Tuesday, 4 February 2025

'Probably' everything that ripped off The Thing (1982)

Even if you're tied to some FUCKING COUCH, be sure to check out expanded universe and legacy.

Spinal Breakers


Battletoads¹ (NES)


¹ntbcw 1991 Game Boy or 1994 arcade game of same name.

Just to make things even more confusing, NES original was later ported to the Game Boy in 1993 and retitled Battletoads in Ragnarok's World.

Blair

Braindead aka Dead Alive vs fingers in cheeks
 
True form


Amalgam Alpha - The Evil Within
G - Resident Evil Outbreak - Below Freezing Point scenario
Scagdead - Resident Evil: Revelations
Split-Face


The Falling aka Alien Predators and Mutant 2
Biohazard 4D-Executer
Black Friday
Endless Nightmare
Shin Megami Tensei Nine
Shrieker
Splatterhouse (1988)
The Callisto Protocol
Alter Ego - The Evil Within
The Nest (1988)
Hellraiser: Bloodline
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
And.

Contrive - Slow Dissolve
WHAT... THE... FUCK?

Kennel-Thing

Before we go any further, Stan Winston designed the dog-related visual effects, not Rob Bottin.

Split-head


Wereskag - Borderlands
Double Head - Silent Hill 3
Adjule - Resident Evil 5
Body


Colmillos - Resident Evil 4 (2005)
Kerberos - Parasite Eve
Color Out of Space
The Cursed aka Eight for Silver
Sentinel - The Evil Within
Finally.

Endless Nightmare


Surely a joke, right?

Face


Limbo of the Lost
Cerberus - Resident Evil (1996)
Norris

Split-stomach


Thraxx - Secret of Evermore
Dementium II
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Handsome devil


Queen Spider - Dark Escape 4D
Roger - Extermination (PS2)
Steve - Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles - Code Veronica retelling
Neck


Sun - The House of the Dead III
King Core - Alien Syndrome² (2004)
²PS2 remake was released exclusively in Japan as part of the Sega Ages 2500 series.

A sequel to original 1987 arcade (also called Alien Syndrome), was released for the Wii and PSP in 2007.

(Sigh).

Beast Busters
SNK signed off with:

Cyber-Lip
Contra: Hard Corps

Bahamut Overdrive
Alien Cell
Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX³
³The second port of Contra III: The Alien Wars (after Contra: The Alien Wars on Game Boy), borrows two stages from Hard Corps, replacing the Mode 7 overhead sections from SNES original.

Spider head


Hude Spider - Dark Escape 4D
Willard - Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft
Myra's Spiderlings - The Evil Within 2
BugBrain - Spatterhouse 2
Doom 3

Tick
Trite
Turning up obscure volume.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES)
Lifeforce Tenka
Shh...! Welcome to Frightfearland aka Haunted Museum 2
Exorcist - Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad and Bikini Zombie Slayers
Anime

Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy - S2 E5
Lily Cat
Wicked City⁴ (1987)

Shadow
Radical
Which rather ironically looks like:

Jenny-Thing - The Thing from Another World: Eternal Vows (1993)
Received a bizarre live-action Japanese adaptation in 1992 called The Wicked City.

An American live-action remake of anime is apparently in development.

You gotta be fuckin' kidding

A few more guys.

Black Viper (final form) - Contra 4 vs Blair's dog autopsy


Look closer...

A picture of the S.T.A.R.S. members - Resident Evil 2 (1998) vs Cast on location in British Columbia (less Wilford Brimley)


Sure this could've been based on any stock helicopter photo of similar description, but given Capcom's obvious admiration for John Carpenter's classic, I remain suspicious.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going up to my shack to get drunk.
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