Episodes
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
The Thing (1982)
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Thursday Sep 02, 2021
Welcome to the Scary Basement where each week, Mikey McCollor and Roxy Polk are trapped in the scary basement full of cursed items and horrific monsters until they review the movie set for them by the DemonBot. This week’s film The Thing (1982) directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster based on a short story by John W. Campbell Jr. starring Kurt Russel, Keith David, and Wilford Brimley.
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This Week’s Film
The Thing (1982) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/
Streaming on Starz https://www.starz.com/us/en/movies/the-thing-44792
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Referenced in the Episode
The translation of what the Norwegian says is “Get the hell out of there! That’s not a dog, it’s some sort of thing! It’s imitating a dog, it isn’t real! Get away you idiots!” Also, the language primarily spoken in Norway is Norwegian.
30 Days of Night (2007) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389722/
The Thing (2011) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372
Blumhouse Productions and John Carpenter Announce The Thing Reboot (from August 2020) https://variety.com/2020/film/news/the-thing-reboot-blumhouse-john-carpenter-1234746844/
Update from October 2020, “We’re working on it. [I have] no details to share, but we’re working on it.” – Producer Jason Blum https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/the-thing-remake-confirmed-blumhouse/
First rumor from January 2020 that indicates the film will be based on an unpublished longer version of the original story “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell Jr. titled “Frozen Hell”, which is “practically a different story” according to Alec Nevala-Lee https://www.newsweek.com/thing-movie-remake-frozen-hell-manuscript-campbell-who-goes-there-1484710
Alec Nevala-Lee’s book Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction where he found the original manuscript to Frozen Hell doing research https://amzn.to/3cBtilg
Don’t Wake Daddy (originally released in 1992) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Wake_Daddy
Fermi Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
Random Horror Movie Title Generator http://www.generatorland.com/glgenerator.aspx?id=62
Clear Eyes Fanzine on Bandcamp https://cleareyesfanzine.bandcamp.com/releases
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Hosted by Mikey McCollor and Roxy Polk
Post-production and editing by Darryl Mott
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