When it comes to horror movies, there are some that are truly timeless, regardless of the outdated effects or that they are not new stories for the viewer, there are some productions that manage to penetrate the audience and become iconic. This is the case of The thing, a film released in 2011 and recently released on Netflix. The film is about a group of scientists who, after a discovery in the ice, unknowingly release an alien that can take the form of any human, making it a danger to the entire crew.
With performances by Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Scott Pilgrim vs The World), Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby) and Eric Christian Olsen (NCIS) and the direction of Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., who made his directorial debut, sought to give a worthy reinterpretation of the 1982 classic directed by John Carpenter. This film sought to give it a fresh twist without tracing the plot of its predecessor, this with the goal of not being compared to a total classic of horror and science fiction movies.
This is something that surprised many people who went to the movies and did not know the original story, this generated a wave of parallel opposite reactions among those who did not know about the history of the Carpenters, who consider the film as a good horror movie, and among those who expected to see something of the film that they already knew, who think that the new interpretation does not come to the heels. This is a usual phenomenon when classic films are brought back to the screen with a different cast and slightly different plot, but toxic fans of Carpenter’s film would be surprised to learn that the classic itself is a remake of another film called The enigma of another world recorded in 1951, almost 30 years earlier.
In horror this tends to happen more than in other types of film genres, recent examples abound as Item, Candyman either Jeepers Creepers. It is important that classic stories are renewed for new audiences, but it is somewhat complicated to do if every remake starts with a bad reputation from the original fans of the saga, who do not accept that their favorite movie receives changes to stay current with a new one. audience.
You can see The thing on Netflix starting today and discover the mystery of who among the crew are not who they say they are.
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