Title of an old movie...
August 10, 2006 10:44 PM Subscribe
I'm looking for the title of a movie where the setting is this:
A group of researchers (military?) are in a blizzard or snow storm in what I recall is Alaska or the arctic.
One of them is killing the others, and it turns out to be some sort of Alien or parasite. ...
They are able to determine who is the alien or parasite by drawing blood samples and burning them. When the blood sample is normal, nothing happens and there's some hissing. When it's not, the sample goes bat-shit and leaps around in the petrie dish.
For some reason I think Jeff Bridges was one of the main characters, but that does not appear to be true according to IMDB.
It's late, I can't find it on IMDB, I require the assistance of the hive mind.
They are able to determine who is the alien or parasite by drawing blood samples and burning them. When the blood sample is normal, nothing happens and there's some hissing. When it's not, the sample goes bat-shit and leaps around in the petrie dish.
For some reason I think Jeff Bridges was one of the main characters, but that does not appear to be true according to IMDB.
It's late, I can't find it on IMDB, I require the assistance of the hive mind.
Response by poster: Excellent!
Kurt Russel, Jeff Bridges...bah!
posted by iamabot at 10:51 PM on August 10, 2006
Kurt Russel, Jeff Bridges...bah!
posted by iamabot at 10:51 PM on August 10, 2006
Carpenter's The Thing (itself an excellent perhaps even masterful, monster film) is a creative remake of the 1951 b&w sci-fi movie The Thing from Another World... which is worth a view too.
Both movies make use an effective and often repeated them in monster movies: a group is cut off from the outside world and must both discover the nature of the danger present and a way to defeat it.
posted by wfrgms at 11:11 PM on August 10, 2006
Both movies make use an effective and often repeated them in monster movies: a group is cut off from the outside world and must both discover the nature of the danger present and a way to defeat it.
posted by wfrgms at 11:11 PM on August 10, 2006
From memory, that was also the movie with the most laughable use of the computer-as-omniscient-oracle in cinematic history. It went something like this:
Scientist: (types) "how long until this hitherto unknown life form from god knows where colonises the entire earth?"
Computer: (green cursor blips a few times on black background) "4.273 days"
Scientist: "ZOMG! We've gotta defeat this thing....FAST!!!"
posted by UbuRoivas at 11:45 PM on August 10, 2006
Scientist: (types) "how long until this hitherto unknown life form from god knows where colonises the entire earth?"
Computer: (green cursor blips a few times on black background) "4.273 days"
Scientist: "ZOMG! We've gotta defeat this thing....FAST!!!"
posted by UbuRoivas at 11:45 PM on August 10, 2006
Carpenter's The Thing (itself an excellent perhaps even masterful, monster film) is a creative remake of the 1951 b&w sci-fi movie The Thing from Another World... which is worth a view too.
Carpenter's movie is more of a different adaptation of the story "Who Goes There" than it is a remake of the 1951 movie. About all it shares with the 1951 movie is a little bit of footage used differently (the videotapes of the Norwegians discovering the saucer are largely from the 1951 movie) and the title.
The 1951 movie doesn't have a shape-shifting alien or people worried about who is human and who's an imitation. Instead it has James Arness as a giant ambulatory carrot that everyone gangs up against and finally electrocutes. Mmm... socket carrot.
*looks up* Old movie? Old? It's... oh yeah, it's 24 years old. Sigh.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 12:13 AM on August 11, 2006
Carpenter's movie is more of a different adaptation of the story "Who Goes There" than it is a remake of the 1951 movie. About all it shares with the 1951 movie is a little bit of footage used differently (the videotapes of the Norwegians discovering the saucer are largely from the 1951 movie) and the title.
The 1951 movie doesn't have a shape-shifting alien or people worried about who is human and who's an imitation. Instead it has James Arness as a giant ambulatory carrot that everyone gangs up against and finally electrocutes. Mmm... socket carrot.
*looks up* Old movie? Old? It's... oh yeah, it's 24 years old. Sigh.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 12:13 AM on August 11, 2006
And "Who Goes There?" was written by the legendary John W. Campbell (albeit under a pen name).
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 12:35 AM on August 11, 2006
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 12:35 AM on August 11, 2006
There's also an early X Files episode ("Ice") that recycles this exact scenario.
Star Trek (TOS) has something fairly close.
posted by Violet Hour at 12:43 AM on August 11, 2006
Star Trek (TOS) has something fairly close.
posted by Violet Hour at 12:43 AM on August 11, 2006
"Hey Swedes!"
"Jack, I think they're Norwegian."
One of John Carpenter's best.
posted by beowulf573 at 5:56 AM on August 11, 2006
"Jack, I think they're Norwegian."
One of John Carpenter's best.
posted by beowulf573 at 5:56 AM on August 11, 2006
The commentary track on the DVD is one of the bets I've heard. Carpenter and Russell are really entertaining. Awesome movie.
posted by stinkycheese at 8:40 AM on August 11, 2006
posted by stinkycheese at 8:40 AM on August 11, 2006
bets = best
posted by stinkycheese at 9:04 AM on August 11, 2006
posted by stinkycheese at 9:04 AM on August 11, 2006
I really like this movie. Thanks for making me think about it.
Especially where the alien infects the dog(s). Creepy.
posted by i_am_a_Jedi at 9:06 AM on August 11, 2006
Especially where the alien infects the dog(s). Creepy.
posted by i_am_a_Jedi at 9:06 AM on August 11, 2006
This was on TV about 3 weeks ago, at about 2 AM, while I was studying for the bar exam and had been locked up in my apartment alone for several days. It scared the shit out of me. I had to shut it off. I look forward to renting it soon.
posted by MrZero at 10:49 AM on August 11, 2006
posted by MrZero at 10:49 AM on August 11, 2006
For the record, The Thing was also made into a computer game a few years ago. It was pretty good.
posted by -harlequin- at 1:51 PM on August 11, 2006
posted by -harlequin- at 1:51 PM on August 11, 2006
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