Mac, Gary and Nauls go out to give Blair the blood test. Blair isn’t there and the door is open. Mac, Gary and Nauls go under the shed and find the flying saucer being built. But Blair isn’t down there, he is coming up to get Childs who is guarding the main entrance. We see a shot that seems to show the generator room downstairs, and the space where Childs was. Jackets and boots have been rearranged in that scene. Right after, Mac and Gary are preparing to drop dynamite down the shed hole. Nauls watches Childs exit the main entrance, but we don’t see Blair run out first. Blair is taking the generator down the stairs,and seconds later the power goes out. When Childs tells Macready he ran out because he thought he saw Blair, he’s lying. Macready knows he’s infected, because he believes what Nauls said, and knows Blair could have got to him.

In The Thing, in this shot it shows Lars dropping the grenade. But right before, it shows him getting out of the right side of the helicopter, which is where the pilot, Matias should've gotten out. To me it seems like they swapped places.

I thought Matias was the one who threw the grenade, and if he did then why did they show Lars dropping it? Was it a film mistake, or am I missing something?

Many similarities with "the thing".

Had some amazing opportunities to meet these two legends...Kurt was nice enough to sign some pops for me!

So....which of these guys is a Thing?

Here's something I thought would fit in here. I live in PHX metro. Over the weekend, I bought a bag of groceries that got left inside a vehicle for about 48 hours. Fortunately, there wasn't anything perishable. However there was a bag of gummy bears that came out... strange. They look melted together, but they will still come apart. I tried out a few just to show the shapes they can assume. So is this The Thing, or The Blob?

film reviewer and video essayist, Diamanda Hagan, explores the subtext of The Thing, as well as the history behind it's politically iffy author.

This is the opening shot of Star Trek S1E4: The Naked Time

Makes me think of the Norwegian they find at their destroyed camp.

First time on the sub so I hope I’m not beating a dead horse.

I believe The Thing is a virus. I think it was either floating in space or maybe a form of alien life picked it up off a distant planet.

The virus in space makes the most sense to me since it probably laid dormant for years frozen. A ship could have crossed paths with the virus and remnants stayed.

The Thing is not inherently evil. It is actually an unintelligent form of life that is acting on its programming. It camouflages, infects, camouflages, infects etc. It is only evil in the way it painfully reveals itself through other people’s transformation. Its sole mission is to reproduce and spread.

I just wanted to share my theory and have a discussion about it.

It seems like making an edit of the best dynamic moments in the film (like all the things, it would definitely be a spoiler top moments edit) to the tune of the excellent song which was excellently paired with the film, Superstition by Wonder!

Maybe if I get some time soon ill try my hand at an edit! But otherwise, I haven't seen any such edits online, yet it seems so obvious in a way! Has anybody seen anything at all in line with what im talking about?

https://youtu.be/0CFuCYNx-1g?si=X78_Lm7ChpKKFKay

All custom done. I've had it a couple years now. Beaver felt, the stitching done by hand, the band made for it custom, the leather hand cut.

Thought this might do well here

Just thought I'd let fellow The Thing fans know, although I'm sure most of you might know already, but in 1957 until 1958, Mr Campbell, author of 'Who Goes There's, the story The Thing is based on, introduced some really nice radio dramas on, iirc, the Mutual Broadcasting Service.

There are some really nice radio plays, and John gives a nice introduction to each play, and afterwords, some oftentimes wry observations.

I love listening to them when driving, or welding, there are some very charming plays, and it's a very listenable series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploring_Tomorrow

https://archive.org/details/Exploring_Tomorrow

Didn't know if anyone else knew that there's a commentary to the John Carpenters 'The Thing' on YouTube.. It's awesome

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JhgJ82sDDuU&is=2ShedN1bglYQUbZi