Return of The Remake: The Thing (2011)
Nightmare on Film Street - A Horror Movie Podcast
Kimberley Elizabeth & Jonathan Dehaan
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
It's the return of the remake this week on the horror movie podcast for the casually obsessed. Join your horror hosts Kim & Jon for a trip back in time to the early 2000s when major studios and horror movie producers began remaking some of horror's most celebrated classics for a new generation. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr's The Thing brought us back to the cold, creeping dread of the arctic tundra for one of the most controversial, and confusing remakes of the era.
We've got a soft spot for the early 2000s remakes but re-shoots, re-writes, and a heart-breaking decision to replace practical effects with CGI in post has made The Thing a hard movie to love. Unless of course you wanna see Mary Elizabeth Winstead kill an alien monster with a flamethrower or get up close look at The Thing in a super gory autopsy sequence. And why wouldn't you!? Join usss...
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| 1:18.0 | Hello again, Fiends and welcome to Nightmare on Film Street, the horror movie podcast for the casually obsessed I'm Kim. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm John. |
| 1:27.0 | And this week we are getting controversial. I don't even know. |
| 1:31.0 | We are talking about the thing from 2011. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah, we're kicking off a new double feature of modern remakes of 80s classics. |
| 1:42.0 | And this one, this one's been one that we've been avoiding for a while. |
| 1:45.0 | And I don't know if you're trying to say that we're about to get controversial here because you loved it. |
| 1:50.0 | We don't usually talk about the movies before we record, so now I'm very suspicious of what you think about this movie. |
| 1:57.0 | No, I think it's just controversial because I know a lot of people like to watch the movies specifically before they listen to these episodes. |
| 2:03.0 | Oh, and you want to apologize to everybody? |
| 2:05.0 | We're forcing a lot of people to watch the 2011 remake. |
| 2:08.0 | And from what I have gathered on the internet, people don't really like it. |
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