UNITED STATES · 1982

The Thing

John Carpenter
snowstorm paranoia helicopter spacecraft isolation
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A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

Year1982
CountryUnited States
DirectorJohn Carpenter
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