To me, this movie is perfection.

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Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

I saw The Thing Below as, regardless of a movie's reputation, genre, age or how it looks, I've always believed in giving movies a fair chance. I had nothing else to do so I went ahead and watched it anyway. Having sat through the whole thing, I honestly wish I hadn't and am surprised that I even made it to the end. Even when giving it a fair chance, The Thing Below is still one of the worst movies I have seen in a long time, can't even remember the last time when I saw a movie with no redeeming values whatsoever, and possibly even ever. An obvious starting point in summing up what was wrong with The Thing Below(which is enough to fill an essay on how not to make a movie) would be the technical values. The interiors and lighting look very drab and the editing choppy. There are scenes as well that look as though they were edited from other movies and very clumsily too. The special effects actually look as though they were thrown into the movie at last minute through desperation with a very unfinished look to them. Other commentators have said that some of the worst special effects they've ever seen are in The Thing Below, and I really cannot argue against that. The sound effects manage to be both muddied and bizarre, while the music was so dull and generic that I can't even remember it. There is absolutely nothing believable in the dialogue either, there is so much cheesiness and awkwardness that it is enough to make your toes curl. In regards to the story it is highly derivative, but considering that this is hardly the first movie to have this problem I can kind of temporarily forgive it. But the cobbled-together structure, cringe-worthy parody-like approach to scenes, sluggish pacing and a complete lack of atmosphere, suspense and thrills I cannot forgive. Every character is underwritten and obnoxious, even the beginning had scientists behaving in a mind-numbingly stupid way. The titular monster was not menacing or memorable in the slightest, the movie doing absolutely nothing to develop it, its terrible design being the least of its problems. While a lot of the actors don't seem to have a clue what type of movie they are in, throughout there is a very strange mix of over-earnestness and disengaged blandness and it was really painful to sit through. To conclude, an extremely poor movie with nothing to recommend at all. 0/10 Bethany Cox

Thought I would give this a go as it was showing on 'horror' channel…and looked like one to watch…but talk about 'z' celebrities…I wish I had read this review from 'zofie' before I even turned the film on….i totally agree with that person…the movie really is dreadful and I wonder why some of the actors/actresses agreed to take part as it will probably stain their movie careers….one of the most boring and uneventful films I have seen - ..and whilst the person reviewing last says the 'The CGI is awful....does not even look real' – I think its even worse than that – I think you could of got better effects using an old spectrum 48k machine than the display shown within this film. If you are going to produce a film at least make it worthwhile…and to those directors out there, throwing in a few scantily clad women does NOT make it watchable..just makes it even worse and proves the lack of thought and/or quality that went into making this.

First, you don't believe.Maybe you had some wine(a lot of wine),or some improper food. Second, you realize,since you hadn't wine or food, that must be something else. Third, after you became aware that must be the so called movie(?), you say goodbye to life and slash your veins with a more or less sharp stone.Please don't stay close to this....THING.It's worst then spit in your food or beat your lovely grandmother to death!Now i'm just typing to achieve the minimum lines of text necessary to have this published. By the way this is worst then death,because it could happen twice if you are distracted...

A creature, found inside a meteor that was buried deep near the earth's core as an oil rig was digging for a new energy source, escapes from a canister housing it. It's tentacles spring forth to enter the victim's body erasing their identity and taking control. The thing can also telepathically read your thoughts if an individual gets too close causing hallucinations as a means of drawing victims near. It's up to Capt. Jack Griffin(soap opera vet Billy Warlock)and his minor ship crew to find out if anyone on the oil rig is still alive and can inform them on how to stop the alien force before it consumes everyone.Clichéd flick is your basic rip-off of John Carpenter's THE THING and INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. This perhaps could've been more fun if Jim Wynorski had found a good make-up effects designer instead of opting to go with the horrible, putrid computer effects instead(they are so cartoonish they elicit laughter instead of terror). As a creature feature this film flunks because it doesn't have an original bone in it's body or a creative leg to stand on. Warlock is fun as the hero, but the other characters are rather boring. Destined to find it's true home on the Sci-fi Channel where these kind of dreadful flicks, with terrible cheap effects, can live and breathe.