I was wrong. Rather than being a remake it's a prequel and don't think Star Wars: unlike Phantom Menace this one works.
John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), which I urge you to watch first, opens with 2 men shooting at a dog from a helicopter. It turns out that they are members of a Norwegian Arctic expedition, and this is their story.
While taking core samples, a group of scientists find something buried in the ice. It's a ship and not too far from it lies its occupant.
They decide to dig it up and take a closer look and this, as you may suppose, is a bad mistake!
The effects, with the benefit of modern technology, are good and if you have seen the other than you will be pleased to see certain things but it doesn't really have any of the shock value ("You've gotta be fucking kidding me!") or great characterization of Carpenters. In fact the dynamic is pretty well the same as the other film and you can put that down to it being written by the same person but the screen writer being different means you lose the rest.
Interestingly Bill Lancaster, the screen writer for the 1982 film and Burt's son, has only one other writing credit and that's for the Bad News Bears series.
For a prequel made 30 years after it's partner film they've done very well here. It's watchable in its own right and a little more thoughtful than your average modern gore horror.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372/?ref_=nv_sr_2
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