The Thing R

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  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 26, 2004
  • Originally Released: 1982
  • Label: Universal Studios

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 131,650
Rating: 3/5 -- It's pretty scary and entertaining stuff, though I always get the feeling that nothing in it lives up to the tremendous opening section. Full Review
Guardian
Sep 18, 2009
The sheer nastiness of it all had an imprinting effect on a generation of budding cinema buffs. It's one of the first films I can recall seeing that felt like it was trying to hurt you. Full Review
The ARTery
Jan 9, 2020
4 stars out of 5 -- [I]t brews claustrophobia by trapping its characters in the Antarctic with a shape-shifter from outer space.
Total Film
Nov 1, 2008
Russell's sub-Eastwood heroics hardly compensate for the absence of all characterisation, while Bill Lancaster's script boasts the most illogical climax any monster movie ever had. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
Carpenter's direction is slow, dark, and stately; he seems to be aiming for an enveloping, novelistic kind of effect, but all he gets is heaviness. Full Review
Chicago Reader
May 25, 2011
Rating: 4/5 -- The special effects can't hope to be as creepy to our seen-it-all eyes as they were to the film's first viewers, but we can still enjoy the monster's unique weirdness, and the story is a rock-solid yarn. Full Review
Times (UK)
Sep 18, 2009
Carpenter uses Bottin's effects to release the tension... which lets them hit all that much harder. But he didn't need special effects to find the real horror in the scenario. Full Review
Cinema-stache
Nov 1, 2017

Product Description:

Based on both the short story by John W. Campbell, Jr. and the 1951 film produced by Howard Hawks, THE THING is John Carpenter's stunning masterpiece of horror. A group of weary scientists enduring the winter in an isolated camp deep in Antarctica chance upon an alien spacecraft buried in the ice. Near the strange craft is the body of an alien being, frozen solid. Thinking they have made the find of a lifetime, the scientists bring the alien body back to camp and thaw it out. The alien awakens, not in the best of moods, and proceeds to take over the identities of the scientists, one by one, body and all. Helicopter pilot MacCready (Kurt Russell) must lead the surviving men in discovering who among them is human and who is not and how they can destroy "the thing" before it takes them all and moves on to the heavily populated mainland and the rest of humanity. Rob Bottin supplies the awe-inspiring special effects of the creature in its many, ever-changing forms. The effects were groundbreaking at the time and hold up flawlessly over the passing years. But Carpenter does not rely solely on special effects, utilizing his spectacular cast, which includes Wilford Brimley and Richard Dysart, to create three dimensional characters enduring an unthinkable situation. The score from Ennio Morricone is understated, yet increases the tense mood tenfold. Shooting was difficult and done in below freezing conditions, but despite the discomfort the cast and crew produced a truly terrifying film that will stand the test of time. THE THING is surely one of Carpenter's definitive films and a true horror classic.

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