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13NoH S2.N12: The Thing From Another World 1951
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Night 12 of 13 Nights of Halloween brings us to the classic sci-fi horror, The Thing From Another World (1951)! 🌌👽 Tonight, it’s just Johnathan and me as we dive into this iconic black-and-white masterpiece, directed by Christian Nyby and produced by the legendary Howard Hawks. Based on the novella “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell, this film set the stage for generations of alien horror.
We’ll explore the eerie atmosphere, the intense suspense, and the fascinating sci-fi elements that made The Thing From Another World a game-changer in 1950s cinema. Starring Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, and James Arness as “The Thing,” this one is truly a must-watch for classic horror fans.
Don’t forget to check out the cocktail pairing for this episode over on our Instagram! 🍸 Plus, we’re looking for audience participation—submit your own scores via the link in our bio and help us determine which film reigns supreme! 👀🎃
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Introduction and Halloween Marathon
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Cat. Hey. finally got one. We found a flying saucer.
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um Welcome to night 12 of our 13 Nights of Halloween. Tonight is just Jonathan and I taking you through the penultimate episode of our spooky marathon. Halloween is tomorrow, and we're all buzzing with excitement. Whether you're staying up late for horror movie marathons, getting ready for some trick-or-treating, or just soaking in that perfectly eerie atmosphere, we hope you have an incredibly fun and safe time.
Audience Engagement: Horror Film Scores
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As we approach the end of this series, we want to remind you to submit your scores for each of the films we've covered so far. Your input will help us crown the ultimate horror winner. You can share your scores through the link in our bio or via Instagram stories. Now, onto tonight's film, a true
Plot and Impact of 'The Thing from Another World'
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classic. We are taking a look at The Thing from Another World from 1951, directed Questionably by Christian Naibe, produced by Edward Lasker and released by RKO Radio Pictures, this black and white sci-fi horror gem has earned its place in cinema history. Based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There by John W. Campbell, this film tells the story of a U.S. Air Force crew and scientist who discovered a crashed flying saucer in the Arctic.
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along with a humanoid body encased in ice. But when the body is accidentally thawed, they soon find themselves in a battle sir for survival against a malevolent, plant-based alien being. The cast includes Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Toby, Robert Cornthwaite, and Douglas Spencer, with James R. Ness playing the titular Thing. The Thing from Another World was a huge hit upon its release, earning over $1.9 million in rentals and surpassing or in sales and surpassing other sci-fi releases of that year, like The Day the Earth Stood Still. Though opinions were divided at time of release, with some critics calling it just another monster movie, the film has since become a cult classic. With Halloween just hours away, there's no better time to revisit this iconic film. So grab your scorecard, check out the cocktail pairing on our Instagram, and join us for this discussion.
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This was a first watch for me. I've never seen this movie. Same. Yes. I think this is one of the few on our list that I have not seen. I think there might've been two or three. I'm not sure, but yeah, this was a new one. I'm going to be honest. I was not excited for this one. I don't know. I don't know. why I was kind of like, Oh, I don't want to watch this one, but I'm actually quite glad I did. So.
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I think the story is fantastically different from what we know of, of the thing.
1950s Film Remakes and Differences
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Oh gosh. Yeah. There's so many things. So we've had from fifties remakes, we've had a lot of fifties movies this Halloween and I love it. But we've had movies like House of Wax, which was a totally different film, took the concept, totally flipped it.
00:04:30
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We had The Fly, which kind of took a segment of the original film and made it the movie. And then we had Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which was almost the exact same movie, just remade and updated. And then we had this one, which like the bones, I wouldn't even say, well, yeah, the bones are there, but it's a different film. It is a different film. And I immediately found myself like, oh,
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this is gonna be a better time than I thought it was gonna be. So the story compared to the 80s one compared to John Carpenter's, this one is more of like a first half is a slow mystery.
Film Elements and Execution
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And then the second half is kind of that creature feature that it was panned for being. But even then I thought they blended it really well. I like that initial discovery at the beginning and then going to the crash site and There was a moment when I was thinking watching this I was like is John Carpenter's like a pseudo sequel Like are we gonna get the setup for everything and it ends up being totally different but I Really liked how that played out. I really liked I was surprised how much I enjoyed this movie I'll be honest up front. I was surprised with this one. So I gave it a four and
00:05:58
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because it is, we get, we don't get the ah body switching that we got from the eighties one. Yeah. Yeah. That was so different. I was kind of thrown off by that. I was like, whoa. Yeah. But i we got another interesting, I need to double check. I think this one was prior. This is prior to invasion of the body snatchers. Yep. And this was the plant based alien. So we kind of got a plant based alien. Yeah.
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I was going to point that out if you didn't. I was going to say, man, like so many similarities with that with ah with how the the scientist decides he's going to try and perpetuate more of these samples of these seedlings from the creature or from the thing.
00:06:41
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um And then thinking like, man, oh, if this is what takes over, man, it makes me think just like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And this could be like a weird segue of like how the plants come to, you know, mass, you know, fruition and then taking over eventually. You know, it's like weird little segues between the two like that.
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Yeah. And did you catch the line in there about the green ooze, like the green blood coming from the arm they found? Yep. When the dogs fighting him, tearing his arm off, yeah they're chasing him out for initially. Yeah. And then I went back to in John Carpenter's one when the head slides off the table and it's all kinds of green bands and green ooze popping out. I was like, ah, so this one definitely coming last.
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even though this is I think the oldest movie on our list because this is 51. So this is this is pretty early. ah I think it's like the only black and white film we've done this year. ah The original invasion was black and white. There was a colored version. of Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yep. Yep. So this one to black and white films this year. Yes. ah Where's that going with that?
00:07:53
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Sorry, being the oldest being the oldest one we're reviewing, but also the last one, I see bits of invasion of the body snatchers with the plant based life form life form. I see bits of creature features. I see bits of the later thing. So in my mind, I'm thinking like, okay, they made this movie. And then they took that plant based alien to the next level with invasion of the body snatchers. And then Interestingly enough, in 1978, when they remade Invasion, they emphasized the plant-based body snatchers. And that made me wonder if Carpenter intentionally avoided that for his remake. I don't know.
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But I just noticed those things after watching these movies so closely together. But I still I gave this one a four. I was surprised by this story. I thought it held up pretty well. I like it being I felt like the Carpenter one is kind of a scientific outpost.
00:08:59
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And this one felt like a military outpost. And I like the way they did that. It's a military outpost. They have a hierarchy, a chain of command they have to follow, which added some drama. They have the scientist on there who is the true villain of the movie. You know, the it was unique. I enjoyed this.
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Right on. um Yeah, definitely a lot of difference. I was going to say, I like the fact that it's different in the way that it's military driven. It's got all that structure while they've still got your scientists with their their greenhouse and all their other stuff and their special rocks and everything that they've been checking out from samples. And just like the different locations versus North and South between the Arctic and the Antarctic. I forgot to mention that. Yeah, they're in Alaska.
00:09:43
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very like complete polar opposites, literally. um And just the fact that, you know, there is guy it's like if you take it into account from the remake.
00:09:55
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If you include all the guys who might've been alive at the other science, the Norwegian Science Base, they would probably have about the same amount of cast as this film does. Yes. You got a lot more people in this one. You even got two women in this film, you know which they didn't have in the remake. So it was just a bunch of dudes in the remake. But out here, you've got like you know ladies around here in the capacity of assistants for the doctor and the lab
Actress Spotlight: Margaret Sheridan
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stuff. you know It was kind of cool. And you got a little romance in there between that And one lady. I can't lie. She's beautiful, though. She is. Holy cow. She's a looker. Yeah. Classic fifties looker. Yep. Very pretty. Yeah. Margaret Sheridan. She I looked her up after this because I thought maybe I'd seen her in some of my other older movies. She didn't do a whole lot from what I saw. So this was and this was her first. If I if I'm correct, you can go ahead. I'll look it up.
00:10:51
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No, i this is like the first movie where i have i think where I haven't known who any of these actors are. but I agree. like ah Zero knowledge. like you My first time watching as well. so it's like like I never knew this existed. I thought the thing, John Carpenter's, was like the original. I didn't know this existed until yeah we had this all set up. and Man, just So it's still got the bare bones, like you said, but like, there's so many differences to all this, which, of course, we can do more to that as we go into the rest of the topics. But I went with a four as well. I still thought that for the time um and the type of sci-fi stuff that were coming up at that time, that that was probably a pretty good, pretty good set for them right then. Yeah. So four. but goof you know I think that is spot on. We are in agreement.
00:11:39
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I was worried this was going to be ah another one where we drifted off on separate, separate trajectories here. So I don't know. Do you want to go? Do you want to go first on the character? This is one that I'll be honest. I had to dock it because you mentioned with the cast. There's so many people in this movie that I could not keep the names, there was captain, there was the captain. I knew who the captain was, I knew who the scientist was, but I knew them by their position more so than- The newspaper guy. Yes. You have your reporter, you have your captain, you have the scientist, the thing, you have your love interest secretary, and then you had your buddy duo comic relief
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throughout the movie that I actually loved those two characters. but i don't know do you martin yeah I actually don't know any other names. So maybe if you want to go first on the character because that was a tough one for me on this one. So in retrospect, I think even now after hearing myself say that this is the first movie where I don't know who any of these actors are, like I feel maybe I overscored.
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I mean, James Arnes, like he looks like maybe he was in like a Western just to put on that picture. So maybe he was popular for Westerns at the time. So that's cool. The rest of these people, and just no frigging clue. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Man, this movie, like there's hope.
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is because the know they the most of them make it. you know There's a few casualties, yeah, but not as many. It's not all out dead kind of situation. um And even though we're comparing John Carver's thing to this film, we're we're already kind of making that comparison with Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's like with the original Body Snatchers, there's still hope for humanity to be saved.
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You know, and the characters in this movie, they they still try to work together, even though the doctor's kind of a dick, but I mean, you gotta have your your butthole person in the cast. um He did a good job of being that kind of like, that opposing force, trying to be that scientific ah voice of reason, because they don't know really anything about the creature. They haven't really communicated with it. They just assume it's naturally bad, and the doctor thinks that if we can just kind of communicate with them,
00:14:14
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maybe they we can find out what's going on. And maybe it's not an invasion. Maybe it's not a hostile thing. We don't know. So this seems like there's some sense of hope in that. But I enjoyed the fact that he got wrecked at the end when he goes and tries to talk to the thing and the dude just like, boom, get up out of here. Just back hands him in the boxes behind. Oh, it's so good. I enjoyed that part. And I like that a lot of the main like all the main cast people made it through.
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and that they were finally able to make contact, you know, after having difficulties sporadically, whereas in make there's like nothing. You got no contact at all. This is end all be all situation life or death to the max in this one. Not so much. You get to see a little more play. um You've got some like little kind of character comedy dynamic between some of like the military guys and like There's a sense of camaraderie and brotherhood as guys in the Air Force, in the military. It's nice to see that. So despite the few B character losses, the fact that they made it through and were able to, as far as we know, save the planet, I gave it a four. I gave it a four on character. Yeah. OK. So this was the spot that I was critical on because I was looking for a bigger arc, some kind of growth.
00:15:38
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The only person I really saw the growth in was the scientist who just kind of like, oh, at first I need to study it. And then by the end, he is like, all of our deaths are worth me knowing more about this thing. you I was like, this guy has lost his mind.
00:15:57
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He's no blare, he's no blare, mind you. No blare. Not that fantastically crazy, but still yes. He does have a pretty bad like fake gray hair job. The wings, the gray wings. His wings were like almost plastered. They were pretty rough. But that was more like
00:16:19
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It was more adorable because it's such an old movie that was like, oh, look at that. i But yeah, he was the only one that I really saw an arc. The there's kind of a romance arc between the two, but it didn't really land in the end. It didn't really. Well, they kind of resolve note in the story.
00:16:37
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Yeah, they make the joke about the two of them being back there doing important things together. Yeah, while the reporters talking to him on the radio. Yeah, you see him like kissing on the couch. But it's not really the focus. Other than that, the main characters don't really go through an arc. So I did dock this one quite a bit for that.
00:17:00
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And really the muddying of a lot of those B characters, I don't know who they were. You know, you have your main four or five and then the rest of them, I just, I couldn't tell you their names at all. I couldn't tell you anything significant. They did. It was hard for my ADHD brain to follow and keep all those names together. So I gave it a two on the character. I did. Yep. I make some good points. exactly on However, you know I'm actually going to take mine down. I'm going to go to three. Okay.
00:17:35
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Yeah, we'll do three. You make slide some sound reasoning there. It was tough, but that doesn't mean I didn't like it. So, and then we'll get to the music and sound design, which again, this is another comparison, not to the remake of the thing, but to invasion of the body snatchers a couple of years later, we heard the wind in this movie.
00:18:00
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quite a bit. I really, I really liked that. And I really liked how they timed. There were a couple scenes with like open windows or doors and we would get gusts of snow come in the door. And they would have accompanying wind sound effects for that. And it was, I noticed it because it was absent from invasion. And so when it was present here, I was like, Oh,
00:18:27
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that's okay so they could do that it was a thing it was a nice touch i also just thought it sounded very nice across the board i really like the opening theme the main theme for the thing is it iconic and would i remember it no uh but i did There was one scene that at first it struck me as really odd why they had that music with him. There's a scene where the captain and one of the B characters like step into the mess hall and there's this almost romantic jazz music playing while he's whispering to him. And I was like, what is going on here?
00:19:16
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And I thought that was an odd choice of music that I was gonna dock it for. But then I realized that scene continues and the music never changes. And we see more of the mess hall. And I think that is actually music that's playing in the mess hall. And I was like, okay, that That makes way more sense than this to having a romantic conversation about I think we should have guards every two hours. i think hey It makes more sense. And it makes more sense why they're whispering under the music so that somebody else like the scientist wouldn't hear. But then you see him go talk to Nikki.
00:19:58
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And the music continues. And i it makes sense that it's in the background. So there was that one moment that I was like, that's an odd choice in music. But then you realize that it's actually part of the set. It is part of the scene that they're in. I was like, OK, I like that. I like that choice for it. So I'm a sucker for some of these bigger, older sounds. And this was a movie that I really enjoyed, the sound attract. sound attract soundtrack. I really enjoyed it. So I actually gave it a four because I couldn't find too many complaints. I liked the music was good. Music's a three. What bumps it up that next bit to me is I like the attention to detail with like the dog sparking outside, the wind blowing, those little things in there that are easy to forget and leave out.
00:20:54
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they took the time to do it. I gave it credit for that. So that's what I bumped over. Okay. All right. That's that's cool. um For me, the music, it the music did nothing particular for me that it just kind of blended really well. Wasn't bad. It just it just all blended as music for the time.
00:21:14
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It's still not House of Wax. House of Wax had the soundtrack of the 50s so far. Yes, yes. um But other than that, I mean, yeah, they da they did a good job with all of your general sound and like this is in a time where, you know, you didn't have all the digital sound effects. It's all sharp and to point like we have now and pitched. Everything was done on a sound stage. You know, they're they're all with all this stuff laid out and they're going at it, doing all the things, recording all the sounds to to accommodate all this.
00:21:44
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I think that's, there's a certain sense of mastery in that, in the old school ways, you know, for production. So, giving props on that. um ah Aside from that, I liked that kind of crackle sound that you had from the electricity, when they finally killed a thing at the end, you know? Just add that, all that electrical sound that they had popping through that, I thought that was really cool. Other than that, that for me, I felt pretty chill sitting at a three, yeah.
00:22:12
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It was good, but i mean it wasn't really anything over the top for me otherwise. It's nothing to send a postcard from Alaska about.
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Technical Aspects of the Film
00:24:10
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All right, the editing and special effects. This is one that I was surprised by. I was surprised because I almost gave this a five. I almost gave this a five. The early scenes of them flying like That's real flight. Those are real planes taken off, landing, love it. Snow patches, ices, whatever, you know. yeah Yeah. I was like, that is cool. I love seeing the reality of that. That's no special effect. But I love that detail. When now something like that might be totally CGI'd or on a green screen, so on. I love seeing that. I also thought when they were investigating that UFO spot, that
00:24:57
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I don't know how they did it. They show this patch in the ice where it was or where it melted the snow into ice. They show it from above and it looks like this huge thing and it looks like it's there. It looks like they did it to the snow. And then they land on it and they're walking around it. And I'm like, this is a a really cool set. Or they went out into the snow and ice and did this.
00:25:27
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and or the sound stage I don't know how they did that I thought it well look the answer just the the the answer is in Minnesota bro Minnesota hockey pro they will go out there and they will shovel out spaces make out the form you want put some water down in freezing temperatures and let it just freeze overnight boom you know, any kind of northern you know place or anywhere has got like heavy winter and they do their own outside ice rinks. That's how you do it. That's that's much what I'm guessing. I don't know for a fact, but I'm assuming that's how they would have gone about it to oder get the massive shape of a final landing point of a big round saucer and the trail, you know, as like they've even got the long heat trail where it's melted out to where it comes down and then plop, you know, that was that looks it looks great.
00:26:17
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There's no denying that that was a phenomenal shot. Well, and that probably makes that makes the most sense of anything. But I'm like, man, I love that because we pointed out in the original thing, the UFO space area looks like a painting.
00:26:31
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it looked like a painting. yeah This one looked better. That was straight up nature. That was some outside shit. i like Maybe this mean not when they were close in on it, maybe not on the close up, but from that sky shot, that was some straight up outside action. Yup. I was like, man, this is this is pretty cool. So I was leaning really hard at giving it a five. I also, the arm they pull out from the dogs. First of all, I was shocked.
00:27:00
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at how old this movie was and just having like a dismembered arm pulling out from the dogs. I was like, hey, this movie is going for it. So the dismembered arm that starts moving on the table. Yeah, that was rad. I did that part. I was I was waiting for some other effects and I'm like something cool, something cool. Yeah. There you go. I was like, I know how they did that. That's not a mystery to me. It still was cool to see.
00:27:27
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Uh, the fake dogs looked surprisingly good. The dead dog that's in that carton thing, the cabinet, the compost. Yeah. It just kind of rolls out dead drain. It truly shocked me. Um, they we're watching that. Like, where did he go? Where did he go? And it's like, I see something. I did not expect a dead dog to fall out of there.
00:27:53
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I was going to do be like, dog. That moment moment truly got me. But overall, I think the creature design is good. I think that is the weakest part of the movie. I think from the fake, it's pretty clear that they're on a soundstage. Like the set.
00:28:17
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It's a good set though. I was noticing attention to detail and that like the smokestacks actually have smoke coming out of them. Those little things that I was like, hey, they put in that extra effort on this film. I was impressed. I thought the creature looked like a knockoff Frankenstein's monster. It didn't really do anything for me. Yeah. It didn't really do anything for me. But yeah,
00:28:44
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I was impressed with the rest of it. I was even impressed. The fire, I forgot about that. The scene where they try to light it on fire was pretty legit. It looked really good. I mean, it was real fire. Oh yeah, that room was straight up on fire. You know, as soon as dude ran out of there, jumps out in the snow while he's on fire, I'm like, oh shit. And then they're the answer blowing everything, trying to cut all that fire out. I was like, that shit was, it was ready to really start to go up. I was like, okay. Yeah, that was a good scene overall. And then even the electricity at the end, it looked
00:29:19
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better than I would have expected from 1951. I'm going to give it that. So my biggest doc for credit or for editing and special effects, the creature design was a knockoff Frankenstein. Other than that, this movie looks really good. So I gave it a four. I gave it a four on special effects. I was almost a five. I was almost a five, but I truly think for 1951, these effects were great and they looked pretty good still today.
00:29:49
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I can dig that for sure. What I one of the things I like the most as far as special effects go was the the title seat was the opening title of the thing. The the the the light in the the light tracing that comes out from the cut out of the title sequence for the thing from another world and just those light beams that contrast that looked really cool. That was like some really old school practical effects. You don't really see that used too often anymore.
00:30:15
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You know, even if it's digital effect trying to replicate that, but that like you can see like the particulates in the air and everything that the light streaming out of it. I just thought that was cool. I appreciate that. Yeah, I forgot about that because we talked about how the new the remake tried to replicate that and they did a pretty good job replicating it. But there was a cooler effect, though. There's was cooler. Yeah, but there was something about watching this original one that I was like. That's good.
00:30:47
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um Let's see what else. ah I don't really have much to say about the editing. I thought everything like was sequenced out pretty well. It didn't seem like they really lingered too long in any one scene, really. I mean, they just kind of worked to the point with it.
00:31:01
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um I kind of wish there had been more with the special effects in regards to the thing. um you're i mean Aside from like the the stuff they did with the hands and the the pointed knobs and stuff, yeah that's all kind of like whatever.
00:31:16
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You know, but this dude, you're right. He was so freaking Frankenstein and guys like this kind of bug. And I forgot about the little baby plants that were breathing. Did you see that? Yeah. They had that little po kind of pulsating action to them. Yeah. That was cool. That was cool. but Oh man. And then when you see the thing outside, when the dogs attack it, when it first escapes, you see them just like just hauling, just waving this dog around, like just flopping this big old thing around. I was like, okay, that's, that's some gnarly looking stuff. I kind of thought that was cool as well. Um, but yeah, I was kind of almost there, but not quite wanted to. I was, I thought three was good for me because I wish there had been more special effects and more,
00:32:04
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done more of the tenderly things that you would have expected like you saw in the remake. And like even some of the posters like you see for this movie, it looks like there's like tendril stuff in the backgrounds from stuff and you don't really get any sense of that. oh You know, for the for the tenderly things like you had in the remake with John Carpenter. So maybe maybe three and a half, maybe three and a half, but definitely three. Okay, yeah I'll leave it at that's okay. You make good points. ah The man I just looked at my score to okay, this is correct.
00:32:35
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Scrippies the script for this one. I Think I might I might come down again I Gave it a four because I thought the script was tight. I thought the script was really tight I really appreciated the injection of humor in a lot of And it wasn't cringy humor. There were quite a few moments that I actually found funny and So there was that scene when it might have been the scientist, might have been someone else reading like, oh, so in whatever X seven, seven, zero, three, one, seven, and a guy goes, which one was that again? And he's like, oh yeah. And he goes, ah, yeah, that's right. And I'm just like, yeah, like anybody else I remember those numbers, it was a very real sarcastic remark to make. And I, in I thought it was pretty funny.
00:33:27
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But the thing that I liked most about this script is that I felt like everybody spoke to each other as if they had a history. Yeah, OK. Yeah, I can agree with that. So instead of just coming into the room and being like, I'm the captain, you listen to me, we have the others talking about the captain.
00:33:49
Speaker
And then you find out that it's the guy they're sitting there with. you know There is this playful banter of people who have spent time together. And I found that throughout the film. And I also really enjoyed the multiple times that people would talk over each other. And I know that's like a really weird thing to enjoy, but it makes it feel more real. When you have three people suddenly start to speak up,
00:34:17
Speaker
And then two of them are quiet to let one finish. Like, yes, that that feels more realistic. This movie also has something a lot of old movies do is over explaining things. Like, there were a couple of times where like instructions are, okay, I need you to get in between those two. Well, what do they call towers?
00:34:44
Speaker
They were trying to get them between the two things to zap them with electricity. What did they call it? Yeah, they were talking about trying to do like a spider web thing to them. Yeah, the two rods. Like big roll cables and stuff. Yeah, they were insulating rods. And so they were like, OK, we need to get them between those two rods. And then somebody would be like, he's almost between those two rods. We need to get them between those two rods. So there'd be some unnecessary echoing of information. But I also enjoyed the verbalization of deduction.
00:35:14
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During the mystery segments. So going back to like finding the dog in the compost bed
Cultural Impact and Preservation
00:35:20
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they were like well the doors open and Or the door shut and they're like, yeah, but these these plants are wilted It would take about 10 to 15 seconds of sub-zero exposure for this to happen so we can assume that the door was open and then like it might be a little bit of over explaining and But I also liked seeing how they get to these conclusions, because a lot of the times we're left like, how do they figure that out? We do that in modern writing a lot. Like, we're just going to know, I like how I'm not going to look online to see if a plant can be affected in 10 to 15 seconds of subzero exposure. I'm not going to check that information out because it doesn't matter. But it mattered to the story.
00:36:01
Speaker
So I like that little bit and how he's like, oh, there's some green ooze on this lock. We can assume that he went this way and maybe went out that door and something happened. And those are the things that I like. Or I really liked her deduction of figuring out that fire would hurt. So when they were talking about like, well, bullets did nothing. What do we do?
00:36:24
Speaker
boil it like a vegetable. It's a vegetable for that bitch. Because one of the things I was re when we were rewatching a thing, I was like, how did they determine fire is the best solution?
00:36:38
Speaker
I don't remember in John Carpenter's how we landed on like flamethrowers the way to go. Something to do with copper. I guess copper wire came into it. I don't remember. it but like Copper wire came into it sometime somehow. And so that's why he started using like the heated copper and the blood or something like that. The heat.
00:36:57
Speaker
Yeah, the heat they they determined that the heat causes the reaction. But before that, he's used in the flamethrower. So I liked seeing in this movie how they tried shooting it. They tried chopping it with an axe and they eventually are like heat. And then it preserves fire destroys. I mean, yeah. So I liked seeing those deductions in this film. I also thought the romantic back and forth like. I don't I didn't care for it in invasions of the body stature.
00:37:27
Speaker
I thought theirs in this movie was playful and fun and I kind of enjoyed it. I was like, i was not niceing old school class I'm not here for the romance, but then the way it begins with him coming in like mad. Why did you play that prank on me? Oh, yeah. yeah She was just like a fan the whole time while she explained it.
00:37:50
Speaker
I was like, this feels real. This dialogue feels real. This exchange feels like something people would have had. And so I really appreciated this movie for doing that. It has its weak moments, but overall, I thought it was intelligently written where necessary.
00:38:09
Speaker
And it most of its weak moments come from being a movie from 1951 where we overexplain certain segments, we're kind of cheesy. I loved in the opening where the four guys are constantly talking about women. I thought it was hilarious. Like, oh, you need to get yourself a woman or whatever. I thought it was funny. But I gave it a four. I thought the script was really, it was pretty great. I'm not going to say it was amazing, but I thought the script was great.
00:38:40
Speaker
And I think I think i said, why? I was genuinely surprised by it. So I agree with a lot of that. I mean, it's it's definitely the typical classic script writing for the time, you know, where it's just part of what they did at the time was explaining certain elements, you know.
00:39:02
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um
00:39:05
Speaker
I thought it was, I thought it worked out pretty well. One of my favorite lines though, was like, it was like the later on in the movie where the they're talking about the thing, getting them. And the one guy was, what did he say? it was at a He was like, yeah, come get some scotch blood. Cause if you'd have been drinking. So I kind of laughed about that. And like the the dialogue, the way they wrote that, it's it's all that military aspect. So, you know, they've got that brotherhood, that sense of fraternity, and they can kind of jib jab each other and get away cause that's just how they are.
00:39:35
Speaker
You know, um the romance I probably could have done without really, I mean, that was kind of like unnecessary to the story. But for the time, she wanted to be a film that appeals to everybody, yeah you know, so you can get so something to draw the ladies in to want to watch it as well, because there's romance. But I mean,
00:39:55
Speaker
the The way they wrote up there one of the movie posters, it creeps, it crawls, it strikes without warning. So you nothing really crawled anywhere. You didn't really get any crawl. You didn't really creep. You just got a giant wannabe Frankenstein lumbering around.
00:40:07
Speaker
and I know it's not really script necessary but or script particularly, but still ah something that bothered me about movie culture. It bothered me so so much when they're trying to get it down that hallway and then the scientist shuts off the power. And so the creature just freezes in place while they run to take care of that issue and then come back. That bothered me so much.
00:40:29
Speaker
Yeah, other than that, I mean, it was cool. I mean, I like the the reporter guy, though. He was kind of cutting up a lot. um and Just the way he was just being kind of a ham, it sounded like, when he's like describing the battle that occurred you know at the end and how he does his whole dialogue with that. yeah um But overall, I wouldn't say it's anything too amazing. So I went with a three. I thought that was cool. i my favorite My favorite line, because I've never heard it before. And it was repeated many times in this film.
00:40:59
Speaker
was a was it holy cats? I was like, Where is that? I've never heard a holy cats before. So that wasn't so You know, also no no think about it when you were talking about the, there'd be kind of like an echo chamber in some parts of that. Maybe because it's the military, they do that as kind of a jab, maybe as a kind of a comedy point to make fun of the military for having to like repeat back orders and stuff in certain branches. Yeah. that could beef or ah Yeah. just an idea
00:41:35
Speaker
yeah Overall, you haven't caught on. I was genuinely surprised by this movie. um So for the acting, it again, I feel like we've said this for most of the 1950s movies, there was just a way they acted in the 50s. Yeah. it It doesn't feel
00:42:01
Speaker
It doesn't feel like acting now. I don't know what I don't know what it is. I'm not well versed enough in acting. I think it's it's a sense of cadence to the way they deliver the lines, if that makes sense. I feel like there's a typical kind of cadence in delivery, kind of short or brubbed.
00:42:20
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then
00:42:23
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e you know that you up saying i mean that oh go and as opposed to like a natural delivery yeah as opposed to a discussion. Yeah, it very much delivered. I said it like back with some of the older films like we were talking about with.
00:42:41
Speaker
I'm pretty sure I mentioned it in the House of Wax and with and the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's just that kind of kind of, into the scene, deliver the line, top to top, top to top, top to top. Okay, this person goes, this person goes over here, down a lot more dialogue, and then boom, and into scene, onto the next part of transition to whatever. It's all just kind of, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. I just, I feel it's got like a certain kind of standard pacing in some ways with that delivery.
00:43:08
Speaker
No, that makes perfect sense and that's that's where I did I was a little bit I don't want to say it was lenient on this film But I felt like this film did it a little bit better and I don't know Maybe it was just me enjoying this one a little bit more than and I didn't enjoy the fly that much I would watch this one again before I watch the fly so I'd probably watch this one again before I watched I the invasion of the body snatchers. There was something about this movie that it still had that 50s cadence and delivery. But much like I said with the script where I felt like they talked to each other like they had a history, I felt like they acted like they also had a history.
00:43:54
Speaker
those jokes and jabs with each other were almost accompanied with like, hey, yeah, right, man? Like, it was almost there. I felt like they understood, like that scene I described it in the plane about like case number, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And the guy sarcastically asking which one it was again, the others in that cabin,
00:44:17
Speaker
reacted and knew he was joking. And so that was kind of a level of acting. Like, nobody said anything, but they were like, ah, he's kidding. And you could see it on their faces. The way Nikki and the captain acted with that whole relationship tension at the beginning, the way she naturally was like, oh, you know, it was a joke, whatever. And he was upset. I was impressed by that. I was actually, I was really impressed by her in that scene. I thought she seemed really natural.
00:44:46
Speaker
So I'm surprised that she's only, she only ever did 11 movies. She died in 82. Yeah. So I'm surprised she did so few, but overall I gave it a four and maybe that's me being surprised by this movie. And so I'm a little bit lenient on it, but I thought they took that fifties cadence is still there. That delivery is still there.
00:45:12
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in a lot of scenes in a lot of ways, but I thought they did it just a little bit better than some of the others that we've seen. Yeah, that is for sure.
00:45:25
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um
00:45:29
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What do I want to say about this? I mean, you've mailed nailed most of the main points on that. um There's not really any scenes in this movie where you're like, This scene, the acting was amazing. I don't think there's those scenes. I thought like it was kind of just average for the time for me. Nothing was really really stood out too much about the acting. um Aside from that you know that sense of camaraderie they get being military and like what you said,
00:46:02
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um I feel like maybe like in that time and that era, you know, a lot of these actors were probably on multiple things because they were shooting a lot of stuff back then. I mean, they were putting out lots of films from different studios all the time with different kind of production. So a lot of those people probably have worked on multiple projects together and already have kind of had that sense of, you know, working together, that good history. So that made it easy to kind of pull it off in those scenes naturally. So I don't know.
00:46:34
Speaker
Doctor who was kind of a knob kind of made me think of like, uh, that, what that weird doctor guy from lost in space. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. so it was Yeah. get Same vibe. you Same vibe. I was like, yeah. Okay. Get out of here doc. You and your weirdo self, you know, butho um but But, uh, being the rest of it, it was just a lot of chummy action. So I mean, it's cool. It's the gym three, man. That's about it. Yeah.
00:47:02
Speaker
All right, so the direction on this one, this was kind of a tough one to score on direction. ah
00:47:11
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So I again, I mean, I don't know what's going on tonight, but but this was. I know you you don't like the direction category, so I'll try to. This was truly a case of taking the entire picture and how it came together for my direction.
00:47:32
Speaker
because I didn't think there was any particular flair to the director. There was no like dramatic angles, long shots, no dramatic lighting. It was pretty bright, pretty straightforward. Let's tell the story. What I do think he handled really well was the pacing. I was surprised by that because this movie, we get a brief introduction.
00:48:02
Speaker
this is just set up and then it's like hey there's something going on out in the ice they go out we get this mystery that unfolds for about the first 45 minutes of the film and then the ice thing thaws and we get this tense cat and mouse almost while still having a little bit of that mystery element about what is this how can we stop it going on And I was surprised at how brisk it was. It moved very quickly, but didn't feel like we glossed over anything necessary. Didn't feel like it made any overly dramatic leaps. So this was one that I was trying to take how the story was told versus any particular flair. And i this is where I came to the conclusion that it is kind of a shame
00:49:00
Speaker
that most people only know of John Carpenter's The Thing. So i I was watching this and I was like, this is a really well done 1950s sci-fi horror film. So I don't think there's any dramatic flair. I think he handled the special effects well. He handled the pacing, the script, the actors. He brought it all together in a movie that better than it has any right to be. So I gave it a four. I think he did a great job putting this together. And and I can see, I can see wide it inspired remakes. I can see why it was, you know, has been honored as a significant piece of film history because I've seen a lot of sci-fi horror films, mostly through Mystery Science Theater. And this is better than all of them.
00:49:59
Speaker
So i I get it. i I get why it's kind of significant. And I gave it a four for that because he he pulled it off and without any dramatic flavor. So.
00:50:15
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That's all right. um Yeah, I don't have much to say on it. I just gave it a three. Like I said with the editing, what you were just saying, you know, everything sequenced really well. It was pretty tight um from scene to scene. Well, you didn't really get too much lag in any, in one, two, like too many parts. I think like there was the end there. um They took it a little, little too much extra time with getting around to killing the thing.
00:50:44
Speaker
You know, that whole setup to get in between the pillars and everything and all that. I think that could have gone a little bit faster, but I don't really have much to say. I mean.
00:50:58
Speaker
I'm trying to think of something pointfull to say. and this one I got nothing, dude. That's all right. Actually, um the setup though for when the creature thaws out, that kind of rubbed me the wrong way a little bit. Because it's like, they've got, do for i don no reason, they've got the room closed off. They've bust out the window to keep the temperature cold in there to keep it from thawing out.
00:51:22
Speaker
And it's like, okay, well, why the hell would you put a blanket over the damn thing? Much less an electric blanket. It's hooked to something. It should have been very obvious. And then later, like, oh, how did it escape? How did it thaw out? Oh, it was like, oh, it's still warm. It's still on. Like, uh, and like even the cut from the seat for the blanket to like the, the power knob to it and everything. I'm just like, uh, why do you sound stupid like that? I thought he put the blanket on it because he was getting creeped out because he could see the creature in it.
00:51:52
Speaker
Oh, that's right. Yeah. So she just grabbed it. Like, I don't want to look at this and covered it and didn't pay attention to what he grabbed. Oh, okay. Okay. Then maybe it is a good set up. Maybe I'm just being a turd. I'm just trying to be a hater. I don't know. Then he doesn't, then he doesn't own up to it later. He's like, Oh, I don't know how that happened. It's dude. Yep.
00:52:15
Speaker
yeah Although I wish that we had gotten more of like outside interaction. I think we we didn't get so much like we owe with remake, man, they're outside off and on all the time. It's like so much of it to place outside. You know, with this one, yeah, they were outside when they're like investigating the saucer stuff, but like at the base, at the
Critiques and Comparisons of Film Scenes
00:52:35
Speaker
at the research center there, you know, would have liked to see more run around outside action with that kind of like they did in the remake. So I was kind of disappointed we didn't get more of that.
00:52:44
Speaker
But I mean, work with what you got, you know, depending on when they're filming, you know, they're working in like some ice warehouse or something and a soundstage. So I get limited. You can't do too much. But so we'd like a little more on that. And we didn't mention. I meant to mention it during a script. I kind of liked. Did you pick up on why they lost connection with the main base?
00:53:07
Speaker
said something about static. i'm I'm thinking it's just maybe like just the connection from from that area because like because theyre know the the the site was out there in the Arctic. yeah I think maybe they're still stationed off in Alaska somewhere or trying to communicate to a base in Alaska. I wondered if it had to because I noticed it coincided with when they brought the creature inside. And so that it wasn't really expanded upon later. But then once the creature is gone, they got contact again.
00:53:38
Speaker
So they never really talked about it having any kind of electrical frequency or anything. But that was something I noticed that they brought it in the door and they got static. And then once the creature is gone, they reestablish connection. So that's just me like. Here's my crazy theory is that it also affected frequency. I don't know. OK, well, it could be that could be that was a cool idea.
00:54:07
Speaker
Yeah, so I didn't know that I didn't know if I missed something and you caught it, but it seems neither one of us quite know. So I'm going to stick with the alien. The plant based alien form affects radio. Aurora Borealis. Yeah, it makes sense. It may. No. OK, so the factor for this film. So this one, unlike its predecessor,
00:54:39
Speaker
This one was successful upon release. So this one is ah yeah actually, I was kind of surprised by how much it made for 1951. It made almost $2 million dollars at the domestic box office, US and Canada.
00:55:05
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it was the 46th biggest earner of the year and gotta keep in mind that like in 1951 they were releasing studios were releasing a movie like every other week it wasn't it wasn't like today where it's big tentpole like hey here's our fall release they were releasing a lot of movies It was the 46th biggest. It beat out what is considered today as one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time, The Day the Earth Should Still. It was a bigger box office earner than that. That's rad. Yeah. so Since then, it's received a lot of praise. It's now considered one of the best films of 1951 and the 1950s in general.
00:55:56
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It has an 87% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. ah The general consensus is that it is better than most flying saucer movies thanks to well-drawn characters and concise tense plotting, which we've actually established so far. In 2001,
00:56:17
Speaker
The United States Library across of Congress deemed the film culturally significant and selected it for preservation into the National Film Registry. Sweet. Additionally, Time Magazine named the thing from another world the greatest sci-fi movie of the 50s. So this one, contrary to John Carpenter's, was a success upon release, which I think is interesting.
00:56:46
Speaker
ah Because, like we mentioned on the earth on the John Carpenter's episode, not many people know this movie exists today. Yeah. so And I do think that's unfortunate. So after watching this one, I can say I like them both. I like the ending of this one a little bit better than Carpenter's.
00:57:14
Speaker
And not necessarily the happy ending or anything like that because we know I love the bleak ending of the remake of Invasion. I love that. I just think I think carpenters after the blood test fizzles to a conclusion. It's like they did the blood test and like I don't really know where to go from here.
00:57:37
Speaker
And I was watching this one thinking like, man, that plan to like zap the creature electronic, like with electricity, would have brought a more thrilling conclusion to carpenters film, like to try to do something like that. and Instead of balling the whole friggin place up and just dying in in the snow. Yes. So something like that might have saved the ending of that. So taking that idea of the conclusion of this one, I i like that a little bit better.
00:58:05
Speaker
i think the whole tension of the body snatcher thing from carpenters is great but yeah so this movie better received on release but barely known now and i think that's a shame so because of that i gave it i gave it a three and that is that is taking its praise at release it was very culturally significant in the 50s and then bringing it back down because is unfortunately almost gone today.
00:58:41
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I concur. For me, i the lack of awareness but lack of awareness for this, it yeah it's a big thing for me on this because I never knew this existed. I didn't know John Carpenters was a remake.
00:59:00
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yeah You don't hear any references to this as the OG film in any scope, really, aside from what you just mentioned. so you know there's just not much, like there's there's a major lack of reference from my life of knowing about this film that kind of dings it for me. I was gonna score it at a two, but the fact that it spawned the John Carpenter remake and how it spawned those ideas and how they expand from there and it's the amazing artwork we got because of the remake versus kind of the the dumpy franking buttnut you got here in this one. I still, I think three's fair.
00:59:38
Speaker
and just you know if if there're if they if If I saw more reference to this, then maybe it'd be higher, but I think three's fair. Yeah. So overall, how entertained were we? I've been pretty clear throughout this review. This movie surprised me. I was not in the mood. So I'll be honest, House of Wax got me hyped up. I enjoyed House of Wax.
01:00:05
Speaker
And then the fly brought me crashing back down. I did not enjoy the fly that much. And then invasion of the body snatchers was fine. It was too similar to the remake, and which means it's ah probably a pretty faithful adaptation of the book. So I give it that. um So I was kind of like, eh, I doubt this one's gonna be anything significant.
01:00:33
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I ended up really enjoying this movie. I ended up scoring this an eight on Entertainment Factor. This is a movie that when I want an old horror movie,
01:00:47
Speaker
This had everything I'm looking for. From good actors, the time period music, it had some good jazz pieces in there that I'm like, yep, that's what I want. In my 1951 black and white horror film, good music. like It has that has that playful banter between both friends, the men, and the female love interest. It has that playful banter that doesn't get This is one that doesn't get too sexist. So I appreciated that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it never really got there. So I appreciate that in it. But I would keep coming back because I really enjoyed the mystery of this. And yeah, I know the ending now, but just that investigation at the beginning how it unfolds and then it's this creature at the end. It's kind of a classic horror
01:01:45
Speaker
Movie creature feature, but they wrap it up in this sci-fi mystery at the beginning that hooks me and much like the other one it has this isolated Arctic setting that is interesting so I agree we took a little bit of too too long a time to get to the dramatic conclusion and it's also painful to watch so in that conclusion I I don't know if this was oversight. I don't know if I missed a line here. But when they barricade the door to get the creature to come down the walkway to walk between the two rods, he just opens the door inward.
01:02:32
Speaker
And I was like, Did they not think that through? Or is that it like a special effect that we're supposed to think he just ripped the door off the hinges? That was the second one. Yeah, I don't know what that was, but then he crashes through and he starts walking so slowly towards them. The scientist cuts the power from the generator. And the creature just stops. He's like, oh, I'll let you guys go take care of that.
01:03:01
Speaker
So they go take care of that and they come back and the creature is still right there. Like he doesn't move that whole time instead of like murdering a bunch of people in the in the hallway. So that's a major knock. But because it's 1951, I'm a little lenient. I'm going to give it a break on it. But overall, yeah, I enjoyed the heck out of this movie and I'm surprised that I did.
01:03:27
Speaker
As far as entertainment goes, it's a good film. it's It's cool to see where John Carpenter's kind of stemmed from. Acting was okay all around. Nothing too fancy for me to you give a shout about. It's not something I'm really going to tell people about so much. I don't feel like it's that impactful. But overall, as far as entertainment goes, I i gave it a six.
01:03:50
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You know, I paid attention through most of it. You know, it didn't feel like it was a really long film like it does with others. um So I mean, I appreciated that because of the way they paste everything. It had a nice flow to it. So it's it's it's OK to watch, but nothing really to to holler about. So and was yeah, more. It's the vintage movie is your vibe then.
01:04:17
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not a vintage movie guy unless it's like Marx Brothers, so. Oh, we should review duck soup. Hey, all right. That'd be cool. All right. So overall, total scores and final thoughts. ah You want to go first and then I'll wrap it up. Um, overall, with my little change there, I'm at 31.
01:04:41
Speaker
it's It's a cool movie. It makes sense. It's not going to be topping any charts for me any time ever, but it's a reasonably good film. Okay. So you're three stars out of five. Yay.
01:05:00
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i'm
01:05:04
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Yeah, so I was 37 out of 50. So I was three and a half. We're only five points off in the end grand scheme of things. ah But I do think it's significant on this one, my entertainment value for this one. And I do have a soft spot for the older movies. I was raised on black and white movies. I was raised on, you mentioned Marx Brothers. I was raised on Marx Brothers and Abbott and Costello.
01:05:31
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ah
01:05:34
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Oh man, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, like I was raised on those movies. And so I have a soft spot for them, but this is one that I thought was really pretty good. And I do want to watch it again. I don't know how soon, but I do want to watch it again. And I thought it was interesting that my inner theme of value on this one looked the same as John Carpenter's. I think it was eights for both. I really, I'd watch them both.
01:06:02
Speaker
again, the same like with the same anticipation, I guess. So yeah, I enjoyed them both. So overall between just the two of us, we need to get some more reviews in here. Where did I put my calculator? So people join in with some comments, give us your reviews.
01:06:26
Speaker
So we have 31 plus 37, divide that by two for the average, we are 34, so three and a half stars out of five. Great numbers. That's where we're at right now. Once more people get their reviews in, check this movie out, let us know, ah especially I think it's so worth checking this one out because so few people know about it.
01:06:49
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I think a lot of people know that Invasion of the Body Snatchers had
Final Recommendations and Viewing Options
01:06:54
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an original. I think more people, maybe a little fewer than that, know about the Fly's original and they help me, help me. I think people know about those original films. This one, because it goes by two names, it is both known as The Thing, but at the time it was The Thing from Another World.
01:07:16
Speaker
So that movie is the original of John Carpenter's. Go check it out. It's streaming free on 2B right now. You can't go wrong with it. Right behind you on your TV. you know In online. su me I love I love 2B. So Jonathan, any last words as we head into tomorrow being our final night of 13 Nights of Halloween and our final episode for the year?
01:07:40
Speaker
Watch all of the episodes. All of you. Watch all of the episodes. All 13. Give us your feedback. Give us a critique on my crappy assessment of direction or whatever. We don't care. Just be part of it. Get in on the game with us. Be jolly with us in our reviews of some movies. Help us be average or above average or below average or whatever kind of average you want to help us attain with your your input.
01:08:06
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And see, what I like about what we do is if you watch this movie and you totally disagree with Jonathan and I, then you can go use the link or any of the other ways and score the movie using the exact same rubric we do.
01:08:26
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And you'll affect the average. You'll affect that outcome. So your opinion matters. Don't just be a troll in the comments. You can submit a score and then be a troll in the comments. That's fine. Yeah. Yeah. So. Yeah. Troll with a score. Yeah. Troll with a score. We need that. So.
01:08:45
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This project is tomorrow's our final episode. We're talking Black Christmas from 74, the Bob Clark classic. Love that film. But this project has been six months in the making.
01:09:01
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Been working on it for a long time. Super excited for people to see it. Can't wait for you to see it. Get that last one in there. Get those scores in there. So as we wrap up, night 12 of 13 as of Halloween, we want to thank you for sticking with us through all of these adventures. The Thing from Another World may not be the most widely discussed sci-fi horror film today, but it is a gem that deserves more attention.
01:09:28
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With its suspenseful atmosphere, solid performances, and historical significance, this is a classic that horror fans, especially if you're into 50s sci-fi, need to experience. So if you haven't already seen it, we definitely encourage you to track it down and give it a watch, like you said, streaming free on Tubi.
01:09:48
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There's something special about this era of filmmaking and it really set the stage for the iconic horror and sci-fi movies that we saw in the late 70s and 80s. There's a reason why most of our remakes were from the 80s and most of our originals were from the 50s. So, who doesn't love a good creature feature on a spooky October night?
01:10:15
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Don't forget to send us your scores for this film as we have already said and all of the others we've covered. We're so close to the finish line and we can't wait to see which film comes out as the best remake and which film comes out as the best original
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