In this one, Friend of DeSoto and entertainment lawyer Dave H swings by to discuss one of the scariest movies of all time, The Thing, directed by John Carpenter.
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The Thing End Credits Music by Carpenter
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Extended Notes
ennio morricone
it sounds carpentery but its not! interesting
flying saucer!
shaky dolly across a sweet snowy ridge
this husky looks so happy
were shootin dogs!
look at these cute
old dudes playing ping pong
"Poor baby youre startin to lose it, arent you?"
he poured whiskey into his computer! wtf
hell of an opener
boss looks like discount robert stack
theyve been cut off for two weeks? ominous
Nauls like to skate
"maybe were at war with Norway"
Macready has to fly them even though the weather sucks
this dogs biding his time
Nauls likes stevie, doesnt actually turn it down
dogs peekin
spooky norwegian place is torched
bloody axe in a door
icicles everywhere
corpse in a chair
cut his wrists but also his throat?
good depth of set here
cute doggy waiting for them
groovy steam comin off the multicorpse
guy sounds like Brimley but looks like Beatty
spooky dog freaks out the others
this monster dog is so nasty, launching tentacles and spider legs
its got a goo hose
"idont know what the hells in there but its weird and pissed off, whatever it is"
Childs torches it
long silent pause while they absorb the situation
autopsy on the creature
they find the spot they dug something up
and head out to investigate
big saucer
theyre awfully blase about ice climbing
why is the ice blue?
"i just cannot believe all this voodoo bullshit"
i love Keith David! he was in precinct 13, they live, fire king in adventure time
groovy computer program describing cells
this computer is extremely sophisticated if it can project something and describe it in simple terms like that
guy says we should burn them
"you cant burn the find of the century. thats gonna win somebody the Nobel prize"
oh dude its goopin
the boys talk out in the Thiokol - Blairs journal says the things are still alive
uh oh Bennings got absorbed
they torched him
theyre using so much fuel
odd that Garry isnt taking charge
everyone seems to defer to Mac
action packed bit where Blair is losing it. he killed the dogs, messed up the computers tractor and the choppers
locking Blair into the toolshed
"trusts a tough thing to come by these days. why dont you just trust in the lord."
Blair says to watch Clark closely
theyre gonna make a blood serum test
paranoid mess after the blood packs are found to be damaged
Windows tries to get a gun
they decide Mac should hold the weapons
whoa Mac decides theyre gonna drug Garry Clark and Copper with morphine
"Nobody trusts anybody now. We're all very tired."
everyone should prepare their own meals and eat out of cans in case a single particle could take someone over
Fuchs finds Macs ripped up coat
guys go out to find him
they check on Blair
"I hear funny things out here."
Fuchs bought it. did he burn himself?
"were going to my shack. What for? Cus when i left yesterday i turned the lights off." lights are on
"Childs, what if were wrong about him? then were wrong"
"anybody touches me and we go"
thing eats Coppers hands and then goes full nightmare
they cook it but the head escapes
spider head peeks out
Mcready decides to tie everyone up and test their blood
"you see when a man bleeds, its just tissue. the blood of one of you things wont obey when its attacked"
mac heats up a wire and plans to cook the different samples to see if they react
whoa they cooked Palmer and he did the fun stuntman fire walk, rushed through a wall then exploded
apparently they stop needing to use the fire extinguisher
"i know you gentleman have been through a lot, but when you find the time id rather not spend the rest of this winter tied to this fucking couch!"
Blair got out. someone mustve let him out
theres a secret lair underneath the shed?
hes made himself a spaceship?
now theyre hunting Blair
Childs leaves the camp and then the power goes out
the thing wants to freeze and wait for rescue
Mac blows up the little ship
they break in using a little tractor to use the fuel
theyre lighting everything up room by room
great lighting in the generator room
omg its so nasty when Blair invades Garrys face and drags him off
Mac is worried, hes got a stick of d and a lighter
damn that thing can roll underground, shit now its a sandworm dinosaur
"yeah, fuck you too"
so nasty
it blows big
Mac survives, hes outside, hes drinkin
"how will we make it?" "maybe we shouldnt"
"why dont we just wait here a little while? see what happens."
Childs takes a drink and the bumbums come in
howd the guy live being frozen
"because hes a space guy'"