
The Thing
Man is the warmest place to hide.
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.
- Year: 1982
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
- Studio: Universal Pictures, The Turman-Foster Company
- Keyword: spacecraft, helicopter, space marine, based on novel or book, isolation, mutation, paranoia, grave, snowstorm, research station, alien life-form, alien, remake, survival, creature, helicopter pilot, antarctica, shape shifting alien, alien infection, survival horror, sled dogs, alien monster, calm, alien parasites, wolves, isolated place, uncertainty, blood test, body horror, ambiguity, provocative, suspenseful, critical, intense, disgusted, antarctic
- Director: John Carpenter
- Cast: Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Richard Dysart