The Age (Australia) "It's big on the grotesquery but short on genuine scares." Richard Roeper Richard Roeper.com Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%282011_film%29 The Thing is a 2011 science fiction horror film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. , and written by Eric Heisserer . It is a prequel to the 1982 film of the