Kurt Russell. Snowy winter setting. A group of characters trapped in an isolated location. Paranoia. Russell speaking the line, "One of them fellas is not what he says he is." Watching the recently released trailer for Quentin Tarantino's upcoming Western THE HATEFUL EIGHT, I couldn't help but think of John Carpenter's THE THING.
The similarities also stood out to io9 contributor Garrison Dean, inspiring him to create a mashup video that mixes the trailers for THE THING and THE HATEFUL EIGHT to create a preview for an awesome-looking horror Western. Quentin Tarantino's THE THING RIDES WEST.
THE HATEFUL EIGHT will reach theatres on December 25th. The version that has promise of featuring otherworldly monsters exists only in this video: