The Thing (1982)

  • Rated R
  • 1hr 49m
  •  (8)
  • 57

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

John Carpenter

Producer:

Wilbur Stark, David Foster, Lawrence Turman

Release Date:

Jun 25, 1982

Runtime:

1hr 49m

Synopsis

A research facility in Antarctica comes across an alien force that can become anything it touches with 100% accuracy. The members must now find out who's human and who's not before it's too late.

Cast

  • Kurt Russell
  • A. Wilford Brimley
  • T.K. Carter
  • Richard Dysart
  • Richard Masur
  • Donald Moffat
  • David Clennon
  • Keith David

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Metacritic

57
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Based on 13 Critics
8.8

USER SCORE (250)

Universal acclaim based on 250 Reviews
30

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.

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Metacritic review by Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
75

Carpenter creates an atmosphere in Thing; it's a weird one, an odd landscape and clearly alien territory, but it's entertaining nonetheless. And for those who have not been to a creep show in the last couple of years, The Thing has some very nasty surprises. [25 June 1982, p.D1]

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Metacritic review by Bill Cosford
Bill Cosford
Miami Herald
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