John Carpenter's The Thing
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The Thing is a 1982 science fiction film directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster and starring Kurt Russell.
Ostensibly a remake of the 1951 Christian Nyby film The Thing from Another World, Carpenter’s film is a more faithful adaptation of the novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, Jr., which inspired the 1951 film.
The film is about a shape-shifting alien that is revived after being frozen in ice. The alien infiltrates a scientific research station in the Antarctic...
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