Shame on you Joel Edgerton
It's SO OBVIOUS that Joel Edgerton thought to himself after staring in the 2011 remake of John Carpenter's "The Thing" that he could copy the story and do the very same thing on a small budget and set in a different scenario and deluded himself into thinking it would work!
"The Thing but in the woods" checklist by Joel Edgerton:
1 - An infected dog (check)
2 - Anxiety of not knowing if and who is infected (check)
3 - Must end with the only 2 survivors sat opposite each other asking themselves "what was the point of all that then!"
Fill it out with:
Family in the foods, person breaks in, family rescue intruders family, dog runs away from home, dog returns infected, someone lets the dog back in, intruders family are killed trying to leave, family eventually die of infection.
No background story, no character development, no hint at the bigger picture of their predicament, just no bloody point to any of it whatsoever.
How a movie like this gets green lighted in this day and age speaks volumes about the state 'Hollywood' is truly in.
Shame on you Joel Edgerton, shame on you.