Drew Struzan is retired now, and it’s doubtful we’ll ever see his like again, not in this universe. Struzan is by far one of the greatest movie poster artists the industry produced; he has created the posters for the Indiana Jones series, the 1997 Star Wars Special Edition re-releases, the Back to the Future trilogy, the 1982 version of The Thing, and other cherished films too numerous to count. He also designed the poster art for three of the Police Academy movies, and now a large selection of Struzan’s original acrylic paintings are being sold for big bucks at the artist’s website.

“I’m the Thing….from another world, baby.”

Jon and Al Kaplan, the singing and songwriting brothers who brought The Silence of the Lambs to the Off-Broadway stage in the form of Silence! The Musical, have struck gold once again.

The brothers have been blitzing the Internet in recent months with a series of viral video musical adaptations, taking on Conan the Barbarian and Fright Night (released to coincide with the release of the 3D remakes of both). And with the prequel to the 1982 version of The Thing due in theaters this weekend the Kaplan brothers have gone back to the John Carpenter-directed classic take on John W. Campbell‘s short story “Who Goes There?” and worked their musical magic. You can watch the video below after the jump.

As the October 14 theatrical release of The Thing prequel draws near, Dark Horse Comics will be premiering a new digital comic set in the universe of the film on its on its website today, but the Hero Complex has has snagged an exclusive 8-page preview of the comic written by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre) with art by Patrick Reynolds. You can check out the first full page of the comic, The Thing: The Northman Nightmare, here below.

Today Universal Pictures has released a new restricted trailer for their upcoming redux of The Thing. You can watch the video below this article.

The trailer runs a little over a minute in length but features a lot of previously unseen footage, including a long-awaited peek at the alien creatures that will be giving our characters the fight of their lives. The monsters look to have been created through a combination of practical effects and CGI, with a little too much emphasis on the latter. Some of the effects look appropriately freaky and cool but it will be all for naught if the rest of the film isn’t up to snuff. Still, this sucker might be worth a watch after all.

MTV has released an exclusive new clip from the upcoming The Thing. You can check it out below this article.

The clip runs less than a minute, but it does feature a few quick (and ineffective) jump scares that culminates with the titular alien beast breaking free from its icy tomb.

The theatrical release of the much-maligned prequel/sequel/remake/whatever of The Thing, John Carpenter’s 1982 classic of otherworldly horror, is little more than a month from release but Universal Pictures hasn’t done much so far to market the new film outside of the release a teaser poster and a trailer. Upon their release both received a lukewarm reception from science fiction and horror fans and an even worse reception from longtime fans of the John Carpenter film, which itself was both an updated remake of the Howard Hawks-produced 1951 sci-fi shocker The Thing from Another World and a more faithful adaptation of “Who Goes There?”, the John W. Campbell short story that inspired both films.