Heaps Of Thing FX From The New The Thing – UPDATED

That headline might seem to be the most boring and lazy game of Madlibs ever played, but that belies the intrigue in the images to follow.

Earlier tonight, the little known site Horror Movies pointed the way to an unofficial The Thing Facebook page. Coincidentally (right?) Bloody Disgusting “stumbled onto” the same page a couple of hours later.*

What follows are a series of images apparently showing creature FX design work from Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s upcoming preqboot of The Thing.

UPDATE: Universal got in touch and asked the following.

These photos are not associated with the film THE THING being released in October. Would it be possible to update the post making it clear that there is no association?

And I think this update should do that for them? Right. Returning to the story as it was…

You may consider the pictures to be spoilers, so I’m starting off with the Bleeding Cool warning image. Then… ickiness abounds.

Of course, we can’t be sure exactly where these pictures came from but most of them seem pretty darn legit.

More images on the Facebook page seem to come from a trailer, and bear a little Apple logo on the lower right hand side. It’s apparently a red band trailer, however, and I don’t recall one of those being released yet…?

*And then Shock Till You Drop got in on the act.