It's not human. Yet.
Cast |
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Paul Braunstein |
Director |
Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. |
Screenplay | Eric Heisserer, from a story by John W. Campbell Jr |
Music | Marco Beltrami |
Cinematography | Michel Abramowicz |
Editing | Peter Boyle, Julian Clarke, Jono Griffith |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
Soundtrack | Available |
Made in | 2011 |
Produced by | Morgan Creek Productions, Strike Entertainment |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
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Genre | Horror |
Language | Moderate to strong, infrequent |
Nudity | None |
Sex | None |
Violence | Strong to very strong, bloody, nightmarish, lengthy on occasions |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | None |
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Violence |
Blood / Gore / Gross |
Guns / Weapons |
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Alcohol / Drugs |
Smoking |
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
Imitative Behaviour |
Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
Music (Scary/Tense) |
Music (Inappropriate) |
Topics to talk about |
Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Todd McCarthy More diversity among the cast would have given the film more flavour and linguistic nuance. But it is technically solid with good effects. | 10 | |
Die Burger Paul Boekkooi Boeglam skrik hier jou voorland. | 10 | |
Box Office James Rocchi This film's just a wet and sickly imitation of a fully-formed and deservedly much-loved classic. | 5 | |
ScreenIt C. Fuchs Fans of the original will be relieved that this is a prequel and thus not an actual remake of the '82 film, and they'll certainly enjoy how it ties in to that flick (especially its ending to the earlier film's beginning). For everyone else, however, and once one has gotten over the shock value of the gory visuals, the result is a fairly humdrum and less than engaging experience. | 8 | |
Metacritic.com 31 critics | 10 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 151 critics | 10 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer It serves the bare serviceable minimum for a horror flick, but The Thing is all boo-scares and a slave to the far superior John Carpenter version. | 7 | |
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics | 10 | |
Movie Review Intelligence 45 critics | 10 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 21618 Netizens A pale imitation of Carpenter's masterpiece | 13 | |
Average .. 47% | 9 |