that as a kid in the 1960s, and enjoyed it as an adult a couple of times, too. Loved the M1 Carbines and 1911 pistols on display, too. I was a gun nut nearly from infancy.

Yep.