The Thing (1982) KILL COUNT

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Imagine dying and on your tombstone the name is “Norwegian 1”

When u realize the Norwegians were actually trying to save them, but they get killed by the people they were trying to save

Personally the idea that neither Mac or Child’s are Things is probably my favourite interpretation. Two normal men freeze to death out in the Antarctic spending their last moments paranoid that the other isn’t human.

This particular episode is probably the best case for a recount on the channel right now. To see 2022 James run through this one, delving into the practical effects and behind the scenes work, or going even deeper into theories with deleted scenes (or adding context, like the cut Nauls death scene) would be an amazing one-off.

This movie is the first horror movie where the characters are actually clever

Just looking at Kurt Russell's beard made me more of a man.

I always liked the theory that the introduction of Mac's character foreshadows the ending; him pouring whiskey into an inhuman opponent he knows has ultimately beaten him (the chess computer at the start and Childs-Thing at the end). I also like the theory that the whiskey bottle is filled with gasoline from all the molitov cocktails he was throwing around and Childs-Thing drinks it without knowing the difference. Explains Mac's bitter chuckle at the end too. Whatever the "real" ending I like things being left open to interpretation and speculation. It's part of the reason my friends and I still talk about this movie so long after it came out.

When I first watched the blood testing scene I got frustrated trying to wonder why Mac wanted to test Gary last. A few years later I realized that Mac was smart enough to know every human he confirmed meant someone else that could back him up in a fight untied. He was confident that windows was human so he did him first. He just didn't expect that Palmer was a thing and that was his big mistake.

Also, if you can speak Norwegian the plot of the film is somewhat given away by the screams of the scientists in the opening sequence. Lars says "Get the hell away! That's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! GET AWAY YOU IDIOTS!"

Fun Fact, John carpenter intentionally made the silhouette of the person confusing. He used a person on his film crew and not one of the actors for that silhouette shot so the audience wouldn't know who was first assimilated. Brilliant👌

10:57 “Next up in the test is Clark, who is also a human” “Which makes you a murderer, don’t it?” “Yeah, or just the fastest draw in the south chiles” man I fucking love that line

I like to think both Childs and MacReady are human and that they’re just both waiting for one of them to make the first move. You can just barely see Childs’s breath and since he’s closer to the fires it makes sense for his breath to not be all steamy. I also like to think that Childs either forgot about the whole rule about not drinking or eating off of someone after his whole venture off to find Blair or that he’s at a point where he knows he’s gonna freeze to death (as seen in the video game) so he’d rather risk having one final drink before he dies. This ties pretty good to the video game’s story since you come across a frozen Childs who is also proven human in the game.

To the person reading this, We all know that the doggies got treats for being so good actors!

“This movie should be called Amon-“ “Don’t you dare finish that sentence! Don’t you dare! I’m sick of it!”

What’s crazy and great about the Thing is yes all the characters are smart in an insane moment but also the thing itself is godlike genius entity. It retains all the knowledge of who it replicates and as when cloned Blair, it built a small ufo outta spare parts within a couple hours from scratch within the story mode.

Fun Fact: john carpenter said the scream at 6:44 was the dying screams and cries of all the things it's taken over across the universe. You can even hear Bennings in there

Dog: “are you an actor too?! I’m an actor! I’m supposed to be a really mean alien thing but I also love you and can’t stop wagging my tail! Do you have treats?!”

The fact everyone is still talking and making theories about this movie, just shows how well made it was.

i want to come back here because this video was made before james did full bts on stuff so this went unmentioned: the good/bad boy's name is Jed, and he was quite the dog. A lot of doggy actors are excitable, but Jed was calm, collected, and eeriely quiet. someone on tumblr in a post about it pointed out it feels like every move he takes is calculated. this might be up to him being part wolf, honestly. he died in 1995 sadly.