![]() ![]() ![]() Carpenter's version is less a remake of the Howard Hawks' version than a more faithful adaptation of John W. It then makes for great movie history trivia, that The Thing has gained such a remarkable afterlife on video, DVD and television. This was the time of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Nobody was prepared moreover wanted anything so dark, gory and scary as this genuine remake of the famous 1951 original. Bad scheduling may have had a greater impact than anything else on the fate of Carpenter's first big studio effort for Universal Pictures. Steven Spielberg's extra terrestrial adventure about a sweet alien that phoned home (that stole the hearts of both children and adults world wide) had opened just two weeks before and was on its historic box office rampage. ![]() Looking back on John Carpenter's The Thing today a highly treasured cult favourite one has to wonder why it was dismissed by both the audience and critics when it first came out in 1982. ![]()
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