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The Thing

1982

Xvid

MP4

8.2

507,309

Horror | Mystery | Science Fiction

USA | English | Color | 01:49

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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.

Cast View all

	Kurt Russell	MacReady
	Wilford Brimley	Blair
	T.K. Carter	Nauls
	David Clennon	Palmer
	Keith David	Childs
	Richard Dysart	Dr. Copper
	Charles Hallahan	Norris
	Peter Maloney	Bennings
	Richard Masur	Clark
	Donald Moffat	Garry
	Joel Polis	Fuchs
	Thomas G. Waites	Windows
	Norbert Weisser	Norwegian
	Larry Franco	Norwegian Passenger with Rifle
	Nate Irwin	Helicopter Pilot
	William Zeman	Pilot
	Adrienne Barbeau	Computer
	John Carpenter	Norwegian
	Jed	Dog Thing
	Bill Lancaster	Norwegian
	Dick Warlock	Norwegian

Crew View all

Director	John Carpenter
Writer	Bill Lancaster, John W. Campbell Jr.
Producer	Stuart Cohen, David Foster, Larry Franco, Wilbur Stark, Lawrence Turman
Musician	Ennio Morricone
Photography	Dean Cundey

Trailer

Edition details

Edition	Collector's Edition
Nr Discs	1

Personal

Location	Horror Disk 1
Purchased	Jul 18, 2020 at YIFY
Quantity	1
Watched	Oct 12, 2020
Index	2223
Added Date	Jul 18, 2020 11:37:18
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Notes

My quick rating - 8,6/10. To take a flick from 1951 "The Thing from Another Planet" which in its time and still a classic, and actually improve, drastically on it is a tall feat. But John Carpenter did just that with this 1982 piece of gold. The story is simple, an Arctic expedition team happens across an alien ship and inadvertently releases it. Of course you don't really know what the Thing is since it mimics the host. To say this movie is simple though would be an outright lie. This movie transcended an entire generation of movies to follow it. This took the creature creation to an entirely new level, and still stands up today even in the CGI created worlds. The characters were extremely well written and cast to near perfection. This is paramount in a story where the alien could be the person standing right next to you. It is not often you can go back to a movie 38 years later and it is still phenomenal. Heck, I wish I may be like one of you reading this and have never seen it, just so I could be lucky enough to see it again for the first time. It is that good. There have been thousands of write ups for this movie over the years, so I won't go too deep into this (back when I did write for a newspaper, I had to write a certain amount for my column, now, I think quick and to the point is far more effective). Quick ending. SEE THIS

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