The Thing
Man is the warmest place to hide.
In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror... and becomes one of them.
- Year: 1982
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
- Studio: Universal Pictures, The Turman-Foster Company
- Keyword: spacecraft, helicopter, space marine, based on novel or book, isolation, mutation, paranoia, snowstorm, research station, alien life-form, alien, remake, survival, creature, helicopter pilot, antarctica, shape shifting alien, alien infection, survival horror, sled dogs, alien monster, alien parasites, wolves, isolated place, uncertainty, blood test, body horror, ambiguity, antarctic
- Director: John Carpenter
- Cast: Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Richard Dysart