“The Thing” starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton and Ulrich Thomsen is taking over movie theaters and Universal is allowing fans of the film to win some “Thing” apparel through ShockYa! The swag you could win: a cool “The Thing” trucker hat and a red “The Thing” shirt. You can take a look at the apparel at the bottom of the page. We have four trucker hats and shirts, so there will be four winners, each one getting a hat and shirt.
Now, to win the apparel, we’ll use our trusted Tweet contest. For those new to Twitter contests, here’s what you need to do.
First, follow us @Shockya. Then tweet us, “@Shockya is giving away The Thing gear! http://goo.gl/Qtoqt”. You have until Saturday, October 29, 5 p.m. PST (make sure to only tweet us once per day). The winners will be chosen at random.
Here’s the synopsis to the film:
“Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when a creature is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads among a group of researchers as they encounter something inhuman that has the ability to turn itself into an exact replica of any living being.
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across a creature buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the ice eons ago. But it is about to wake up.
When a simple experiment frees the thing from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.
The Thing serves as a prelude to John Carpenter’s classic 1982 film of the same name. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen, the thriller is produced by Strike Entertainment’s Marc Abraham and Eric Newman (‘Dawn of the Dead’). ”
You can learn more about the film at its official website, Twitter page and YouTube channel.
