A new red band trailer has been released for The Thing that offers some gruesome violence to amp up the interest in the prequel to John Carpenter‘s 1982 classic. It’s somewhat confusing that it has the same title as the original, and the story seems to be essentially the same premise. While it will be cool to see an eighties mash up and recreation of the Antarctica setting, there could be less suspense in the lead up to the inevitable; all but one (or two) will likely survive and get the chance to tell their tale.
While it seems to have many similarities – new characters facing the impending horror might be cool, fans also know that the biggest draw-card in this body mutating monster flick are the visual effects. While the 1982 original took practical horror to a new level and shocked many movie goers at the time, this prequel story promises to take those horrific metamorphosis to a place that only CGI can go, as well as combining physical imagery from Amalgamated Dynamics as an homage to the cult favourite.
Here’s the official synopsis:
In the prelude to John Carpenter’s classic 1982 film of the same name, paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to Antarctica for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up. When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.
From Dutch commercial director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr, the new film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead in the lead and it will be interesting to see how her realisation of the monster who hides within is depicted as opposed to Kurt Russell‘s gung-ho character who went on the offensive for most of the flick; perhaps the female lead will have a more sympathetic, but gradual realisation as to how she might stop it. Joel Edgerton also stars as well as Eric Christian Olsen and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, lets just hope they are on screen long enough before their numbers are up.
The Thing opens October 14th, 2011.
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