‘The Thing’ Clip: Exploding Ice and an Amped-Up Alien



This brief scene features the giant block of ice seen in the Carpenter movie, from which the title creature was apparently carved. But in this clip you’ll see that it wasn’t exactly extracted from the ice by human hands.

So that’s Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje checking out the block of ice, and Joel Edgerton showing up for the brief buzz scare. That’s the first factor I’m not much a fan of; the other is the explosive way the creature breaks out of the ice. If it has been frozen, how is it able to muster that much energy? And if that small reveal is such a big loud explosion, what will the bigger setpieces be like? I’m afraid of a Michael Bay-style decibel level in those scenes, when the horror might be a lot more effective as a quiet thing.

I’m not quite siding with Devin Faraci in predicting terrible things from the film based on this clip, but I definitely would have liked to see a clip that augured a better outcome than this one does.


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