The Thing

1h 49m Horror Science Fiction Mystery

Man is the warmest place to hide. A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

John Carpenter Director, Original Music Composer
Ennio Morricone Original Music Composer
Bill Lancaster Screenplay
Alan Howarth Original Music Composer

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‘The Thing’ is an American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter. It is a remake of the 1951 movie ‘The Thing from Another World’, in turn based on the 1938 John W. Campbell novella ‘Who Goes There?’ A "remake with a twist" to the 1982 film with the same name was released in 2011.

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