MacReady has the idea to find out who is infected by running a simple blood test, but an aggressive reaction to the test forces The Thing to fight back.
From The Thing (1982): A research team finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and is starting to hunt them down. Things take a sinister turn when they realise that the creature can take the shape of its victims.
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When the flamethrower fails, you learn that nothing is more scary than losing the control of the situation.
Jorge Tuselli TOTALLY!
The Thing also observed and was able to pick out who was a weak person to assimilate/attack. The least aggressive people got assimilated minus Blair (and its debatable if he was already assimilated when he destroyed the radio room to intentionally isolate himself) the Thing may have known it stood a better chance against them than the others.
Flamethrowers are just like COPY MACHINES at work: They shut down during stressful situations. LOL :-)
Which is a number 1 weapon of warfare
Jorge Tuselli duhh
Did you notice, the guy who cared for the dogs, who loved the dogs, he was alone with the thing more than anyone, and it left him alone.
Where
Where was the guy that care about dog
Oh k
it was a misdirect. he was the one person we as the audience was supposed to thing was def a Thing, and Blair even tells MacReady to watch out for Clark though we have no way of knowing if that was human blair or Thing Blair that either genuinely though Clark was turned, or was placing that seed of mistrust intentionally
Mr. Graves yeah that's a nice thought BUT no.
"This is pure nonsense, it doesn't prove A THING." I see what you did there, Garry. 😂
As I was someone that scene flashup 😂😂😂
Flew right over my noggin
5:45 fun fact: when palmer-thing hits the ceiling, if you look closely at one of the pieces of the roof if actually flies upwards instead of falling down, revealing that this scene was actually shot upside down.
Wow. Never thought of it like that. I kept thinking, eh. Nice to see a hole in the ceiling.
I love looking at how movies are made, the creativity of how some of these shots are pulled off is inspiring
Oh, so the human didn't actually just, naturally... spring up... towards the ceiling? Thank you, Wonder Genius.
I love his "flipping off with the lighter" gesture
@@marcuswhitlow548 He's revealing the trick, smart aleck. You probably wish it was CGI.
This is how horror movies should be. No troubled teenagers, no annoying children, no cgi, no lame sex scenes
I agree, now horror movies are just lame and rely on CGI and jumpscares. And they don’t even have a good plot
@@very_many_days9710 Indeed, it's all just a annoying shit without any reason at all.
In my opinion, CGI is fine if it is done well. Movies like Life (2017) is an example of a great CGI monster Such a shame that movies like the prequel to this do it so badly and give CGI a bad reputation
@@a_cats Exactly. Clovertail would also be a great example. Movies like Godzilla 2008 (not sure if that's the right year) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters have amazing CGI, even if the movies itself aren't...
@Dank Legosi I was saying the Godzilla movies weren't good, but I agree with you, Cloverfield is a fucking great movie.
The scariest thing is how everyone's so damn nervous even when they aren't infected, almost as if they're not even completely sure if they're themselves or not. The Thing really had a flair for paranoia.
I'm aware of that. Just highlighting how everyone's nervous to being infected and having that thing inside of them. There are two ways to assimilate someone after all.
The paranoia reflected in this movie makes it so interesting
there is one way... not two. These men don't know how the thing works.... the only scientist is locked behind a tool shed so these men just think that they can be a thing without them even knowing.
You'd be nervous in that room whether you knew you were human or not--THE THING is in the room, everyone knows it, and it's about to be unmasked...
I knew that you’ll feel that way, so will do you last
The jumpscare at 5:12 couldn't have had better timing. Right in the middle of a strong dialogue while misdirecting your suspects to the wrong guy. Perfection.
It's so well earned. Jumpscares work so rarely for me in horror but this was a masterpiece. Everything with the story and characters contributed to it working so effectively.
And its one of those type of jump scares that even when you know its coming it still make you flinch every time you watch it
Fnaf jumpscare
and it comes immediately in at the title drop, "doesn't prove a thing"
This movie has one of my favourite subversions in any media ever. The way MacReady calls out Gary, while providing evidence (which the audience agrees with) that only he could've been the one to get to the blood, only to have us believe the scene would now have rising tensions until Gary's turn, suddenly flipped on its head when it's instead Palmer just moments after. Such a perfect execution of an intelligent jumpscare.
And then, we're flipped on our head again when it's revealed that Gary, supposedly the only one who could get to the blood, was not a Thing.
It took me a few times watching this that it was Windows who dropped the keys to the blood(turn up the sound to hear the 'clink') when he was in the store room and seen the thing doing its thing. Who got the keys after I still don't know.
Can confirm! Nearly shat myself the first time I saw this scene. I was like 12 or 13 and my family had just gotten a new surround sound system in our home. It was one of those scares that sticks with you! 😂
A more subtle way it misdirects the audience is that Clark passes just before Palmer fails. ...After all, Clark was a prime suspect and the test hasn't been proven to work yet. The film introduces doubts about Mac's line of thought just before it jump scares the audience with Palmer's blood.
im pretty sure whoever the thing assimilated got the keys after they were dropped @@robynstephens166
The fact that there is no music at all in this scene makes it so much more terrifying. Makes it feel realistic.
Better than rising annoying music that just forces u to feel scared
Fucking fantastic
I've always loved how Carpenter in this movie and Ridley Scott in Alien use silence as a way of building tension, the noise of the wind when the Dog Thing is about to assimilate the Huskies is pretty terrifying
It could have used some lens flares and shaky cam though. :-P
Which is why the ORIGINAL is better!!👍👍👍👍
What's shocking in this movie are the names Windows and Mac. Fun fact: Neither both companies were formed back then. The naming were just pure coincidence.....
Dead meat
Microsoft was founded in 1975 and Apple a year later
But the Windows Operating system and the Mac computer were created much later!
Go back to resident evil!
oof it looks like someone else watched dead meat's video >_>
0:54 The look on Child’s face when Macready killed Clark. He literally thought he was bluffing, but he was actually serious. He went from bold to slightly shocked and scared 😂😂😂
I honestly can't blame Mac.
nice detail
Yes, I noticed that. Good acting.
I refuse to see this lol
Yes, but after he shoots Clark, even MacReady himself looks shocked at his own actions.
Kurt Russel and Keith David in the same film, regardless of genre, is just about cinematic heaven.
*Russell
Sgt foley meeting Macready would be awesome. To those who don't know Child's voice actor played Sgt foley in modern warfare 2.
I love when Childs says, “I guess you do” Also love MacReady before they all burn down camp, “Maybe we just warm things up around here 😈”
The Thing was also Keith David's first feature length role.
Couldn’t agree more
It's wayyy creepier without the music. The whole movie was perfect.
Dead silence always is
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@@jorgetomas380 do not agree at all, try to listen a horror movie without sound's, it kills the thrill
@K K have you even watched the movie yet?? lmao. the plot is simple, yet its a great one: the thing isn't really an alien at all. its a cellular disease type of life form. So all the alien looking things it morphs into when it attacks these guys are creatures it killed and assimilated from before landed on earth. my guess is it didn't even build the ufo it laded in, it knew how to from the aliens it killed already. if this thing ever got back as a human to the USA it wouldn't be long before mass infection breaks out. There would be no stopping it, only a matter of how fast or slow it would take to kill everyone and everything, which it would!.. it absorbs any life form, cell by cell, and becomes them to the T, memories and all. it also can use different parts of an animal or person it absorbed in weird combinations for some interesting attacks. like that tentacle it shot at Childs right as he torched it in the dog kennel. if you look closely, the open "flower" at the end of the tentacle is a bunch of dog's lower jaws, teeth, and tongues. a lot of detail and thought went into this creature and tension throughout the film. its a great plot, better than most horror/sci fi films to this day
“This is bullshit Mac. They’re dead Mac!” The Palmer/Thing was panicking here. I love it.
@@cmderp Good spot
Considering Copper and Clark tested negative, I think that was the one time Palmer-Thing was being honest.
@@Shanethefilmmaker That too. Good point!
@Alec Macik That's still Palmer.
you know what the most fucked up thing is that it could clearly communicate with them and understood advanced technology but chose instead to terrify and consume them
This scene is a pure example of horror, which is still frightening. A group of people faced with an unknown and hostile life form, among which one or two people may be infected, only copies of them, creatures that sooner or later will reveal their true disgusting form. And all this is accompanied by silence, which only aggravates the nervous situation more. This is the embodiment of an incomprehensible fear in the ice - to be a monster or to be a man among monsters.
Not quiet silence, there is still a far off low wind noise just loud enough to add to the horrid tension.
A M O N G U S
@@3takoyakiswe left that years ago
MacReady is such a great character because he's written as an actually intelligent person in a horror film. I've always found it funny how, in a base of scientists, it was the helicopter pilot of them all who came the first to a conclusion for testing who is who, just based on what little empirical evidence they observed about the thing's biology.
To be fair, everyone with a background in biology was already dead or compromised at this point. Indeed, the only one left who might have been a scientist was Gary.
I found this weird for the same reason. The helicopter pilot is in charge? How did this happen? There is several PhD's and he, for some reason, gets put in the lead?
@@kendallevans4079natural born leader. People who glorify phds dont get it. There's knowledge from remembering stuff in books, but there's also quick thinking and analysis. It is demonstrated everyday including real life. Some people are more theoretical, some are more down to earth and practical. People who grew up in comfortable jobs can also be too soft to lead.
The phd peeps were not decisive. There's natural leadership, charisma, etc that are not obtained with a phd.
@@Dabrownman1812 Nice heart warming life lesson....but this isn't a video game, and it doesn't answer anything. How do you know he will be a "natural born leader" by his consumption of alcohol?. Spare us the grade school homilies about "real life" this is a 2 hour movie!
“WINDOWS BLAST HIM!!!” Windows.EXE is frozen
Hahaha
This is stupid! Russel didn’t come up with this experiment he saw it in that lice episode of South Park!
Go figure
*annoying sound*
@@stewartwatson7136 this came out in the 80’s way before South Park
"So he was human. That makes you a murderer don't it." Uh... no. You're not a murderer for stopping somebody from trying to shank you.
Its kind of a double edged sword situation. Maccready was deadass threatening others at gun point whilst acting like a deranged mad man, for all Clarke knew he was either an alien or a paranoid lunatic about to kill them one by one. Were Clarke's actions logical? Were MacCreadys? If anything was any of this justified? Depends if you're the one being tied up or the one holding the gun.
I think he did it to call out clarke and see what he would do
I mean from a technicality standpoint, yeah youre a murderer, however it’s self defense
Aka self defense
He's a murderer, but he should be no criminal
I love 3:25 when Palmer is seen looking at the blowtorch. It appears as if he is analyzing the situation and trying to strategize a way out without being discovered as the thing. However, as the video progresses and you reach 4:59, Palmer seems to come to the realization that he is out of options. At this point, he accepts that he will have to fight back with force to survive. Reply
Yes you are right..... It was like he was thinking dam they got me
I love how even the Thing is a little afraid to die, and trying its hardest to survive. And when confronted with almost certain death, it seems dejected and upset, before lashing out with all the brute force it can muster to survive.
He has that same stone cold stare that the wolf had at the earlier parts of the movie, just watching the helicopter take off and land. So creepy
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@@Resi1ience Wonder how long it takes to regenerate from a few surviving cells.
One thing this scene highlights better than any other is how STRONG the thing is -it bursts out of the rope like it’s nothing -lifts the sofa bursting out with Childs and Garry still tied to it -lifts windows off the ground with its bare hands (and mouth) for like 20 seconds like he’s a sandwich And on a side note, it jumping to the ceiling is a fantastic touch, it makes the thing feel THAT much more incomprehensible
Windows sandwich
And bursts through the wall WHILE being burned. The only reason it probably didnt attack McReady in a "taking you with me" attempt was because it goes in full panic mode and seeking to kill the flames in the snow.
@@guilhermehank4938 yeah, and dear god poor windows after he torches it
Hold Windows -not so- gently like -sandwich- hamburger
Yes, the ceiling bit! Like some unknown organism.
Just imagine how helpless and doomed these men would be if MacCready was the thing?
That was the point. Nobody trusted each other, they certainly weren't gonna tie themselves ip because someone told them to.
If Mac was the thing he would just dont do anything when windows got assimilated, everyone else was tied up
I can see, on a individual scale, Childs holding his own due to his cautious nature(even the he wouldn’t thought of the blood test). Nauls and Windows are on the same boat of being doomed Without Macready; and Gary ... I don’t know. Gary is sort of hard to peg when it comes to surviving or holding his own.
@@etarver13 not if they're tied up, if Macready was the thing. Nothing would have stopped him from assimilating the whole group.
@@etarver13 Gary was helpless to defend himself from Blair Thing.
5:00 _"This is pure nonsense. It doesn't prove a THING."_ lol.
Lol
*I thought you feel that way Gary you were the only one who could have gotten to that blood we’ll do you last*
@@theggamer2824 Gary."what you bum me is that what your gonna do..."?
Even funnier when you see that the Captions had fun with that part when you turn them on. XD
@@theggamer2824 actually in this movie the character's name is spelled Garry
I love the fact that as soon as the “Palmer Thing” is exposed it transforms and attacks the person it sees as the most dangerous in the room at that moment which is Windows because he had a working weapon, and it shows how sluggish the thing really is in a fight.
I wish the prequel didn't turn that on its head with how easily it dealt with a room full of humans
Windows is the closest threat and of course freezes, panics.
5:12 This movie didn't exactly scare me that bad, but this part made me jump so bad god damn Also I love the way it just casually strolls outside while burning up like "aight imma head out" and just falls over lmao
lmao
Interesting thought, perhaps it was instinctive for the Thing to go outside into the cold as quickly as possible to mitigate the damage and freeze so that it's burnt cells could regenerate like the first one they find in the Norwegian camp.
The sound effect contributed a lot to the jump effect
@@satireisnotdead5804 The Thing probably goes into panic mode once its burned so it was trying to put itself out in the snow. MacReady caught on to that and blew it to tiny burning pieces.
@@guilhermehank4938 Aye, he probably remembered that the Norwegian two-faced Thing wasn't truly dead even after it had been burned so he didn't want to take any chances. That said there are still the individual pieces that Palmer was reduced to once he'd been blown up, there's every chance they could recover and form their own organisms, which somebody could find and bring back with them.
when you most need it, Windows always freezes.
Underrated
Meanwhile, the Mac takes forever to boot up
LOLOLOLOLOL THAT WAS AMAZING. Comment of the year
The funniest part is that this movie was made before Apple and Microsoft where ever a thing
Yes lol so relatable 😆
In my opinion this like the most realistic alien movie ever honestly.
In that case, rather not find other life on other planets then
I agree.
@@SStupendous Too late, as we are already here.
@@keirboyko -_-
There is a theory that says that the Thing is not the alien that built the ship, but another species that the original travellers encountered and that got assimilated by the thing. That would explain why the ship crashed
The creepiest part is when you hear the internal yells of Palmer's body as it starts transforming. If you notice at 5:19 nobody else in the room is yelling or reacting in such a way. Although the thing supposedly kills its prey before assimilation, still makes me wonder if the former person is still in there somewhere wishing the nightmare to be over.
thats just an error, look at the shot before the black guys screaming yet you cant hear him then you hear him, its just an editing mistake
No, thing does not kill its victims. They are still alive in both body and soul, just the cells are not theirs anymore
What??
It's sad that your comment gets upvoted so high despite being factually incorrect. @saint698 said it perfectly, it's just an editing mistake. That's Nauls screaming but it doesn't match some of the shots.
@@M1551NGN0 Stupidity. There's nothing spiritual about it. And the body, since you clearly don't know, is made up nearly entirely of cells.
Really love this scene in particular because you are forced to see the protagonist through the eyes of his captives - a sleep-deprived mad man wielding a flamethrower, taking your blood and preventing you from moving or defending yourself. For all Childs knew, Mac was a Thing and had already won. The blood test could have just as easily been a ploy to get its cells into an open wound of theirs (on their thumbs). You can’t enjoy the movie without feeling the unique kind of fear from every single person’s perspective, and that’s what makes this a masterpiece.
Every vote during Among Us goes something like this.
The Thing is Among Us with RTX on
Literally it turns into pure chaos
And better yet, the Polus map is based off The Thing. (also the kill animation i think)
Yeah, I think itd be cooler if they had more shapeshifting deaths instead of just a weapon. Whenever someone draws the Impostor they always have like a knife or something I think itd be cooler if they put in more creativity and made their own Thing Abomination
I swear me and my friends did the whole fUcking blood test scene from the Thing and we were all named the characters I was Palmer ya da ya da
It always kills me a little inside whenever characters in movies cut their thumbs whenever they need to draw blood, you use your thumbs for just about everything, that's going to be days of unnecessary agony.
I was more pissed that Windows uses the same scalpel for every person in the group like he forgot they were dealing with a highly contagious alien pathogen
@@jeremyallen492 You can swap blades on scalpels pretty easily. I imagine he had a pack of clean new blades in his pocket or something.
@@kegmonkey5648 judging by how he wiped it off on his pants at one point (like an idiot) I very much doubt that's the case here
@@kegmonkey5648 They could’ve used Clorox wipes to clean the scalpel in between everyone.
2.17 .. the only 'part' of the movie I have to close my eyes ..
Must admit, I always felt sorry for Clark in this scene. He was a simple guy who loved his dogs and had more of a bond and connection with them than he did most humans. Anyone who’s ever owned a dog can relate to that. Shame he had to die the way he did in this movie.
It adds a bit of humanity I think to the movie. He didn't want to die over something that they had no clue if it would work? And it adds that tension of you can't trust anything on anyone much like the chest defib scene helped ensure you would never trust anything to be dead.
died the sweetest death in the whole movie. He went quick and painless. Evem McCready and Childs freezed to death at the end.
@@bigbrotherishere I suppose when you look at it that way, you have a point. Although I’m still convinced Child’s was The Thing at the end. Just my two cents 👀
Their love for dogs. Period is what got damn all of them infiltrated, and killed. They see men in a helicopter shooting at a dog running straight to their camp. Common sense should've told them...why would men in a helicopter be so desperately trying to shoot a dog? I wouldve been real suspicious of that dog from the beginning.
@@gaticusx2933 To be fair, they are in Antarctica. The isolation, dark nights and temperatures are enough to drive anyone stir crazy. MacReady himself was clearly an alcoholic stemming from the boredom. They probably assumed the guy lost his mind. Also, he was brandishing an assault rifle and taking pot shots at the station.
This film is the very definition of 'dread'. This scene is the very definition of 'suspense'.
Watch Dead and Buried, another ,80s horror film, full of constant dread
I love how Mac uses logic to create this test; something rarely seen in horror
I love it because it is utter genius in its simplicity. Really, in retrospect the concept behind the blood test seems obvious, but how many of us thought of it ahead of time or ever would have? Even with the hint provided by Dr. Copper's suggested blood test, I think most of us would never make the leap that Mac did.
WHAT! A CHARACTER USING LOGIC IN A HORROR MOVIE?!
@@k9cobra728 Yep By the way i love this movie
um mac did not make the test, copper did in conversion with mac in an earlier scene
@@Ghostface2_ His test involved comparing uninfected, old blood, with fresh samples from each of them but that plan was aborted when all of the old blood was found to be tampered with. This new plan is something MacReady came up with on the spot.
Palmer's expression right before the test is so funny and kind of nonchalant "Oh well. I guess my goose is cooked."
Part of him was probably hoping it would not work...but it did, and was officially put in a corner.
1:33 He was mad too knowing that he'd be unmasked as a Thing. That's why he mauled Windows when exposed in a fit of rage while assimilating him.
@@RelsisFido Palmer was no longer there the moment he got exposed. A Thing makes a perfect copy of an original, thus I imagine even the personality and memories of a human being is perfectly copied. But when the Thing breaks form, it reverses back to primal I guess and goes into assimilation mode as quickly as possible.
@@MissFlow Remember the Blair-Thing was very stealthy when it infected Gary and Nauls. Also look how the Dog-Thing acted while alone. Yes, it imitates perfectly but it only chooses to do it while around others in order to not show itself. Therefore the Palmer-Thing knew it was not getting out of being exposed which was why it was angry. It didn't see much of a point in hiding anymore except for the slight chance MacReady would change his mind about testing its blood.
Indeed! His expression is rather resigned, indeed.
5:53 I love Window’s pure terror while looking at Thing Palmer
Just saw this in theaters tonight and this is definitely my favorite scene out of the entire movie, the atmosphere is just so intensely nerve-wracking and Palmer's reveal is just so visually awesome I couldn't look away
Just saw it in theaters? That’s pretty amazing. I’d love to experience it that way, but I’ve never heard of a theater rerunning it. What theater did you go to?
among us ruined every comment section for videos about this masterpiece
Glad I’m not the only one that thinks this. Before it was about subtle cues and details. Now it’s, “Hur hur! Dat’s jus lek amog es!” Fucking dreadful...
@@RockorSomething83 ur acting a lil sus bro
@@RockorSomething83 I feel like that with songs that end up in recent trendy movies/series. Like, just today I found out that an specific beach boys' song video is now a gattering for marvel fans. Completely random, out of the blue and pretty awkward and unconfortable. It happens way too often with music that has a close following with long time admirers of it but suddenly turns into "that movie's song!!!11", and becomes a quote museum.
It's not that serious stop getting over emotional over virtually nothing besides I see 1 in like 100 comments regarding that.
@@shangothunder1055 you're 12
"I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter *TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!*"
Palmer was not the imposter
Best line in the movie by Gary
@@Roachh2877 don't ruin the moment
Stupid Gary and his perfectly shaped butt!!
I liked Gary, especially for that
One of the best horror movies I've ever seen.
My favourite film of all time
Really, an underrated part of the scene that really makes it work is MacReady’s mounting doubt with each passing negative test. You really get the impression that he’s starting to worry his plan doesn’t actually work, and everyone is going to hang up on him after the fact.
That'd explain his shocked reaction when one finally reacts and reacts hard!
i absolutely LOVE that little smirk palmer gives right before macready tests his blood. pure defeat yet pure amusement. almost as if he’s like, “welp here goes nothing, hope they’re ready lmao”
LMAO
It has a sense of humor
“Ayy lmao”
“Oh well…”
😆
you can honestly feel the tension in the room unlike what any other movie has done at the time. what a masterpiece
I thin, it's the lack of music but the sense of ever present danger.
That's cause you're dead Thanatos
I think one of the best thing about this movie is that IT BUILDS UP. One of the thing that hits the Nail is that US viewers are able to put ourselves in this situation and can understand the Nervousness of everyone in the room. Who's real and who's the thing.
all scary films do today is lame jump scares instead of atmosphere of horror
The building tension and thick, atmospheric paranoia is what makes this movie so damn good! Few horror films ever do it successfully.
I was stuck home during a intense lake-effect snow storm. I played this movie, and it set the mood for the rest of the storm. This is my all-time favorite movie. Ive loved this movie since I was a little kid. Im so glad my parents never filtered what I could watch as a child. Im tempted to have a Palmer-thing tattoo drawn up.
Nearly 40 years old and the special effects on Palmer to this day are outstanding...so creepy. Best Horror movie ever made
Yup....no CGI here.
fuckin right! 4eva CLASSIC
Damn fucking right this is true movie magic no CGI needed and it was better then eny horror film today
Eh, would say "Perfect Blue" is a much better film.
Bob Bottin.. he's the best.
They NEED to play this again in the cinema's. Absolute fricken classic.
I’d love to see a limited re-release on cinemas for its 40 anniversary, I hope it happens
Wonder if they've got like a director's cut to the movie, like what they recently did with rocky 4
@@richard7645 Yes I would love to see the scenes of the leaked pictures of Childs and Palmer in the green house
Only if it's the original film reel and not the HD version.
We should making a petition
I like when one person says "Doesn't prove a thing" and by the end of the scene it, well, it has PROVED A THING. Literally.
This is a contender for greatest individual scene in cinema history. The perfect capture of tension and paranoia as you see the test one after another wondering if it will even work or if they are all human. It is simple perfection. This scene is right up there with scenes like the diner scene in Heat, the scene in True Romance between Walken and Hopper.
You can actually see palmer get slightly nervous as Mac says he gonna test everybody's blood this movie is soo good
I really thought it was gonna be Windows since he complained about dying. Either way, I knew he wasn't gonna make it.
Yeah you can see him visibly breathe in deeper he’s definitely nervous
"This is bull$#% Mac. They're DEAD Mac!" -The Thing (in disguise as Palmer)
@Charles Williams That's not what yeet means...
He's the thing , he was assimilated off screen.
“We’re gonna draw a bit of everybody’s blood” *Rips open Nauls’s finger with the knife*
XD
No kidding. All they needed was a quick stick. Instead, just run the scalpel over the ball of everyone's thumb? Excessive.
wouldnt the thing even object to being cut open with a scalpel ?
@@CFox.7 I was just thinking this too! I love the movie and wish I hadn’t have noted it cause now I’m all confused
@@donnadoddridge1788 its smart enough to follow through, if it didnt it would be exposed, and due to the flamethrower being used it would die
just realized, who starts screaming at 5:17 realized that no one in the scene was shown to be screaming. But there's clearly someone screaming.
I think it’s the inside of Palmer
5:40 The way it flails around trying to get free. 😂🤣
Error: Windows could not perform the requested operation Meanwhile the Mac takes forever to boot up
This is actually pretty accurate to how they perform lmao
Crazy how those names were a complete coincidence.
*TRIGGERING FIREWALL*
@Maranan King James I beg to differ I've used Windows computers my entire life and they work fine. Mac computers take forever to load
@@mattgerrish908 If you have used a windows computer your entire life, how do you know how mac performs?
My dad showed me this movie when I was around 14 Perhaps one day I may forgive him
Well my mom took me to the theater to watch the exorcist when i was 5. It was horrifying.
I would’ve thanked my dad if he did that
You should thank him. This is great
6. Favorite movie since
@Bakanio Bakanio very true!
The way you can hear Palmer’s scream even though he is sitting calmly always freaks me out!! So eerie! 😨 5:20
Ikr? I wonder if it's on purpose.. Coz if it wasn't, it's a good mistakes bc it freaked me out as a kid
It's an error but, okay go with what you think I guess.
Just saw this movie last night for its 40th anniversary in theaters. My God this movie hits different on the the big screen.
3:39 I absolutely love the look on Windows' face. It's like that he doesn't even know if he himself is a thing or not. What if it's living inside of him and it's about to reveal itself? The terror on his face speaks volumes!
@@DrDeuteron Ahhh! 😂😂😂 I see what ya did there!
@@DrDeuteron No worries, Firewall is gonna help Windows :)
Well he became one and died in the worst way possible shortly after...
I thought Windows was going to attack.
@@zejaguar Yeah, no wonder Palmer said he wasn't going with him. He was scared that he was gonna be exposed.
This scene has everything at the same time. The suspense of guessing who is infected, the horror when the Thing kills Windows and the comedy of the three men tied to the chair struggling to escape while chaos ensues. Well shot, edited and acted. John Carpenter at his peak.
An artful redirect as well - MacReady turns to address Garry first, pointing out that he had the keys that gave access to the blood bank, which was sabotaged. It directs our attention to Garry, as we expect him to be the Thing with the intel we have at the time. “We’ll do you last,” just before Palmer-Thing’s blood exposes him as the true imposter.
Probably shouldn't have tied them all together to the same bench XD
And the realization that the main character is a murderer
@@artistrg3487 given the situation, I’d say he was pretty justified to shoot
@@reidhersey4386 True. But the other characters are now even more paranoid knowing that he is indeed capable of killing another man.
This scene shows exactly what the thing is about. The thing is no mindless killing machine but an alien species that is more about hiding, infiltrating and escaping. It's never directly indicated that it is about mindless killing but rather stealthily taking over and spreading like a disease. The thing never shows its vicious monstrous form UNLESS attacked, threatened or cornered like in this scene or during the defibrilator scene.
carpenter, this is how creators, artists innovate. They are usually young, gifted, and misunderstood. The herd hates it; you know it’s good- just human emotion. This is a favorite piece of art: sound, dialog, acting, innovation, and psychology. Thanks C
Well said.
I like it when MacReady says, "We're gonna find out who's the Thing." And the camera moves directly to Palmer. Great scene from an underrated classic.
Grade A foreshadowing
When foreshadowing actually removes 1 sin instead of adding 1
"We're gonna find out who's The Thing... 1982."
The thing is great but definitely not underrated lol
@@nyancat.123 It is a great movie. But it was underrated at the time of release. It was actually almost a box office flop. Of it's $15 million budget, it only made $19 million back. Not a total loss but definitely not a major success. E.T. was killing everything at the time. But I love that The Thing is considered a cult classic.
the lack of music is perfect
^
Music: AAAAAAAA
One of my grandfathers saw this film in the theater and he said there was music during this scene. Why it was removed, I have no idea.
4:45 Absolutely LOVE this Childs’ expression. It’s freezing.
"This is pure nonsense...doesn't prove a thing." Actually Gary it DOES prove a Thing
If you watch it frame by frame, you can see that glob of blood jumping out showing fangs and small arms...insane!
Haha, really? Wow.
Ok, I tested that by playing the clip a 0.25 speed and; I saw the arms, but no teeth. Either way, great thinking and powers of observation mate. =)
@@enviritas9498 Hmmmmm, interesting observation; the shadow *did* had curly hair if I remember correctly, so you're most likely right. Sweet! =)
Yeah, it does. Pretty impressive how they did it.
@@enviritas9498 You are talking nonsense. Just because a 'dog form Thing' assimilated you doesn't mean that your blood would be a natural dog defense Thing form. Literally makes no sense and you are pulling 'things' out of your behind Also, Palmer wasn't the one assimilated by the dog; that was Norris. You can work out the order of assimilation through basic deductive logic, and it was not Palmer who got dog assimilated
4:59 I like how since Palmer is a Thing, and the Thing knows it's gonna get found out in a moment, it just kind of goes "Welp" and doesn't really know what to do. It waited until they got to Palmer's blood so that it could catch Kurt Russell's character off guard but got extremely lucky with Windows freezing like he did
Yeah macready got unlucky as he has a gun jam and windows was not the best for this job being just the radio guy and he could ask the rest for help as they were completely untrusting of him while windows had very little experience if it weren’t for that windows could’ve survived longer
“Well, I gave it my all, that’s what counts…”
That's kinda sus.
Windows freezing.....dude did you install fire fox like I told you...no....god dammit"!
@@doolenny9458 not to mention Windows was the one who trusted McReady the most. McReady also had a similar sentiment to him since Windows was the only one who wasn't tied up and got the blood of others
5:10 if you look closely you can see that it’s not Kurt Russels hand but a fake hand for the special effect thing to pop up
My Top Five. This, Robocop, Aliens, Terminator 2, and Back to the Future are the greatest movies of all time.
One detail I didn't notice until I rewatched the movie, was that the Thing wasn't only talking in human form, but also using slang like "bullshit." Shows that it is far more intelligent despite having no lines outside of its assimilation.
It takes over a host so most likely gains its intelligence and memories to not be different from the original
A Thing is a perfect copy of an original organism. So even the braincells and connections in the brain would be replicated, thus even the personality of a human being is copied. Every cell of your body is perfectly copied. Hence why Norris Thing had heart problems just like original Norris. The 1 element that sets a Thing apart from an original is that it breaks form when discovered or trying to assimilate a new host.
@@MissFlow yep, they panicked if someone found out their identity which scatter all the process of the asimillation just like Bennigs
@@MissFlow There are also two ways to assimilate a person. One is the violent/fast assimilation (example>Bennings) and slow assimilation (example>Blair). Blair knew he was infected when he run the computer simulation showing how fast the infection can engulf the world. He autopsied the alien infected corpses and some of it entered his body and his body slowly gets assimilated and the final stage is taking over his brain.
@@MissFlow *The Thing* is.. "Norris" didnt have a heart attack. It was taking him from the intestines. He ate it. Fuchs was right! We need to eat out of cans..
Mac: “Windows, BLAST HIM” Windows: error 404
Windows: Has Disconnected From Mcreadys Group Chat.
Abort, retry, fail. Abort, retry, fail. Abort, retry, fail. Abort, retry, fail. Abort, retry, fail. Abort, retry, fail.
Love how Childs kept screaming "GET ME OUTTA HERE!"
What's cool about this scene is that they retained some of what MacReady said in the blood test of the original story this is based on. Like that "blood won't obey" line is straight out of "Who Goes There?"
I envy anyone who's never seen this film and decides to watch it for the first time.
If they not a horror fan lmao
I watched this film for the first time ever a few days ago and right in the middle of the movie i said "this is one the best movies i've ever seen" and when i finished watching the movie i said this is the best horror film ever made. Truly a masterpiece and a must watch
I finally watched it and was amazed how I've never seen this movie. I'm huge on the Alien, Predator, series. Really surprised this movie evaded me somehow. When I went to bed it gave me strange dreams.
Never like the first time!
Couple of years ago. Saturday Night on October. Alone in the living room. My two cats asleep on the couch. A bowl of salt and vinegar’s chips on my lap. Found that movie on TV by pure luck. One of the best evening of my life.
I love how at this point in the movie everyone is so unsure of who’s a human that they’re even questioning themselves you can see windows sigh from relief after his blood is tested. Real fear
I guess it's fair, they knew people could get infected and weren't sure if the Thing was so good at mimickry that it could even convince itself it wasn't the Thing until instinct kicks in. There was no way they could be sure of anything, which makes it even cooler ahah
The irony is that the 'Thing' in human form knows that it is a Thing, which is obvious; but the people don't know if they are or aren't, since what if they were subtly assimilated from a Thing's cell getting on them through fluid transfer or some such? That isn't a violent assimilation, so would the 'host' even know they got assimilated? Or would it, in that case, be a dormant assimilation, and only when the Thing actually 'takes control' and induces biological changes on your body that you realize "Oh sh*t, I'm f*cked!!!" and then your head splits open as tentacles flail out, attacking and spearing your friends, of which becomes your last sight before the 'death' of an activated assimilation occurring
@@pyropulseIXXI Honestly that just makes me think how horrifically painful those transformations must have been, yikes.
"Now I'll show you what I already know" they used that line in the video game a lot.
Fun fact: at 6:00 and 6:01 if you pause right, you can see the stunt man inplace of the Palmer thing. Notice the green sleeveless shirt, and the normal arms.
Congratulations. A goof.
Good eye
The sound of the wind from the storm outside makes this scene even more creepy.
I know, it's like it's trying to tell you that the Thing isn't stuck in there with the guys, the guys are stuck in there with the Thing, and their chances of escape are very slim
reminding everyone how far away from civilization they are... and alone with an alien that can look human... very good idea for a horror movie
The DVD commentary on this scene by Carpenter is hilarious. "It's nuts. It's a nightmare. It really is a vision of Hell as far as I'm concerned. I mean, if this was happening in front of me in reality, I would say.....well, I guess, uh....I guess that's about it." 😂
Yeah, I have it!! Listen to it regularly. The whole commentary by Carpenter and Russell is actually really funny and also gives many little tidbits about the filming process.
"this is a scene about a hat"
Haha yeah. I had a similar thought when I saw the baby monster in Resident Evil Village. I remember thinking if I knew a creature like that was alive and existed near me, I just wouldn't wanna live in this world anymore. XD
I've been an avid movie buff for more than 50 years. I have watched thousands of films, all the classics, but I would have to say this movie is one of the greatest films ever made!
This is one of the scariest scenes ever in a horror film
5:15 The look on the Cooks face would of been me. Absolute mind blown Terror
The crazy thing is with this horror movie is that it may be from 1982 but this film is still one of the scariest horror movies today. This is a one of a kind horror movie.
along with THE FLY
My favorite movie ever. I still gotta see The BLOB. That looks scary as hell.
I agree
@@isoldag.n4442 you are right. 80's horrors were no joke.
Thing 2014 was far scarier compared to this though.
The thing is a very terrifying concept. Imagine a being that can assimilate any living being it touches. It absorbs their very souls, which explains how they can imitate the former humans so well. In a way they are still who they once were, they just belong to another host. Pretty eerie to think about... Imagine somebody close to you whos been assimilated. They still know you, still remember everything that has happened between you and them, yet theyve become something else too. Sounds like a creature straight from hell.
It’s so horrifying, probably the scariest fictional creature ever
Its inside you right now...its called PARASITES
It's scarier to think that such a thing like that could be out there in the known universe ☠
Sounds like whatever happened to my ex ..
human beings have a great imagination for the horrific
5:15 look at carter's reaction 😂😂😂
It's hard to express the experience of seeing this 40 years ago in a theater. GCI was just starting out (and not used in this movie). Practical effects were still what was used. We didn't have the 'expectations' or normalcy of big budget CGI. Movie like this, or "American Werewolf in London" would just blow you away. And it wasn't just the effects, the story telling was awesome because it had to be.
I like that the people in this movie are not ill equipped or stupid like most horror movie characters.
@Rose Roberson I meant mentally equipped but what you said is true. That is another part of what adds tension.
Well... sure what was the other guy with the flamethrower doing ? It wasn't even like he was frozen in terror or something he aimed at the creature then... didn't do anything.
Jeepers creepers 1 was good acting and jeepers creepers 2 had wonderful acting and those were first time acting teenagers
That makes it scarier, they behave exactly the way a normal person with a survival instinct would.
Poor Windows, man. His death was one of the worst by far. And he was so scared for so much of the movie, too.
True! He is personally one of my favorite characters I like Fuchs Mac Nauls Copper and Garry too
Yeah, he was the most scared dude in the movie and he got it one of the worst ways. AND, by the "guy" who kept throwing suspicion onto him LOL 😆
I wanted him to live
I agree. Gary too. That one looked awful.
Windows reminds me so much of Hyde from that 70’s show. When he walked in on bennings, his mannerisms were exactly like that of Hyde’s.
This scene is just so perfect.
the fact that the thing is sentient enough to give a quirky little smirk before his blood test is really funny to me
Scream opening scene: what not to do in a horror movie The Blood Test from The Thing: what to do in a horror movie
@Skat3r Puls3 I think what scammy mean here is that this scene is what people IN a horror movie should do, and the opening scene in Scream is what people IN the horror movie shouldn't do. I don't think he's talking about the actual quality of the scenes. (They're both great)
@@crocodileguy4319 There have been clichés that lead him to talk about this.
I love how the Thing gets upset with Mac for making it tie up a couple of corpses for no reason.
Demona938 1:05. It’s clearly annoyed that it is performing a useless task, as it knows they were both human (at least we assume it does). Also, Palmer doesn’t know that the blood test will even expose him, not even Mac knows for sure that it will work.
Caleb Horton The thing is psychologically and technically a genius. It's only out was to cause doubt in the group. Insinuating a waste of time might cause questioning of the blood test which some of the group did.
@@LeagalizeCrime And yet it spends all that time assimilating Windows instead of just tearing his head off and going for the vulnerable MacReady, then finishing off the other crew members. The Thing's intelligence always seems to go out the door whenever it's exposed. It's cunning and clever when it's hidden, but as soon as the jig is up it acts like a feral animal, attacking anything that poses a direct threat and ignoring the rest until they also threaten it. This is what annoys me about the creature: it's not consistent. Sometimes it's smart and in control, sometimes it sits there and goes "Boogity boo" at the good guys until they kill it. This is what happens when you let the special effects guy direct the scenes instead of the director.
Ikrani The thing is frustrated that Mac has taken control of the situation. It’s also still trying to pretend it’s human and show remorse for the corpses.
@@calebhorton4701 More like I think he was trying to display empathy and sound logic to appear more human
One thing that makes the scene so good is, besides the dialogue of the actors, the only other thing you hear is the wind blowing outside. No low music playing at all. Gives a creepy feeling to an already bad situation. Great scene!
When I first watched this on TV, I turned it off after this scene thinking that was the end of the movie, a happy ending. There was a commercial anyway. When I saw it again a few years after that, I was surprised that there was more to the film and there definitely was no happy ending. Back then I thought why didn't they just try and communicate with the alien, just talk things over. Try and find a peaceful solution. But that was the days when we were brain-washed by nice, family sit-coms which taught us all that BS. Today, I know better that talking things out just does not work most of the time.
This is hands down the greatest scifi horror film ever made
Sci fi &horror are very tough to combine /I like how john carpenter distorts and extends time /scene with Fuchs &he runs outside with flare,then 10 minutes later he is burned ,Maccready shows up an hour later ,you never know how long the time duration is &how did thing get to doctor in locked up shed .
I agree. Every person i have shown/suggested this movie has loved it. This is best of horror cinema.
@@Nostalgia_Addict I like a sequel /spring :rescue team ,they set up a tent city and do autopsy ,then a plague of ants come out ,then after an hour they realize there are no ants in below zero tempature,thing jumps out and from autopsy ,bodies get warm and another thing pops out ,I have watched this movie at least 20 times ,a classic will always show you something new.
see stalker and the rest of the world. it's not only america.
Yeah, its only really competitor I can think of is Alien, but I think The Thing is superior.
Happens pretty much every day at my office. Hard to find good employees these days.
a lot of close colleagues all turn out to be thing !
I found burning them alive to be really practical.
Yes it’s so annoying when they sabotage the radios and scrap a helicopter turning it into a spaceship
It's gotta suck when they escape through the lobby and you have to throw a grenade at them.
Especially around woman
The great thing about this movie is the little hints as to who is who. Right from the beginning, if you spoke Norwegian you would have known that the dog was a Thing. Palmer's look before his blood is tested is like, "yep, it's me". Blair not wearing glasses anymore. Norris was the only surprise. And at the end, no steam from Child's breath. Carpenter is an absolute master of suspense.
Childs' breath couldn't be seen because it was blocked from the firelight by a piece of wood. After MacReady says his final line, Childs sighs and you can faintly see his breath.
Where's the most hillarious part when the doc says "I'd rather not spend rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FKING CHAIR" XD
Windows was not the imposter. 2 imposters remain.
Palmer was an Imitation. One Imitation remains.
Clark Was not the Imposter 1 imposter remain
nah he was
@@eternallyourseokmin he was a crewmate till he got turned into a impostor sadly
How about this? The company Mira discovered the planet "Polus". Polus had all the things for life. Water, warmth, and sufficient gravity. They started to launch missions to Polus for colonization. However, they didn't consider that something was already living there... Mira's Polus outpost discovered an alien bacteria on Polus, and they left it in the specimen room. Unbeknownst to any of them, this alien sample was actually a parasitic shape-shifting organism that could infect a crewmate. When the parasite infects a Crewmate, they kill the crewmate and take control over their body. These infected crewmates are now known as "Imposters". A few crewmates were infected, and turned into imposters. They started to attack the crew in Polus, spreading fear and panic. The crewmates manage to overcome this and kill the imposter, and they abandon Polus and their outpost. They board the spaceship "Skeld", in hopes of returning to their home planet. However, a few of the parasitic aliens managed to sneak on the Skeld, turning more Crewmates into imposters. Fortunately, they manage to kill those imposters as well, and they land on Mira's Headquaters. The same thing that happened on Skeld happens on Mira HQ, however, unlike on Skeld, all the imposters and Parasitic aliens are eliminated, and all samples were incinerated. Except one... When the crewmates returned to Mira HQ, they took the dropship home and they abandoned the Skeld. Unbeknownst to any of them, a few Crewmates were left behind on the Skeld. The remaining alien samples on the Skeld attacked the abandoned Crewmates. In a last ditch effort, the abandoned Crewmates flies the Skeld into a solar system with 8 planets and a G-type main-sequence star. They then crash land on a snowy continent on a strange planet, however, all the crewmates died in the crash, and the remaining imposter freezes into a block of ice. 100,000 years later, a Norwegian research team finds the ruined Skeld and a frozen impostor. It's time for the Things to shine again. Edit: TL;DR The Skeld is the UFO in the thing. The Thing in the ice block was a mutilated impostor.
This was probably the scariest moment in the movie not only because of the thing showing itself. But how nervous everyone is, the uncertainty if they were going to die, or if they were the thing, and the screaming when it does appear and takes over and the flamethrower won’t work. Honestly makes you on the edge of your seat and terrified. A true horror movie.👏🏻✨
Agreed. The tension was equally as scary as the payoff, if not more so!
correctamundo baby. we should watch this alone together sometimes
"The Thing" is John Carpenter's best work. I'd also suggest watching "In The Mouth Of Madness". In its day, the movie was dismissed by critics as a mediocre, cheesy movie but watching it now, i cannot stress enough how original it was.
Masterpiece, it's a fucking MASTERPIECE
being tied to that bench as a normal human with the Thing mutating right next to you seems like the height of freakoutedness, struggling against those ropes in vain just hoping that Thing gets preoccupied with someone else to give you enough time to maybe slip free or have someone cut you free if you're extremely lucky
This movie was ahead of its time
5:19 you can hear his bones breaking and growing as transforms
5:32 and you can see the bubbles on the face on the second stage of the mutation
@@sandracristinagarciadasilv9588 gross....
The 2011 prequel Thing failed because it lacked sufficient ick factor. It was not gross enough. Yes the transformations were bizarre but they looked too dry and clean. Compare it to the 1982 version where the Thing's transformations consists of explosive white-yellow mucus discharges, bubbling pustules, ooze, along with green and yellow bile. It's the difference between a snake shedding it's skin and an animal giving birth.
They originally did the effects the same way (with some of the same people if I remember right), and then the powers above said nope, we're scrapping all this and going with CGI. BIG mistake.
Terry Day The 2011 movie also failed because: (A) The thing acted like a generic movie monster that went on a killing rampage. (B) There were scenes that deliberately ripped off some of the scenes from the John Carpenter movie. Like the sabotaged blood test, everyone arguing at each other until they hear a window break, & one of the infected guys gets roasted like Windows exactly like in this scene!
Terry Day that’s a good example
A very simple answer is the original had no CGI. Just like Jurassic Park one which makes it some of the greatest films of all time
Plus it was all CGI....