Can The Thing assimilate a host if they're already dead? - The Thing (1982) Discussion

[–] Cognoscente (2648) 6 months ago

Yes, compare the two photos of Fuchs being impaled with a shovel: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/thethingfanfr/deleted-scenes-pictures-t4602.html

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[–] jpssteveshanahan (462) 6 months ago

Thank you for sharing. I know next to nothing about the lore. Would you be so kind to provide some context for the picture in question?

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[–] Cognoscente (2648) 6 months ago

Fuchs wanted to do an experiment involving the weed stash taken by Palmer, who was already a thing. Palmer decided to do an experiment of his own by impaling him with a shovel while trying to assimilate him. He drained him of his lifeforce.

The thing has the ability to regenerate. Notice how the Blair thing didn't need glasses anymore when he grabbed Garry.

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[–] jpssteveshanahan (462) 6 months ago

Oh yeah! I vaguely remember that scene you're talking about.

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[–] TrentnQuarantino (9187) 6 months ago

It's a movie, it doesn't exist. None of it makes sense, and it's a bad movie at that.

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[–] jpssteveshanahan (462) 6 months ago

I wouldn't call it a "bad movie". I just found the violence and gore ridiculously excessive to the point of being absurd.

But maybe that was the point.

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[–] TrentnQuarantino (9187) 6 months ago

Probably

I still enjoy the character driven original "Thing From Another World".

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[–] jpssteveshanahan (462) 6 months ago

I haven't seen it. How different is it compared to the remakes.

And by the way! Your username had me going for a moment 😁

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[–] TrentnQuarantino (9187) 6 months ago

Completely different, it's B&W from the 50s.

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[–] BKB (9912) 6 months ago

The movie makes plenty sense. You simply over think it and have bad taste

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[–] jpssteveshanahan (462) 6 months ago

"You simply over think it and have bad taste"

I immediately thought of Peter Jackson's debut film when I read this comment 😁

I incidentally referenced his sophomore film in another "Thing" related post just now!

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[–] PaladinNJ (21510) 2 months ago

In an unfilmed scene from the original script, the first Thing/Dog took off from the base when realized it had been discovered and they were destroying the others. It took a piece of another dog to sustain itself so that would imply it could.

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[–] sati_84 (467) a month ago

I don't think there is evidence of this anywhere in the movie.

The Thing most likely needs cellular activity to devour and imitate a being (dog, human, etc.) - there is no indication of it doing it to corpses.

It doesn't really matter either way, because the Outpost 31 crew incinerates all the dogs and all the corpses for good measure anyways, so there is no way a Thing could have survived as a corpse - IMO.

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