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The Thing


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Film-Book
Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.s The Thing tried and failed. It failed as a prequel and as a The Thing movie, almost completely ...
Entertainment Weekly
But I'll always get a giddy, kidlike kick watching things go splat and knowing it wasn't done with the help of a hard drive
Total Film
A solid, reverential riff on a horror/sci-fi masterpiece. The frequent homages are welcome, though they remind viewers how m...
The Sci-Fi Block
Its problem is this: it has no discernible goal, aside from what we can deduce from its cinematic origins.
Hollywood Reporter
Female-centric remake of two famous sci-fi thrillers falls short of its predecessors.
Horror Yearbook
Despite a couple shortcomings, at least its not the "Nightmare On Elm Street" remake.
E! Online
Come to think of it, Rare Exports is also about what happens when something buried is dug up. It's really something.
Chicago Tribune
With lots of flamethrowing and good acting, this remake is a good 'Thing'
Chicago Sun-Times
Imagine a creature that can exactly imitate the body and behavior of another life form — so well it could fool you into thin...
Metromix
The players may be different but the sci-fi paranoia play is the same
ReelViews
Despite having the same title as its progenitor, The Thing is a prequel, not a remake.
E! Online
In 1982, John Carpenter knew how to do a remake. Take the basic idea of an older horror movie (and its source novella), radi...
Chicago Sun-Times
This version of "The Thing," directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., provides such graphic and detailed views of the creatu...
Salon Arts
It's full of chills and thrills and isolated Antarctic atmosphere and terrific Hieronymus Bosch creature effects, and if it ...
Entertainment Weekly
Solves the mystery of what happened to the Norwegian research team that was all but wiped out at the beginning of The Thing.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The problem with the new film is that rather than explore the story from a fresh angle, it follows, virtually beat by beat, ...
The Boston Globe
Dutch director Matthijs van Heijningen and company deliver lean suspense, and they update the Carpenter crew's gnarly alien-...
Rolling Stone
One gut-busting death after another, terror giving way to tedium.
San Francisco Chronicle
It's an imperfect facsimile, guilty of borrowing too many ideas from the earlier film, and then executing them with differin...
USA Today
Part horror film, part space thriller and all gore-fest, the movie ends up being a lot like its protagonist: a mess of a mon...
The New York Times
Where the earlier film pulsed with precisely calibrated paranoia and distinctly drawn characters, this inarticulate replay u...
Washington Post
Here's the thing about the new "The Thing." It isn't as satisfying as the old "The Thing." And it's nowhere near as enthrall...
New York Post
This movie is basically a sno-cone "Alien" or "Predator" and we've seen nearly a dozen of those.
New York Daily News
In terms of scares, this old-fashioned "Thing" is better than most new things.
Richard Roeper
It's big on the grotesquery but short on genuine scares.
Film School Rejects
Joel Edgerton and Mary Elizabeth Winstead make silly CG-ridden situations believable, the second and third act move at a bul...
/Film
We’re left with a film that falls so easily into the obvious metaphor: an imitation that is effective for a time but can’t h...
Film Fracture
An all bark, and no bite, horror-thriller.

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Partial Film Information

Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Release: October 14, 2011
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