John Carpenter’s The Thing is probably on my top 15 list. I love it. It’s the perfect monster movie. One of those: “because we didn’t have everything, we had to be inventive, and tricky, and clever to scare the audience” type movies… one, that just works.

I am also a fence-sitter when it comes to remakes. Some movies… should NEVER be remade. Yet, there are a handful of movies I wish to death would be remade: The Thing fell into the first category. It’s just too good to be touched, yet someone somewhere decided to do so anyway. Here’s the impending result:

There are a LOT of things in this trailer that lead me to believe that it is more of a prequel than a re-make… then again there are TOO MANY things that scream that it cannot be anything but a remake.

I will say this though- The pieces of the film that are definitely remade, seem to stay true to the original style and feel of the film. They seem to have captured that sense confinement that the original had- but with a modern edge… I don’t like that they are in the middle of mountains, I mean… that is nowhere near as scary as a shack in the middle of hundreds of miles of flat, ominous, snow. But I’m sure a producer only thinks: it’s not visually stimulating enough… For me, it’s more about the tone than the look though.

One exciting that presented itself to me was that it is produced by those who did the Dawn of the Dead remake… a remake that I feel, surpassed the original. Albeit- I found the original to be boring, trite, and poor execution of an amazing concept. (you know the concept- Zombies- the guy invented them for all intents and purposes and still to this day fails to present them in a way that speaks to me like 28 Days Later did) But that’s a rant for a different time and place.

I am actually a little excited to see this movie- because I have always wanted to see the story of the Norwegians… the group that discovered the alien in the first place and ended up letting the creature escape in a dog.  BUT! If this movie doesn’t end with a mysterious dog being rescued by a couple of the Norwegians who can’t speak English blowing up- and Kurt Russell… I’m over it. I think I could handle a prequel. Not a remake.

What do you think about the trailer? Are you excited for the prospect of another classic remake? Are you livid that Hollywood is out of ideas and too afraid to venture out and experiment with fresh new storytellers? Why is the sky blue? Where do babies come from?