We’re starting to see a good deal of stuff now from Universal’s THE THING as we amble our way toward its release date. However, this is our first new clip from the film in almost a month. Our first clip gave us a nice jump scare or two; this new one focuses more on the “who can you trust?” angle, which seems more or less in line with the simmering paranoia in John Carpenter’s version. Dig the final moment…
Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ulrich Thomsen, andEric Christian Olsen, THE THING breaks down like this:
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 an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet.
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 an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up
THE THING opens on OCTOBER 14th.
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