'The Thing' Trailer Is 'The Thing' Again, Now with a Pretty Girl
You ever wonder why John Carpenter's The Thing didn't feature a pretty American college girl sent to live amongst a team of Norwegian men in the middle of nowhere? The main reason is because that sounds like pornography. The other reason is because it would be this: a trailer for The Thing prequel that appears to sacrifice most of the paranoia and disgustingly revolting creature effects for your standard "gotcha!" scares and CGI. Call me old fashioned, but a The Thing without Wilford Brimley freaking the fuck out is no The Thing for me.
They'd better just be saving the locomotive disembodied head for the full film.
The first trailer for The Thing had plenty of "gotcha!" scares and CGI overuse, but two things it was missing, outside of any sort of necessity? The freakish creature mutations of the original, and Wilford Brimley freaking the fuck out. With this red-band trailer, they start to... / Continue →
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