History NightmareFuel / TheThing2011

* The cut [[StarfishAliens Alien pilot]] that brought the Thing to Earth is pretty scary by itself. It's a very inhuman design that looks absolutely nothing like anything on Earth. It's also ''huge'' and looks a little similar to the Thing's original form that it took before crash landing, which has some disturbing implications.

** Not just that, but, it doesn't attack Kate straight away, it simply walks past her whilst staring at her to activate the ship, basically wordlessly stating to her that it has all the time in the world to assimilate her.

* The Sander-Thing finally gives us a look at what happens when a Thing has time to transform into something combat-ready. While it doesn't have the same standard of horror as the rest of the Things, the other things become more horrifying in hindsight, since most of them are either A)Immobile and/or B) weak, being more LastStand type combat forms than true fighters. The Thing in the Climax is humanoid, with none of it's limbs being malformed as much, and it is a hulking beast, but more uniform and streamlined than the other Things. If all the Things had been able to achieve a form like that, the heroes probably wouldn't have stood a chance.

** The way the Split-Face looks at Adam is terrifying, like the idea to absorb him just popped into it's head and then acted on it immediately. It's another reminder that once that Thing wants you, there's nothing you can do to stop it.

** The Helicopter scene is a perfect microcosm of the pure horror of The Thing. Olav can barely react before the creature starts going to work on him, and even if he could it's a ''helicopter''. There's nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide.

** Try to imagine the horror and dread of Olav who saw that knowing he was doomed. Because the Griggs-Thing wasted no time unloading a ''heap'' of tentacles to absorb him

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** The infection of [[spoiler: Jonas]] right after is just as bad, if not worse. He's helping drag the unconscious [[spoiler: Edvard]] into the rec room, when all of a sudden, [[spoiler: Edvard's]] arm detaches from his body as a centipede with a tentacled mouth, and starts crawling up it's victim's arm. The fact that you can hear his muffled screams as the Thing latches onto his face ''does not help.'' Even worse, just before Kate burns him, you can start to see one of the thing's tentacles [[EyeScream push through his cheek and one of his eyes.]] And when the Edvard-Adam Thing appears again, the two faces are unnaturally merged together, like they're trying to pull apart, and seem to be frozen in a scream.
** Knowing that this was how the Split-Face Thing originated, the Thingtopsy scene from the original film - as if it weren't creepy enough - becomes a bit ''more'' disturbing: [[spoiler: the reason why Dr. Copper found so many "normal" organs inside the creature is that those were ''Adam's'' still-unassimilated innards he was handling]].
* The Helicopter scene. [[spoiler: One would think it's the one who was splattered with blood would be the Thing. However, we look up, and then we see his partners face ''crack in half'', '''realistically'''.]]

* The scene where Kate realizes that [[spoiler:the woman standing right behind her (between Kate and the door) is the Thing.]]

* The [[spoiler: Sander]]-Thing, it finally gives us a look at what happens when a Thing has time to transform into something combat-ready, while it doesn't have the same standard of horror as the rest of the Things, the other things become only Fuel in appearance, when you realise most of them are either, A)Immobile and/or B) weak, being more LastStand type combat forms than true fighters, The Thing in the Climax is humanoid, with none of it's limbs being malformed as much, and it is a hulking beast, but more uniform and streamlined than the other Things, if all the things had been able to achieve a form like that, the heroes probably wouldn't have stood a chance.

* The scene where Kate realises that [[spoiler:the woman standing right behind her (between Kate and the door) is the Thing.]]

* Consider this. The Thing can take the form of any life form it comes into contact with. It's very likely that if it was released into a populated area it would bring about the end of the world as we know it. You know that thing we see burst from the ice block it was contained in? It hasn't been confirmed whether that in fact it was its true form. One could make the theory that the form we saw was that of the Thing's last victim prior to crash landing on Earth.

* The Head-Merge scene. It is incredibly disturbing, and the fear of the victim is very horrifying to see.

** The infection of [[spoiler: Jonas]] right after is just as bad, if not worse. He's helping drag the unconscious [[spoiler: Edvard]] into the rec room, when all of a sudden, [[spoiler: Edvard's]] arm detaches from his body as a centipede with a tentacled mouth, and starts crawling up it's victim's arm. The fact that you can hear his muffled screams as the Thing latches onto his face ''does not help.'' Even worse, just before Kate burns him, you can start to see one of the thing's tentacles [[EyeScream push through his cheek and one of his eyes.]] And when the Edvard-Adam Thing appears again, the two faces unnaturally, like they're trying to pull apart, and seem to be frozen in a scream.

** The infection of [[spoiler: Jonas]] right after is just as bad, if not worse. He's helping drag the unconscious [[spoiler: Edvard]] into the rec room, when all of a sudden, [[spoiler: Edvard's]] arm detaches from his body, and starts crawling up it's victim's arm. The fact that you can hear his muffled screams as the Thing latches onto his face ''does not help.'' Even worse, just before Kate burns him, you can start to see one of the thing's tentacles [[EyeScream push through his cheek and one of his eyes.]] And when the Edvard-Adam Thing appears again, the two faces unnaturally, like they're trying to pull apart, and seem to be frozen in a scream.

** The infection of [[spoiler: Jonas]] right after is just as bad, if not worse. He's helping drag the unconscious [[spoiler: Edvard]] into the rec room, when all of a sudden, [[spoiler: Edvard's]] arm detaches from his body, and starts crawling up it's victim's arm. The fact that you can hear his muffled screams as the Thing latches onto his face ''does not help.'' Even worse, just before Kate burns him, you can start to see one of the thing's tentacles [[EyeScream push through his cheek and one of his eyes.]]

* The ''sounds'' the humanoid Things make are terrifying. They are almost totally alien yet still have just enough of a human quality to them to remind you that this was once a human being (or several).

* The scene where Kate realises that [[spoiler:the woman standing right behind her is the Thing.]]

* The scene where Kate realises that [[spoiler:the woman standing right behind her is the Thing.]]

* If it weren't for the fact that TrailersAlwaysSpoil, the scene where Kate realises that [[spoiler:the woman standing right behind her is the Thing would be a real edge-of-your-seat moment.]]

** It's more disturbing to those that watched the original. Before this scene, this troper always thought that in order to infect other beings, the thing would have to infect the bloodstream at first before it gets to the rest of the body. Then upon seeing the two faces melt together it shows that the second it touches you, you are screwed.