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84% Tomatometer 83 Reviews 92% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled...
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Oct 14, 2011 · After Norwegian researchers discover an alien ship buried in the ice, paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) joins the team at the isolated Arctic outpost to investigate. She finds an...
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87% Tomatometer 68 Reviews 73% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings When scientist Dr. Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite) reports a UFO near his North Pole research base, the Air Force sends in a team...
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The Thing is supposed to be scary, and for the most part, it isn't. That's a failure by horror standards. There's some face-value entertainment to be had here, but if you're looking for a substantial prequel to Carpenter's masterpiece, you'll be sorely disappointed. 173 out of 227 found this helpful.
Oct 27, 2020 · The blood-test scene in particular is a clear allusion to that. Based on the reviews that were written at the time, I don’t think a lot of audience members and critics picked up on the allegory. “The Thing” did after all come out two weeks after Steven Spielberg’s feel-good blockbuster, “E.T.: Extra-Terrestrial.” Still under the ...
Jun 25, 1982 · The Thing: Directed by John Carpenter. With Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon. A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
1,343 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 9/10. Today it's still one of the best horror films. Stibbert 11 July 2005. Antarctica, winter 1982. The team on an American research base get surprised by a couple of mad Norwegians who is chasing a dog with a helicopter, trying to kill it.
