The Thing (1982) Reviews & Ratings

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The Thing reviews

The Thing holds a 8.1/10 average from 8,273 TMDB ratings.

Flips the scenario round from the original to great effect. John Carpenter shows how much he loves the 1951 original by giving it the utmost respect that he possibly could, the only difference here is that Carpenter chooses to stick to the paranoiac core of John W Campbell Jr's short story. The secret to this version's success is the unbearable tension that builds up as the group of men become suspicious of each oth…
— John Chard (10/10)

It was a good and original movie but some parts were still too boring, am i the only one who thinks like this?
— fenicka (6/10)

Stuck on a remote station in Antarctica with… The Thing RELEASED IN 1982 and directed by John Carter, “The Thing” stars Kurt Russell as the helicopter pilot of an eleven-man crew at a research station in Antarctica who encounter a ghastly shape-shifting alien that perfectly replicates the appearance of its victims. This is basically a sequel to the 1956 film and even includes footage from that classic sci-fi/horror.…
— Wuchak (7/10)

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

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