Imagine for a moment you've spent months hanging out at a remote Antarctic research base with a bunch of Norwegian guys. If you heard that a paleontologist grad student who looked like Mary Elizabeth Winstead was headed to the facility, you'd probably be pretty thrilled about it. Now imagine that your rare chance to flirt with a beautiful woman is ruined by an extraterrestrial that impersonates humans, leading to lots of grotesque horror and no end of paranoia.
There's no grotesque horror in the second clip from The Thing, but there is plenty of paranoia. While the first clip showed a glimpse of the actual creature emerging explosively from a block of ice, this one sticks with the notion that anybody could really be an alien just waiting for a chance to jack you up. Despite carrying the exact same title of John Carpenter's 1982 remake of The Thing From Another World, this is not a remake, but a prequel that will apparently contain almost identical scenes.
The cast is, of course, led by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who you'll remember as Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim vs the World John McClane's daughter in Live Free or Die Hard, and the woman wearing the cheerleader outfit in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof. Though The Thing takes place at what is officially a Norwegian research outpost in the Antarctic, the rest of the cast is not exclusively Norwegian, but contains all stripes, including Joel Edgerton, Eric Christian Olsen, Kim Bubbs, Ulrich Thomsen, Adewale Akkinuoye-Agbaje, and Jonathan Walker.
