Tag: The Thing

“The Thing” may be director Matthijs Van Heijningen Jr.’s first feature film, but he wasn’t shy about giving the studio his demands when he signed on to the prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 classic horror film, famously inspired by 1951′s “The Thing from Another World.” He told Universal he would direct the film on a couple of conditions. One was that film’s eponymous creature had to be created using practical effects. “For a director, it’s great. You have something really running around screaming, and you see actors reacting to it,” Heijningen told Hero Complex at the premiere of “The Thing” on Monday. To reveal what happens to the Norwegian base found destroyed in the 1982 film, Heijningen’s crew blended the use of CGI and practical effects like puppets and animatronics, much to the appreciation of the cast, including star Mary ...

The most frightening element of the 1982 John Carpenter horror classic “The Thing” is the title creature, a shape-shifting alien parasite brought to gruesome life with detailed practical effects. For actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead, the scariest part about starring in a new prequel to the film, also called “The Thing” and opening Friday, was the risk of not living up to a cult favorite. “I think there was some pressure going into it knowing that we were going to be watched very closely and that if we didn’t do it justice, there was going to be a lot of anger,” Winstead said in Los Angeles. But the 26-year-old actress, known for her roles as a Hollywood starlet in Quentin Tarantino’s “Death Proof” and as the object of Michael Cera’s affection in “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” saw in “The Thing” ...