John Carpenter’s 1982 horror masterpiece The Thing is one of the most popular films in the world of alternative movie posters. It’s a perfect cross-section of just popular enough, but also just obscure enough , that almost any collector would consider buying it because basically everyone likes it . The problem then becomes how do you do something new? What can an artist do with The Thing that five others haven’t done already? Artist Anthony Petrie has cracked the code.
He’s made a stunning new 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 unlike any Thing poster you’ve ever seen before. It’ll be available via Vice Press on Thursday, September 19 in three editions, all of which are 24 x 36 inches.
First is the regular edition of 150 which costs £50. Next is the variant edition of 75 which glows in the dark. It costs £55.
Finally is a multi-layered acrylic panel, in an edition of 50. It costs £135 but, in the below slideshow, you can see why. Petrie developed the poster with Vice and Bottleneck Gallery and it’ll be on sale at this link at 1 p.
m. ET on Thursday. Below, we caught up with the artist who answered a few questions about the poster via email.
Germain Lussier, io9: There are a lot of AMPs for The Thing but this one is so unique. How did you come up with the idea and were you specifically looking to do something that stood out from the pack? Anthony Petrie: I a.