With no other choice, Childs sacrifices himself to destroy the creature by blowing himself up while MacReady escaped the sub in a capsule. However, it would be later revealed that Childs was assimilated by the creature, who would later reveal itself to MacReady in Argentina.
By the end of John Carpenter's The Thing, only MacReady (Kurt Russell) and Childs (Keith David) are left standing. For decades, audiences have wondered whether or not Childs was human in the movie's ending, but it is not certain that either one of them is human.
Childs was evidently attacked and assimilated by the Erskine-Thing during its escape from the flooded submarine. His imitation was subsequently recovered by American forces who arrived to investigate the submarine's wreck. While chasing the Deseado-Thing through the Argentine jungle, R.J.
While there are convincing arguments that Palmer was the original, most fans subscribe to the idea that Norris was the first to die. His character is one of the least seen in the movie but is conveniently one of the first to appear every time some major event happens.
You've read the other theories, now bask in truth: MacReady is infected and has been throughout the film. Carpenter wants you to assume Childs has been infected while off-camera during the climactic finale, hence MacReady's questioning as they sit amongst the warm flames that engulf what's left of their outpost.
After all the movie ends with MacReady and Childs still alive. And we had quite the situation seeing anyone of the two could be infected, Childs could've already been turned, or none was infected.
Blair was eventually assimilated by the Thing and secretly constructs a small UFO underneath the shed where it plans to sleep through the winter until the rescue team arrives.
Rock-Like Physiology: As a result of being directly exposed to cosmic radiation, Ben has been transformed into an orange-colored, rock-like humanoid that gives him a high degree of invulnerability. One test performed on him showed his internal organs had also been affected, becoming rock-like as well.
After designs for the creature were completed, the film's crew estimated that they would need around $750,000 for the effects, which Universal agreed to. The effects were designed by Rob Bottin, except for the Thing's dog form, which was designed by Stan Winston.
Blair-Thing transforms into an enormous creature and breaks the detonator, but MacReady triggers the explosives with a stick of dynamite, destroying the station and the monster. In the final scene, Childs returns as MacReady sits by the burning remnants, saying he became lost in the storm while pursuing Blair.
The most terrifying aspect of the iconic horror creature The Thing is that nobody knows what it looks like or has seen its true form. The extraterrestrial's entire existence is based on assimilating and replicating the appearance of other organisms, so it's difficult to determine exactly what its original form is.
J&B Rare Blend is a blended Scotch whiskey developed by Justerini & Brooks. The beverage features prominently in the 1982 film The Thing as the preferred drink of U.S. Outpost 31's helicopter pilot, R.J. MacReady.
The final scene of the 2011 version even leads directly into the opening shots of 1982's The Thing. As predicted, the vast majority of the prequel's characters are dead by the time credits roll, though Winstead's Kate has managed to (at least temporarily) stop the monster from escaping Antarctica in its spaceship.
MacReady then hands Childs the bottle of whiskey. He drinks from it and MacReady smiles to himself. Now the popular theory is that Macready had filled the bottle with gasoline. As Childs drinks from it and there is no reaction this is why the pilot is smiling.
Despite the plot similarities to both 1982's The Thing, and 1951's The Thing from Another World, 2011's The Thing is not a traditional remake of either film. Instead, it works hard to fit into the same canon as John Carpenter's film, with plenty of callbacks and references to the 1982 movie.
Early in Grimm's life as the Thing, he would sometimes revert to his original human form unexpectedly. But neither these changes nor those induced by Richards in his efforts to turn Grimm back to human form ever proved to be permanent. Eventually, Grimm always reverted to his monstrous, superhumanly powerful form.
His strength increased exponentially, but his form went from somewhat smooth to spiky and even less human in appearance. Eventually, things went back to normal, but for a while, the Thing became a spiky rock monster.
Upon emerging from the wreckage, the crew was subject to incredible changes from the radiation, and the pilot himself lucklessly transformed into a hulking, boulder-skinned monstrosity quickly dubbed the Thing.
In the show, she distracts an incoming pack of infected, which leads us to a rather unique moment. A runner spots Tess and instead of violently charging her as we've seen infected do before, it calmly walks over and gives her an open-mouthed kiss to allow tendrils of the evolved cordyceps fungi to pass into her.
In the game, an infected human had to remain intact for more than a decade to become a Bloater, but it also took someone a couple of days to turn zombie-like after encountering the fungus. In the show, Joel says no one lasts more than a day before turning, which implies that Bloaters may need less time to gestate too.
There's a few cases where if you sneak through an infected area you'll find them chewing on a dead person. The reason they cry and moan is they're in pain. Even though their brain is being destroyed they're still alive and have an active nervous system. Any conscious and aware being in pain will show it.
Trivia. It is likely that Juliette was attacked and assimilated by Griggs in the bathroom and that the fillings and the blood in the shower belong to her. This is the first and so far only female Thing in both films.
The dog thing basically infected Norris first and then it went on to infected Palmer shortly afterwards. Bennings: no I am not gonna bother telling you how he got infected, because we already see that. Blair: now I can only think of 2 possibilities of how Blair was infected, and I know when he ended up infected.
