“Yes, I know. I know who’s the Thing and who’s not in the very end,” he said during an interview with ComicBook.com. But if you were hoping for any elaboration, then keep on hoping. “Nope,” Carpenter added when probed for more information. “Cannot tell you. Sorry,”
It was pretty much the same answer he gave SYFY WIRE last summer: “I know, but I’m not telling you … I just feel like it’s a secret that must be kept. The gods came down and swore me to secrecy.”
Russell is the human.
Russell noticeably runs out of vodka earlier in the movie, but then has a full bottle of a clear liquid at the end of the movie right after he uses fuel to create the explosion.
When childs takes a sip of the vodka that is actually gasoline and doesn’t react, that was Kurt Russell’s test to see if childs was the thing or a human.
Childs is The Thing.
This is such a good theory. I don’t know where I heard it, but whoever said this, I’ve been thinking about it for years and it has made me appreciate this movie even more than I already did. I recently saw it in the movie theater for its anniversary and it was so cool.
I’ve never heard this one before. That’s fucking brilliant.
Isn’t that great? I read it right before the 25th anniversary came out or whatever anniversary it was and I got to watch it in the theaters, it was so good seeing that scene after reading that theory
It’s whatever Carpenter wants it to be. I don’t think what he wants it to be is any more significant to the audience than whether one of the characters was secretly gay. If it wasn’t answered in the film, it’s meant to be a mystery.
