{"id":2171303,"date":"2026-09-30T11:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2171303"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T08:22:16","slug":"john-carpenter-calls-2011-the-thing-prequel-a-piece-of-crap-but-some-fans-are-rushing-to-its-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2171303","title":{"rendered":"John Carpenter Calls 2011 The Thing Prequel a \u2018Piece of Crap,\u2019 but Some Fans Are Rushing to Its Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Horror movie legend John Carpenter has slammed the 2011 The Thing prequel movie<\/a>, calling it a \u201cpiece of crap.\u201d But not all his fans are onboard with his take.<\/p>\n

2011\u2019s The Thing serves as a direct prequel to Carpenter\u2019s much-loved 1982 horror masterpiece, The Thing. It revolves around a team of Norwegian scientists who discover a parasitic alien buried deep in the ice at a Norwegian Antarctic research station. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and written by Eric Heisserer, The Thing flopped at the box office, grossing just $31.5 million worldwide. It has a 34% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes\u2019 Tomatometer<\/a>, and a 43% rating from fans.<\/p>\n

IGN’s own The Thing review<\/a> returned a 5\/10. We said: “The special effects quickly devolve into over-the-top goriness, with some of the Thing’s forms coming across as more ludicrous than terrifying. There are some risible CG moments involving the morphing of actors’ faces with the creature’s, and the whole last act falls apart into a ‘chase the CG bogey monster before it gets you’ sequence devoid of any true suspense or originality.”<\/p>\n

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