The Thing [1982]

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Suitable for 18 years and over

Uca

Release date: Monday 6th of October 2008

Starring:
Richard Masur, Kurt Russell, T.K. Carter, Richard Dysart,

Director(s):

Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen,
Number of discs: 1
Region code: 2
Running time: 104 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: French (Original Language)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: French (Subtitled)
Language: Portuguese (Subtitled)
Language: Swedish (Subtitled)
Language: Danish (Subtitled)
Language: Dutch (Subtitled)
Language: Finnish (Subtitled)
Language: Czech (Subtitled)
Language: Italian (Dubbed)
Language: Polish (Dubbed)
Language: Spanish (Dubbed)

RRP: £9.99
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John Carpenter's apocalyptic The Thing was released in cinemas just two weeks after E.T. in 1982. The two movies could hardly have presented more contrasting ideas about extra-terrestrial life, and it was Carpenter's uncompromisingly bleak vision that lost out at the box-office. But his audacious remake of the Howard Hawks 1951 B-movie The Thing from Another World has since been acknowledged as a classic in its own right, not only for its pioneering makeup and special effects techniques, but also for its bold treatment of an alien "infection" that eerily foreshadow s AIDS-inspired blood contamination scares. Whizzkid Rob Bottin was responsible for the surreal and stomach-churning make-up effects that are so crucial a part of the film's success--without his utterly convincing creations Carpenter would never have been able to make a monster movie without a "man in a suit"--and filming on a glacier in British Columbia ensured the complete authenticity of the Antarctic setting. Kurt Russell leads a strong all-male cast who powerfully convey their isolation and distrust of one another--in more ways than one this is a film about alienation. The uneasy atmosphere is enhanced by an icily monochrome score from Ennio Morricone, as a series of unforgettable horror set-pieces lead to a wonderfully downbeat finale.

On the DVD:: The bonus features are exemplary, notably the excellent 80-minute documentary, "Terror Takes Shape", which covers all aspects of the production; and the relaxed, friendly, informative commentary by director John Carpenter and star Kurt Russell--a model for how all commentaries should be. There's also an outtakes reel with some tantalising stills of unused footage. Text and stills-based montages illustrate the location design, conceptual artwork and various other aspects of the production. The sound mix is Dolby 5.1, although the non-anamorphic widescreen picture is not all it could be. --Mark Walker

I could be it... and you...
Review date: 2008-11-20 Rating: 10 out of 10

When i watched this movie, I said God don't let it come here. this is a brilliant film about horror and the human fight for survival against an unknown monster.

Buried beneath the ice for thousands of years, a team of Norwegan scientists find the space craft and something else...

An American team get a rude awakening when a gun crzay Norwegan scientist goes berserk on a snow dog running for its life. The Americans kill the Norwegan, welcome the dog and Kurt Russel and a friend back track to the madman's station.

they find the ship. they find the carnage. they find the monster but don't know they did. Soon, the twisted form of the creature reveals itself. the attack is silent but deadly. the discovery is terrifying. the paranoia is beyond belief. you won't know who the thing has immitated till it comes out of your friends body- just kidding- the actor's body.

It betters other extraterestial based flicks for other world monsters finding humans irritating to live with. In Alien, you knew who was the monster. In Predator, you could see the ghost hunter. In The Thing, you don't know who is who, what is what and you don't know if they made it alive. only when Carpenter returns to do a sequel.

Enjoy this but watch the 1951 original (The Thing from another world) and compare.

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this THINGS a classic
Review date: 2008-11-19 Rating: 10 out of 10

this film might have been made in 1982 and it is still amongst the best horror films that i have seen ,the suspense is superb has you try and figure out who will be the next victim and i don't think a better sci-fi horror film will ever be made .i have seen this film so many times yet i was still messmerised while watching my new dvd copy of the film , go and get it you won't be dissapointed.

Wait for the Blu-ray!
Review date: 2008-11-11 Rating: 8 out of 10

This landmark film is let down on DVD by an unsympathetic transfer from a less than wonderful print which jiggles about during the titles and betrays a lot of grain, scratches, and other flaws. As noted, the non-anamorphic picture doesn't help - you have to "zoom in" to get the picture to fill your screen - although the sound is pretty good and the extras are excellent.

The Blu-Ray release is on 1st December 2008, and we should end up with a much better-looking picture. It deserves no less.

More Carpenter than him you die
Review date: 2008-08-03 Rating: 10 out of 10

This film is a sort of Matrix for many modern films about aliens. It has antecedents for sure but they did not have enough special effects and big enough budgets enabling them not to show the zipper in the back of the monsters. The original element is the location: the Antarctica. A place that has been re-used since by a certain Predator when he met with some Aliens of a more recent generation. There, if an alien life form that can penetrate any living organism and take it over completely appears it can disrupt any human group so much that they will self destroy in order to destroy the alien thing forgetting that anyway the alien form can survive even centuries of glaciation because it is not human or animal and hence it is not even sensitive to cold. The alien is always the winner and it will sooner or later manage to learn how to be patient, penetrate a living organism and stay rampant in it long enough to be taken to real society, to millions of people concentrated in small areas That's the idea of the film. And it ends the way it has to end. Two apparently human beings are still alive. One is contaminated, probably not two, but they are going to die of cold in their human form, their human organism. Carpenter even makes one black and the other white and the circumstances he uses makes the black one dubious, suspicious, whereas the white one seems to be the normal one, but who really knows? The alien or aliens will go dormant in the cold, in hibernation. There is no escape, no end. Our human world is bound to be taken over not by more intelligent beings but by biologically more advanced life forms. And we may wonder if our intelligence will be enough to compensate for the handicap.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

Beware - non-anamorphic picture
Review date: 2008-07-07 Rating: 6 out of 10

This is a classic sci-fi film and arguably the best film that John Carpenter or Kurt Russell have ever made.

To modern viewers some of the special effects may look dated now, but they were state of the art at the time. Regardless, there are still some genuinely tense/scary moments in this film.

But I can't understand why so many people have given it a "perfect" 5 stars when the picture on the DVD is non-anamorphic and this results in a tiny image in the middle of your TV screen.

Great film? yes, great DVD? no!

Product Details/Specifications

Actor(s):
Richard Masur
Kurt Russell
T.K. Carter
Richard Dysart

Creators:
Kurt Russell (Primary Contributor)
T.K. Carter (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Uca
Manufacturer: Uca
EAN: 5050582049039
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 2008-10-06
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 104 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1982-06-25
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: French (Original Language)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: French (Subtitled)
Language: Portuguese (Subtitled)
Language: Swedish (Subtitled)
Language: Danish (Subtitled)
Language: Dutch (Subtitled)
Language: Finnish (Subtitled)
Language: Czech (Subtitled)
Language: Italian (Dubbed)
Language: Polish (Dubbed)
Language: Spanish (Dubbed)

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