Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 13:51:39 GMT
The film is a classic, the 'Things' ate rather unique.
What?
The Thing from Another World and Carpenter's The Thing are iconic films with classic looks of their respective creatures in the forms that are seen.
The psuedo remake prequel thing that came out, I can't imagine would register for most people on this topic.
I think I might have responded to your comment, but honestly I don't really know what you were saying.
The Thing from Another World creature isn't particularly iconic like say a Freddy, or a Jason, or a Chucky, or a Xenomorph, or Frankenstein's monster, where even people unfamiliar with the films would still have an idea about them just through pop culture osmosis. He kinda looks like a bad Roger Corman monster, to be honest.
As for the The Thing (1982), the Thing does have some iconic forms-- namely the head spider-- but the terror of the Thing is its ability to mimic and not knowing what horrible forms it can turn itself into. It's more than a bit inspired by the shoggoth from At the Mountains of Madness (which likely had a hand in inspiring Who Goes There?) and much of the terror comes from the unknown capabilities of the creature and the uncanny ways in which it can imitate others, even humans. It's deeply unsettling.
But is it iconic in terms of monster design? I don't think so, personally. The Thing defies an iconic design because its mutability and shapelessness are the terror.