Death-Metal Singer Helps Give 'The Thing' A Horrifying Voice

October 14, 2011

According to Wired.com, supervising sound editors for "The Thing" director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.'s remake-masked-as-a-prequel of John Carpenter's 1982 cult horror classic about an extraterrestrial marauder wreaking havoc on a chilly Antarctic compound used heavy-metal singers, various animals and a hyperventilating actress to invest the film creature with the creepy vibe.

Beyond the animal kingdom, the sound editors blended in beastly grunts from Dylan Hromadka of the Santa Clarita, California death-metal band RESURRECTING JUDAS.

"Death-metal bands are gnarly," laughed Scott Hecker, one of the two supervising sound editors. "These singers really do sound like the devil."

John Carpenter's "The Thing" was itself a remake of the landmark 1951 movie "The Thing From Another World" starring James Arness as an alien from outer space who is really a violent veggie but looks like a man or Frankenstein's monster.

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