This is in the 1950s "what horror can we expect?" type movies a lot of hyp, but James Arness went on to star for 20 years as the lead in GUNSMOKE TV Western. You have to take the breaks when they come. Usual cheesy alien and people running about. However, it is still a real look at what we saw and cringed at in the theaters while munching popcorn and drinking Coca-Cola. I saw this in a theater in San Antonio in the heat of the summer. My mother and I were on our way to a tour of Mexico and our hotel stopover was not air conditioned, we saw it three times in a row to stay cool. I just bought this in 2021 to show my son and granddaughter.
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Well for all the hype of this movie it's TERRIBLE! Maybe 5 minutes of footage at best of the Thing J Arness. I love b grade scifi but this movie stinks. Big Arness fan as well, Thing looks like marshal Dillon in a painters outfit. You can tell its him by the mannerisms. I'll keep it in the collection and watch it again for a good laugh.
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PLOT: ARTIC EXPEDITION FINDS A ALIEN IN THE ICE AND A SPACE SHIP~ WHEN TRYING TO SAVE IT THEY FIND THEY BECOME THE HUNTED ....BY THE ALIEN~ EXCELLENT~ HOWARD HAWKS GEM ~ (Rio Bravo and Bringing Up Baby) produced this GEM of Sci FI horror~ made in the 1950s class style~ WHAT ARE THE INGREDIENTS OF ANY GREAT 1950S HORROR MOVIE? A GREAT MONSTHER, NUTTY SCIENTEST, PRETTY GIRL AND HERO~ THIS HAS ALL OF THEM~ lol~oh AND yes scares~ ~an American MILITARY BASE IN THE ARTIC~ finds a space craft in the ice when they try and remove it "explodes" so their next find is a "monster"/alien~ in the ice~ hauling the alien back to the artic base~ they quickly find the NUTTY scientist Dr. Carrington wants to preserve it AT ANY COST~ EVEN IF IT MEANS THEIR OWN LIVES~ ADDED fun is the Captain who find some fun banter with the Doctor's female secretary~ the characters here add to the over all adventure from the Reporter who shows his courage and humor~ in his many attempts to get a photo~ THE monster unthaws then "kills some dogs" which means he feeds on blood~ now the fact is they have to realized the monster is soon hunting for more "food" ....."them"~ meanwhile Dr. Carrington is using plasma to feed some "pods" from the alien and we see how quickly it grows~ after several "attacks" by the creature it now has the group "captive" the alien shuts of the oil HEAT~ and the group quickly discover they may freeze before the alien can kill them off~ a brilliant idea of how to finally KILL off the alien is decided~ the HORROR END OF THE MONSTER and excellent thrills on how they do it keep this fast paced thriller/horror GEM moving and us glued until the end of the movie~ ADDED the monster is played by 6 feet 6 INCH JAMES ARNESS WHO LATER PLAYED MARSHALL DILLION ON GUNSMOKE so not only is the monster HUGE he is super strong~ one of THE best horror sci fi movies from the golden 1950s. I GIVE IT A SOLID 10 OUT OF 10 FOR EXCELLENT THRILLS. IF YOU FOUND THIS REVIEW HELPFUL PLEASE REMEMBER TO VOTE~Read full review
A space traveler crash lands in the Arctic. He and his ship are soon frozen. Some USAAF men and scientists discover it and try to thaw it but succeed only in destroying the ship. The pilot, however, survives, and they haul him, in his cake of ice, back to the base camp. When he accidentally thaws and returns to life, he realizes that he is stranded on an unfriendly world. He is not a happy camper. He is eight feet tall, very strong, very angry, and bears a vague resemblance to James Arness. He has some, er, peculiarities. He has the physiology of a vegetable - sap is his blood - and he can regrow a severed limb. He thrives on animal blood - four-legged, two-legged, he isn't particular. His mission is to grow an army of others like him from seeds that he carries under his fingernails (or wherever), and he plants them in the base camp greenhouse. This is not good for the human race. So how do you kill an enraged eight-foot carrot? This is a "golden oldie" SF movie, one of the best of the 50's. It moves well, the tension builds, and the carrot is, um, fried (or whatever). It's infinitely better than the latest remake (starring Kurt Russell), which is a scream in the ha-ha sense. (Hollywood seems to be trying to outdo itself with each monster movie. Compare the latest "War of the Worlds" with the original. The monsters just get weirder and weirder, meaning less and less credible, meaning more and more laughable.) If you like good ol' SF, this should be in your collection.Read full review
As a kid I must have watched The Thing on a 21" B&W TV, with a horribly grainy print of the movie. It's really nice to see it in this digital format on a big screen TV.
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