The Thing - 1982 - Soundtrack - Fan Edited Theatrical Version

00:00 MainTitles 01:44 Antarctica - Winter 1982 04:26 The Norwegian Base 10:20 The Burned Remains 11:42 Autopsy 12:58 The Dogs 13:46 The Kennel’s Aftermath 15:34 The Ship In The Ice 18:41 27,000 Hours 21:26 Bennings 23:56 Burning The Rest 25:44 MacReady’s Tape - Fuchs 28:14 Nauls Returns Alone 31:08 We’re Not Getting Out Of Here Alive 33:58 Blair Strikes 34:28 The Thing 35:40 MacReady And Childs 38:22 End Titles 45:00 Epilogue If you’re here looking for a theatrical edit of Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack for John Carpenter’s 1982 film ’The Thing’ then I don’t have to explain the complicated history of a very frustrating soundtrack album. This version has been assembled to reflect the soundtrack as heard on the film. A complicated process and I’ll avoid the thesis-like explanation for the moment but certainly there were two primary hurdles in creating this - the original recordings have quite a bit of ambient noise so chopping up various cues is one thing but that ambient noise has to be maintained during any breaks (the Norwegian Base is a good example where strings ease in and out of the soundtrack). Secondly was creating the bass-drone that weaves in and out of the screen version of Humanity Part 2 (but only comes in during the last measure of the motif on the album version) as well as underpinning sequences such as the Dog-Thing in the kennels and the Blair-Thing during the final confrontation. I wanted this sound to be authentic and consistent so I took the only ’clean’ section of that sound available on the original recording (about a second and a half) and looped it. It was then best guess-work and going by ear to create the different intensities that it modulates through. Overall I wanted this to be as close as possible to the film version and avoid some of the clunkier moments found in so called “screen accurate“ bootleg albums of the score. My only concession to ’aesthetics’ was not including the ’heartbeat’ (Humanity Part 2) that plays during the Helicopter take-off for the Norwegian base. This video features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners.