Parody, nostalgia, and brilliance combine in a read-along book for John Carpenter's The Thing.
For those of us who grew up in the 1970s and '80s, read-along books were a childhood rite of passage. Of course these days such movie tie-ins/reading tools have been replaced by newfangled apps. So it's somewhat fitting that Top Hat Sasquatchwriter Rob Lammle is using 21st-century technology to bring them back...with a twist. You see, he is creating pitch-perfect read-long books for movies that never got them in the first place. Lammle's first creation? A stunning book-on-record adaptation of John Carpenter's The Thing.
In the wake of E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, Carpenter's aggresively nihilistic story didn't exactly turn on the heartlights of movie audiences. Therefore, merchandising tie-ins were out of the question (lest you think it was the adult content of the flick that stopped licensing deals, you should know that merchandise based on David Lynch's apeshit Dune adaptation was everywhere in the summer of 1984). Through narration, some great voice acting, sound effects and some keen editing skills, Lammle has created the most innapropriate for kids children's story since Go the Fuck to Sleep.
See for yourself:
Next up for Lammle is an adaptation of the decidely more family-friendly The Last Starfighter. Let's keep hoping he does these for a long time to come. Learning how to read has never been as much gory fun.
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