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GI Joe STOP-MOTION remake of THE THING

August 5th 2008 09:43
The Thing stop-motion remake
Big props to my cine-buddy John Doe for giving me a severed heads up on this choice little clip; it’s a 6-and-a-half minute music clip that doubles as a compressed re-imagining of John Carpenter’s The Thing (which in itself was a remake of the 1951 B-movie The Thing From Another World).

The brilliance of it is that it uses stop-motion animation and GI Joe action figures! The music is courtesy of a French outfit who go by the name of Zombie Zombie (touché!) and the track is called Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free. A very prog-rock-fusion title if ever I heard one!

Zombie Zombie
The mini-feature is directed by Simon Gesrel and Xavier Ehretsmann, and it is described as an homage to both John Carpenter as director and composer.

John Carpenter’s sf-horror masterpiece The Thing is currently in re-imagining pre-production remake limbo - supposedly designed to be more of a “companion piece” than an actual remake - with Battlestar Galactica re-imaginer Ronald D. Moore at the screenwriting helm. Yeah, right, whatever. They should leave the bloody thing alone!

I don’t mind fan-creations such as this little experimental film-cum-promo-clip, but touching a bonafide classic is tantamount to modern horror treason!

Enough griping. Here’s Zombie Zombie …


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Comment by Damo

August 5th 2008 11:03
Great clip
Hope they play it on TV

Comment by Mountain Fog

August 5th 2008 15:26
dammit,

pooter toooo slow to play this, and still no sound, got to get that fixed somehow...

However, the biggest disappointment was not my computer, but, finding out it was only an online short, not a near full length remake!

Now that I would love to see, and yes, I agree, I do not like people mucking about with the classics, and The Blob was certainly that, but with an approach like this, who could resist!

I loved Team America, how about you Bryn?

cheers

fog

Comment by Cibbuano

August 5th 2008 23:16
that was super-happy-fun-time awesome!

They did a terrific job with that video... lots of work went into it... the sets are beautiful.

I love fan tributes as opposed to Hollywood remakes... the re-imagining is almost guaranteed to be lacklustre...

Comment by Bryn

August 6th 2008 00:58
Fog, actually not a fan of South Park at all, but found myself enjoying Team America ...

Cibby, yeah, must have taken bloody ages to make!

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