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The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster.
Jun 25, 1982 · The Thing: Directed by John Carpenter. With Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon. A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Oct 14, 2011 · The Thing: Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.. With Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen. At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson.
Grimmer and more terrifying than the 1950s take, John Carpenter's The Thing is a tense sci-fi thriller rife with compelling tension and some remarkable make-up effects. Read Critics Reviews ...
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Mar 10, 2024 · The Thing is a 1982 sci-fi horror film featuring Kurt Russell as R.J. MacReady, Keith David as Childs, Wilford Brimley as Dr. Blair, and T.K. Carter as Nauls. Set in Antarctica during the winter of 1982; the film begins with two men in a Norwegian helicopter chasing a dog across the snowy landscape.
Oct 27, 2020 · “The Thing” did after all come out two weeks after Steven Spielberg’s feel-good blockbuster, “E.T.: Extra-Terrestrial.” Still under the heartwarming spell of that film, people weren’t quite ready to embrace the idea of a virus-like parasite disrupting everyday life.
An autopsy done by Blair on the thing's remains reveals its secret: the "thing" is an alien organism that imitates other life forms by attacking, and either digesting or dissolving them and reshaping its image to appear in the animal or person it kills.
The Thing (also known as John Carpenter's The Thing) is a 1982 science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster, and starring Kurt Russell. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a parasitic extraterrestrial lifeform that assimilates other organisms...
In The Thing, the scientists cause problems, and the army clear up the mess. There are even a few references to the nuclear threat facing the world at the time. Defending science Carrington ...
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In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror... and becomes one of them.
