‘The Thing’ Red Band Trailer Hopes To Scare Up Interest

Movie blogger reception to Universal’s upcoming prequel The Thing, which hits theaters on October 14, has been a bit cold. This, of course, is first and foremost due to the high regard most people have for John Carpenter’s classic 1982 feature, which in itself was a remake of Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby’s 1951 film The Thing from Another World. All of this is to say first time feature helmer Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. has a steep hill ahead of him.

This prequel story takes place at an Antarctica research site where an alien spacecraft is found after which a shape-shifting alien terrorizes a team of scientists. The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen and Trond Espen Seim.

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.

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