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Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they’re infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet. Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up. When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish. The Thing serves as a prelude to John Carpenter’s classic 1982 film of the same name.

I was curious that this 2011 movie was the “prelude” to John Carpenter’s 1982 classic of the same name. This 2011 entry certainly held true to the genre Carpenter created in the 1982 classic, except this one does show the origin of the transformation virus and getting the see the CGI creatures made this even more frightful. Of course the extreme frightful nature of the 1982 classic was in the fact that you never really knew where the virus came from and not seeing the “creature” was even more foreboding. Similar to the Alien series, you just didn’t get a good enough look of the creature in the first one, but it was way scary.

If you like this genre of move, it is definitely worth takinga look. I only wish I had seen it ont he big screen rather than the having to wait for the DVD.

Rating: 4.0 out of 5.