Zombie Zombie video with GI Joes

Video by the band Zombie Zombie recreates John Carpenter's The Thing with stop-motion animated GI Joes.

[#1 posted by imajication , January 26, 2009 11:23 AM]

Pretty cool, but now I'm jonesing for a video of Shipwreck's detached head, upside down and walking around on giant spider legs.

[#2 posted by CarnyTrash , January 26, 2009 11:30 AM]

More of an homage than a recreation, really. Extremely cool none the less.

[#3 posted by ADavies , January 26, 2009 11:43 AM]

Beautiful acting! Even better than the original.

[#4 posted by pAULbOWEN , January 26, 2009 11:45 AM]

"Pretty cool, but now I'm jonesing for a video of Shipwreck's detached head, upside down and walking around on giant spider legs."

Yes, yes, yes! And the horrified stoner guy saying "Nooo fuckin' WAY!"

What a movie.

Agree with carnytrash that it's more homage than recreation - Carpenter would appreciate I think the way they simply dropped the dog as spoor carrier in favour of something more easily animated!

[#5 posted by dargaud , January 26, 2009 12:28 PM]

The first part with the ice is absolutely spot on (compare with the real stuff), and of course, The Thing being the mythical film down there, the homage is appreciated. Too bad the music is not a bit more inspired.

[#6 posted by Anse Bundren , January 26, 2009 12:31 PM]

Too bad there isn't a G.I. Joe that looks like Wilford Brimley.

[#7 posted by takeshi , January 26, 2009 12:45 PM]

@ Anse Bundren:

My thoughts exactly. The funniest scene in The Thing is when Wilford Brimley is trying to save the human race by chopping up all the computers with an ax.

Come to think of it, Wilford Brimley adds humor to every movie he stars in. Hotel New Hampshire, The Firm, Hard Target. Hell, even his name is funny.

[#8 posted by progosk , January 26, 2009 12:49 PM]

directors notes interview with the makers; better quality files over at no fat clips.

[#9 posted by shashi2005 , January 26, 2009 1:30 PM]

Intriguing video but the music sounds like a good intro.

[#10 posted by Anonymous , January 26, 2009 1:46 PM]

My memory is that GI Joe did include a few dogs, but none of them were articulated - they were just solid plastic. So it's an understandable choice.

Great video!

[#11 posted by Tim , January 26, 2009 1:47 PM]

Very cool. Were those hot glue-gun replacement sticks used for ice cores?

[#12 posted by Antinous / Moderator , January 26, 2009 1:56 PM]

Man, that tilt-shift photography fools me every time.

[#13 posted by TedJohnson , January 26, 2009 2:01 PM]

Only a video this awesome could get me to endure six-and-a-half minutes of such uninteresting music.

[#14 posted by mdh , January 26, 2009 2:12 PM]

Takeshi, he even manages to make the tragedy of diabetes supplies palatable in US TV ads.

[#15 posted by desiredusername , January 26, 2009 2:22 PM]

tiepo

[#16 posted by doggo , January 26, 2009 2:49 PM]

Awesome.

[#17 posted by MadFist , January 26, 2009 4:57 PM]

Wow. . . That was just. . . I mean. . . Wow.

[#18 posted by arkizzle , January 26, 2009 5:04 PM]

Brilliant!!

Antinous +1

[#19 posted by Anonymous , January 26, 2009 7:46 PM]

PaulBowen- actually the line was, as he and the others are watching this severed head trying to sneak out the door on spider legs, deadpan- "You gotta be fucking kidding me." Then Macready blasts it with the flamethrower.

Classic scene though. :)

[#20 posted by popmonkey , January 26, 2009 8:14 PM]

Definitely a tribute, rather than a recreation. Perhaps this is what happened at the Norweigian camp that Carpenter's boys discovered.

[#21 posted by Thoughtsmith , January 26, 2009 8:37 PM]

Not only was this fantastic, it made me think fondly of a conversation between my younger brother and my grandmother many moons ago. She (upon seeing my brother's G.I. Joes lying on the floor covered with kleenices): 'Oh, isn't that nice, they're sleeping.' He (maybe 10 at the time?): 'They're not sleeping, Nanny. They're in body bags.' Who knew he had foreseen this?

[#22 posted by Nesbitt , January 26, 2009 11:53 PM]

#20 - I think you're on the money there - the Norwegian camp had been blown up or burnt down at the start of The Thing.

[#23 posted by Takuan , January 27, 2009 12:03 AM]

kool!
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=BNoZOfxnFVg

[#24 posted by pAULbOWEN , January 27, 2009 4:49 AM]

@19 ANONYMOUS: yes of course, that's much better!

Titfer aloft to popmonkey - prequel makes perfect sense.

[#25 posted by SpongeBobek , January 27, 2009 11:35 AM]

wow! i'll just say: The THING. One of my all time favourites (I've even seen Hawks produced original!). I'll never trash carpenter (i'm still waiting for him to find the financing way to REALLY SCARE us (seen that remark in some documentary)...

[#26 posted by skeeto , January 30, 2009 9:54 AM]

@#11 That was my guess as well. Glue-gun sticks.