The Thing
109 minutes,
USA (1982), 18
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(4.6 / 90 votes)
(4.6 / 90 votes)
Influential horror sci-fi starring a hursuit Kurt Russell as a whiskey-swigging helicopter pilot who unwittingly becomes defender of the planet when his Antarctic research team comes in contact with a body-invading alien
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The Thing: John Carpenter's version of the 1951 B-movie, The Thing From Another World, shows more originality, wit and invention than possibly any other film you might call a remake. This is due in no small part to Carpenter and screenwriter Bill Lancaster going back to the source, John W Campbell's potent story 'Who Goes There?' and more literally adapting its chilling ideas...
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