Comparing: The Thing From Another World - 1951 & The Thing - 1982

This month's Movie of The Month over at the LAMB is John Carpenter's Science Fiction Horror film, The Thing. Made in 1982 The Thing is a remake of a film named The Thing From Another World made in 1951.

I thought it would be interesting to watch both films and compare them.So here are my thoughts on each film individually as well as my thoughts on how the the remake compares to the original.

Comparing: The Little Shop Of Horrors; Original and Remake.

In this months' Directors Chair over at the LAMB is Frank Oz, who is mostly known for his voice work as Miss Piggy, Yoda and many others. His career as a director wasn't particularly extensive (14 films) and is primarily made up of Comedies (Dirty Rotten Scoundrel's, Bowfinger etc), and as that particular genre is not one of my favourites, especially when it comes to Hollywood Comedies, I am completely unfamiliar with his work a a director.
I thought this event would be a good chance to see at least one of his films and I decided upon his remake of The Little Shop Of Horrors, mainly because I thought it would be interesting to watch the original (by Roger Corman) and his remake back to back and then compare them. So that is what I'll be contributing to this month's directors chair.