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The Thing (1982)

Name: The Thing
Director: John Carpenter
Genre: drama film, action film, horror film
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 8.2

The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster. Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, it tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms. The group is overcome by paranoia and conflict…

Directed by John Carpenter · Shot by Dean Cundey · Cut by Todd Ramsay · Music by Ennio Morricone · Ratio 2.35:1 · 109 min

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Behind the scenes

The Thing (1982) | Behind the Scenes — DVDXtras · 30 min
Behind the Scenes: The Thing (Carpenter, 1982) with Kurt Russell and Wilford Brimley — Serious Feather · 37 min
The Thing (1982) - Behind The Scenes | Miniatures | Practical Effects | Animations | Making of — Root Studio · 8 min
Recreating 'The Thing' Title Burn — InCamera · 13 min

Elsewhere

More by John Carpenter

Revenge of the Colossal Beasts — 1962
Terror from Space — 1963
Captain Voyeur — 1969
Dark Star — 1974
Assault on Precinct 13 — 1976
Halloween — 1978
Someone's Watching Me! — 1978
Elvis — 1979
The Fog — 1980
Escape from New York — 1981
Halloween: Extended Edition — 1981
Christine — 1983
Starman — 1984
Big Trouble in Little China — 1986
Prince of Darkness — 1987
They Live — 1988
Memoirs of an Invisible Man — 1992
Body Bags — 1993
In the Mouth of Madness — 1995
Village of the Damned — 1995
Escape from L.A. — 1996
Vampires — 1998
Ghosts of Mars — 2001
The Ward — 2010

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