In 1982, John Carpeter unleashed an extraterritorial creature with the ability to assimilate its victims and easily hide among unsuspecting prey in his cult classic “The Thing” and in 2011, a new team of filmmakers sets out to tell the story of how the Thing was fatefully and tragically brought to life by a band of Norwegian scientists. Mary Elizabeth Winstead leads as Kate Lloyd, an American scientist not mentioned in the first film, who is flown in to see the discovery the Norwegians made. She is wary and reluctant to take a tissue sample from the mysterious creature the group discovers frozen in ice and obviously had good reason to be paranoid, as that simple scientific action inevitably leads to the team’s downfall. Hopefully no spoiler alerts are needed here, as the 1982 film opens with a new team of researchers discovering the destroyed camp left behind by the Norwegians in the aftermath of their fatal mistake.

Joel Edgerton is also on board as a pilot running supplies to the camp but who is left in the dark regarding what sort of research is happening inside. The inclusion of these new American characters certainly leaves the door open for an ending that doesn’t leave every person dead on the ground. Anyone else getting an image of Edgerton, Winstead and a few stragglers taking off in a helicopter only for one of them to begin transforming? Find out if I’m psychic when “The Thing” releases in theaters on October 14th.