00:00Hi, I'm John Carpenter, and you will see me in The Thing Expanded Documentary.
00:12U.S. Number 31 calling McMurdo. Urgent.
00:15Come in, over.
00:20Did you notice anything strange about the dog? Anything at all?
00:24Strange? No.
00:34What the hell happened here?
00:35Looks like something buried under the ice.
00:37What we're talking about here is an organism that imitates other life forms.
00:41Somebody in this camp ain't what he appears to be.
00:43Bennings was right there, Mac! I swear to God, it had a hold of him!
00:51He could have imitated a million life forms on a million planets.
00:56It was one of those things out there, trying to imitate him, Gary.
01:01You gotta burn the rest of them.
01:08Nobody trusts anybody now.
01:09So how do we know who's human?
01:12Is this some kind of test, Doc?
01:13We're gonna draw a little bit of everybody's blood.
01:15He ain't tying me up.
01:17Then I'll have to kill you, Charles.
01:29You gotta be kidding.
01:38We gotta bring this whole place right down under the ice.
01:44We're not getting out of here alive.
01:46The need is that thing.
02:00I'm most proud of this movie.
02:02I wouldn't change a frame of it.
02:06The Thing Expanded is a brand new documentary that will explore the world of John Carpenter's
02:131982 masterpiece, The Thing.
02:15And it will do this not as a making of, not as a history, but as an autopsy of the
02:22film itself.
02:23We're going inside.
02:24We're ripping away all the viscera.
02:25We're taking things out.
02:26We're weighing them.
02:27We're looking at things under the microscope.
02:29It really is a deep dive analysis on every single thing that you can take out of this film.
02:35Carpenter really knows that his audience is smart and he does not condescend.
02:41So he'll create an environment where the audience is involved and the audience is questioning what's going on.
02:49And that's the whole point.
02:50Carpenter's very different.
02:51He withholds.
02:52You have to read between the terse lines.
02:55You have to interpret it yourself.
02:57Humans love concrete explanations.
02:59They love concrete threats.
03:01And when something is as intangible as the alien and the thing, it doesn't even have a name.
03:05We don't know where this thing came from.
03:06We don't really know what it wants.
03:08We just know that it takes you over and it can replicate you and other biological life perfectly.
03:13Yeah, The Thing is a fascinating example of rediscovery of second life.
03:19I would say that The Thing in this day and age has become more than a cult classic.
03:26It's just a classic.
03:27It's iconic.
03:28It's up there in the top five best movies in terms of sci-fi or horror in history.
03:35The amount of fan theories derived from The Thing is innumerable.
03:40Where does the alien come from?
03:41Was it the original pilot of the UFO that crashes?
03:43Who's the shadow on the wall when the dog goes in the room?
03:46Who's the thing at the end?
03:47Fan communities are an extraordinary resource.
03:50The level of devotion and exploration in the years since Carpenter's film came out is just staggering.
03:57Creator VC is dedicated to bringing the fans in on the creative process.
04:01We want you to give us your feedback.
04:03We're going to be having live events, Q&As with people who worked on the film.
04:07This is an intimate experience for a fan of film.
04:11This is something where anyone who loves films, loves documentaries, and wants to be part of this process can really
04:18be on board.
04:19This is a documentary made by fans, with fans, for fans.
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