I think I’ll be watching The Thing later. Working from home listening to Toby Hadoke chat about it on the irreverent podcast Smershpod
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That’s another masterpiece I can never watch too many times!
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There’s a moment in this movie which still creeps me out, when Rosemary says "This is no dream! This is really happening!”
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A classic. The old 80s practical effects still hold up, due to how inventive it all is. & the performances, the sense of paranioa, people not trusting each other (or even themselves?). The wonderfu cinematography. Ennio Morricone’s score which does feel like a John Carpenter score. As close to perfection as films get for me.
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It’s so clever because up until the final scene it would still all pretty much make sense if it was really all in her head.
I almost think it would be better without the ending because you would never know. But I guess that wouldn’t be as scary!
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The Thing just so happens to be my favourite film of all time.
I genuinely consider it perfect, everything it wants to do and tries to do is executed flawlessly.
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Decided to watch this today in spirit of Halloween.
Yeah, it’s great. I unfortunately already knew how it ends to so the ambiguity didn’t work for me (though I still appreciated it massively).
Just an immaculately shot and scripted film, Roman Polanski is (very unfortunately) an incredibly talented filmmaker.
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I realised when it came to it that I’d already seen the final scene during one of those “top 100 moments in film” clip shows one Christmas.
Luckily like I said it didn’t do all that much for me - I preferred the ambiguity, the slow tense build up, the gaslighting and everyone thinking she’s crazy. That’s what this movie is about to me.
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