movies like the thing 1982 ?

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JOHNNY Feb 27, 2020 @ 12:57am

great horror movie . it focus on suspense than lazy jumpscare

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AustrAlien2010 Mar 23, 2020 @ 1:35pm

The Fly

It´s disgusting, suspenseful, there is science-fiction, and it has some horror.
The only things it does not have, is some group of people who are paranoid of each other. Also, there isn´t much getting killed in it. But it is positively terrible.

Last edited by AustrAlien2010; Mar 23, 2020 @ 2:41pm

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HypersleepyNaputunia Mar 23, 2020 @ 1:42pm

Abyss
The fly with the jurassic park guy

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GetToTheTop Mar 23, 2020 @ 3:03pm

Original Alien is probably the closest. Also the thing reboot is pretty similar even if it doesn't match up to the original.

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gugnihr Mar 23, 2020 @ 3:07pm

Go watch In the mouth of madness. It is by the same director. But I like In the mouth of madness a lot more. It is very different, but if you prefer suspense rather than lazy jumpscares I think you will probably like it (there is only one jumpscare, but it is not that bad and it fits quite well in the scene it belongs to)

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Incarnate Mar 23, 2020 @ 3:09pm

Originally posted by Rumpelcrutchskin:
The VVitch
Get Out
The Blair Witch Project
The Cabin in the Woods

Cabin in the Woods is a weird meta-comedy. Don't think that counts.

The Descent would probably be closer in tone.

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GetToTheTop Mar 23, 2020 @ 3:17pm

The two closest are In The Mouth Of Madness and The Prince Of Darkness. Both directed by John Carpenter

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Trev Mar 23, 2020 @ 9:26pm

28 Days Later

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Zylfrax791 Mar 23, 2020 @ 9:29pm

The Ring was pretty disturbing.

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gugnihr Mar 24, 2020 @ 4:39am

Originally posted by Zylfrax791:
The Ring was pretty disturbing.

I have seen the american version of the movie and I have also read the original book.
The original book is wonderful, I highly recommend it I really loved it, but the american movie was really "meh"... if not plain bad. Not the worst movie ever probably, but really really disappointing and rather dumb too.
I have also read the sequels but they are bad imo, even the books are really bad. I would recommend ONLY the first book. It is very very good.

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Tesityr Mar 24, 2020 @ 5:59am

Originally posted by Bob Gibson:
The Ring was pretty boring. :P
Well the American version was.

I need to start watching the originals.
The original Grudge and The Eye were terrifying but the American remakes were VERY watered down.

If I may pop in, it is interesting how movies are changed (or even filtered) for various countries... When the movie American Psycho came out, I remember an interview where Christian Bale (name?) said that 'in the UK version, they took out some of the violence, but left in all of the nudity but in the American version, they took out some of the nudity but left in all of the violence'.

Up here in Canada, we get our movies 'pre-filtered', as in, even in the theatre/cinema, our movies are already changed. Alien and Heavy Metal are the ones I know of personally (showing my age here a bit lol) where some of the more violent scenes and drug use were taken out (eg. in Heavy Metal, the two alien guys use a machine to make lines of powder, but in the Canadian version, this scene doesn't happen - I saw it in a USA video long after - despite that scene being shown in a still on the back of the tape in the store).

I wonder if, instead of 'pre-filtering' or editing movies anymore, they just do complete re-makes of movies from other regions these days?

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