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Originally Posted by The Villain
Love that movie. Maybe more then the remake, not sure. The Thing is a damn good movie as well.
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Watching The Thing from Another World again impressed me with just how many ways the two films are similar; and even how Aliens87 is similar to Thing from Another World.
There's a scene in Another World where they are tracking the creature with their Giger counter, it's clicks speeding up -- just like the scene in Aliens where they're using their clicking-proximity-meter when the creatures get inside the perimeter. Then when the 'carrot-man' bursts into the room, and they light him up with flame... that scene and even the sounds he was making were very similar to those in The Thing82.
Comparing the two, with Carpenter reintroducing the alien's mimicking abilities of the original story, adding deep paranoia, this really amps up the tension to another level. Not only that, there's much more character development in Thing82, not to mention the superb effects. But Another World is it's own version of fun.