We are really excited about this for a couple of reasons. First of all we love the film festival and the venue for the screening is amazing. Also from a personal point of view, we are really looking forward to seeing this film. The original 1982 The Thing by John Carpenter is a firm favourite among Team Hebe. You will often hear Lee raving about the soundtrack and the special effects. It is definitely right up there in our 'favourite films' list.
It was a great decision to make the 2011 version a prequel rather then a sequel. The original is near-perfect and to try and drag that out and potentially do a diservice to the fantastic ending would have been the wrong move in our view. It looks from the trailer and stuff we have read online that the team working on the new version have tried to keep things as close to the orginal as possible. Recreating the Norwegian camp seen at the begining of the 1982 film and generally staying along the same lines in terms of colours, shots, props etc.
Although it would be an amazing achievment to even get close to the original, we have high hopes for this film and for one night on Saturday we can kick back, chill and then get the hell scared out of us for a couple of hours, sounds fun :)