I really hope that's the final cover art. It looks awesome.

Wow. I totally forgot about this - George Clooney.

After making this live broadcast TV movie, "Fail-Safe" (2000; CBS), he wanted a new property for his next live television production. Clooney was looking at "The Thing From Another World" (1951). I wanna see that, too bad it never happened.

Although not a patch on Carpenter's film, I still found much to enjoy in this. Day 1 purchase for me.

You are correct.

It was Fuchs not Bennings.

Thanks for the link Toonloon.

Does anybody know how to download them (three videos)?

How does the thing copy clothing?

The revised artcover is bad.... We don't care about a review sentence!!!!

I think something that really hurt this movie was the title.  I can't tell you how many people I encountered thought this was a remake.  I know the makers didn't want some lame subtitle, but they could have done something to the effect of "The Thing Is Here" or "The Thing Lives".  Something in the line of a sentence could have worked.  It was a huge mistake to call it simply "The Thing".  By not differentiating itself, it gives itself too much to live up to.

Lets look at it this way... the 1982 film.

By the time the creature has left the Norwegians it has 'learned' a thing or two about humans - deception is the only way for it to survive; immediate and medium-term.

The transformations that occured there (2011) was its beta. Up until that point it have never encountered our speices. Overtaking was messy and not very clandestine.

By the time it reached the American outpost it had learned that. As with the dog biting one of the crew. A few cells - reproduce and replace, no mess. That person would remain that person until the process was complete or when his/her brain was duplicated.

Each one of these intruder cells carries what is best described as genetic memory. It can recall different physiques for what that particular situation calls for.

The more cells, the more memory - like RAM. That bite had enough memory to keep up the fraud.

What was the main thing that exposed itself (2011)? The bloody shower; Kate found the aftermath of a transformation. It even went as far to clean up its mess to keep up the deception.

What the cells may have had in memory was the 'instinct' to keep hidden. NO messy transformation unless out in the open. The dog kennel? That could very well be something it needed to complete BEFORE morning. It learned that a single person could take it down, Kate and later MacReady. More imitations = increase survival.

Clothes that were ripped, but not messy - a clean overtaking. Those ripped clothes could be a red herring, paranoia. It could be anybody's dirty underwear. A false direction, people looking for shredded clothes instead of missing fillings. Not to mention planting evidence to further its hoax.

At least, that's how I look at it.

I like the original artwork better without the reviewer quote

I heard it sucked. Never saw the original, though. The cover art has to be the dullest I've ever seen without some quotes or other lettering.

Memory. I just can't see how the Thing(s) are learning as they go, if there is not direct cell-to-cell 'daughters' down the line carrying any cellular memory.  Learning is not possible unless the Things are communicating psychically.

The Norwegian things that made it to the American camp are the dog, and the burnt pile MacReady and Doc brought back. The burnt heap got Bennings only, then they were both destroyed.  That cuts off that branch.  So the dog-thing got to at least one or two humans in the American camp, before being put in the kennel...   but the dog-thing was killed & infected originally by the Insectoid original Thing, died, healed/transformed,  then took off running later...  The dog-thing should have no earthly 'learned' behavior other than how to act like a dog.

So even if the dog 'learned' anything from say Norris or Palmer when it infected them, there was no previous memory the dog would have, or acquire, about there being a problem with fillings or ear rings, or problems with ripping clothes or making a mess.  Have I missed anything?   hehe

Just ran into that link a few minutes ago, came here to post it. You bet me to it Cathode.

My heart continues to sink.

We all got the water down, lame version.

I know about the live broadcast remake of "The Thing From Another World", but the network is news to me. I was under the impression that would be the same network which did his other live performance ("Fail_Safe" - CBS, April 9th, 2000).

As for the '3-eyed aliens'; to quote myself from page 1, "Too many sources, they kinda blur now.".

I keep forgetting to include this...

Here are a couple of snaps off that YouTube video from Amalgamated Dynamics of the three eyed alien - Pilot. The bumps in the center of the second link are independent eyes; reminiscent to the ones used for the Bug Brain from "Starship Troopers".
http://tinyurl.com/6vp9hdv
http://tinyurl.com/723jglw

The thing here (yes, bad pun) is that they built the alien and puppetted it. Why?
http://tinyurl.com/7ls5wrc

My question got answered - it's a deleted ending. The morphic creature had transformed itself into the ship's original occupant to pilot the ship. Carter was to have killed that iteration with his flame thrower. At least explained by GrrrDevin on IMDb. I still think that person is Kate.

Cool.