The expanded version of the original novella that The Thing was based on. This is well-worth your time
I thought it was based on John Campbell's story, "Who Goes There?" 1938.
Ya, that was my understanding as well. Unless that "Frozen Hell" is just them renaming the original story?
The movie IS based on "Who Goes There?" - "Frozen Hell" is the expanded version of that original novella, with about 25-30% more pages and a lot of changes to the existing ones.
Turns out that Campbell wrote a lot more of this story than what was published, and it fell on his son (IIRC) to find all of the additional notes and put it together. Not sure how the name Frozen Hell came about. Might have been the son renaming the story, or Campbell's original name for the story before changing it to WGT for publishing. Frozen Hell is probably the superior story of the two by a good margin just because of all the detail it adds.
They released it on PC too. You can get it from Steam.
Humble Bundle currently also has it as part of a horror bundle.
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I played through this game on PS5 about a year ago. Can't recommend it. It's cool at first, capturing some of the movie's vibe (you play as rescue teams going to the destroyed outpost to investigate) but it gets really tedious before too long. Has that early-2000's PC game jank of stiff movement and lots of hallways that look identical. Once you learn all of the computer's tricks, which happens quickly, nothing's really surprising or shocking. I had to drag myself through the last 75% or so of the game and it never got interesting again. I don't consider it canon at all, considering it's got a mad scientist and tries to be Resident Evil later on. At least it doesn't take a whole lot of time, I think my clear time was 6 hours or so.
Man, sky high expectations that can only end in disappointment!
Blumhouse is totally going to fuck this up. Probably with too much Modern Audiences crap. Maybe some political crap as well. Unless, by some miracle, they approach this with the reverence it deserves and try to make something that captures the vibe, tone, and look of the 1982 movie.
Well, it's cool to see the property getting revisited at all, and I guess we'll kinda have a trilogy when it's all said and done. If it somehow manages to be good, then great. I didn't hate the 2011 movie and occasionally rewatch it before rewatching the 1982 movie (since they flow directly into each other)
