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a solid and entertaining monster movie in one sentence not only brings back memories of the original 30 years ago, but also brings a little "The Thing" style.
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film controls the appearance of monsters on the screen very modestly, which is the most terrifying point in the first "Monster".
- "Chicago Sun"
Compared to most new horror films, this traditionally styled film is indeed scary enough. -- Behind the scenes
of the New York Daily News A prequel-like remake In 2004, after the remake of Dawn of the Living Dead, filmmakers Mark Abraham and Eric Newman set their sights back on Universal's resources library, they wanted to find some suitable material to make a remake. Naturally, they set their sights on Carpenter's The Thing. However, after careful consideration, Mark Abraham and Eric Newman are not going to remake the film, but reshoot "The Thing" in the way they were told before. Eric Newman said: "Carpenter's film is already perfect, and if we were to remake it, it would be self-defeating with a beard on the Mona Lisa's face. If you were to remake it, it would be self-defeating. "Jaws" or "The Exorcist", I will definitely jump out to stop you first. And facing "The Thing", I feel the same way. However, we feel that the story of "The Thing" It can also be told in a different way, in a different angle, in a different way of expressing it. We can bring the characters who became ghosts in Carpenter’s films to face the monster again.”
Although it is a prequel, the story of the film is exactly the same as the 1982 Carpenter version. Because the novel based on the film is John W. Campbell Jr.'s 1938 novel Who Goes Where? (Who Goes There?). The Carpenter version was adapted from this novel. So from a certain point of view, this is more of a reshoot that spans the original film, not a prequel, nor a remake. Ronald D. Moore, who was initially identified as the screenwriter for the film, said that compared to Carpenter's original film, his script was "a companion, not a remake or a prequel." . "The script we wrote told the story that happened inside the Norwegian expedition, and it happened before The Thing," he said. "As for the rest of the plot, there are a lot of similarities between the two films." However, Universal later hired Eric Heysel to revise Moore's script. Heysel said: "I added a lot of detail to the script, adding descriptions and details to the monster, Enriched the background of the film. Made the film richer in plot and details, rather than a simple prequel or remake."
The script received director Mathis van Harkinigan Jr. He said: "This is not a simple horror thriller, because the script put a lot of effort into excavating the panic and changes in the characters' hearts. I always feel that expressing the changes in the characters' thoughts and emotions in horror films is A very important thing, because in this way, the audience can more truly feel the horror atmosphere created in the film, and let the audience have an empathetic understanding and recognition of the choices and emotions of the characters in the film. There are no female characters in the special version. On the contrary, the protagonist of this prequel film is a woman. She came to the scientific expedition team and found a monster, and later escaped. The members of the examination team stayed and fought against the monsters together. In fact, this image can be traced in many movies, the most famous being the heroine in "Alien". However, the story of this movie takes place on earth, The level of horror is even better."
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