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The Thing

£450.00

Film

The Thing

Additional information

Year

1982

Size/Type

UK Quad (30" x 40") / Printed in England by W.E.Berry Ltd. Bradford

Country of Origin

British / UK

Condition

Near mint minus ; originally folded (as issued)

Director

John Carpenter

Actor/Actress

Kurt Russell, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Richard Masur, TK Carter, Wilford Brimley

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“Somebody in this camp ain’t what he appears to be. Right now that may be one or two of us. By spring, it could be all of us”

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Without a shadow of doubt easily my favourite John Carpenter film and certainly a movie that makes my own personal top 10. Personal nostalgia ? well I clearly remember seeing the poster for this outside my local cinema and thinking how cool is that ! This original The Thing movie poster was designed by Les Edwards and was so successful that it’s central theme and imagery were used as a basis for the Worldwide advertising campaign; notably France, Japan & Italy only the USA used different artwork (another great poster by Drew Struzan)…The original 1982 UK quad film poster for John Carpenter’s classic The Thing offered here was originally folded (as issued) & presents in excellent original unrestored condition with colour tones and unfaded black background. It represents a very collectable & highly desirable original film poster from a movie rightly regarded as a classic of the genre.

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Film Description

The Thing Movie Poster

“I know I’m human. And if you were all these things, then you’d just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn’t want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It’ll fight if it has to, but it’s vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it’s won”

The Thing is a remake of the classic 1951 The Thing From Another World. 12 men are in a completely isolated station in Antartica. They are invaded by a thing from outer space–it devours and completely duplicates anything it chooses to. It starts off as a dog but gets loose–and has a chance to duplicate any of the men. Soon, nobody trusts anyone else–they’re isolated–the radio is destroyed–their helicopter likewise. What are they going to do?…The 1951 film had the thing just be a big, super human monster. That movie was scary. This one is too–but the story is different (and based more closely on the source material–the novelette “Who Goes There?”) and it’s scary in a different way. The movie starts right off with Ennio Morricone‘s extremely eerie score setting just the right tone and–when the Thing gets attacked–the amount of gore is astounding. There’s blood and body parts flying all over–arms are bitten off, heads detach and–in the strongest one–one man is devoured face first by the Thing. The gore effects are STRONG and real nightmare material. I don’t scare easy but I had to sleep with the lights on when I saw this originally back in 1982. Rob Bottin‘s effects are just incredible–how this picture got by with an R rating is beyond me!…It also has a very creepy feel-gore aside, it is very suspenseful. You’re not sure who is what and Carpenter’s direction and the score really build up the tension…This was a critical and commercial disaster in 1982–it competed with “E.T.” and MANY critics complained about the amount of gore and there being no female characters in the movie. It’s now considered one of John Carpenter’s best. A must-see Horror / Sci-Fi…for strong stomaches. NOT a date film!…An amusing note: When this was released Universal sent a note along with all prints of the film. They suggested to theatre owners that they play the film in an auditorium near the rest rooms. They were afraid that people would be so sickened by the violence that they’d have to be close to a facility to throw up!

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Mint
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LOBBY CARD
11 x 14″ printed on heavy stock paper. Used as display in theatre lobbies. Originally made in sets of eight. Some sets have a title card, which contains credits and artwork, essentially a mini-poster. The remaining seven cards are coloured photographic credits and poster artwork showing different scenes from the movie.

WINDOW CARD
14 x 22″ printed on heavy stock paper with the top 4-6 inches usually left blank for the local cinema owner to fill in the cinema and the date it was due to play. Largely discontinued during the 1970’s.

HALF SHEET
22 x 28″ printed on heavy stock paper. The image displayed is normally a smaller version of the main poster, although some do have different artworks and sometimes come in two versions.

INSERT
14 x 36″ printed on heavy stock paper. Inserts usually have the same artwork as a one sheet. Popular with collectors since they are smaller and easier to frame. Normally come tri folded or rolled.

STYLE Y/FORTY BY SIXTY
40 x 60″ printed on heavy stock paper. Rare since they were primarily used for major motion pictures only. Designed to be used outside the theatre, on an easel, normally at a drive-in movie theatre.

ONE-SHEET
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41 x 81″ printed on paper. These were printed on two or three separate sheets designed to overlap, few survive. Used for larger advertising spaces, normally posted on walls, perfect for huge movie theatres the drive-in, where people could see them from a distance. From the 1970’s on, three-sheets were sometimes printed in one piece and issued as “international” versions to be used abroad.

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BRITISH QUAD
30 x 40″ Most common poster size used in the UK. British Quads are horizontal and may have different artwork to the US one sheet. Like a US one sheet they normally come in two versions. Like a US one sheet they are usually supplied single-sided or more commonly now as a double sided poster.

BRITISH ONE-SHEET
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ITALIAN LOCANDINA
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2-FOGLIO (DUE)
(DUE): 39 x 55″ This is the standard poster size used in Italy. Italian poster illustrators are some of the best in the industry.

4-FOGLIO
(QUATTRO) 55 x 79″ Very large Italian poster printed in two pieces, often contains very beautiful artwork.

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FRENCH
47 x 63″ (GRANDE) or 24 x 33″ (PETITE) French movie posters normally come with different artwork to either the US or the UK. Like the Italian’s some of the artwork is extrememly beautiful.