If we take Carpenter at his word, then, and assume one and only one of them is a thing, it's a coin-flip. George Bennings was a meteorologist stationed at American Antarctic research station, U.S. Outpost 31.The character appears in the 1982 film The Thing and was portrayed by actor Peter Maloney. Kate Lloyd was an American palaeontologist temporarily stationed at the Thule Antarctic research station. The Thing is a 2002 third-person shooter survival horror video game developed by Computer Artworks and co-published by Universal Interactive under their Black Label Games publishing label and Konami. The most popular interpretation is that Childs is The Thing, and MacReady is aware of this. MacReady?" The character acted as the main protagonist of the 2011 prequel film The Thing and was portrayed by actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead. – Napoleon Wilson ♦ Dec 12 '12 at 17:24 The Palmer-Thing's entire head splits open and turns into a giant mouth, biting Windows' head. Every time a piece of The Thing was killed, it was by Macready’s hand, aside from the initial dog Thing, which Childs torched at Macready’s demand. And Childs -- you know, one of my favorite lines in the movie [is], 'Where were you, Childs?' MacReady and Childs' fate at the end of the film has also been subject to many interpretations. In fact Kate's open fate is pretty similar to Carpenter's 1982 version, where it is also left open if MacReady and Childs finally make it back to civilization alive (which is actually not very likely, since all vehicles are destroyed and they're running low on energy/heat). During the scene, MacReady fights back against the alien by throwing a stick of dynamite in the direction of the Thing. For me, The Thing ranks with Alien as one of the best scary films I 've seen. I've seen this film at least twice before and truly enjoyed seeing it again. In the confrontation between MacReady and the "Palmer-Thing," actor Kurt Russell came surprisingly close to very seriously injuring himself. And he used the last of his remaining pawns protect himself. And he used the last of his remaining pawns protect himself. The Thing Wiki is a resource of everything related to the classic 1982 science-fiction film The Thing and its expanded universe. Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead and in order to not try to compete with Kurt Russell's portrayal of the 1982 film's protagonist, R.J. MacReady, the character of Kate Lloyd was designed to have traits in common with … It was frozen in the ice of Antarctica and accidentally freed by the crew of Norway's Thule Research Station, which it proceeded to attack and destroy in 1982. I'm sorry, but I first forced myself to believe that this movie deserved something around at least a 40%, because obviously, compared it the 'sequel', it is, as the consensus stated, a slave to it. Seeing it for the first time in a sticky-floored screening room a couple of years back, I thought: It’s too late for me. John Carpenter's classic sci-fi/horror film The Thing ends with MacReady and Childs both alive, but the official Thing video game reveals their fate. In the thriller The Thing , paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they're infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet. [5] It was released for Windows , Xbox and PlayStation 2 . As the man gladly takes the liquor and drinks MacReady laughs to himself. Macready wanted to burn all evidence of what had happened at that facility, so he burned the damn thing to the ground.