The Thing
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.
- genus: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
- Studio: Universal Pictures, The Turman-Foster Company
- keyword: spacecraft, 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, isolated place, uncertainty, body horror, ambiguity
- cast: Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Richard Dysart