THE THING: infection timeline

[Max.]

I always thought

Spoiler: Childs

was human at the end...until this vid...also saw a comment that said when kurt russell offer him the bottle of whiskey its really gasoline/they werent supposed to share food/drink

But childs had a earing at the end..n the sequel said alien cant copy metal...but carpenter said 1/2 people were the thing at the end

 

[Max.]

Blairs dumb ass touched the thing n put the pencil in his mouth never pickdd up that

The jacket by the door


Damn we need a movie like this in 2020

 

[duckbutta]

I always assumed childs was a thing because of the missing coat shot...

The 2011 one is a prequel...I assume it learned to put the earring back on since that was a giveaway of who was infected and who wasn't in that film...

Just no other reason for that shot other than to make you think he had become infected...

 

[Red Shield]

I never noticed the coat change

 

[Knowledge]

Y'all do know there's an official sequel in comic form and childs was not the thing at the end of the movie right.....he turned in the second comic

 

[Flex Grossman]

Gonna check this out but there’s also a theory that humans in that movie have a little twinkle in their eyes and the thing doesn’t. In the last scene, macready has it and childs doesn’t.

this is probably my favorite movie of all time and it’s so fukkin dope that the ending can still be debated almost 40 years later

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Y'all do know there's an official sequel in comic form and childs was not the thing at the end of the movie right.....he turned in the second comic

For what it’s worth even if something becomes canon later I don’t always view it that way ya know? Like...for example in the new terminator

Spoiler

They kill John Connor immediately following the events of T2. But James Cameron clearly meant for John to survive the story back when he concluded it in 1991.

Or like how Hicks technically survived Aliens and Alien 3 because that goofy Colonial Marines video game story is now official Alien canon.

So I go back and forth on whether Child’s was the thing or not but I don’t think Carpenter was making any creative decisions thinking there would be a sequel in mind.

 

[Grifter]

I think the video game was also supposed to be a continuation.

 

[Max.]

Now im confused about childs

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

my favorite sci fi horror film ever!!

 

[NZA]

the official word is look at the reflection in the eyes, so you dont need to dig too deep into what happened. everybody should have a scene where they have light shining in the eyes. at the end, childs does not

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

R.A. the Rugged Man‏Verified account @RAtheRuggedMan 20h20 hours ago
R.A. the Rugged Man Retweeted M. Sandoval

I interviewed John Carpenter years ago and he told me it wasn’t just the critics shytting on THE THING but horror and sci-fi fans too felt like he was shytting on a classic. It really hurt his career at the time. It took some years for public to catch on

 

[MidniteJay]

Now im confused about childs

Breh got infected. For the longest, I thought both of them were normal but the video points out that Childs accepted MacReady's drink without hesitation, can't believe I didn't think of that. Knowing how Childs was in the movie he would have at least given MacReady the when he offered him the bottle.

 

[Max.]

 

[EQ.]

I always thought

Spoiler: Childs

was human at the end...until this vid...also saw a comment that said when kurt russell offer him the bottle of whiskey its really gasoline/they werent supposed to share food/drink

But childs had a earing at the end..n the sequel said alien cant copy metal...but carpenter said 1/2 people were the thing at the end

This vid kinda shatters the gasoline in the bottle theory.