The Thing (1982), directed by John Carpenter, Shout! Factory 4k remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 7.1 remaster, five commentary tracks, and subtitles in fifteen languages.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/

Video encoded in two-pass 9 800 kbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.

English SDH subtitles OCRed, proofed and corrected. All other subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.

Note : I doubt many people don't know about this film, but here it is, John Carpenter's disturbing, paranoid sci-fi body horror masterpiece, one of the absolutely best horror films every made, now in a very handsome 4k remaster from Shout! Factory, with a whopping five commentary tracks. There was actually a sixth commentary track, but it was just the same as the first one but with the swearing censored, and if you can't handle hearing grown men swear a little, you probably shouldn't be watching the movie in the first place. Rob Bottin's groundbreaking special effects look as good as ever, and almost all of them hold up (I'm of the opinion that there are one or two shots that have never looked extremely convincing, but the vast majority are fantastic). The thrumming, minimalistic score by Ennio Morricone sounds more like Carpenter's own scores than anything Morricone did on other films, and the cinematography is extremely beautiful, if quite dark in many places, which is why I'm happy this 4k remaster conserves so much detail in the shadows. It's a must see, a must have, for any horror and/or sci-fi fan.

A team of US researchers at Antartic Outpost 31 are attacked by a pair of Norwegians in a helicopter who seem to be trying to shoot a runaway sled dog, and they end up killing one of them while the other dies when the helicopter accidentally explodes. Investigating the Norwegian camp finds it in ruins with everyone dead and a bizarre, burned corpse in the snow outside, which they bring back. No one's responding on radio, and soon, the sled dog they took in proves to be something much more than just a dog, video recordings from the Norwegian camps shows them finding something ancient and enormous in the ice, and the burned corpse they brought back with them might not be so dead after all. A shape-shifting alien is amongst them, able to imitate anyone, and no one trust anyone anymore...

This is an excellent 4k remaster, with very well managed grain, good color, excellent detail and good levels, and the 7.1 remaster sounds very good too. The copious commentary tracks are also all good, although they come from different sources and thus have different levels and sound quality, but all worth while. Nothing much you could ask for from this classic film, one of the all-time greats.

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