Start Your Spooky Season Early With This Unreal Thing Poster

John Carpenter’s 1982 fearfulness masterpiece The Thing is 1 of the astir fashionable films successful the satellite of alternative movie posters. It’s a cleanable cross-section of conscionable fashionable enough, but besides conscionable obscure enough, that astir immoderate collector would see buying it due to the fact that basically everyone likes it. The occupation past becomes however bash you bash thing new? What tin an creator bash with The Thing that 5 others haven’t done already?

Artist Anthony Petrie has cracked the code. He’s made a stunning caller poster for The Thing called “If It Takes Us Over, Then It Has No More Enemies, Nobody Left To Kill It. And Then It’s Won,” and it’s dissimilar immoderate Thing poster you’ve ever seen before. It’ll  beryllium disposable via Vice Press connected Thursday, September 19 successful 3 editions, each of which are 24 x 36 inches. First is the regular variation of 150 which costs £50.

The Thing by Anthony Petrie – Vice Press/Bottleneck

Next is the variant variation of 75 which glows successful the dark. It costs £55.

The Thing by Anthony Petrie Variant – Vice Press/Bottleneck

Finally is simply a multi-layered acrylic panel, successful an variation of 50. It costs £135 but, successful the beneath slideshow, you tin spot why.

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Petrie developed the poster with Vice and Bottleneck Gallery and it’ll beryllium connected merchantability astatine this link astatine 1 p.m. ET connected Thursday. Below, we caught up with the creator who answered a fewer questions astir the poster via email.

Germain Lussier, io9: There are a batch of AMPs for The Thing but this 1 is truthful unique. How did you travel up with the thought and were you specifically looking to bash thing that stood retired from the pack?

Anthony Petrie: I ever effort to research ideas that whitethorn beryllium much loosely tied to a property. I deliberation it’s good to beryllium on-the-nose for a batch of posters, but The Thing arsenic a movie is truthful precocious concept, I didn’t privation to propulsion from the evident (snow, dogs, Kurt Russell, etc). The applicable effects successful that movie are truthful believable and good executed, this is benignant of my homage to that, arsenic good arsenic however iconic the autopsy country was.

io9: Did the thought of the carnal successful a assemblage airs immoderate challenges, design-wise?

Petrie: There’s ever a situation of a poster being excessively engaged erstwhile there’s a batch of item and complexity, and past losing a cardinal movie constituent successful the chaos. It’s portion of the crushed wherefore I decided to forgo a elaborate inheritance and truly absorption connected the main image. The carnal successful this lawsuit is the smallest portion of the image, nevertheless the antagonistic abstraction surrounding it truly helps gully your attraction to the important part.

io9: Was it hard to fig retired a spot for the rubric treatment?

Petrie: The rubric attraction was truly a sticking constituent for this 1 for each progressive parties, re: needing the branding to beryllium visible, etc. Again, I wanted to hide the evident prime of slapping the authoritative logo connected apical of the art, truthful I decided to marque it portion of the concept. Hiding the logo successful plain sight. The elephantine letters are virtually hiding down the quality body, peeking retired from down it, hard to spot from a region due to the fact that of the outline, but arsenic you look person you’re capable to spot it’s THE THING.

Again, Anthony Petrie’s The Thing goes connected merchantability astatine 1 p.m. ET connected Thursday, September 19. Read much astir it here.

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