The Thing
August 19th 2011 00:53
Director: John Carpenter
Screenplay: Bill Lancaster (based on the short story Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.)
Production: USA
Year: 1982
Sub-genre tags: science fiction, creature feature, alien monster
Logline: An American Antarctic base is infiltrated by a dangerous and deadly alien xenomorphic entity.
Tagline: Man is the warmest place to hide.
Core cast: Kurt Russell (MacReady), Wilford Brimley (Blair), Keith David (Childs), Donald Moffat (Garry), Richard Dysart (Copper)
Memorable moment: The exposure of the Blair-thing, "You've gotta be fucking kidding!"
Curious Facts: SFX designer Rob Bottin, who was only 22, worked on the effects for more than a year, collapsed at the end from exhaustion and was hospitalised. Although there are characters named "Mac" and "Windows" this is purely coincidental, as the movie was made before either domestic computers existed.
Intensity levels:
Blood & gore: high
Fear factor and/or frights: medium
Likelihood of bad dreams (disturbing content): medium
Horrorphile’s two cents: A pared-back, yet remarkably complex study of fear and distrust, identity and deception ... A tour-de-force of paranoia, slow-burning tension, and phantasmogorical imagery.
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