• Capt. Wolf@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        The original, “The Thing From Another World,” is a truly terrible B-movie classic worthy of MST3K! Totally worth watching to see the masterpiece they turned the story into. The Mary Elizabeth Winstead one, same name, different movie, wasn’t too bad either.

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          7 months ago

          “Who goes there”, John Campbell, 1938.

          (And I seem to recall more movies that are rehashes of that novella.)

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            7 months ago

            Horror Express with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, which I’ve never seen. William F Nolin, who did Logan’s Run, wrote a version, but it was never filmed. Couldn’t really find any others, but I’m sure there are.

            I also just found out tonight that there’s a fan film called The Thing Returns that looks so terrible I have to see it.

            Also, there’s The Thing video game for PS2, Xbox, and Windows. Carpenter apparently considers it to be a canon sequel and the events in it clarify what happens at the end of the first movie.