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The prequel: how well do the same version of John Carpenter?

A clip costs Matthijs van Heijningen Jr film suggests, it can not do justice bloody brilliant version of 1982

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Science beard ... Joel Edgerton (left) stars Thing prequel, starring Kurt Russell John Carpenter's 1982 remake of the 1951 original

The Thing, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr coming prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 cult horror / science fiction, an alien hybrid creature with the ability to imitate life on Earth, is still a bit followed by a film of the 80 , not exactly set the box office on fire at the time of release. His arrival is not more logical, however, that last year Tron Legacy or later the remake of Conan cheap and gay. She at least examine the events offered in movies Carpenter, and the opportunity to examine one of the scariest real devices in the history of horror.

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2. Year built: 2011

3. Country: USA

4. Starring: Eric Christian Olsen, Joel Edgerton, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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It seems strange that the last decade has been low-coat, and slasher films like Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the thirteenth, when the protagonists of all three combined could not hold that the hatchet is a hateful thing of brilliance. Compared to the sight of a man with his mouth open Decapitated heads sprout spider legs and run around on the floor, Freddie, Jason and Michael look around, as disturbing as the episode of Bodger and Badger. Remake-o-phobes can not really complain, either, because it was originally (albeit loose) revision of the Howard Hawks / Christian Nyby 1952 sci-fi Potboiler Thing from Another World (both based in Novella 1938 Who's there? John W. Campbell, Jr., 1982 version is much closer to the source material).

The creation of Carpenter is still cool today, thanks to Rob Bottin and designers of the effects of Stan Winston, who created images of horror that the body repulsive stubbornly stick in the mind. It is amusing to note that contemporary critics dismissed the film for being too reliant on special effects at the expense of human drama, in comparison with their modern successors, it seems not everyone is short on dialogue.

A clip costs of the new version is my coat to show films Heijningen Jr., this week, but it's not exactly bode well. Instead comes from abroad so unbearably slow and ugly on the carcass of a dog, as it does in one of the most spectacular sequences in film monster Heijningen Carpenter seems to explode fully formed from the block of ice, where he was discovered by a group of American and Norwegian scientists on a research facility remote Antarctic

The transformation of a movie that has come to an upset stomach sensations prosaic spectators Jumpy slasher fare is not only a mistake but an insult to the legacy 1982 horrible, especially when modern CGI effects should be an opportunity for claims more inventive protests.

Let us hope for something more imaginative that awaits us when the movie comes out in cinemas in the UK in December (next month in the U.S.) because Heijningen Jr has a real opportunity here to make an addition Canon interesting. The cast is solid, with Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Animal Kingdom is so hot right now Joel Edgerton heading things, and the trailer full of July sees something more positive. (About Winstead, it's time in this series had a female point of view:. The character of the most prominent women in Carpentersville film was the voice of chess computers)

On the other hand, Heijningen Jr. is not one thing was tree, Carpenter, better known as a leader in car ads. As my colleague, Phelim O'Neill, recently said of this unique, Hollywood is not exactly what it was in 1982.