Five Good Reasons To See 'The Thing'

Whenever you have an alien existence form that imitates after which kills some poor naive sufferers as well as their dogs in Antarctica, you realize you are in luck. "The One Thing," a prequel and quasi-remake of John Carpenter's 1982 horror classic, hits theaters today starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead ("Scott Pilgrim versus. The PlanetInch) and Joel Edgerton ("Warrior"). The brand new movie stays carefully towards the formula in the original, while seeking what went down towards the Norwegian team featured at first from the Kurt Russell film. MTV News' Vanessa WhiteWolf thinks you need to certainly see "The One Thing," and listed here are five good reasons to take a look in theaters a few days ago. More dark Than Expected This remake/prequel/homage/whatever is a lot more dark and much more relentless compared to trailers and TV spots may have you think. Not only literally more dark (which it's also for any movie that happens in snow-covered Antarctica, the sunlit hrs are few in number) but because its a tense, violent horror film. When the killings begin, it normally won't stop. Effects Talking about the killings you will find a great deal. And theyre pretty nasty, on almost an Hewlett packard Lovecraftian-level. The titular monster latches onto each one of the figures in terrible ways because it starts its takeover, and that we within the audience are treated to each skin-tugging, cell-splattering, organ-ripping frame. Once youre taken by The One Thing, youre a goner. A Killer Cast It's usually nice to determine a lady helming this type of testosterone-fueled frightening flick. Mary Elizabeth Winstead does an incredible and remarkably credible job because the brilliant investigator-switched-kickass heroine fighting in order to save as numerous team people as she will. "Warrior" star Joel Edgerton also turns inside a great and scruffy performance, though his helicopter pilot appeared slightly underused. And That I may be the only individual who saw Thrilled and feels by doing this, but Eric Christian Olsen is definitely awesome. In The One Thing, he might be screaming for help a lot more than cracking jokes, but he still provides the very periodic little bit of comic relief. Macho Norwegians The women and most a couple of males will gladly observe that the relaxation from the cast is rounded by helping cover their macho, gruff Norwegians. Among my personal favorite Scandinavian nations, it appears that Norwegian is stuffed with scientifically-minded males who are able to provide brute pressure at the appropriate interval. And it is certainly necessary within this film. Sure, all of them type of look alike also it grew to become harder to differentiate between them because the movie continued. But individuals knit knit tops? That are awesome. Jerk Towards The Original Despite the fact that the film fully stands by itself there is a fantastic jerk towards the original in the finish. Stay throughout the credits, and youll begin to see the final sequence that takes care of superbly for fans from the 1982 film. Are you currently seeing "The One Thing"? Inform us what you believe within the comments section as well as on Twitter!