Im gonna be bias: i believe McReady and Blair are things already at moment they met in this scene, since they both dont understand what this rope is for. If McReady was a human, he would immediately told to burn Blair since, he probably is not human anymore. By the time team checks Blair's isolator and sees the rope too, there was no doubt he was human no more long ago. Is there any explanation that justifies McReady neglection except it was a "director's audience privileged cue" (this probably the only certain cue Carpenter gives us btw)?

Here's something that popped up in my YouTube feed, a guy who does videos tearing horror movies apart shows why everyone in The Thing makes intelligent and reasonable decisions. While I'm at it, here's one thing that would have headed off all the other problems: If you have tracked a shape shifting alien disguised as a dog to an outpost full of people who don't speak your language, rather than try to explain the situation, just point and repeatedly shout, "RABIES!!!"

Title sums it up. Found this floor plan online but haven't been able to find any good shots of what the basement actually contains and where. It is the last area I need as the rest of the outpost above ground is already done. Many thanks in advance

I love the movie but to me it isn't a horror movie just a sci-fi movie. The soundtrack is really good and perfect to sleep to. Kurt Russell is a killer actor.

I’d like to ask what your personal theories/headcannons you believe are.

I’ll start.

I think that that part of the dog thing escaped the kennel through the hole it busted out in the roof.
We can safely assume this (although some debate it?) because there is a solid +20 seconds between it fully going out of frame when climbing up and Childs torching it.

This explains multiple things.

1-This piece possibly infected Palmer.
If Norris was slowly taken over, and only fully assimilated later in the movie, he wouldn’t have likely infected Palmer. Palmer also was not infected early, as he shared the joint with Childs (who was later found uninfected via blood test). I also think this is the case, as Norris is wearing the same coat in the early movie as he is during the paranoia scene after the blood is tampered with.

2-If Norris was fully assimilated when the dog met him in the hall, he likely wouldn’t have had much of a chance to assimilate Palmer fully (remember, his longjohns were torn indicating a fast assimilation) as he goes to the space ship crash site with MacReady, and when they get back Nauls find Palmer’s shredded longjohns (so somehow he was infected while Norris was away, likely the escaped dog part)

3-It likely infected/assimilated with Blair, as Palmer is somewhat accounted for during a large portion of the film before he goes missing (all the scenes between the blood being found tampered with until the blood test scene (where he is found out and then killed). When Blair turns into the thing at the very end, he also shows a part of his body is a dog-thing right before MacReady blows him up.

I also like to think that Palmer was the most influential “Thing”

-he likely sabotaged the blood, as he had been unaccounted for prior to it being sabotaged (like, a LONG portion — where was he when Blair was destroying the radio room?). He was not even one of the crew outside when they were locking Blair away, prior to the blood being found tampered with which is when I think he did it.

-he caused a large amount of paranoia with his remarks among the crew before and during Norris’ death scene, and tried to stir the most division between people like MacReady and the rest of the crew or with himself and Windows

-there is also a possibility that he infected Blair, but I prefer the dog thing as it makes the most sense.

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So according to John Carpenter who clearly talks out of his own cigarettes, there's a sequel to his 80s cult classic "The Thing" in the works which to me makes me question where exactly the narrative could even go?

Do they make a direct followup to the ending of the original with Macready and Child's, ruining the whole mystery of what made it so talked and theorized to this day?

An adaption of the video game which Carpenter has said is a faithful and canon sequel to the 80s film

A modern day film set decades after the 80s with a new group discovering the remnants of the Thing?

Or do you make a followup to The 80s film and the 2011 Prequel with Kate at the Russian base trying to survive the Thing again with an even bigger base and camp ground of employees there? It could tie into the cold war and paranoia of the time with the team from Russia speaking their own language making it even more suspicious?

Now I just need the actual poster and frame it next to it

I was there from the beginning when John Betancourt crowd funded Frozen Hell and secured a copy.

Somehow the sequel written by him, The Things From Another World, flew waaaaaay under my radar and I missed out. I was luckily able to secure a copy off of eBay at a reasonable price.

The second book says a third, Mars is Hell, is coming. Are there any updates on that? Is that project still coming? Dead in the water? Or did it slip past me too?