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The Thing(Movie, 1982)

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| 1h 49min | Genres: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
The ThingRating: 4.0/5 (with 29492,949 votes)
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 as they learn that they can no longer trust each other and that any of them could be the Thing. The film stars Kurt Russell as the team's helicopter pilot R.J. MacReady, with A. Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Thing

Saturn Award for Best Horror Film Saturn Award for Best Special Effects Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Musical Score

About The Thing

A team of American scientists investigate the empty, destroyed base of their Norwegian counterparts in Antarctica, only to discover a terrifying life force that can take the form of its prey.

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Additional Information

Production countries: Canada, United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Antarctica
Based on the work of: John W. Campbell ("Who Goes There?")
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Norwegian (NO)
Translated into 34 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Estonian (ET), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Albanian (SQ), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 06/25/1982
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"El enigma de otro mundo"
"A Coisa"
"L'effroyable Chose"
"Tvor"
"The Thing – "se" jostakin"
"La chose"
"A valami"
"Object from Planet X"
"괴물"
"더 씽"
"Coś"
"Creatura"
"John Carpenter's The Thing"

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:3299, Added: 02/14/2018, Last updated: 03/24/2024