By Robbie Graham Silver Screen Saucers
The prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 sci-fi/horror masterpiece, The Thing - also entitled The Thing - is due for release in the U.S. this October.
The new film's plot will not differ significantly from that of the 1982 version, which saw a group of American scientists at a remote research outpost in the Antarctic stumble across a parasitic alien with the ability to mimic any living creature. The prequel will show what happened at the neighboring Norwegian research outpost shortly prior to the events of Carpenter's movie.
The sense of dread and paranoia conjured by Carpenter in his original The Thing arguably has not been matched since in the genre (or, indeed, in any genre), so this winter's offering - directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead - has much to live up to.
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