The Thing [Blu-ray]

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Dean Cundey provides the cinematography on The Thing and he also deserves credit for helping to make the film so stylish and terrifying. Below are screenshots for the different releases. The Scream Factory release also contains the TV version of the film, so I did some screenshots for that too. Like, The Thing--in its most authentic form--comes from your worn-out VHS tape or a 3 AM broadcast on cable TV. What today’s youth has to remember is that we didn’t have the internet, nor did we have torture porn around when The Thing was released. We couldn’t go onto YouTube and look up scenes from a film.

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Universal brings The Thing to the UHD format with several extras that were not included on the 2008 Blu-ray. However, it does not include

Critically panned at the time of its release, John Carpenter's The Thing has rightly gone on to become one of the most celebrated sci-fi horror efforts ever made now newly restored by Arrow Films in a stunning 4K transfer supervised by Carpenter and director of photography Dean Cundey.

The Thing (Double Pack Including Original) [Blu-ray] [2012

Alien and The Thing have quite a bit in common. Both movies feature a small group of disparate individuals trapped in a confined, remote location from which they can neither escape nor call for help. Both have a malevolent alien creature awakened after a long period of dormancy. But for all its many virtues (and believe me, I do think it’s a great movie), Alien is still just folks being hunted by a monster. It’s a story told with undeniable skill and style, but for all that it’s still a familiar story. The Thing is familiar, too, but the terror is more insidious than just a monster on the loose. Once this alien gets inside you, it becomes you, and Carpenter works this angle masterfully. The real terror in The Thing comes from paranoia, claustrophobia, and isolation. And these all come from within, not from some external source. But when the fear does come from without, as it does in the transformation scenes for instance, the movie works just as well. Carpenter is able to strike a perfect balance between inner and outer terror. Even after the movie ends, you’re still left wondering who you can trust. Vintage Product Reel – Contains a Condensed Version of the Film with Additional Footage Not in the Film (19:38, 480i) Over the years, star Kurt Russell and master of horror John Carpenter have teamed up on a multitude of films (Big Trouble in Little China and Escape from New York to name a few) but of all their collaborations, 1982s horror/sci-fi amalgam The Thing surely tops the list.follow. And Universal does not disappoint. The full HDR color spectrum offers a more vivid color output. The snowy vistas seen outside, notably at This is essentially legacy content from the original DVD release. The good news is, now you don’t have to use the U-Control option to watch the documentary (as was the case on the 2008 BD). And of course, the commentary by Carpenter and star Kurt Russell has been carried over. Carpenter/Russell commentaries are consistently top-notch and this is one of their finest. Obviously, none of the Scream Factory or Arrow Video-exclusive Blu-ray extras are here, so fans will certainly want to keep those regardless. You at least get the obligatory Digital code on a paper insert. Universal morphs The Thing onto the UHD format with a solid all-around 2160p/HDR UHD presentation. The picture reveals noticeable

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Included with the 4k Blu-ray is Director John Carpenter’s The Thing: Terror Takes Shape, outtakes, theatrical trailer, and feature commentary with Director John Carpenter and actor Kurt Russel. In the Setup section, you can turn on the feature commentary that provides plenty of insight into making the film. The 4k Blu-ray combo edition from SDS also includes a 1080p Blu-ray and Digital Copy redeemable with Movies Anywhere Scores Actor(s): Kurt Russell, Keith David, A. Wilford Brimley, Richard Masur, Thomas Waites, Donald Moffat in the opening sequence), intense red blood, healthy skin tones, and bold colors on various items throughout the compound, whether clothes or The researchers really should have let the Norwegians kill that dog though as it’s actually a shape-shifting alien that slowly assimilates the team members, one-by-one. Due to it being able to perfectly replicate the forms of other creatures, nobody knows who has or hasn’t been killed and turned into ‘The Thing’. This leads to mistrust and paranoia within the camp and messy ends to most of their number whenever the creature chooses to let itself be known and claim its next victim. One Amazing Summer – an all-new retrospective documentary produced by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures about the unforgettable films released in the summer of 1982When a Norwegian science station in Antarctica finds something in the ice it turns out to be their worst nightmare. Anxious to kill one of their dogs they take to the air and attempt to shoot it and in doing so fly over the American Antarctica research station before crashing. chopper, the picture appears in fine form, offering a stable, filmic quality that holds to a fine grain structure that captures the inherent cinematic Detail is very nice in close-up and long shots. The matte paintings used in the film have never looked better and we can see everything. Still, this is the best that The Thing has ever looked on home video and Scream should be commended for their efforts, even if the picture isn't the most representative of what the film is supposed to look like. They have gotten closer than any other company, so they deserve a lot of praise for that. The Thing is out on 23rd October on Blu-Ray in the UK, released by Arrow Video. The new 4K scan transfer is a revelation. I haven’t seen the other Blu-Ray releases to compare, but it’s a huge improvement over the DVD versions I’ve seen and it looked magnificent blown up nice and big on my projector. It’s a clean, natural looking picture that’s incredible detailed and made me realise the film is more colourful than I remembered.

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good, the former particularly pleasing and a high yield upgrade over the 13-year-old original Blu-ray. It's too bad that the studio could not assemble a deadly creature in their midst, one that can absorb and imitate any life form it so chooses, leaving Kurt Russell plays MacReady the helicopter pilot turned leader and he is quite superb in the role. He decides to take the lead and discover who’s who and his performance is exactly what the film needs. I’m a massive John Carpenter fan and The Thing is one of my favourite films so when Arrow Video announced they were releasing a 4K restoration of it on Blu-ray I had to take a look. So without further ado here’s my The Thing Blu-ray Review.

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The acting in The Thing has to be good and is as the film centres around the tension the men stranded in the Antarctica begin to feel. With every one suspecting each other as being the alien imposter there’s plenty of paranoia and this is where the film really shines with everyone at each others throat.