New images from The Thing display some frightened faces… and The Thing?!

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

It’s all THE THING, all the time around these parts lately. And why not? It comes out in less than two weeks and is looking fairly good (if I let the commercials persuade me). Universal Pictures was kind enough to send us a new batch of stills from the prequel, which you can peek at below. Plenty of concerned faces, and even some flamethrower action; and take a gander at the spindly fellow laying on his backside in the above image. Is that ‘the thing” in its true form, or just another creature being imitated..?

Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when a creature is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads among a group of researchers as they encounter something inhuman that has the ability to turn itself into an exact replica of any living being.

Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across a creature buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the ice eons ago. But it is about to wake up.

When a simple experiment frees the thing from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.

Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen and Trond Espen Seim, THE THING comes out on OCTOBER 14th.