Overview:
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.| Status: | Released (1982-06-25) |
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| Awards: | 5 nominations |
| BoxOffice: | $19,857,465 |
| Screen: | Bill Lancaster, John W. Campbell Jr. |
| Productions: | Universal Pictures, The Turman-Foster Company |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Norsk |
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Casts
- 6856: Kurt Russell - MacReady
- 65827: Keith David - Childs
- 11065: Wilford Brimley - Blair
- 15411: T.K. Carter - Nauls
- 15412: David Clennon - Palmer
- 15413: Richard Dysart - Dr. Copper
- 15414: Charles Hallahan - Norris
Crews
- 15406: Bill Lancaster - Screenplay - Writing
- 1259: Ennio Morricone - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 796: John M. Dwyer - Set Decoration - Art
- 1060: Dean Cundey - Director of Photography - Camera
- 15409: Anita Dann - Casting - Production
- 11770: John Carpenter - Director - Directing
- 15410: Henry Larrecq - Art Direction - Art
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Reviews
John Chard
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Flips the scenario round from the original to great effect. John Carpenter shows how much he loves the 1951 original by giving it the utmost respect that he possibly could, the only difference here is that Carpenter chooses to stick to the paranoiac core of John W Campbell Jr's sh ....
Continue reading ->fenicka
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It was a good and original movie but some parts were still too boring, am i the only one who thinks like this?
Continue reading ->Wuchak
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Stuck on a remote station in Antarctica with… The Thing RELEASED IN 1982 and directed by John Carter, “The Thing” stars Kurt Russell as the helicopter pilot of an eleven-man crew at a research station in Antarctica who encounter a ghastly shape-shifting alien that perfectly replic ....
Continue reading ->DrewBlack
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1982 was a good year for alien movies. The people were not really ready for it, but it was. Not only did Spielberg’s friendly and warm-hearted E.T. - The Extraterrestrial debut at Cannes, and went on to become the world’s highest grossing film, but Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan mad ....
Continue reading ->The Movie Mob
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**The Thing is a bloody disgusting groundbreaking masterpiece that reinvented cinema and reminded everyone that true fear lies in what can't be seen.** The Thing might be the greatest horror creature film ever made. In an age where aliens were cute and friendly like E.T., John Car ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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As remakes go, this is one of the better ones that I have seen - though I still prefer the degree of menace generated by the 1951 iteration. A man in an helicopter is shooting at a lonely mutt amidst the antarctic wilderness when it arrives at an American scientific base. An accident ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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Told by way of a cycle of interconnected stories, this works well as a portmanteau of crimes and misdemeanours affecting a small town as it celebrates (or not!) Halloween. We start with a young couple returning from a party; the lady less enamoured with the occasion than her boyfrien ....
Continue reading ->Nathan
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The Thing is a claustrophobic, paranoia-driven horror film that follows a crew of American scientists trying to fend off an extraterrestrial monster before it picks them all off, one by one. The film is incredibly grounded, in a way that increases the horror and tension surroundin ....
Continue reading ->whitsbrain
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I've seen this movie so many times. I own it twice on DVD, I own it on 4K, Blu-Ray and I even have a copy on the now defunct HD-DVD format. I regret not seeing it in the theaters back in 1982. I don't know why I didn't go. I was certainly old enough to appreciate it. Instead, I saw " ....
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