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John Carpenter Confirms Involvement With New Reboot Of ‘The Thing’

For fans of John Carpenter, we have some exciting news. This Saturday, while the Master of Horror was receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award during the Fantasia Film Festival (full interview below), he confirmed several projects. One of those projects is Blumhouse and Universal’s reboot of The Thing. As previously reported, the new film as well as Carpenter’s 1982 movie, is inspired by acclaimed science fiction author John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There?, about a team of scientists in Antarctica who discover and are terrorized by a monstrous, shape-shifting alien. The new film will also draw from Frozen Hell, a recently unearthed novella that serves as an abridged version of Campbell’s original story. In all, there are already three film versions of the same story, The Thing from Another World (1951), Carpenter’s 1982 film The Thing, and 2011’s The Thing from director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Blumhouse and Universal’s reboot will be number four. It will be interesting to see how

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Aug 23, 2020

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Artist Spotlight: Giuseppe Balestra

A little while back I did a review of the new fantastic Ghostbusters Art Book, a collection of amazing artists paying tribute to the iconic movie. In my review, I listed some of my favorite pieces, the poster by the incredibly talented artist Giuseppe Balestra. I feel that Giuseppe’s artwork deserves a more in-depth look. Born in Rome and raised in South Italy, the artist prefers using pen and inks, cross-hatching and stippling, before eventually combining digital color, drawing inspiration from literature, movies, especially horror and fantasy. I like to create illustrations in which the darkness of the shadows stands in contrast to the light. They’ve been called “melancholic, mysterious and poetic. I’ve always loved doing art since I was a child, always experimenting with all kinds of media. I published my first work in late 2015 in The Lovecraft eZine vol.36 and since then I’ve been doing it professionally, working on internal illustrations and covers for books, posters, and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 11, 2020

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The World Of ‘The Thing’ Expanding With New Adaptation ‘Frozen Hell’

John Carpenter’s The Thing was the second adaptation of John W. Campbell’s novella Who Goes There?, with 1951’s The Thing from Another World being the first adaptation. The world is expanding, Bloody Disgusting reports. In 2018, John Betancourt discovered a new, never-before-seen novel-length version of the story, titled Frozen Hell and took to Kickstarter to release it. Now, there has been a new development. This week, Betancourt gave an exciting update that he is teaming up with Blumhouse and Universal Studios for a feature film adaptation. Betancourt states, “In 1938, acclaimed science fiction author John W. Campbell published the novella Who Goes There?, about a team of scientists in Antarctica who discover and are terrorized by a monstrous, shape-shifting alien entity. The story would later be adapted into John Carpenter’s iconic movie The Thing (following an earlier film adaptation in 1951). The published novella was actually an abridged version of Campbell’s original story, called Frozen Hell, which had to be

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jan 27, 2020

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Horror Fuel’s Horror Movie Theories

I had a lot of fun checking out some horror movie theories and thought to myself, why let others have all the fun and join in with our own! This is something new I would like to try, this is for fun and I would like to include you the reader to join in with your thoughts of the films we look at in the comments, again this is for fun let’s not take it too seriously! Of course WARNING: Spoilers Ahead! Miles never existed in The Prodigy In the 2019 “Bad Seed” horror flick The Prodigy, we’re introduced to a married couple (Taylor Schilling, Peter Moony) and their son Miles (Jackson Robert Scott) who was born on the same night and the exact moment that serial killer Edward Scarka (Paul Fauteux) and throughout the story Miles exhibits signs of becoming more and more possessed by the killer where it’s revealed at the end that Edward successfully takes over Simon’s

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Capt McNeely

Jan 8, 2020

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Looking At Some Popular Horror Movie Theories

Horror fans are possibly one of the most passionate when it comes to anything related to the genre. This love for the films even goes as far to have theories about the stories of the films we love, of course, every film genre has its fan theory base, but when it comes to horror, you got to admit there are some interesting ones out there. Even some bordering absurdity! These fan theories are all over the internet and appear in many videos and web articles but I want to take it a step further by giving the theories a look and then offering my opinion, hell I would love to even hear YOUR opinion in the comments (keep it civil, we’re here for fun!). Warning, some of the topics below may include spoilers for certain films, read at your own risk. Childs is the thing at the end of The Thing (WhatCulture) At the end of John Carpenter’s 1982 film

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Capt McNeely

Dec 4, 2019

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Movies To Watch On Halloween

Halloween is coming up fast and there’s a lot to do to get ready for it! Get candy, carve pumpkins, put up decorations, give stares of immense disdain to your neighbor who’s putting up Christmas lights, and of course, finding a good horror movie to watch! Whether you’re staying in or inviting people over for a Halloween movie night, nothing beats a good horror film. Of course, you ask anyone what’s the best film to watch and generally people will say the classics, especially the Universal monster movies. Though you can’t argue that those movies are good but you want to be careful over watching them as it may take away what’s great about them. That’s why it’s good to mix things up from time to time, below in no particular order are some horror movies you may know or not for you to consider to watch on Halloween. “Arsenic and Old Lace” The 1944 dark comedy starring Cary Grant

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Capt McNeely

Oct 22, 2018

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Three Films Based On One Book, Who Got It Right?

In August of 1938, readers of Astounding Science-Fiction Magazine beat the summer heat by reading a chilling science-fiction story that took them to the heart of Antarctica where a group of scientists was trapped along with a shape-shifting extraterrestrial. That story was Who Goes There?, by Don A. Stuart, the pen name of John W. Campbell Jr. The story was later reprinted in book form where Campbell used his real name. The novella eventually spawned three movies, the first one in 1951 titled The Thing from Another World that was followed up by John Carpenter’s 1982 cult classic The Thing (it spawned a video game as well as a series of comics.) which was followed up by the 2011 prequel using the same name. Three movies based on one book. The film industry is known for taking a book and making it into a film with mixed results, usually negative. So the question remains, out of the three films based

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Capt McNeely

Feb 13, 2018

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The (Stranger) Thing

In 2002 fans of the movie The Thing where able to partake in a new chapter of the film’s universe by playing the 3rd person survival horror game, ‘The Thing’ where players take on the role of Captain Blake, a Special Forces soldier sent in with a rescue team to find survivors at the doomed U.S. Outpost 31 from John Carpenter’s film. Long story short, the events of the film and this game were part of some nefarious plot by a Biotechnology company called Gen-Inc who has subterranean research facilities all around Antarctica studying the alien organism in which a certain strain of the “Virus” was developed to be used in Biological Warfare. The game surprisingly did very well in the ratings and in 2003 the game’s developing company, Computer Artworks, were in the works to make a sequel to the game picking up where it left off, Blake flying off in a helicopter with R.J. MacReady, the protagonist from

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Capt McNeely

Dec 28, 2017

Gaming

New Game Inspired By ‘The Thing’ Puts You In The Movie

Mondo has announced that they are currently developing a new genre board game based on John Carpenter’s classic ‘The Thing’. In the game, titled ‘Infection at Outpost 31’, players race to find out who among them is infected by the creature featured from the film. The game is the first to be created from Mondo’s new partnership with with Project Raygun, an initiative from the board game company USAopoly. The game’s art will be created by Phantom City Creative’s Justin Erickson. When we set out to create the first licensed Mondo board game the biggest question was; what film property would we go after?” Mondo Brand Director Jay Shaw said in a statement. “So many of the films we celebrate at Mondo would be an absolute blast in game form. As soon as John Carpenter’s suspense masterpiece The Thing was mentioned it very quickly became our top choice. The next step was to figure out how to actually make a

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Feb 19, 2017

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Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight Features Unused Tracks From The Thing

The music for the epic horror classic The Thing (1982), directed by John Carpenter, was composed by the legendary Ennio Morricone. But not all of the music Morricone created for the The Thing was actually used in the film and sat dormant, until now. Brilliant filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has made use of the previously unused music. Tarantino was working with Morricone to complete the soundtrack for his film The Hateful Eight, which is now in theaters, pressed for time, and still trying to find the perfect score for his film, he brought up the unused tracks and Morricone approved. The track was recut and can be heard in the film, along with twenty-five minutes of other music. You will be able to pick up the soundtrack when it is released on deluxe vinyl early next year. The Hateful Eight is set in post-Civil War Wyoming. Eight men, trying to survive a blizzard, get involved in a plot of betrayal and

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Dec 15, 2015

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