The Thing (1982)

t h e t h i n g, 1982 🎬 dir. john carpenter 'Assimilation'

John Carpenter’s The Thing hit theaters nationwide on June 25, 1982. Happy 40th anniversary!

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

10/22/22

It’s not really that horrific to me. But the thing that really spooked me was how deep and wide they cut themselves up drawing blood from their thumbs.

The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster. Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, it stars Kurt Russell, with A. Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, and Thomas G. Waites.

Just one more thing before I turn in.

I want y'all to see just how egregiously the 70s it is in this scene.

𝒪𝓀𝒶𝓎, 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓃𝑒𝓍𝓉 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂 𝒾𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝓎𝑜𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝓅𝒾𝒸 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓂𝑒, 𝓂𝓎 𝒻𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓈𝒸𝒾-𝒻𝒾 𝒻𝒶𝓃𝒶𝓉𝒾𝒸𝓈. 𝒪𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀 𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓈𝓊𝓈𝓅𝑒𝓃𝓈𝑒 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒶𝓃 𝓊𝓃𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝒶𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓃 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓂 𝒶𝓈𝓈𝓊𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓉𝓇𝑜𝓁 𝑜𝒻 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓁𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒾𝓉 𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝓃𝑒𝓉. 𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓉'𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝓎 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓈 𝒾𝓉'𝓈 𝓈𝓅𝑜𝓉 𝑜𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝒻𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓋𝒾𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓉. 𝒰𝓃𝒷𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓋𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝒹𝒾𝒻𝒻𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒸𝒶𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓂𝑜𝓋𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝒾𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓈𝒾𝓈𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝑜𝓁𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇 𝑔𝑒𝓃𝑒𝓉𝓁𝑒𝓂𝒶𝓃 𝓈𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐚𝐭 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐆. 𝐖𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝓅𝓁𝓊𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂 𝓁𝑜𝒸𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒷𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝒾𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝒜𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒸𝓉𝒾𝒸𝒶, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝒾𝓈𝑜𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝑜𝓃 ℰ𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒽. 𝒩𝑜, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂 𝓌𝒶𝓈𝓃'𝓉 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓇𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝒜𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒸𝓉𝒾𝒸𝒶 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒾𝓉 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝒻 𝒶𝒷𝒶𝓃𝒹𝑜𝓃𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉. 𝒩𝑜𝓌 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂 𝒾𝓈𝓃'𝓉 𝓉���𝑒 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒸𝒾-𝒻𝒾, 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 1951 𝓉𝒾𝓉𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝒶𝓈 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝓂𝒶𝒹𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝓅𝓊𝓉 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓃 𝑜𝓃 𝒾𝓉. ℐ'𝓋𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝒷𝑜𝓉𝒽 𝓅𝒾𝒸𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎'𝓇𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝓉𝒽 𝓈𝒸𝒾-𝒻𝒾/𝒽𝑜𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓇 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂𝓈 𝓅𝒶𝒸𝓀𝑒𝒹 𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝒻 𝓈𝓊𝓈𝓅𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒. ℐ 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝒻𝒻𝑒𝒸𝓉𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝓊𝓅𝓅𝑒𝓉𝑒𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝓃𝒾𝓂𝒶𝓉𝓇𝑜𝓃𝒾𝒸𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝒷𝓈𝑜𝓁���𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝒶𝓂𝒶𝓏𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝓎 ℐ'𝓂 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹𝓈 80'𝓈 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓈 𝓈𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 2011 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓆𝓊𝑒𝓁 𝑜𝒻 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝒹𝒾𝒹 𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝐂𝐆𝐈. 𝒢𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒾𝓉 𝒶 𝓉𝓇𝓎 𝒾𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊'𝓋𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 1982 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝓁𝓈𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 1951 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃. 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓎'𝓇𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝓌𝑜 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒𝒽𝑜𝓁𝒹.

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Review: The Thing (1982)

The Thing was a pretty good movie. I went into this movie knowing the general idea of it. An alien disguises itself as the people it's around and tries to kill the rest of them. You may be familiar with some certain games that use this concept, but The Thing came out first.

I did enjoy the movie though. I actually didn't know Keith David was in it so hearing his voice was kind of a surprise. I also enjoyed that you never really saw the alien itself. The only time you did see the alien was when it had already become part of one of the people so it was some weird amalgamation of human and alien. It was less of an actual alien like the Yautja or the Xenomorphs and more like a parasite that takes over the body. It's an interesting take on the alien movie genre.

However, I thought the movie overall was pretty slow and just kind of boring. Obviously, it had some great scenes and was a great idea, but the movie itself I thought was just kind of boring to sit through, even the ending battle. I felt like a lot of the movie felt the same, a lot of accusing, burning, etc, and all of it was really slow to boot.

The effects were really great, I do love some practical effects, but I just don't think that can save this movie from being nothing more than lackluster.

t h e t h i n g, 1982 🎬 dir. john carpenter 'Absorption'

On second viewing: The Thing (dir. John Carpenter, 1982)

This is both my favorite Ennio Morricone's score and my favorite Carpenter's film, a gloomy companion to his next-year's silly-funny Christine, an adaptation of Stephen King's novel of a killer car, which I hated for its whimsy as a teenager. The Thing has a lot of bodily horror that, while sometimes verging on grotesque, tends to deliver, particularly in the scene, where Paul Maloney's character raises his monster hands and screams, while surrounded by the freaking-out crew of his colleagues. I didn't recognize Richard Masur as the dog handler, otherwise known as the soft-spoken and empathetic synagogue goer from Transparent, a great series buried after its lead actor's shitty conduct came into light.

Babel (2006)

Director - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Cinematography - Rodrigo Prieto

"Don't leave me please."

The National Archives and Records Administration told the House Oversight Committee in a letter released Saturday that some Trump administration records have yet to be recovered.

Why It Matters: The disclosure comes as Trump's legal team and the Justice Department wage a protracted legal battle over the ex-president's alleged possession of documents he was meant to turn over to the Archives upon leaving office.

• The Archives didn't speak to whether any of the missing documents they referenced are in Trump's possession, citing the DOJ's probe into the matter.

Driving The News: In a letter to Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) dated Sept. 30, acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall wrote, "While there is no easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should."

• Wall specifically cited official business that was conducted "using non-official electronic messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded into their official electronic messaging accounts" as an area of particular concern.

• "NARA has been able to obtain such records from a number of former officials and will continue to pursue the return of similar types of Presidential records from former officials," Wall said.

• The letter comes in response to a Sept. 13 letter Maloney sent to Wall seeking an "urgent review" of "whether presidential records remain unaccounted for and potentially in the possession of the former President.”

Yes, But: Wall deferred to the DOJ to answer questions about documents Trump personally took from the White House.

• "With respect to the second issue concerning whether former President Trump has surrendered all presidential records, we respectfully refer you to the Department of Justice in light of its ongoing investigation," she wrote to Maloney.

• Maloney had asked in her Sept. 13 letter for the Archives to seek a "personal certification from Donald Trump that he has surrendered all presidential records that he illegally removed from the White House."

What They're Saying: "The National Archives has confirmed to the Oversight Committee that they still have not received all presidential records from the Trump White House," Maloney said in a statement about the letter.

• "I will continue to do everything in my power to ensure that all presidential records from the Trump White House are returned to the custody of the government and to make sure these abuses never happen again.”

What We're Watching: Wall said the Archives will consult with the DOJ on whether to "initiate an action for the recovery of records unlawfully removed" – as in the case of the DOJ's lawsuit against former White House adviser Peter Navarro in August.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the fabulous saxophonist Aviva Maloney. Starting in the 80s, she was very visible as a side-woman for The Monkees + solo Davy Jones and Peter Tork. I’m blessed to have performed with her many times; she’s always professional and supportive, and I’m happy to count her as my good friend. She also released an acclaimed solo album, REED MY MIND, a smooth jazz project backed with members of The Monkees road band, Pablo Cruise, Starship and other high caliber musicians (REED MY MIND is on iTunes). Aviva has also performed with Marty Balin, Big Brother & The Holding Company, and Craig Chaquico, and she’s still performing around the greater Los Angeles area. Here she is on a Davy Jones song “My Love.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVAX_iK8NVE  Meanwhile, HB AM—thank you for the years of joy you’ve played for us.

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