The Retrospective: John Carpenter’s The Thing.
John Carpenter’s The Thing
Director: John Carpenter.
Release Date: 26th of August 1982.
Certificate: 18.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Richard Dysart, Donald Moffat and Richard Masur.
John Carpenter is famous for his contributions to horror. He brought us the infamous Michael Myers with his horrifying Halloween. One of his main contributions, though, is his claustrophobic horror, The Thing. He clearly had an unalterable image of how Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks’s 1951 film should’ve been done. It’s a timeless horror; the real power comes from the paranoia and that’s what’s focused on. Keeping it a subzero horror, miles from everyone and everything. Or so you think – the only thing you’re far away from is help. He plays on this premise of something that may as well be invisible because it blends in and mimics others. It plays on the inescapable environment and turning the station into a paranoid hell. The people you’ve spent endless days with are now no longer who they seem or even what they seem. This thought tinkers in their head, destroying everything they used to know.
In the Steven Spielberg movie E.T., why is the alien brown? No reason. In Love Story, why do the two characters fall madly in love with each other? No reason. In Oliver Stone’s JFK, why is the President suddenly assassinated by some stranger? No reason. In the excellent Chain Saw Massacre by Tobe Hooper, why don’t we ever see the characters go to the bathroom or wash their hands like people do in real life? Absolutely no reason. Worse, in The Pianist by Polanski, how come this guy has to hide and live like a bum when he plays the piano so well? Once again the answer is, no reason. I could go on for hours with more examples. The list is endless. You probably never gave it a thought, but all great films, without exception, contain an important element of no reason. And you know why? Because life itself is filled with no reason. Why can’t we see the air all around us? No reason. Why are we always thinking? No reason. Why do some people love sausages and other people hate sausages? No fucking reason. Ladies, gentlemen, the film you are about to see today is an homage to the “no reason” - that most powerful element of style.
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Bryan Cranston has taken the world of acting by the jugular, showing that he may be one of the best actors of our time. It’s taken him a long time to get here after being known as the clumsy do-wrong dad Hal in Malcolm in the Middle. He’s now known as whatever role he inhabits since you don’t see that character anymore; he’s unrecognisable. He disappears into his roles like he did in Drive, like he will in Red Tails and all of the upcoming projects of the world’s busiest actor.
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