The Thing [2011 Original Score]

Review

by James Christopher Monger

Composer Marco Beltrami's appropriately tense and brooding score for director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s 2011 reboot of The Thing dutifully echoes Ennio Morricone's stark score for the original version, which in its own way echoed the soundtrack work of that film’s director, John Carpenter. Pieces like “Road to Antarctica,” with its impish, John Williams-inspired woodwinds, and “Can’t Stand the Heat,” with its taut and patient, molasses-like percussive build, show great respect for the source material, while carving out a macabre sense of wonder all their own. The few repeated motifs that Beltrami establishes are used sparingly, but they’re memorable enough to warrant instant recognition, even as the world goes to hell behind them.

Tracks

				Title	Composer	Time
		1		God's Country Music	Beltrami	1:28
		2		Road to Antartica	Beltrami	2:41
		3		Into the Cave	Beltrami	0:40
		4		Eye of the Survivor	Beltrami	2:25
		5		Meet and Greet	Beltrami	2:55
		6		Autopsy	Beltrami	3:09
		7		Cellular Activity	Beltrami	1:33
		8		Finding Filling	Beltrami	3:25
		9		Well Done	Beltrami	1:32
		10		Female Persuasion	Beltrami	4:51
		11		Survivors	Beltrami	3:29
		12		Open Your Mouth	Beltrami	4:21
		13		Antarctic Standoff	Beltrami	3:04
		14		Meating of the Minds	Beltrami	4:29
		15		Sander Sucks at Hiding	Beltrami	2:22
		16		Can't Stand the Heat	Beltrami	2:10
		17		Following Sander's Lead	Beltrami	2:38
		18		In the Ship	Beltrami	2:39
		19		Sander Bucks	Beltrami	0:45
		20		The End	Beltrami	2:34
		21		How Did You Know?	Beltrami	2:29

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