Like the 1982 film, the fate of the protagonist of 2011's The Thing is left vague in the movie's ending. Kate Lloyd remains in a similar position to the original's MacReady and Childs. Even if she is able to drive the other snow vehicle out across the landscape, there is no guarantee that she will find any help.
What happens to Kate Lloyd at the end of The Thing?
Lloyd's fate, is much like that of Childs and MacReady, is left mostly ambiguous, though it is possible that she survived with enough fuel in Halvorson's snowcat to make it to the Soviet base where she would have been taken back to civilization.
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.
Cundey suggested that throughout the film a specific light gleam can be seen in the eyes of whichever body is currently inhabiting the alien. A light gleam can be seen in Childs' eyes in the final scene, which would mean he's infected with the Thing under Cundey's theory.
The revelation came as Carpenter was asked about comments made by Dean Cundey, who served as cinematographer on The Thing. Cundey said that there was a specific lighting in the eyes of human characters. Using this logic, it would appear that MacReady is still human but Childs isn't.
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. The Thing 2011 ends on an ambiguous note for Kate, though the original script made his fate very clear.
The whiskey bottle theory states that the bottle MacReady passes to Childs was filled with gasoline. When Childs drinks it without realizing it's not whiskey, it proves he was not human.
Norwegian Passenger with Rifle : [in untranslated Norwegian] Get the hell away! That's not a dog, it's some sort of thing! It's imitating a dog, it isn't real! GET AWAY, YOU IDIOTS!
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. He's also hesitant when taking blood samples early on for the test and stays neutral for most arguments.
The most debated aspect of The Thing concerns its two survivors, MacReady and Childs. The events of the film see every other person in Antarctic Outpost 31 killed, and the horror movie's final survivors are left in the impossible — but practically inevitable — situation where neither man knows if the other is infected.
So called "alternate ending" is added with final voiceover saying to watch others around cause who knows what tomorrow, tonight will bring. This ending is actually longer version of the opening scene with Norwegian dog escaping while their camp is in flames.
What happened to Kurt Russell at the end of The Thing?
The Thing's ending sees Kurt Russell's MacReady and Keith David's Childs as the only survivors, with the final scene not providing a definitive answer as to which one is the eponymous alien.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Kate Lloyd, an American vertebrate paleontologist graduate from Columbia University: In order to be different from Kurt Russell as the 1982 film's protagonist, R.J. MacReady, Kate Lloyd was written to have similar traits as the character Ellen Ripley from the Alien film series.
Multiple reasons, including: It was a bomb at the box office - It made less than $20 million USD on a $15 million budget. While it is a cult classic and it likely has made back its budget by now, at the time it wasn't viewed very well and no sequel was going to be forthcoming.
The origins of the Dog-Thing are explored in the 2011 prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing. It is shown to be an imitation of (presumably) the station's sole dog, which belonged to Norwegian dog-handler, Lars. After the original creature escapes from its ice block in Thule Station it attacks the dog in its kennel.
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.
He gives Childs a shot of Whiskey and his willingness to share a drink shows his lack of concern for infection, hinting that he's possibly infected himself and MacReady gives a gentle laugh to show this. It's likely that he torched Childs shortly afterwards if the game canon doesn't apply.
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.
Before his death, Garrett wrote a message to her in a bottle, asking for her forgiveness and offering to move to Boston for her. Theresa replies with her own letter of forgiveness which she throws off the sea affirming her love for Garrett and thanking him for having proved her that she will also get over the grief.
When the alien starts assimilating her colleagues, Kate works on stopping the Thing and later prevents it from leaving in it spaceship. It's unknown whether she survive the incident, as she was left alone in a snowcat with a Russian outpost being miles away.
The movie's ending is famously ambiguous, with Kurt Russell's MacReady and Keith David's Childs the only two men left alive. It's left up to viewers to decide whether the alien lives on in one of them.
Firing his rifle at the creature, Lars tries to warn the crew of the American research station about its intent but is eventually shot by the station commander in self-defense.
