Thing: The Musical aka Escape from the Shining Alien Thing from Beyond the Stars, The

A master class in editing with countless pop culture references and easter eggs. But don't let the trailer fool you into expecting campy humor à la Sugar, Abrahams and Sugar every few seconds. It's more of an homage to the original film with comedy elements. I love the 80's, I love my Facehuggers, but as I said - I would have liked (maybe it's my ADHS) a faster pace. Howevery that's just my taste and doesn't take anything away from this super creative movie.

Blueyoda gives us Escape from the Shining Alien Thing from Beyond the Stars. A mostly very creatively and cleverly mash up with the main focal point being John Carpenter's the Thing.



Now as I write this its still not up on the fanedit's ifdb page yet (and if you see this, now its here). It feels like a main feature film, but I believe BY wanted it more like a tv presentation. The hard part here is not to spoil or give away any of the multitude of Easter egg surprises this edit holds (he did use upwards of like 30 various sources of pop culture media and references)



With that being said, I can say I absolutely loved this edit. it was a very humorous, sometimes serious and wonderful parody of many films while still keeping a coherent story. It pulled this off quite well.



The video and audio quality were quite fine with everything being properly leveled (playing out of a 2.0 stereo system).



I did have one minor gripe which I spoke to Blueyoda about and this is going to be my only spoiler. At one point during the film it cuts away to commercials like a tv movie would. However the (actual) vintage tv commercials are all presented in a 4:3 pillar boxed ratio while the main film was closer to 2:35:1. The commercial segment went on for about 6 mins before going back into the film. It had only one segment like this and I had felt this film would work much better without that break away. When this segment appeared it took me right out of the film. That being said, the actual commercials were nice to see


if you like Carpenter's The Thing and want to have a fun entertaining time, do yourself the courtesy and check out this edit

This is one fun watch. I am a huge fan of The Thing and so glad that this edit keeps the structure but adds enough parody to make it fresh and new.

No spoilers here just a big recommendation-if you likeThe Thing and have a sense of humor please watch this. The editing was perfect unless it wasn’t… but that is the intention of parody!

A big thank you to Blueyoda!

Bonkers!
Brilliant!
A soundtrack of delights!
Hilarious!
Genius!
Gloriously mad!

Nothing else to say, except this is a MUST WATCH.
And, of course, remember to eat your Quaker Oatmeal!

I LOVED this edit! The image quality was beautiful. The cutting was superb and brimming with creativity. I really dug the Tarantino vibe and the Leone touches. The surprise cameos were great. The Wilford Brimley subplot is hilarious. The deleted scenes were brilliant. A really fun watch and inspiring as hell. Edits like this demonstrate what an art form fan editing can be.