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THE THING
1982
Snuggle up! Kurt Russell battles against the cold (and a horrifying alien life-form) in John Carpenter's sublime exercise in creature terror and paranoiac dread, THE THING.
A team of scientists working in the frozen landscape of the Antarctic encounter a killer shape-shifting alien being after a very bad dog enters the camp. Isolated in a part of the world nearly as remote as space, Kurt Russell’s R.J. MacReady leads the charge for survival as, one by one, his colleagues are turned into pulsating mountains of ooze. Unfairly overshadowed upon its original release by E.T. - a film in which no one is set on fire with flamethrower (!?) - THE THING remains the high-water mark of both practical effects-driven horror and great hair in cinema. Just be sure to tuck your pants into your socks.
A team of scientists working in the frozen landscape of the Antarctic encounter a killer shape-shifting alien being after a very bad dog enters the camp. Isolated in a part of the world nearly as remote as space, Kurt Russell’s R.J. MacReady leads the charge for survival as, one by one, his colleagues are turned into pulsating mountains of ooze. Unfairly overshadowed upon its original release by E.T. - a film in which no one is set on fire with flamethrower (!?) - THE THING remains the high-water mark of both practical effects-driven horror and great hair in cinema. Just be sure to tuck your pants into your socks.