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Unfilmable 80: The Thing

🕑 Added 2025-09-24 15:49:51 +0000 UTC

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Thunk

The Rimworld Anomaly DLC has elements of The Thing to it. Watch out for colonists that are not cooks suddenly preparing meals, or colonist that are not doctors unexpectedly tending to patients!

Mateus Silva

It also apparently didn’t react to the camera flying around on a dolly like most film dogs do so Carpenter could shoot it In all sorts of interesting ways!

Joysweeper

One of my favorite details about the movie is that the dog was played by a wolfdog and that's why the Dog Thing is so strange, even while it's wandering around before anything's happened. It doesn't respond to humans in quite the ways we expect from dogs and has an odd intensity to it.

Christopher Grunert Pedersen

I need to get the 4K for all the Carpenter movies, especially Escape from New York and this one

Jake

I was literally looking to see if you'd covered this two days ago

Jeremy Espinoza

Wooo!!! Glad to see this notification. Mac as a villain protagonist... That's a cool way of watching it. Also before listening, anyone read "The Things" perspective flip story by Peter Watts?

Blake Waller

Also, have y'all considered an episode on Underwater? I always thought that would be firmly in the wheelhouse of the show and themes you both seem to enjoy. Totally also get if you don't want reccs from the comments though :)

Blake Waller

I've watched this movie many times as a spooky month tradition, and always love it for pretty much every scene you hit on. Such great tension and effects in this. I actually didn't hate the 2011 Thing, but it's not working on the same level.

MIKEISTKRIEG

The worst bit about the remake/prequel, which overall I enjoy because it does nearly everything else respectfully in relation to the OG, is that they had shot the whole thing with practical effects akin to the original. There has always been debate over whether the studio felt it was too fucked up looking and wanted it to look more palatable for audiences or if they felt it looked silly and CGI would be taken more seriously, but it is really the sole detractor from what I consider a pretty neat film.

John Gudmann

Aha, I was totally convinced in my mind that I'd heard y'all discuss this at some point in the past, then Gary clarified!! Great ep, Unfilmable is always so great

greyrain

Was having a rough month, seeing this in the feed really cheers me up. Love this movie so much, can't wait to listen to this at work tonight

Ipoop4U

Hell yeah! Been waiting for this.

Matthew Ladwig

Awesome, was looking forward to this! I also want to say, re: the guns that it should be kept in mind that this was made during the cold war, so they were likely armed "just in case" for that reason.

Kezia

Super excited for Weapons! There's a scene during the final struggle that got a belly laugh from me but the rest of the theatre was absolutely silent, very funny horror movie.