The Thing - Group Reaction

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[@Grf1556]

The thing that, to me at least is the most frightening aspect of the Thing, is that in horror movies it's a trope that animals can sense when something is wrong. But the dogs in the kennel didn't react at all to the Thing until the Thing decided to shed it's disguise. The Thing's disguise is SO PERFECT it can even fool other animals is something that's just downright terrifying.

[@lionhead123]

all the dogs were highly suspicious though. i think thats the vibe they are supposed to give off as the dog enters the kennel, the other dogs looking at it wondering if that is a real dog.

[@lucianaromulus1408]

​@@lionhead123exactly. The dogs were absolutely suspish about that dog, I think thats why it was forced to blow its cover. I think the dog would have kept to itself longer if the dogs didnt react

[@krisdoggett483]

The dogs knew it wasn't a real dog. They began growing at it before it turned. Their reaction caused it to reveal itself and, in turn, attack them.

[@danieldickson8591]

@@krisdoggett483 The Thing dog starting making strange sounds just before it started to transform. I'm sure that's what warned the dogs. Before that they were all lying in the kennel very relaxed and apparently unconcerned, including the Thing.

[@krisdoggett483]

@@danieldickson8591 I didn't hear anything. I could be wrong. I'm going by the assumption that the thing tries to blend in and not reveal itself at all unless it is under attack and the fact that animals have an extra sense of danger that humans don't have or that we have suppressed which would alert the "real" dogs that something was amiss and when they began getting aggressive the thing dog revealed itself and attacked.

[@th3voice]

I believe there's a bilingual bonus in this movie. The Norwegian guy at the beginning is straight up telling them, "No, that's not a dog, it's some kind of THING". But unlike ALL OTHER NORWEGIANS, he apparently doesn't speak English.

[@ANTIStraussian]

In the Norwegian dub of the movie he speaks Swedish

[@ajalvarez3111]

Watch the 2011 Thing. It is all about the Norwegian camp. You will see that his name is Lars and that he is sort of the caretaker/handyman of that camp. He takes care of all the mundane duties the scientists weren’t going to. He was tough and intelligent but probably didn’t have much formal education and he didn’t speak English. I believe he WAS the only one in the camp that didn’t speak English but he was a good man to have in a tough spot. There were 4 Americans at the camp (2 pilots and 2 scientists) and if I remember right, and to no one’s surprise, none of them spoke Norwegian and likely no second languages.

[@th3voice]

@@ajalvarez3111 I mean, backstory is nice and all, but if the guy is a poorly educated Norwegian but present at a south pole base, it's even MORE certain that he'd speak English, because he will have a background as a seaman of some persuasion. That was the thing you DID back in those days if you were male and poorly educated. Go to sea, earn, see the world, and learn English. It's actually kind of hard to believe that he wouldn't speak English perfectly serviceably, albeit with an atrocious accent.

[@Koifin3]

@@th3voiceI agree but it’s a movie so plot gotta happen somehow 🤷

[@theokayishgamer]

​@@ANTIStraussian Is this actually true? Seems kind of pointless since Swedish and Norwegian is mutually intelligible, at least for the most part. Would make more sense to dub that part in Icelandic or even Finnish.

[@riffler24]

Chris absolutely cackling like an evil genius while everyone else freaks out about the dog is really what makes rewatching The Thing with people who haven't seen it so fun

[@LilHaitiworld]

😂😂😂

[@SunlessNick]

Everyone falls in love with the dog! And then...

[@rileyandmike]

These reactors suck! Fake and mugging for the camera! So FAKE

[@RajeshJustaguy]

hahahahahah everytime

[@Crunchyfrog28]

The fact that this film has had fan theories about the ending for FORTY YEARS 😆😆

[@BradyRamaker]

The best thing about the Thing is that its a bunch of smart people trying to make the best decisions they can with limited information while stressed & exhausted to breaking, in a cat-and-mouse game against an alien intelligence also trying to survive. The regular horror fan instinct is to try to outsmart a film, but with this movie you can't. Nobody would do better in this situation, and in fact most people would do worse. Watching reactions to the movie always follows the same pattern of the audience judging the characters before progressively realizing no, wait, there's no way to really win here. It's why it's one of the best movies ever made.

[@wastelandlegocheem]

Agreed.blair immediately destroys all their vehicles to ensure they can't escape, fuchs ensures sevure food, mcready creates rhe test, and everyone id overall on edge and alert. They're rrady to do what must be done despite bein friends as they recognize the risk if the thing wins

[@atheist101]

​@wastelandlegocheem it did win in the end. This is a set of 3 apocalypse movies made by the same guy. Each is different with nothing to do with the other and imply the end of humanity. Even if the Thing didn't make it out right away it would freeze until someone else found it and then make it's way to a major city and humanity would be done for

[@Scarshadow666]

@@atheist101 That's true! I think there's an old sequel videogame that covers that too!

[@Scarshadow666]

Definitely agree with OP's comment! It's also worth mentioning that - despite how often people usually compare this movie with the Among Us videogame - one of the biggest struggles people probably would have gone through is not contracting the Thing assimilating them (whereas in Among Us, at least becoming the imposter is not the same as spreading an alien intelligence like a disease). Also, Among Us is a videogame where after everything happens, people can just turn off the videogame and move on with their lives. Being in an actual physical situation like the characters experience in The Thing is extremely different (and more horrifying to actually experience). Another good example would be something like the Twilight Zone's "Maple Street" episode.

[@wastelandlegocheem]

@@Scarshadow666 among us is based off the concept but takes it to a murder mystery kind of twist

[@ronaldeliascorderocalles]

"MAC IS BURNING WINDOWS" Rana: STOP IT, STOP IT!!! I love this reaction so much.

[@katiestewart5688]

Then everybody was like 🤔😯🤣

[@mr44mag]

"Windows what are you doing!?" is all too relatable.

[@orboobleck5366]

Dammit, Suraj...

[@brianvw2724]

Loved that! "He's getting XP" was great too 😉

[@osterro]

where is his from?

[@rjcasale457]

The cool thing about Noris before the chest burst stuff is I think the original had a heart condition which means the perfect imitation also had the heart condition. So the thing takes the good and the bad with it.

[@mwillblade]

He would have bad gas and diabetes if it got me.

[@danieldickson8591]

The "Norris heart condition" theory gets floated a lot, but there's no line in the movie that says he has one, and he did rappel down and up that pit where the space ship was buried -- unlikely a man with a heart condition would try that. It's more likely that the Thing was transforming Norris from the inside, like a cancer, and his collapse was the transition between him being Norris and becoming Norris-Thing.

[@danieldickson8591]

@@bb21again.67 John Carpenter kept his cast in the dark as to which of them was a Thing, until shooting the actual scenes in which they were to be discovered. He didn't want any of them to give a hint to the audience that they were different, so they all played as their normal characters. That's why Palmer was so, well, Palmer -- his actor didn't know any different.

[@rjcasale457]

@@danieldickson8591 That's an interesting theory. My take has always been we don't know when he was taken over, but one of the big themes in the movie is that its a perfect imitation, and therefore it copies everything, the good and the bad, as in existing heart condition.

[@cmlemmus494]

The explanation in the movie is more like the Thing converts all flesh into itself and each cell is an autonomous entity that remembers the DNA of all things it has consumed. It isn't actually Norris, or a dog, or whatever, it's just a colony of cells taking whatever shape is most useful in the moment.

[@HollowAvarice]

I literally just met John Carpenter at NYCC today. I praised this movie and the ending. He was a really nice really chill guy too.

[@brotherkhrayn3525]

LUCKY

[@Girder3]

3:41 - The subtle smile on Chris's face when they get excited over the dog... And the shit-eating grin afterwards...

[@chaost4544]

The look on everyone's face when the dog changes 🤣

[@LilHaitiworld]

😂😂

[@KyleS3m3noff]

But especially Chris'.

[@UncleCharlie111x2]

Everyone I see reacting to the movie is pro dog and anti human being!

[@pinkishhaven5158]

@@UncleCharlie111x2 solo viewers have atleast the knack to question or be suspicious as to why the Norwegian was being violent. Or like, still be a little suspicious of the dog but at the same time get won over with the cuteness. These guys are the first I've seen to instantly jump on the guy😂. Mob mentality I guess...

[@tenjenk]

you can tell the reactions are real because of all their little body and hand movements, rubbing their bodies or the back of thier head cause of the creepy feelings seeing this shit gives you like somethings crawling on you.

[@SeanTanktop]

Identifying with Chris so damn hard right now. Exactly my whole ass vibe when we did our reaction with Scott & Alex! And shoutout to Rob Bottin who did all the practical creature effects when he was TWENTY THREE YEARS OF AGE! Absolutely legendary.

[@brotherkhrayn3525]

My favorite thing about Rob doing this film is he did most of the effects within a single week, and got hospitalized for exhaustion. As soon as he was discharged, he was right back to work.

[@babatundeadedeji7714]

The stomach was the probably the craziest and coolest thing i saw😂😂 so unexpected

[@russellmassey9324]

Her name is Rana

[@nimz8521]

What's interesting is that when you watch the scene again, look at the doc's face. It's clearly a mask because they used an amputee to make the effect easier and put a mask on him because nobody is looking at his face.

[@Teddy_Bare_Bliss]

There is another movie

[@michaelbertrand6250]

The main behind the creature designs and effects was a man named Rob Botine. He was only 22, worked all day for the 6 week production, often sleeping at the set. And he worked so hard that he has to check himself into the hospital fir exhaustion. They had too bring in another top tier designer to help with the effects and he refused to be credited out of respect for Botine.

[@Talisguy]

The Thing is very much having your cake and eating it too when it comes to horror films. The film is sustained by subtle, slow-burn tension, but when that tension is finally released by the Thing showing itself, the film goes nuts. After the dog kennel scene, there's a long stretch where there's no full-on Thing action and all the horror comes from the paranoia as the base crew turns on each other. Then that peaks with Mac coming back with dynamite and threatening to blow up the base, and just as the tension threatens to flag ever so slightly, the Thing opens its chest and eats the doctor's arms, grows extra heads, it's set on fire and one of the heads detaches from the host body and grows spider legs. The blood test scene is several minutes of tension expertly ratcheted up, before it's broken up by a jump scare and the scene then descends into complete screaming chaos in *seconds.* It's incredibly well done.

[@zandylovesrisk]

If someone was the Thing and attacked another person that wasn't, at the end would there be two things now or just one as it assimilated into someone else? We see one attack Bennings and then once Windows and MacReady return, whatever was on the table is still there (I assume it is what went and destroyed the blood bags with the keys).

[@ErrorNamenotfound-mx7bv]

​@@zandylovesriskthe thing is already a colony organism. So there would be 2 things now.

[@mACS925]

props to chris for stone faced desperately not giving away the intro at all, he just lets them love the "dog" as you do its the reaction your suppose to have at that point

[@DevilWearsAdidas]

idk if you're refering to what I saw, but I never seen this movie (know of it since I'm 35) and just saw a dog get homicided. Like I clicked a random part and less than 20 seconds later the dog died lmfao

[@brotherkhrayn3525]

@@DevilWearsAdidasin the beginning the “dog” is running from a helicopter. You don’t know there’s anything wrong with the dog at this point, so most people come to the dog’s defense, saying that the guy shouldn’t be shooting at the dog.

[@DevilWearsAdidas]

@@brotherkhrayn3525 you did read that I said I haven't seen this movie right?

[@kuribayashi84]

Chris making eye contact with the Camera at 3:45 was just perfect!

[@jean-philippedoyon9904]

The blood test to this day is still the greatest jump scare of all time...I've seen that movie like 10 times and i know it's coming and it's still effective !!

[@FuzzyDlop]

That is not a jump scare as it actually happens in frame, same as everything else in every Carpenter film.

[@hectorale212]

The best jumps scare of all time is in The Exorcist 3….but this movie has an epic jump scare when Fuchs is in the dark with only his lighter on and the shadow figure walks across the screen, always scares me

[@Talisguy]

​@@FuzzyDlop It's still a jump scare if it's in frame. All a scare needs in order to be a jump scare is to startle the audience with an abrupt change. People usually use the term "jump scare" to refer to the obnoxious kind where something pops out of the frame to go "boo" or make a loud noise, but jump scares are a tool to be used well or badly. Jump scares can take place in frame, they can be a real scare - an actual threat - and not a fake scare, they can even be *subtle* if handled skilfully. Silent Hill 2 has an excellent example of a subtle jump scare: your character has found a radio that makes staticky noises when monsters are nearby and is exploring an abandoned hotel in Silent Hill, and when he examines a mannequin a monster jumps out from behind it and attacks him. It's a very standard jump scare. ...But then you think about it. "Wait. ...How did that thing sneak up on me when I have the radio...?" *The radio doesn't always work.* It's a subtle undercutting of what little sense of security you've developed, by making it clear that not hearing static doesn't necessarily mean you're safe. It's also a jump scare. Same with the climax of the blood test scene. It doesn't cease being a jump scare just because it's actually effective.

[@DanielS2001]

What truly sells it is that Mac does a test of a sample with the same camera angle and holding the dish the same way. So, when it cuts back when he goes to test Palmer's blood, no one expects anything. XD

[@christopherwall2121]

Only small issue is that Kurt Russell is wincing before doing it, because he already knows the puppet is going to pop up and is bracing himself. But what can ya do?

[@zandylovesrisk]

Windows panicked after the blood was destroyed because he had Garry's keys and dropped them when he saw the Thing taking Bennings. Also it is believed Blair was normal when he disabled the chopper and tractor and MacReady's first visit. Him explaining to watch Clark (dog guy) was a legit warning after the dog was wondering around. The fact he made a noose but didn't use it is I think a clue that the Thing (probably Norris or Palmer) got to him before he could go through with it. Notice the next visit, he very adamantly wants to return to the entire group.

[@fighterx9840]

I would like to think that after Windows dropped the keys, the thing (either Norris or Palmer) grabbed the keys and sabotaged the blood storage, then put keys back where they can be found. Probably because it didn't wanna take any risks of being discovered and also induce more paranoia and distrust among everyone

[@koga711]

Chris's smile and look directly at the camera when everyone exclaims upon first seeing the doggy added 10 years to my life...and when everyone is freaking out about the dogs his little "I like this movie" I am crYing. Honestly, having one person who had already seen this before on the couch really made this for me! I'm glad everyone had a good yet horrible time with this movie, it's one of my favorites and I think everyone should see it at least once!

[@Whitebrowpriest]

Robin R. Bottin was in charge of the special effects for the The Thing. But the famous Stan Winston did much of the effects for the transforming dog sequence. Nothing can beat practical effects for horror movies like. CGI has its benefits for like action and superhero movies, but for horror, practical effects makes it far more visceral and realistic, and impacts the viewer better.

[@paulonius42]

Everyone else freaking out about the dog scene, Chris grinning like a maniac. I love you guys!

[@rileyandmike]

Even seeing this in the theater - it was OBVIOUS something was wrong with the dog! You don’t get into a helicopter and chase a dog across Antarctic if it is just a dog! Pretty obvious for someone with a brain

[@rodentnolastname6612]

As usual, "dont hurt the doggo!!" (Twenty minutes later...) "KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!" 🤣🤣🤣

[@jean-philippedoyon9904]

John Carpenter's The Thing is a good candidate for top 5 best horror movie of all time...Not because of the effects which are impressive, not because of the acting which is good...but for the atmosphere alone. It's a pure isolation and paranoia masterclass of cinema ! You never know 100% who as been assimilated and you can't just leave...Even at the end, there many theories that they are either both human but have so much paranoia it doesn't matter and they will kill each other or one is the thing because there is no breath...Still analyzed today in order to figure out when in the movie characters were assimilated.

[@51tetra69]

Interesting Facts: when the Thing imitates someone, it perfectly duplicates every cell with such precision than it actually retains the memories, knowledge, and personality of the individual it copies. Norris (the guy who’s chest bursts open, chopping off the doctor’s hands with its bear-trap teeth) had a bad heart, and when the Thing took him over and perfectly imitated him, it also faithfully recreated his heart defect, which eventually caused Norris to suffer a heart attack for real during a high-stress moment. The Thing would have been happy to hide itself in a presumably “dead” body, but it couldn’t tolerate the electro-shocks from the defibrillator and was thus forced to reveal itself. Of course, the amazing scene where Norris’ head separates from his burning body, slides onto the floor, and pulls itself away, transforming into a crab/spider with his upside-down head as its body, and tries to crawl away unnoticed, is an iconic moment! (Incidentally, at the beginning of the movie, the spaceship was flying erratically because the crew was desperately trying to fight off the Things that were aboard their vessel and causing havoc. That’s why the spaceship attempted to make an emergency landing on the nearest planet and ended up crash landing in the Antarctic. Only one of the Things as survived the crash and made it out of the ship alive, only to freeze in the ice.)

[@scottschofield5000]

Chris just grinning while everybody is rooting for the dog at the very beginning is peak lol.

[@arataarter8146]

33:41 Chris laughing derangedly while everyone is passively panicking is glorious-!

[@JonNelson523]

Rob Bottin (Rick Baker’s protege) did most of the effects for the film he was 22 years old at the time he also did The awesome transformation scene in The Howling year before

[@dnllrnt]

He had to take himself to the ER after the movie wrapped from exhaustion and pneumonia. He was on set for like 18 hours a day.

[@raymondamador1487]

If you noticed, Blair handled some of that stuff without gloves. It got into his skin and slowly changed him.

[@jerbil9353]

"Older movies don't scare me..." Then the dog scene happens!

[@Drkwlf92]

The Thing, based on a story called “Who goes there”. The writer came up with the story due to having twin aunts who used to scare him when he was a kid. This is one of my top 10 favorite movies of all times! There were many comics depicting what happened after the camp was destroyed, but the actual sequel was a The Thing video game that came out on the PS2 in 2002 . There was a prequel in 2011, but it just did not have the same feel of this one. LOL And I loved all of Rama’s reactions, especially at 15:58!! Absolutely PRICELESS!!😂😂😂😂 Everyone’s reactions were Epic!! I love seeing people’s reactions to these classics!!😂😂😂😂

[@noirgatherer]

The thing is a perfect imitation. It evens absorbs all the memories and personality of the person it absorbs so it will behave completely like the original.

[@fearlesswee5036]

Yeah, there's a fan theory that it even "imitates" your brain almost like a simulation (or like emulating a game system on a computer) so even *you yourself* don't know you're a thing until your chest is splitting open and attacking somebody. The thing does this so it's imitation is *truly* flawless and acts just like the original person, only sometimes taking control or maybe even like subconsciously "nudging" the host to work in it's interests.

[@ShortyLongstrokin]

Watching Chris try to not smile from ear-to-ear when they're all loving the dog in the the beginning.

[@fleacythesheepgirl]

“Here’s the fun thing about the Norwegian base you get to imagine” That’s so right and chilling. I love that they have knowledgeable fan of the movie.

[@mongooseunleashed]

Well, not anymore

[@cauaviniciusguedes2004]

The Thing (1982) is one of the best movies of all time. This movie is perfect in everything, it's a masterpiece of 10/10. Simply one of the best of the best literally very true good.

[@rastiga9196]

Kurt Russell actually suffered semiserious injury's because after the blood scene he actually threw dynamite and got injured from the concussion of the blast and a little shrapnel. Insane but true. They didn't F around back in the day.

[@siddbastard]

semiserious omg !! that's semi-interresting to the max

[@spikedpsycho2383]

People wonder when BLair was "infected" it may have been either in isolation in his cabin or when he had the pencil in his mouth, he touched the carcass

[@petersonchan9250]

I consider the 80's to be the Golden Age of "practical" fright films! 😅

[@jenny2tone242]

Me too 👍🏻

[@monadreher2428]

The Thing is absolutely one of the greatest horror movies ever made. Personally my favorite John Carpenter film. The Thing (2011) is well worth a watch as well. Also quick edit. Fun fact since I myself just realized this a couple of years ago when I was rewatching this movie. The cook of the research station is played by T.K. Carter aka Gary McCullough of HBOs "The Corner", the show before "The Wire".

[@mwillblade]

The chauffer in "Doctor Detroit".

[@warsongchief1]

2011’s would have been better if the higher ups in the production company didn’t look at the completed movie done all in practical effects (like the original) and decide I don’t like practical effect go over the whole movie and make the Thing CGI.

[@orcasin112]

I immediately burst into laughter at the response by the group seeing the Norwegians shooting at the husky. Ohhhh the surprise they're in for. Chris' response was perfect.

[@TreadHead42]

The order in which they were assimilated was Husky->Norris->Bennings->Palmer->Blair->Gary->Nauls Most likely it was the Kennel thing that assimilated Bennings as they didn’t let it burn long enough, whereas Splitface was throughly burned, and had plenty of time to get Copper and Mac before they left the Norwegian station.

[@JBeezyForever]

Fun facts: this movie absolutely bombed at the box office because it came out at around the same time as E.T. and was also during the middle of a recession. Only made 19 million of its 15 million budget back. It was only after it’s theatrical release that people realized it was actually one of the greatest horror movies of all time.

[@venomfuryx3250]

The critics at the time weren't nice to the movie and dismissed it as a dumb gorefest shlock, but years later it turned out they were idiots lol

[@mihailcirlig8187]

Critics are just idiots overall ​@@venomfuryx3250

[@zachhoward9099]

@@venomfuryx3250critics a lot of times are

[@andys8483]

That reaction to the Thing stomach/mouth scene was priceless 😂

[@GamerKatz_1971]

The best part is everyone being so concerned over the dog. And I'm thinking 'just wait'. lol

[@normandavidtidiman9918]

Moronic reaction to a Sci-fi/horror opening sequence

[@rumuelnathanael8043]

Ikr, if this is real I bet all of them would be the first to being assimilated (died)

[@onelusciouslad7841]

Yep, The Thing preys on our weakest aspects, our love for fluffy dogs

[@Odessa-James]

All those who shouted “Don't shoot the dog” are to blame that the other dogs died!🤣🤣🤣

[@anthonyhudak9363]

Needless to say the practical effects in this really f***ing hold up. What's even more impressive is that head of special effects, Rob Bottin was only 22 when he worked on this. There were so many instances behind the scenes that caused problems like with the infamous defibrillator scene. That was originally meant to be a "budget to do this once" scenario, but not only did the creature not erupt out of the chest like Carpenter wanted, but the flamethrower also ignited several flammable materials that were used for the effects, setting the room ablaze. They then had to set it up again in a very limited amount of time. Bottin would actually be working full 24 hour days at the studio and by towards the end of the shoot was hospitalized due to exhaustion. In fact, the first dog thing creature was done by Stan Winston (Jurassic Park, Terminator), but refused to be credited out of respect for Bottin. I also love the little detail in that scene when it tears its flesh open and the flower like appendage comes out, if you look closely it's a ring of dog tongues covered in teeth. Crazy how inventive and ahead this movie was and even more crazy that it was bashed upon initial release.

[@ninjatoriumnova2483]

Yeah, it's crazy to see that 57 score on Metacritic (because it takes into account old reviews), when it is generally considered to be one of the best horror movies of all time today. And it aged like fine wine, too, from the effects to the general opressive mood.

[@bjohn1027]

Seeing this in the dark theater when it came out was insane!

[@asbjrngrindervalhj245]

You should consider watching the 2011 prequel as well. It is not nearly as good as the original, but it has a couple of really memorable transformation scenes, and it explains every question you might have about the Thule base. How they found the spaceship, how Split Face came to be, etc.

[@tygerchickchibi]

I was a fan of the prequel too. I hope they decide to do that next time.

[@VanDavis]

It's a decent popcorn movie to watch, and they DO try to stay faithful while adding some new details. But it's ALSO a great watch, just to see how AMAZING the effects of the original are when compared to the subpar CGI they end up using in the prequel.

[@ryno1509]

They just overdid the CGI in the prequel

[@battleaxe8252]

They'd probably like that one because of all the CGI.

[@jasondavis2995]

​@@ryno1509agreed there were definitely some moments where you could tell... it was just very meh cgi😩

[@PeterMaranci]

The original 1951 Howard Hawkes movie (The Thing From Another World) and this version are both based on John W. Campbell's classic short story "Who Goes There?", which was later expanded into the novel "Frozen Hell". You all probably don't know it, but Campbell was the editor of _Astounding Science Fiction_ magazine, and was the primary shaper of the golden age of science fiction. In other words, he took science fiction from its relatively crude and pulpy roots and made it what it is today. He mentored many of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, including Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert A. Heinlein.

[@vatolee]

This is one of the best reactions I've seen! Everyone on the couch had hilarious moments. I love the practical effects in this movie.

[@crazyfvck]

An excellent horror movie! :) A few fun facts: -real organs were used in some of the autopsy shots. -They only built one camp. The American camp scenes were filmed first, then they burned it down to film the Norwegian scenes. -That was a real stick of dynamite that Kurt Russel throws to kill Palmer. They didn't realize how strong it was going to be, which is why you seem him get startled/pushed back a bit. You can also see the icicles being knocked off of the building behind him.

[@josephmummerth2516]

when the thing takes you over , it also copies your thoughts , your memories and your personality , and allows you to function as normal ! it exposes itself when defending itself ,or attacking another victim ! it`s not an animal . it`s highly intelligent , and has the knowledge and memories of every being it has copied ! that level of intelligence makes it more dangerous than one would expect !

[@marcharley6465]

I saw this movie at the cinema in 1982 and it blew my mind. It's amazing that the special effects still stand up in 2023. Great reaction, guys and ladies.

[@Jupiterninja95]

In 20 years, great CGI will look like 20-year-old CGI. In 20 years great practical effects will still be great practical effects

[@atheist101]

The Thing not only absorbs people, it absorbs their knowledge. It takes every aspect of you. It's implied that it's been around the galaxy absorbing aliens that are extremely intelligent so it is far more intelligent than any human. Once it gets to a major city the world is over. It would take the world and then make a ship to move on to the next. This is an apocalypse movie so it's basically the end of the world. The Thing has to be the ultimate bad guy of any movie because it can mimic anything perfectly down to your memories and personality

[@TheUltraYusuf]

An absolutely stunning film. One of the best horror films ever made.

[@TheUltraYusuf]

Also Navi is distractingly gorgeous.

[@Khann_2102]

​@@TheUltraYusuf Her hairstyle got me tho

[@TheRManProds]

LOL ALL OF THEM SCREAMING AT THE NORRIS THING PART!

[@GorianXx]

Great reaction! The Thing (2011) wasn't a remake. Its the Norwegian prequel you guys were asking for! Should definitely watch it.

[@firstname4337]

no, its horrible

[@robolavirus8353]

It's not about the Movie, it's about the story, watch it to understand the whole story

[@judahtheechidna5673]

@@firstname4337 sure its not good but atleast it tells more of the story

[@tobyjuanbaloney]

​@firstname4337 it would've been better if they hadn't used CGI

[@byonemesis]

@@firstname4337 I disagree. This movie is what made me watch the 1982 movie as I never heard of The Thing before. And, it turned out to be the prequel of the 1982 movie so I was glad to understand the story.

[@byonemesis]

36:41 "All you had to was to blast the freaking Thing, Windows!" (You might have understood the subtle reference😉)

[@WhatAreMovie]

3:44 Chris' face is hilarious after Pat's comment lol

[@rileyandmike]

These people are so dumb!

[@SightseeMC123]

Best fact: the Norwegian Base scenes were shot after the rest of the movie...because it's the American Base. They destroyed the main sets, then shot them again as the "prequel" area. When you watch the Norwegian Base scenes, it's a parallel to what the Americans do: suicide, burning, attacking the doors with axes, etc.

[@sickleweed3270]

Normies, really wish you would do more horror movies, your reactions are so damn fun to them, can't believe we get only 3 this season. 😩 No matter how any times I've seen this movie the kennel scene is still upsetting cuz of the canine actors, really some of the best acting from dogs in any movie.

[@lucianaromulus1408]

As an animal lover, I just have to keep reminding myself..no animals actually get harmed in these movies 😅

[@bb21again.67]

What 3 are they so I can watch them.The only thing is ,The Thing sets the bar so high not many movies can match it.😊

[@sickleweed3270]

@@bb21again.67 Other than The Thing they also reacted to Blair Witch Project and IT Part 2.

[@Thenormies]

Your wish might come true. We are trying to do one horror move a month starting next year. Fingers crossed it works out with our schedule (Navi)

[@sickleweed3270]

@@Thenormies Thanks! So excited!!

[@Beforezzz]

I think the scariest part of The Thing is the way everyone is always in denial of the dog possibly being the problem. There's very few reactors who actually caught on from that dead giveaway.

[@all1lla197]

@24:43 Navi: 'How many axes does he have?!' Chris, without hesitation 'You have to "axe" him.' Vintage. 💥🤣

[@Elerad]

According to Carpenter, Blair wasn't always a Thing. He was human when he was destroying all the equipment, but at some point Thing Norris or Thing Palmer got to him out in the shed. Oh, and there is a prequel movie set at the Norwegian camp, but it's really not very good.

[@Ravapra]

Blair was infected with the vodka bottle.

[@Mant111]

There's a dialogue where Blair comments on how he's hearing "weird shit" around his shack. It's assumed that the Thing (Norris or Palmer) targeted him knowing that he was isolated and couldn't leave the shed.

[@Chasejones2004]

- John Carpenter is planning on making a sequel The Thing 2, so most likely Keith David and Kurt Russell could be back for the sequel. It would likely ignore the events of The Thing prequel and explore what happened to Child’s and MacReady after the credits rolled

[@JayG63]

Creature effects were done by Rob Bottin, who also did The Howling, Legend, all 3 Robocops (original), Mimic and Game of Thrones, to name a few.

[@antsmasherjack]

There is an interesting theory for why there is a noose in Blair's shed. He was going to hang himself, but the Thing got to him before he can do so. Thus, the guys were talking to Blair who's already infected.

[@LIGHTNING132YTG]

@Thenormies If you guys want the ending clarified a little... There was a video game released in 2002 that answers the question on whether or not Childs and MacReady were Things...neither of them were a Thing. And John Carpenter stated that the game is an official canon sequel that takes place 3 months after the 1982 film, so yes, the Thing does survive this ordeal.

[@michaelmonthey5974]

A great horror movie has to do more than scare the life out of you. It also has to make you think. The Thing is a great example of that. Not only does it have the scariest monster in cinematic history, it also makes you question who you can really trust.

[@JamesASharp]

You can never go wrong with a reaction to The Thing. Great reaction! 👍🏿

[@Clu2298]

My favorite thing about this movie is how much is left to the unknown and minute details. Like how Blair was perfectly fine being quarantined in the shack at first, until they came back for him and he was all like "I wanna come back inside" and we were shown the noose, Indicating the thing had infected him and as it was assuming control of him in the shack and he tried to hang himself to stop it (Like the guy who cut his wrists in the Norwegian camp) but failed and was now fully in control by the thing and... Wanted to come back inside (of course it did). Or how the dog is shown engaging with a silhouette at the beginning who appears to kinda look like Palmer or Norris but in actuality it's none of the main cast, they purposely made it someone that you wouldn't recognize, further increasing suspicion and confusion. God i could talk for hours about this movie! Like Chris said it truly is a perfect movie, 10/10 across the board, my fav horror movie of all time.

[@King_Hyperion89]

In the sequel (PS2/XBOX), with the approval by Carpenter, Childs' body is found but MacReady is missing. In the comics by Dark Horse, Childs is revealed to be the alien. But eventually MacReady is infected.

[@mattskones]

When the dogs face splits, and every one freaks but Chris is grinning like y’all don’t even know yet.

[@robertparker6280]

36:08 THAT was the reaction I was waiting for! And I *KNEW* that was going to be their reactions!

[@joshwi4193]

This movie literally scared the shoes off of Rana 😂

[@eolsunder]

and almost her top.

[@jonc7739]

Mac is burning Windows might be the best joke I've heard about this movie.

[@NickThorbjørnsen2207]

At the beginning the Norwegian guy is saying something along the lines of: "Get the hell away! Its not a dog, its imitating a dog!!"

[@TheKannibalistic]

9:28 Damn, I didn't realize Navi and I were the same person lmao 🙃

[@Takomaru562]

People that just started watching "The Thing" to see the doggo: "aww so cute" Me that seen the move: *Turns and looks at the one that reads this comment and then smiles with those that seen it, then looks back at the video and continues to watch their reactions.*

[@mustarastas88]

Classic kino, one of the best horror movies of all time.

[@rodentnolastname6612]

The blood jump-scare is so effective because it breaks the rule of three. You subconsciously expect the 3rd test to be The Thing and so your brain relaxed when it isnt.

[@ThePyroSquirrel1]

They should watch the remake of the blob, it’s just as good as the thing and the effects still hold up

[@kaybaumann4989]

Great Suggestion, that’s another great classic horror movie.

[@CharlieBrown20XD6]

Some truly horrifying deaths in that one. Nothing worse than slowly being digested

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

9:27 Navi with the honesty 😂

[@user-blob]

Watching reactions to this film is sooooo rewarding. People tend not to expect much from ‘old’ horror films and then they get the brilliance of this!

[@ericnordstrom4335]

Since you have watched the movie I will let you know how the scene in the Norwegian camp was actually the same camp as the Americans. The camp where the Americans were was filmed before the beginning of the movie. There is a 2011 The Thing but it is a prequel to the original one. There is a 1950s The Thing as well.

[@Polymathically]

I was lucky enough to watch The Thing in high school over 20 years ago. It was the end of the school year, and we'd finished the Chemistry curriculum a few days ahead of schedule. So the teacher brought in the movie for all of us kids to watch. It quickly became one of my all-time favorite movies. I've watched it countless times and could probably quote all of it verbatim. The tension and paranoia are palpable. You're right there with them, desperately looking for clues and watching everyone just in case they reveal something. Repeat viewings are interesting because some scenes come off completely differently when you know who's infected. One of the more subtle ones I noticed was during the standoff between Garry and Windows at 26:49. Pay close attention to who is positioned where during the confrontation. Norris and Palmer - the only two present who are infected - are standing off to the side in the hall with Fuchs. They were trying to isolate Fuchs while the rest of the group was distracted. And though he's out of focus in the background, look at where Palmer is staring: _directly at Fuchs._ Some other tidbits: The film was shot in LA, Alaska, and British Columbia. It was actually really hot during production, so they had to refrigerate the set to make it realistic. When Mac and Copper reveal the corpse of the Thing they recovered from the Norwegian camp at 11:17, everyone is coughing and gagging for real, because the production team used smelly AB smoke fluid for the effects during the scene. The TV broadcast also came with brief character introductions. MacReady used to be a test pilot before getting into a confrontation with top management, then resigned and took the pilot job in Antarctica. Childs is an expert mechanic who used to work in the airline industry. Garry has a 30-year career in the army and became an officer. Clark is doing a study on the effects of extreme cold on animal behavior. Palmer intends to open his own business as a mechanic after his work there is done. Norris is a geophysicist and was a professor at Cal Tech. Copper graduated from Harvard, trained at Massachusetts General Hospital, but an unknown personal tragedy caused him to leave and move his work to Antarctica. Bennings has been in the meteorology field long enough to be published many times. Blair is a microbiologist who specialized in cellular growth and laid the groundwork for genetic engineering, and Fuchs worked with him at the Rockefeller Foundation. There are dozens of other interesting details, so you should do some reading. You've seen the first movie in Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy, so you should definitely check out the other two: Prince of Darkness and In The Mouth of Madness. I'd also go with Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Event Horizon, The Descent, 1408, The Faculty, and The Cabin In The Woods. I put The Cabin In The Woods last because the viewer gets more out of it depending on how much experience they have with the horror genre. There's plenty more sci-fi and/or horror out there to see, but this a good start. Happy viewing!

[@belgianheskey]

"the dogs alright, that's all that matters" 😂😂😂😂😂

[@IAmNotARobotPinkySwear]

21:13 - you can hear Windows drop the keys, even the movie subtitles state that if you pause it. This is how the thing got to the blood later in the movie. Also explains why Windows ran for the shotgun when everyone started arguing about who had the keys. So subtle.

[@PeterMaranci]

True about the keys, but it could be misdirection all the same. I'm thinking the Thing could shape a tentacle or bony extrusion into an effective lockpick or key.

[@IAmNotARobotPinkySwear]

@@PeterMaranci Earlier in that same scene he drops the keys, you can hear Windows say he has to return the keys to Garry. I'm pretty sure it was the keys and not misdirection.

[@DANTE83100]

I don't know what was better. Everyone's horror and disgust, or Chris just sitting there with just pure joy.

[@howwlll]

Great reaction, especially the stress and freak outs during the blood test. Rana at 36:30 ahaha

[@addisonscott7808]

I was 29 when this movie came out. I had also read the book the night before I saw the movie. I slept with the lights on that later that night. Thanks for the video, it was amusing watching the reaction of you youngsters.

[@victorsos100]

Paranoia is the number one rule for these kinds movies. Great sci-fi classic!!

[@starbrand3726]

Pat was struck SILENT during the dog transformation scene. Hahaha! And yes, there actually IS a prequel movie and that's exactly what happens.

[@99thJediWarrior]

The Thing was the ultimate horror movie. No music queues so the scary parts have more shock value, a good amount of tension, and attention to detail in the scares as well... it's the epitome of what a horror movie should be.

[@imgettingtoooldforthis]

This is one of the movies where the person that has seen it gets a special kind of joy watching those who haven’t.

[@masamune2984]

“Mac is burning Windows!” Suraj, I’ve never been more proud of you for making a pun. 😂

[@thenickhelms84]

Blair got attacked while he was isolated in the tool shed. If you recall when the team found the creature in the dog kennel it grew some clawed hands and arms, to pull a separate part of itself up into the ceiling to escaped before Childs burnt the other half with the flamethrower. Blair was still human albeit having lost his mind when he was destroying the communication equipment and vehicles in a crazed effort to try and prevent any possibility of the creature making contact with the rest of the world.

[@GuardianOwl]

Something also to consider at the end, with the example of the blood test, once a part of the Thing separates, it has no loyalty to its spawning host. The blood could play dead in order to keep its host's secret, but it too wants to survive. Palmer is a Thing, but sells out the Norris spider head by drawing attention to it: "You've gotta be fuckn' kiddin' me." So both could be the Thing, but still be sus if one would want to destroy the other so that they could be the one that solely reproduces when the rescue team comes.

[@christopherwall2121]

On top of that, there's some debate as to how self-aware the Thing duplicates are; like, are Norris and Palmer aware that they're Things after being assimilated, and if so, are they both aware the other is a Thing, too?

[@GuardianOwl]

@@christopherwall2121 Yes, it is entirely possible they are like sleeper Cylons. Unaware of their true nature until their programming takes the wheel. That's why I don't like molatav cocktail theory, just because its a Thing doesn't mean it wouldn't have the memories to know this is not alcohol it is drinking. Also if you look closely, MacReady was about to take a drink from the bottle before Childs startled him.

[@АртемМельников-ю3у]

Thing has a collective mind, so without a doubt it sacrifices any of its parts for the sake of the ultimate goal - to survive.

[@rwilsonpaladin]

How could you have NOT seen "The Thing"???? It is a classic that still is great today.

[@onelusciouslad7841]

"MacReady, I know Bennings. I've known him for ten years!" "And since when does he have crab hands?" Lmao!

[@AlasdairGR]

12:48 Chris geeking out over vintage gear. A man after my own heart ❤😂