The Thing
The Thing
“ It's not human. Yet. ”
CINEMA2011-10-12
DIGITAL2012-08-04
RegionUS
Runtime103 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“The intense prequel revealing how the Norwegian research station first discovered and fell to the shapeshifting extraterrestrial organism.”
Storyline
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a crea...
DIRECTOR / Director
小马泰斯·范海宁根KEYWORDS
based on novel or bookparanoiaresearch stationalien life-formprequelsurvivalantarcticasurvival horrorblizzardduringcreditsstingeraggressive1980sassimilationalien spaceshipnorwegianbody horrorsuspenseful
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Collection: The Thing Collection
‘The Thing’ is an American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter. It is a remake of the 1951 movie ‘The Thing from Another World’, in turn based on the 1938 John W. Campbell novella ‘Who Goes There?’ A "remake with a twist" to the 1982 film with the same name was released in 2011.
