The Thing - 05/11/11

This prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter film doesn't really have much scope for what it can do and where it can take us.
We know 'The Thing' must survive to the end of the film so it's just a case of waiting to see how all the rest of the cast die!

Focussing on the mainly Norwegian research team, it shows a bit about how the creature was found and battled the first time round before Kurt Russel got there in the original.

Quite unnecessary but quite good fun and if you look at it as part of the bigger picture with the second one, it works quite well and does get the honour of having much better creature effects.

Score: 5/5*