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UNITED STATES · 1982
The Thing
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Synopsis
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
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Its most obvious influence is Howard Hawks' "The Thing" (1951), which was also about a team in an isolated outpost who discover a long-dormant alien, bring it inside, and are picked off one by one as it haunts the corridors. Look at that movie, and you see "Alien" in embryo.
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