Fun fact: The Norwegian camp, which we see in smoking ruins, was actually the main set the day after they blew it up at the climax of the film.

This movie was so far ahead of it's time with the special effects. It's one of few that really set the bar and standard for special effects in Hollywood.

Regarding drinking alcohol to deal with the cold; it makes you feel warm by dilating the blood vessels in the skin and reduces your ability to feel cold. It does not make you warm though.  More than a few people have suffered hypothermia, frostbite or even died because they drank heavily in really cold conditions, felt hot, took off layers of clothing, and didn't notice they were freezing until it was too late.

To answer your question, yes that is in fact Keith David

Also I love how every reaction video goes from "Don't shoot the dog!" to "Kill it with fire!"

The Dog: "Hello my fellow dogs. I am also a dog, see how dog-like I'm acting?. I'm super-normal, and now I'm going to stand perfectly still and stare at things, like dogs do. Nothing to suspect here."

Windows had gone to get the keys and dropped them when he went back to the room where Bennings was was starting to transform. He was twirling them around his fingers when he first walked into the room and saw Bennings and dropped the keys in shock then ran out to get Mac. Anyone could have picked up the keys after that. Everyone forgot about the keys in the mass panic at the time. You can hear the keys drop during that scene.

The problem with modern, CGI effects is that they look too clean, which is unrealistic, practical effects looks sloppy, which is more realistic, because life isn't clean.

That dog can act!

He wasn't trying to cover the "bomb"(grenade) up with snow, he was trying to find it to get it away from the helicopter.

Yes! I love it when people do react to this movie.
In the beginning, the Norwegian guy said: "Get the hell out of here, that's not a dog, it's some thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! Get away, you idiots!"
I went to see this movie when it came out and everyone else and all of my friends went to see E.T. The theater was only half-full and the people there were watching this masterpiece. Carpenter has done it again with the perfect mix of horror, suspense, and top-tier paranoia. I don't know how MacReady didn't get infected when that blood jumped out of the petri dish. I thought that everyone in the room got infected when Norris' stomach opened up and his intestines and veins were splashing green blood everywhere.

The characters do not trust anything or anyone else because they cannot tell who is human or an alien. They didn't even know if they were infected or not. I love how Carpenter tried to misdirect us by making us think that Clark was infected because he spent time with the dog. Blaire immediately understood the magnitude of the situation when he did his analysis of the organism. He did not want anyone that's infected to get back to civilization. The computer analysis estimated that infecting the whole world population would take a little over three years. That's scary as hell.

I was so happy that I went to see this movie. I told all my friends about it and we all went to see it the next weekend and they loved it. The practical effects are amazing. This movie holds up to any horror movie today. Carpenter is a genius at suspense and horror.
In his first Halloween movie (1978), the children who were watching TV, were watching the original "The Thing from Another World" movie.

When the dog goes in the room with someone, the shadow on the wall isn't either of the actors assigned to that room. It's a random crew member. John Carpenter didn't want the audience figuring out who was infected.

Blair recognizing the danger the Thing represents to the world, and being willing to destroy every way out he could was extremely heroic.

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A fan theory is that the thing replicates things PERFECTLY, but it also can’t take any non-biological materials from its victim, it can’t take clothes… Or pacemakers.

The dude had heart problems, he’d said as much, and when the thing copied him, it GOT those same heart problems, but it wasn’t able to take the pacemaker with it, so the thing actually legitimately had a heart attack, and was forced into a corner where it had to try to attack everyone in that room when it was getting shocked.

It's always really funny when people watch this for the first time and realize they're looking at a 26 year old Keith David. He's like a Willem Dafoe sort of person, he's known for completely different parts of his career depending on how old you are. For me I know him from a ton of video games just on voice alone. SGT Foley in Modern Warfare 2, Captain Anderson in Mass Effect, Spawn, Julius in Saints Row, he was everywhere. Dudes voice is butter

Whats truly terrifying is the organism gains all the knowledge of the being it mimics. It had already mimicked a very advanced alien species before it crashed on earth.

I love when people are like “How scary can a movie be?? It was made in the 80s!” And the movie they’re talking about is The Thing 😂. It was made in the 1980s not the 1780s. 😂😂😂

There should be an Oscar for animal trainer. That dog just ate up the screen.

And there’s a reason he was “always taking a drink.”  😉

This movie has stood the test of time. Top tier!!!

Greatest Wolf-Dog actor of all Time! 😎 Right before it turns into a horrifying alien monster! 🤣

Also “Unfinished Igloo” 😂