If a sequel to John Carpenter's iconic 1982 horror classic The Thing is to be made, it must avoid one common horror movie sequel problem at all costs.
Whispers of a sequel to John Carpenter's iconic 1982 horror film The Thing have fans of the original excited, but if a sequel is to be successful, it needs to avoid one of the most common horror movie sequel problems. The paranoia that pervades the original is what made it a horror classic in the first place, and its legacy is unmistakable in American pop culture.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT While the 2011 prequel, also titled The Thing, was a box office bomb and critical failure, it preserved the original idea of a lone extra-terrestrial being able to assimilate and imitate any life form. That is where the true terror lies in The Thing - anyone and anything can be the parasitic alien.
The Thing 2 Should Avoid Multiple Aliens Often in horror movies, a sequel will attempt to raise the stakes by introducing multiple versions of the original movie monster or alien, like in Aliens and Predators. While that concept can work as a means of increasing the danger for some franchises, the idea doesn't work for The Thing. What makes The Thing so terrifying is specifically the fact that there is only one of it, and that nobody knows who it is.
1 Thing Makes The Movie So Much Scarier The scariest ability of The Thing is infiltration and assimilation, and if a movie introduces more than one Thing into the mix, it destroys that concept. The tension of The Thing is created by knowing only one person in the room can be the alien at a time, and that it is nearly impossible to tell who it is just by looking at it. If there are multiple Things, then the tension is all but gone.
Introducing multiple Things further ruins the fear because with more than one Thing in the mix, the protagonist stands very little chance. The Thing does its best to assimilate other organisms in hiding, so as not to reveal itself to the group. If there are multiple Things, there is no reason to hide - they can simply overpower anyone they encounter.
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