As expected from new releases, the picture is 100 percent clean, carries a slight amount of film grain and is consistent in quality. The image is always crisp, clear and well detailed. The level of sharpness is good, but could have been slightly better – but don't think that you can't still make out rogue hairs and fine details like splattering blood from alien-inflicted wounds.

The Thing (Double Pack Including Original) [Blu-ray] [2012

next to no gore, relying instead on the other hallmarks of great horror to craft perhaps the finest The good news is this new 2160p 2.35:1 transfer offers up a fair and welcome middle-ground between the 2016 and 2017 releases. With a natural film grain texture, there are impressive fine point details in clothing, facial features, and set design work. I’ve seen this film countless times over the last 25 years or so and I felt like I was seeing small things I’d never noticed before. As mentioned, film grain is apparent but well-resolved without ever appearing too noisy, nor is there any sign of waxy DNR or other compression artifacts. Soft shots that have always looked soft - well, guess what, they’re still soft. That’s just the way they are. But close-ups and middles shots look terrific, the gnarly autopsy sequences are still grotesquely beautiful offering up even more fine detail in the fleshy bits. You can really fully appreciate all of the incredible Rob Bottin special effects. Who Goes There? In Search of The Thing – an all-new feature length documentary produced by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures exploring the history of The Thing, from the original novella to John Carpenter’s terrifying science fiction classic. Featuring new interviews with the cast and crew, as well as authors, historians, and criticsThe Scream Factory transfer is the result of a brand new 2K scan taken from the interpositive. This is not the same as the film's negative, but it still yields a very nice picture. There is some great camera work at 14:58 when the Husky senses something is wrong at the base. This is when Stevie wonders superstition is playing on the radio and the camera travels low as if an alien creeping through the station. Also, take note of the shadow that accompanies the Husky at 15:40. It’s a powerful image that enhances the suspense. Arrow thanks to scans of the original negative could deliver a more filmlike presentation, and they’re definitely better at handling remasters/restorations. Alien and The Thing have quite a bit in common. Both movies feature a small group of disparate individuals trapped in a confined, remote location from which they can neither escape nor call for help. Both have a malevolent alien creature awakened after a long period of dormancy. But for all its many virtues (and believe me, I do think it’s a great movie), Alien is still just folks being hunted by a monster. It’s a story told with undeniable skill and style, but for all that it’s still a familiar story. The Thing is familiar, too, but the terror is more insidious than just a monster on the loose. Once this alien gets inside you, it becomes you, and Carpenter works this angle masterfully. The real terror in The Thing comes from paranoia, claustrophobia, and isolation. And these all come from within, not from some external source. But when the fear does come from without, as it does in the transformation scenes for instance, the movie works just as well. Carpenter is able to strike a perfect balance between inner and outer terror. Even after the movie ends, you’re still left wondering who you can trust.

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Colors are bright, but the contrast seems to have been turned up a lot as the colors start to bleed into over colors. This results in colors not being the right colors. Yellows and oranges seem to turn to purple. This does not happen to all of the colors, meaning that the contrast dial wasn't turned in every scene, but it is very noticeable when flairs are used in the film.There is also a slight blue filter that was applied to scenes that take place outside. Snow looks bluer than ever when it should be white. Below are screenshots for the different releases. The Scream Factory release also contains the TV version of the film, so I did some screenshots for that too. Feature Commentary with Director Matthijs Neijnngen and Producer Eric Newman- This commentary will be deemed informative, interesting and fun by fans of the new and old "Things." They reference Carpenter's film like a Bible and explain in great detail how their goal was to never one-up the original, but pay tribute to and compliment it. I only listened to first 10 minutes of the commentary, but it was good enough that I'll listen to the whole thing the next time I pop in this Blu-ray.When compared to newer films some of the camera work in The Thing seems awfully shaky. Case in point, a steady cam on a drone would have helped the opening scene when the Norwegians are chasing the dog in a helicopter. The shots used long lenses though, so a bumpy helicopter ride would have always produced shaky video compared to new camera and lens stabilization technology we have today. John Carpenter’s The Thing infects its first 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release thanks to Universal Home Video in a two-disc 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital set. Pressed on a BD-100 disc, the discs are housed in a standard sturdy two-disc case. The included SDR Blu-ray is the exact same disc from 2008 without any updates in audio. The 4K disc loads to Universal’s standard static-image main menu with an animated bonus features menu along the righthand side. Science fiction and horror have been crossing each other’s paths since long before either genre had a name. What is Frankenstein or The Invisible Man if not, in essence, science fiction? After all, you can’t have a mad scientist without the science. But while the best science fiction is free to explore a limitless number of concepts and themes, horror always boils down to something more primal. Perhaps this is why so many sci-fi/horror hybrids involve scary campfire stories with high-tech set dressing. Arguably the most familiar, and certainly one of the most effective, is the original Alien. But with all due respect to Ridley Scott’s modern classic and its fans, my personal favorite is John Carpenter’s The Thing. A twelve-man research team stationed in Antarctica finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has been buried for over 100,000 years. them. The nondescript sets, with little recourse for the comfort of the terrified prisoners-of-fear,

The Thing 4K Blu-ray (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray)

Critically panned at the time of its release, John Carpenter's The Thing has rightly gone on to become one of the most celebrated sci-fi horror efforts ever made now newly restored by Arrow Video in a stunning 4K transfer supervised by Carpenter and director of photography Dean Cundey. Detail is very nice in close-up and long shots. The matte paintings used in the film have never looked better and we can see everything.deadly creature in their midst, one that can absorb and imitate any life form it so chooses, leaving Who Goes There? In Search of The Thing an all-new feature length documentary produced by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures exploring the history of The Thing, from the original novella to John Carpenter's terrifying science fiction classic. Featuring new interviews with the cast and crew, as well as authors, historians, and critics One Amazing Summer an all-new retrospective documentary produced by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures about the unforgettable films released in the summer of 1982 Editor’s Note: The film portion of this review is by Adam Jahnke. The 4K UHD portions are by Bill Hunt.]