Special Report: The Thing (1982)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2016

⏱️ 275 minutes

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Summary

Initially lambasted by critics, John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) was a brilliant adaptation of John W. Campbell's novella Who Goes There?. The film tells the story of a dozen men in Antarctica who are infiltrated by an alien shapeshifter.
Interviews include authors John Kenneth Muir (The Films of John Carpenter), Jez Conolly (Devil’s Advocates: The Thing), actors Joel Polis (Fuchs), Thomas G. Waites (Windows), and cinematographer Dean Cundey.
Patrick Bromley of the F This Movie podcast and El Goro of the Talk Without Rhythm podcast join Mike on this very special episode.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.6	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:10.8	100,000 years ago, it found its way into our galaxy.
0:28.6	Yeah. It found its way into our galaxy. Trapped in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica. It could not escape.
0:33.6	Now the men of Station 4 have made a monumental discovery.
0:40.3	An alien creature had frozen, but not to death.
0:47.3	And man...
0:57.0	It is at Benning's!
1:00.0	Is the warmest place to hide.
1:02.0	...theirder. The Welcome to the projection booth.
1:38.5	I'm your host, Mike White.
1:39.6	Join me once again, after way too long, is El Goro from the Talk Without Rhythm podcast.
1:44.8	You guys believe all this voodoo bullshit.
1:47.0	Also back with me this week is Patrick Bromley of the F This Movie Podcast.
1:51.7	Thank you for having me back, Mike, if that's who you really are.
1:55.4	On this special episode of The Projection Booth, we're looking at John Carpenter's The Thing,
2:00.0	released in the dead of summer of 1982, and anyone who listens to this podcast knows how I feel about movies
2:06.0	set in the snow, and they should really be released in the winter. The Thing was initially
2:10.6	lambasted by critics, but has since become one of the most beloved horror films of all time. Adapted
2:17.2	from John W. Campbell's 1938 short story,
2:19.9	who goes there. The film is the second adaptation of the source material, the first being Christian
2:25.1	Ibe's 1951, The Thing from Another World, which was something of a Cold War metaphor, a very
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