The following contains spoilers for today’s Flickle.
An Alaskan Malamute enters a room where a man is listening to Superstition by Stevie Wonder. A group of men in winter gear stand out in snow at night, one hitting a piece of machinery until liquid pours out. Two men are conversing, one says ‘wait a minute, Mac, wait a minute – it needs to be alone and in close proximity with a life form to be absorbed.’ A crowd of men watch one while one burns something with a flamethrower – one of the men proclaims ‘I know I am human.’ A smaller group of men are in a tight hallway – one cocks a shotgun as they all apprehensively walk towards the sounds of dogs barking and an unearthly wailing. Finally, a severed head on the floor sprouts six legs and two eyes on stalks.
Did you get today’s Flickle? If not, it was…
The Thing (1982)
Directed by John Carpenter, the film follows a group of researchers isolated in the Antarctic who face an extraterrestrial threat in the form of an organism that assimilates and overtakes all biology it comes into contact with, creating monsters the dwindling crew must try and identify if they want to survive. The film is the second adaptation of novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell (published 1938), the first adaptation being The Thing From Another World (1951, dir. Christian Nyby).
Flickle is a web game in which you must try and guess the film over the day through five second snippets. This week Flickle has transformed into “Spookle” and each film until October 31 is from the horror genre.