John Carpenter on The Thing from Another World

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@zachsharp4564 2 ай бұрын

My dad snuck out of his house and into a late-night screening of this back in 1951, when he was around 9 or 10 years old. About an hour later, the story goes, my grandparents received a call from the theater owner, who apparently found him cowering under a table in the lobby.

@loganperry5167 2 ай бұрын

Hawks and Carpenter,true to their times. Thanks JWBS

@Jayskiallthewayski 2 ай бұрын

Carpenter is the biggest Howard Hawks fan, he talks about him like I would about Carpenter. ❤

@shawnwbronx 2 ай бұрын

It’s a fantastic movie. Carpenter still managed to make a remake that surpassed the original.

@bluemooninthedaylight8073 2 ай бұрын

With the snappy dialogue, one can make the argument that the original was an early horror comedy. It's genuinely tense when it needs to be, and the jump scares and use of natural fire are great. I love the original for being this weird outlier of '50s science fiction horror.

@padfolio Ай бұрын

No it didn't.

@shawnwbronx Ай бұрын

@@padfolio it certainly did. It’s one of the highest regarded sci-fi movies of all-time.

@padfolio Ай бұрын

@@shawnwbronx Not when it was initially released. Critics slammed it. The original has a better story, better atmosphere, didn't need gore.

@AbeStephan Ай бұрын

@@padfoliosome of the critics changed their opinions . Carpenter did go back to the original story about shape shifting . The original short story was reprinted in STARLOG MAGAZINE around the time the Carpenter version was released .

@AbeStephan 2 ай бұрын

The Thing From Another World used to be played locally all the time around Halloween or on Halloween when local TV stations in Anchorage Alaska played old movies . It's of course a local favorite . Parents would laugh every time someone yelled " Close the door ! " in the movie . 2:00

@MultiEviscerator Ай бұрын

Thanks for that insight into a great horror film.

@princez413 2 ай бұрын

Saw this as a kid and it scared the hell out of me.

@JustineLaLoba 2 ай бұрын

Love the original version.

@azohundred1353 2 ай бұрын

Howard Hawks put his own auteur vision on The Thing and made the best 1950's sci-fi monster film(from Hollywood) in my opinion. Doing this on a relatively smaller budget and B-list cast makes me wonder how great Hawks could've made this with an A-list budget and cast that he was more used to working with. Imagine John Wayne, Cary Grant, or Gary Cooper taking on The Thing?!

@mightilyoats2729 2 ай бұрын

John Wayne would probably have had it in his contract that he would stand next to the Thing so we can see he's taller than it, and then he gets to beat it up.

@hogarthheathan 2 ай бұрын

I like how in John's version the Norwegian ice base is the setting for the original.

@WalterBurton 2 ай бұрын

Insanity in my eyeballs and my earballs. Love it!

@joemadden4160 2 ай бұрын

I was about 9 when I saw this film and it remains one of my all time favorites. Like Mr. C, it scared the 💩out of me. But what a film, what a cast, what director(s), what a score. 🙂

@cherylbradbury4875 2 ай бұрын

To me this was the first and best one. I have the black and white version and the color version on disk. The b/w is better. I saw this in the early 60s and it still can creep me out. I also have the other two once a year I have a THING movies night. 👍

@briano6115 2 ай бұрын

I wish we could have heard the entire interview :)

@PenjaminFranklyn 2 ай бұрын

Da 🐐

@CastlesForEyes 2 ай бұрын

He likes it so much, he did a Dvd commentary for it. This might be from that very commentary

@awesomemark1234100 Ай бұрын

It’s a favorite of his, had Jamie Lee Curtis’ character watching it in Halloween

@niriop 2 ай бұрын

One of those very rare occasions, like with Night of the Living Dead, where the remake works as brilliantly well as the original, albeit on a different aesthetic level. Besides which, the 1951 original is one of the best SF films of the ‘50s. I must’ve watched it on tape a good dozen times as a kid.

@WalterBurton 2 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

@willmorgan5692 2 ай бұрын

I was eight years old when I saw the original on wuab-43 watching the superhost in 1978 then when i was thirteen I watched the remake on hbo in 1983 I had a hell of a flu comming on and still believe getting the flu and vomiting enhanced my viewing of the film and I've never forgot that feeling to this day🤔🤢😞😂

@johnfitzpatrick3094 2 ай бұрын

In my opinion, Carpenter's version is even better. Hawks' version was basically Us vs. The Thing. In Carpenter's version, you don't know who The Thing is, and it's more about the growing paranoia of the men in the movie.

@miskatonic_alumni 2 ай бұрын

JC's adaptation is also more faithful to the source material. A restored edition of the book is entitled "Frozen Hell."

@Njbear7453 2 ай бұрын

@@miskatonic_alumni isn’t it called - “Who Goes There?

@miskatonic_alumni 2 ай бұрын

@@Njbear7453 Originally, yes. Frozen Hell features an opening chapter that was omitted from the original version.

@Njbear7453 2 ай бұрын

Has anyone watching this video actually seen this film?

@lzeppelinrocks 2 ай бұрын

yes

@johnfitzpatrick3094 2 ай бұрын

Yes.

@azohundred1353 2 ай бұрын

I guess I'm the resident Howard Hawks fan that comments on this channel often. Yup, I've seen it. It's another great example of a Hawksian adventure. Whether it was Red River, Only Angels Have Wings, or The Thing From Another World, there was always an auteur injected "group on a mission" aspect to them, whether it was a Western, Aviation, or Monster movie. Hawks wasn't fancy with the aesthetics, but his fast-paced dialogue is always recognizable. To me, Hawks' take on "Who Goes There?" is well worth watching and set the gold standard for 1950's sci-fi films.

@kevinkuenn5733 2 ай бұрын

Yes, not sure why you would presume otherwise.

@Njbear7453 2 ай бұрын

@@kevinkuenn5733 because I guarantee there are people who salivate over the John carpenter version who haven’t even seen this film

@deakensomoza3305 2 ай бұрын

John Carpenter on Get Out (2017)?

@1800astra 2 ай бұрын

IMO, the elapsed time between this film and Carpenter's remake makes his a quasi-original film; the SFX (which everyone remembers) were state of the art for 1982, but the writing, acting, cinematography and music are all equally memorable. I'm not dissing TTFAW (and love ked it when I saw it) but Carpenter's film has a pace and complexity that has seen it only increase in popularity and critical acclaim. I only found out it was based on a 1950s movie from reading Cinefantastique in 1982, which means I obviously lack the basic and requisite knowledge to comment here!

@DrHowieFeltersnatch 2 ай бұрын

Mhmm

@johng6565 2 ай бұрын

I'm still waiting for an Event Horizon remake. To me that's an example of a film with a solid foundation but it missed the mark. The right person could make a much better version of it