Comments on: A Dozen Diabolical Dogs – #9: The Thing

By: RayRay

RayRay — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:17:51 +0000

Ah, I was so naive back then… Both Abhi’s and Wang’s comments are c&p spam from a review on “The Paradise of Horror,” but I’ll leave them for relevance. Such a shame. Ironically enough, the “Abhi” comment was originally written by another RayRay.

By: RayRay

RayRay — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 03:49:17 +0000

I must confess, though the 1982 Carpenter version is probably my favorite film of all time, I haven't yet gotten around to watching the 2011 prequel. I heard it was decent but pedestrian, more like someone covering a song rather than substantially adding to the franchise. I don't think I want to see more sequels, though. I'd hate for it to go the route of the Aliens or Terminator franchises which are so far removed from their original awesomeness that they're practically kitschy now.

By: Wang

Wang — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:31:12 +0000

The good professional dioretcrs and producers who would take their time doing good horror films should make eight to twenty sequels of ‘The Thing,’ and do over hundreds of more special makeup effects and puppetry special effects. I love to see a lot of air-bladders fx on the new transformations scenes, and love to see billions more monster transformations. Hope they will take their time doing good sequels as good as this movie.

By: RayRay

RayRay — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:38:24 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Outpost #31 is pretty awesome. I'm especially eager to try out the card game. I remember coming up with some kind of overly complex game as a kid with toy guns and sealed envelopes and such that would probably be classed as a proto-LARP now. At least we didn't dress up or use make-up or anything like that. We were already wearing fuzzy parkas from the cold and snowy South Jersey winters, so we looked the parts, even if none of us were old enough to sport the epic MacReady-beard.