Console best movie i've ever seen.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

davidcarniglia Probably the best science fiction movie of the early atomic age, and one of the best sci-fi movies ever. Even performances from the cast, a suspenseful, well-written plot, and an iconic man vs. (alien) Nature conflict add up to amazing entertainment.I've seen The Thing From Another World many times since the early 1960s, and it never fails to hold my interest throughout. This time around I noticed some 'Things' that hadn't really occurred to me before. The Thing clearly influenced another classic sci-fi thriller, 1956's Invasion on the Body Snatchers. The little pepper-shaped alien pods growing in the greenhouse, with the implicit threat of limitless aliens taking over the Earth, is the core premise of Body Snatchers.The remote location for The Thing also resonates with other monster/alien movies; the difference here is that we never leave the polar outpost, as the alien is destroyed before he and his potential replicants can wreak more havoc. The more interesting strand in The Thing isn't what it influenced, but the horror genre that influenced it.Some have found tracings of film noir in the claustrophobic setting, with the stark black and white lighting adding shadowy depths to the unfolding mystery. But I see the alien as a Frankenstein monster/Dracula figure. He has the lumbering menace of the Frankenstein monster--his fight with the dogs during a blizzard seems very much like a scene from a Frankenstein movie. And then, the alien seeks dirt, and lives on blood: Dracula's exact habits. The dimly lit passageways of the base look as much like gothic caverns and the hallways of decrepit castles at least as much as the dark corners and alleys of noir.So I think it's this blending of horror and sci-fi scenes and motifs that gives The Thing its abiding power; it takes old myths and recasts them with a modern, quasi-scientific veracity.

hellholehorror Looked good for the age of the movie. Really nicely shot and believable special effects. Sound was clear but a little flat due to the limited channels. Obviously not really comparable to modern films. The concept of the alien mimicking humans and that anyone could be the alien is lost. There is one alien that could take over the world as it is basically a plant which is clever. I think that it was ahead of it's time for horror films compared to the Universal horrors. Really enjoyable older film. My favourite from the era as it is a little different and a little clever. There are some really creepy moments and the feeling of being trapped is there. The monster is a bit slow but quite menacing. Excellent fifties horror that took a long time to be beaten.

Woodyanders A group of researchers in the Artic run afoul of a lethal predatory humanoid being (hulking James Arness) that they find buried deep in the ice.Director Christian Nyby keeps the gripping story moving along at a brisk pace, ably crafts plenty of claustrophobic tension, and offers a vivid evocation of the desolate snow-swept and storm-bombarded setting (the strong sense of isolation and vulnerability give this picture an extra unsettling impact). Charles Lederer's taut and smart script crackles with lots of witty dialogue as well as presents a bunch of sharply drawn characters who for the most part work together like a well-oiled machine to make a stand against and defeat a formidable alien foe. The excellent acting by the uniformly top-notch cast rates as another significant asset, with especially stand-out contributions from Kenneth Tobey as the stalwart Captain Patrick Henry, Margaret Sheridan as the spunky Nikki, Robert Cornthwaite as the austere Dr. Arthur Carrington, Douglas Spencer as excitable wisecracking reporter Scotty, James Young as the eager Lt. Eddie Dykes, and John Dierkes as the rugged Dr. Chapman. Dimitri Tiomkin's robust score hits the rousing spot. Russell Harlan's crisp black and white cinematography provides a pleasing sharp look. Very tightly plotted and executed with a sure feeling of total professional both behind and in front of the camera, this film certainly lives up to its status as an all-time classic.

SimonJack "The Thing from Another World" is a good example a type of sci-fi film of the mid-20th century that engrossed audiences. The plot had some intrigue (the scientific wonder), interest in understanding a different life from outer space, and a conflict between study and survival. The latter most often was portrayed as science and the military or law being at odds. As in this film, usually the scientists want to dig right into the discoveries and start examining them, while the military want to secure them first and then wait for orders. The scientists usually are on the losing side, but they or someone else are the means for the aliens to get loose and wreak havoc. The humans wind up winning, but only after a few of them have been eaten, groveled, drained of their blood or brains, or otherwise disposed of. Naturally, audiences of the time went with the strong arm group who would protect and defend civilization. In other words, wipe out the invaders. But this type of sci-fi kept one's interest. And, it didn't require a great deal of expense for models and suits and makeup of freak creatures. The creatures were seen less often, but just enough to remind the audience that they are there. Modern sci-fi films, by contrast, are almost continuous mayhem of battles and encounters with the monsters. One nice aspect of this film is that some of the ideas for tackling the monster came from minor characters – one of the Air Force sergeants. That was a little more common in movies of the past – someone other than the hero or lead roles could have good ideas that others would act upon. Nowadays, it seems always to have to be the lead character(s) who are the only thinking members of casts. Kenneth Tobey, who plays Captain Hendry, was a regular lead character in these type of films in the mid-20th century. He and a few others were good actors who weren't able to break into major films in any lead roles. An interesting character here is Scotty, played by Douglas Spencer. He's a news reporters and a source of humor in this film, but his good-natured sarcasm bounces off the captain and others. Spencer was in more than 90 films with small roles but some very good ones. And, for many years he was Ray Miland's stand-in. He died at age 50 from diabetes. The female lead, Nikki, is played by Margaret Sheridan. She was good in just 11 movies she appeared in over 13 years, but she quite acting in 1964. She was just 55 years old when she died from cancer in 1982. Dr. Carrington's character (played by Robert Cornthwaite) is a Nobel Prize winner in the film. He is overly Darwinian, reflecting the level of some thinking in science of that time – that man evolved from worms. Here's an exchange between two of the science team in the film. Dr. Vorhees (Paul Frees), "Arthur, what if that aircraft came here not just to visit the earth, but to conquer it? To start growing some kind of horrible army? Turn the human race into food for it?" Dr. Carrington, "There are many things threatening our world. New stars, comets shooting through space….There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study. We are studying one."When the military team can't figure out how to defeat the alien, Nikki provides the answer. Scotty," The $64 question – what do you do with a vegetable?" Nikki, "Boil it!" Scotty, "What'd you say?" Nikki, "Boil it, Stew it. Bake it. Fry it."Sergeants are supposed to be smarter than the dodo who puts the electric blanket over the block of ice. This should be a good lesson for Air Force sergeants of the future – don't ever put an electric blanket on a block of ice that contains a frozen creature from outer space.