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THE THING (1982) was not exactly John Carpenter's breakthrough film, but it may well be his best film. ... John Carpenter is too gifted a moviemaker to let nauseating special effects take over his ...
The UFO is a large spacecraft of unknown origin which brought The Thing to planet Earth circa 100,000 years ago. It first appeared in the 1982 film The Thing and was further explored in its 2011 prequel, as well as the 2002 video-game. The UFO crashed in Antarctica 100,000 years ago, and became buried under several millenia's worth of ice and snow. The UFO is first seen in the opening credits ...
Jul 7, 2022 · It is reasonable to assume that since you are here, you already know what happens in the film. ‘The Thing’ is based on the 1938 novel by John W. Campbell Jr. ‘Who Goes There’, earlier adapted to screen in 1951 under the title ‘The Thing from Another World’. In that, the 1982 film would also be termed as a remake of the 1951 version.
1982 · Film Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. They soon discover that this task will be harder than they thought, as they don't know which members of the team have already been assimilated and their paranoia threatens ...
Jun 25, 2017 · “I’d made a really grueling, dark film and I just don’t think audiences in 1982 wanted to see that,” said Carpenter. “They wanted to see E.T. and The Thing was the opposite.” 2.
Interwoven throughout the movie, Fragments of the Outpost is a 12-part anthology that raises the curtains on the ill-fated winter of 1982 at Outpost 31, looking behind the scenes, each short story filling in the blanks—threading the needle and tying together the scenarios, characters, and surprising six-day timeline, providing a chilling, thought-provoking, and engaging companion to the film.
The Thing is an extremely hostile hive-minded shape-shifting extraterrestrial multi-organism and the titular main antagonist of the 1982 science-fiction film The Thing, its prequel, video-games and literature. The Thing has the ability to assimilate other life forms in order to survive and spread. The original physical characteristics of The Thing and its motivations are unknown as it could ...