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Name: The Thing
Released: 1982-6-25
Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David

The Thing

R
1h 49m
1982

86%

age 17+

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Horror-meister John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape from New York) teams Kurt Russell's outstanding performance with incredible visuals to build this chilling version of the classic The Thing. 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. Once unfrozen, the form-changing alien wreaks havoc, creates terror and becomes one of them.

Director:

John Carpenter

Producer:

David Foster, Lawrence Turman

Writer:

Bill Lancaster

Cast:

Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, Thomas G. Waites

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

86%

Critics Consensus: 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.

Reviews

The MacGuffin

Allen Almachar

A masterpiece of horror filmmaking.

Whether it scares you with its paranoia, claustrophobic setting, Ennio Morricone's brooding score or Rob Bottin's bar-raising practical creature effects, The Thing's sole purpose is to get under your skin...

June 10, 2021

FULL REVIEW

Wonderfully Weird and Horrifying

Kristy Strouse

It's what all horror connoisseurs crave; a mysterious and evocative beginning, a steady burgeoning of tension, and enough left unexplained leveled with the right amount of terror shown. It is a masterpiece of filmmaking.

March 4, 2021

FULL REVIEW

Phoenix Film Festival

Jeff Mitchell

My favorite horror movie.

Few filmmakers understand how to use practical effects as well as the master of cult horror, John Carpenter.

October 1, 2020

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 17+

Common Sense Says

Gory fear fest is a classic the faint-hearted should skip.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this movie is graphically violent, gory, grisly, and frightening, though it's so over-the-top and dated that the gore is almost campy. Humans and dogs are the victims of monstrous alien beings attempting to destroy them. They are hideously ugly creatures with slimy tentacles, pulsing muscles, jagged teeth, and screeching howls. They imitate other life forms and take over living beings suddenly, turning a beautiful dog into a raving, slathering beast, or a man into a giant, multi-limbed, oozing mass of pus and muscle. The movie has occasional swearing ("f--k," "ass," "d--k," "s--t,") and the leading man drinks whiskey straight from a bottle several times, others drink occasionally, and one character smokes a marijuana cigarette.