Remakes are a tricky business, but they’re a huge chunk of the world of horror these days. The trend was kicked off by the surprising success of 2003′s Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, and since then we’ve seen many of the beloved horror films from the 1970’s and 80’s rebooted for a modern audience. The makers of the 2011 film The Thing sidestepped remaking John Carpenter’s cult masterpiece by going the prequel root – it’s basically the same story, but without using the same characters. Which keeps it from being blasphemous for horror fans, but in doing so tells a story no one needed to know.

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The Challenge of The Thing, the 2011 prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter film, was to make a film that lived in the universe of that cult classic, but also lived up to it. For co-star Eric Christen Olsen, being a part of the legacy of that movie was one of the great drawing points. As Olsen says, the horror genre is often terrible, and he wanted to be involved with something that was truly scary. We talked about the film and more in our interview. Check it out…

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