NEW DETAILS Found in THE THING

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I love that this movie is 41 years old and we are still trying to figure it out. Great cinema

the theme starting to play just as Childs began to drink is the biggest throwaway

I think you have overread into this. As both characters say in this scene, they are probably going to freeze to death pretty quickly and so worrying about if one of them is The Thing or not, at least for is now, is not the primary thing on their minds. Seen in this light why Child's takes the drink is pretty simple: he thinks he is going to freeze to death anyway, so why not take a drink? This also explains why there is a supposed change in his personality/attitude in this scene, he has come to terms with his almost inevitable death. They have also potentially just wiped out The Thing, which would also cause you to be more relaxed. I'm not saying their is no way Child's was infected by this point, but I don't think this observation convinces me he is anymore than what is already out there.

Can we please appreciate the mix of paranoia, despair, hopelessness and terror that is conveyed through the incredible score of Ennio Morricone? There is no other movie which makes me feel like that. The film is gutpunching and the music plays a big part in creating that special "The thing"-feeling.

John Carpenters The Thing is, in my opinion the best horror/thriller movie of all time. I have the Deluxe DVD and watch it at least 3 times a year. I've seen it in total over 50 times. It never gets old. The Special Effects are top notch and still holds well to this day.

Still my all-time favourite horror movie. The simple but tension building score, the cast, not to mention the practical effects. Brilliant.

Showed the original to a few friends last week. I loved how this 40 year old movie had them guessing, confused and tense over who the Thing is! Such a classic and way more engaging than any modern horror we’ve watched lately.

3:42 the great thing about this movie is there are valid points throughout it that can lead you down one path or another, with 'potentially' validating scenes afterwards as to who is infected and when. To commentary track is a blast for a lot of reasons, but a big one for me was Carpenter and Russell discussing Blair: Blair was the one person that may have been taken over slowly from within, vs the violent digestion of most of the other characters. So we never really know 'exactly' when Blair is more the Thing vs human; his motives make sense from either perspective - violent realization everyone needs to die at the station to stop further infection, OR the Thing is playing chess with the rest of the human characters and is isolating part of itself to work on a ship, should the other things fail to assimilate everyone. Yes Childs may be infected at the end and I like the plot point of J&B bookending the story, but for me it'll always be the 'happy' ending of the two survivors caring fuck all and having a drink.

This is my all time favorite horror movie along with the first Nightmare on Elm Street. John Carpenter and Wes Carven were truly amazing in the 80s-90s. I can’t smash the like button hard enough.

I love it! All these years later movies like The Thing, The Shining, The Exorcist, 2001 and Alien are still being analyzed. Never gets old for me.

The "thump thump" when Childs takes a drink is pretty telling... awesome video!

In the book, Blair becomes The Thing before his meltdown, and through deduction, the characters discover that the Blair imitation was only pretending to have lost its mind to avoid suspicion. If the movie is faithful to the book in this regard, then it's safe to say he is one of the first to be infected, which also explains how he was able to build that space ship so fast.

I still find it funny that when the thing was in Palmer it seemed to hate Windows. Although in the scene where he refuses to team up with Windows, I think he was trying to get alone with Childs to assimilate him cause he was a bigger threat. I also love how Palmer looks at Norris when they ask when the thing could have taken MacReady.

I love the ending cuz it makes you think they both know they will freeze to death out there so why not have a drink. Love an ending we can talk about for years.

He smashes the outpost like it’s the like button! Lol

Fun fact: the “extra” that you mentioned who plays the silhouette of the first victim is actually Nick Castle; the OG Michael Myers. CORRECTION as someone has already pointed out, I actually learned that it was Dick Warlock (best name ever) who was the stunt person in this scene. He played Michael Myers in Halloween II. My mistake.

There’s another set of circumstances that no one seems to talk about. Childs was left inside while they went out to find Blair. They found that Blair is not in the shack. Look back to see Childs running out of the base and immediately after the lights go down. So Blair was inside the building already because he destroyed the generator the moment after Childs left. I imagine that Blair attacked him first and cleaned everything up. Childs decided to leave the base to avoid any conflict to survive. Then he made his return after all the smoke cleared.

40 years from now, Paul will still be making The Thing video breakdowns--and we'll be clicking the Like button and enjoying the content every time.

Concerning the "Childs not breathing" issue - has it ever been established in the movie that things dont breathe? You can see the dog's breath very clearly when licking Bennings. If a thing is a 100% organic copy than it has all body functions including respiration or body malfunctions like a heart attack (see Norris' collapse). Btw Childs IS breathing - if you boost the image brightness, you can see it.