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The Thing From Another World (1951) Full Length Reaction (Patreon)

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2025-05-24 03:01:03
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** You can stream movie FREE on Tubi (skip ahead on Tubi copy and start at 00:10 - there is an extra studio logo on their version) LINK HERE

Another classic sci-fi horror and this one is ice cold cool!! Super creepy tone is there throughout and I even screamed at one jump scare 😂 Let me know more classics we can watch, I am having a blast with these!

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Movie Runtime: 1:26:42

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Rob Nichols

One of the Air Force guys was played by actor Robert Nichols, no relation to me but I always got a kick as a kid when I saw his name in a movie. He was the one in This Island Earth that the MST3K guys called "weenie man" much to my displeasure. One of the scientists is actor Paul Frees, he did a lot of voice over work and cartoon voices, and is the narrator of the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland. He was also the reporter covering the A-bomb scene in War of the Worlds. The "Thing" was of course played by James Arness who would go on to play Marshall Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke. The role was first offered to John Wayne who turned it down, but recommended Arness. Dimitri Tiomkin's score is one of the genre's best. I've seen a few reactors watching Halloween where the kids were watching this movie on TV, and they say "But this was before The Thing (thinking of Carpenter's '82 version) so how can they be watching it?"

Celeste McAllister🍓

James Arnes(Thing) was Marshall Matt Dillon on the long running series 'Gun Smoke'..... 'Them' 'Creature From the Black Lagoon' 'Godzilla' '20k Leagues Under the Sea' all winners. 🏆 ♥️

K Dub

OMG!!!!THANK YOU!!! I'll be sitting down to watch this right now!!! John Carpenter's 1982 remake kept the same "title card burn through" as this classic also using the scene of them holding hands to determine the shape of the ship under the ice in the remake as a black & white found footage video at the Norwegian camp. My preference will always be this one for nostalgia sake. I'll have to rewatch your Thing 1982 reaction now.

K Dub

Them 1954 B&W classic...PLEASE.🙏

Ian

Also available free on BBC iPlayer 👍

Noremac

I don't know if you'd be interested in classic horror movies, but a lot of them have similar feels to the science fiction of the fifties. Here are some more classic sci fi movies of the fifties: 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas (1954), Godzilla (1954), Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954), This Island Earth (1955), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), The Fly (1958). I think that's most of them that (arguably) hold up!

Julian Pamplin

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND YOUTUBE SUBSCRIBERS!! 🍾

Major Peril

Excellent reaction to this classic! Glad you enjoyed it. Also glad you decided to view it in the first place. THANK YOU!! Hope you’re up for many more of the old classics. 😃 Yes, the 1982 version bears little resemblance to this one. Carpenter definitely went in a different direction as far as the creature is concerned. Makes no difference in my mind, this version stands just as well on its own. If you enjoyed Carpenter’s version you might want to check out The Thing (2011) prequel. Kenneth Tobey who played Captain Patrick Hendry, made a name for himself in the ‘50s by playing various military characters in many science fiction and military related films and TV series of the day before moving on to mostly TV appearances, including an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (S2.E16 ShadowPlay as Rurigan). Yes, must see Them! (1954), STAT! Now… anyone up for some ROASTED carrots!

thansen

I remember putting off watching this because I loved the Carpenter version so much and I didn't think this 1951 could possibly be as good. I was wrong. I love it just as much, despite it being very different. Carpenter's is certainly more closely aligned with the original novella by Campbell. Great reaction and I hope you do more of these classic SF/horror films. Them! would be a great selection.

thansen

Great choices. Hope she reacts to them all. If I had to choose just one to react to next it would probably be The Incredible Shrinking Man.

K Dub

It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958) directly influenced Ridley Scott's Alien(1979) where he and the screenwriter admitted in interview to have heavily lifted scenes and concepts from.🙏

Rob Nichols

I just finished it and had a great time, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. All the suggestions here are great, I love them all and I think you will too Jen. I'm sure Jen would put me in the doghouse for suggesting a spider movie but Tarantula (1955) is a very good creature feature, listen very close to the Air Force pilots at the end and you'll recognize a familiar voice. The Monolith Monsters (1957) isn't very highly regarded but I think it's pretty cool. Lots of science talk and a very sciency solution.

Georgius Agricola

Jen, you're the best! I love how you observed and appreciated the overlapping dialogue. This has caused people over the years to speculate that producer Howard Hawks got involved in directing the movie, even though Christian Nyby is credited, because Hawks was known for use of overlapping dialogue is many films he directed. His trademark style was just too obvious. And in the electrocution scene, a little person was used to play the Thing as he shrank.

Major Peril

Yes, loved all the science exposition in The Monolith Monsters and it's unique take on what an invasion from space might actually be like.

Miles E Coburn

Looking forward to seeing this later on today! It's one of my very favorite movies! You'll probably get a number of people talking about how John Carpenter's 1982 film, "The Thing" is a remake of this. However, it's not true. I've posted on YT a snippet of the making of "The Thing" where John Carpenter explains how he *started out* wanting to do a remake, but once he read the source material, John W. Campbell, Jr.'s "Who Goes There?" he decided to do a completely different adaptation of that material. Indeed, if you actually do a comparison of the two movies you'll find an alien crash lands in a cold climate is the only similarity. Even that is different as in this movie it crashes in the Arctic (near the North Pole) and in the 1982 film it's in Antarctica. I've kept the beginning credits intact to ensure the people who created the 1982 movie get their due credit and also to avoid any copyright issues with YT. Don't know if I can post the address for the snippet, but here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alBY2skgPrg

Bammer

Paul Frees, who plays Dr. Vorhees, did a lot of voice acting. If you have ever visited Disneyland or Disney World, he's the voice of the "ghost host" in the Haunted Mansion ride. He was briefly in "The War of the Worlds" (1953). At the very beginning of the film, he was narrating over the war reels just before the main title and credits. He was also the man who was making tape recordings before the A-bomb was dropped on the Martian war machines. Frees provided the apocalyptic voice for the "talking rings" in "The Time Machine".

Ian

Really enjoyed this reaction even though the tubi link didn't work it just came up unavailable on the movie so guessing it's a region thing . I was expecting this to be similar to the 80s one but it felt almost like a completely different movie . The music was bonkers 🙂 but really added so much . Way before my time but few recommendations attack of the 50 foot woman (1958) invaders from mars (1953) and 20,000 leagues under the sea ( 1954) cheers Jen have a wonderful weekend

Geoff S.

I can't wait to watch this and the Star Treks later tonight! They should have made the alien look like a giant carrot like that horrible episode of Lost In Space.

Mark Chrisco

The remake is a much closer adaption of the original novella "Who Goes There?" I think you might understand how that story could not be filmed in 1951. Still, this is a highly respected film a classic of the genre, produced, and perhaps directed by one of Hollywood's most influential filmmakers. Fun note: The actor playing Barnes, William Self, would in a few years, head the television department at 20th Century Fox.

NYG316

I’ve only seen parts of this until now. Fun watch to watch along. There is a 2011 The Thing that tells the story of the other arctic outpost’s encounter prior to the Thing reaching the American outpost. It wasn’t bad. Fyi.

Zapp Rowsdower

It's funny to me that the Thing was played by James Arness. He was famous in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, mainly as the star of the long-running tv western, Gunsmoke, which ran for 2 straight decades. Everybody starts somewhere, I guess.

John DiGiantomasso

I would love Nen to do the MST3K big svreen version of This Island Earth!

John DiGiantomasso

That was fun - I had never seen it before. I lived in Alaska a couple years. Long enough to know November at the North Pole is 24-hour darkness. How scary would this have been filmed all in the dark? I don't think the lighting of the time was up to that. Still, a great film!

Greg In East TN

A classic to be sure! Now, I'm going to connect this movie to Airplane! in two ways. I sure wish I could post pictures on here. You should start us a Discord Channel or consider checking the option for posting pictures here. I guess I'll just put the links to the pictures. Anyways, first of all is Captain Hendry https://scifist.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1951_thing_from_another_world_033-kenneth-tobey-margaret-sheridan.jpg He plays a character in Chicago in the control center: https://i.postimg.cc/wvJwZML2/IT-CAME-FROM-BENEATH-SEA-AIRPLANE-FOTOR.png He was a great character and appeared in many TV series and movies. Second. The "Thing" was played by James Arness who later became Matt Dillon on the long running series Gunsmoke (perhaps you've heard of it.). His brother was Peter Graves, (He used the stage name Graves, a maternal family name, to honor his mother's family, and also so as to not be confused with the stage name of his elder brother James Arness) who was on Mission Impossible on TV but was later Captain Over on the ill-fated airplane Flight 209 that asked the boy the inappropriate questions. (well his wife slept with a horse, so who knows about that family! LOL). Anyway, here's a picture of Arness and Graves: https://www.womansworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-517284314.jpg?w=1200&h=675&crop=1&quality=86&strip=all And here's Graves in Airplane: https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/1/6/2/1144162_800x450.jpg I hope you can see these pictures all right. I think it's kind of neat to have connections between people and different movies.

Baroness Jennifer

Loved it! Are you planning to post a reaction to your rewatch of the 1982 version?

Ian

Jen has a discord you just need to link your patreon account to it