Genre:
Science-fiction / Horror
Directed
by: John Carpenter
Starring:
Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Donald Moffat
Running
time: 109 minutes
In
this 1982 cult classic by famed director John Carpenter, employees of a
research station in Antarctica get infiltrated by a parasitic ET lifeform that
assimilates other organisms and then imitates them.
The
main star in the cast is a much younger and bearded Kurt Russell, as helicopter
pilot MacCready. He does a good job here, along with the rest of the cast.
Carpenter
was great at building the mood slowly at the beginning of the film. When the
first scene opens, you are wondering why this helicopter is pursuing a dog and
trying to shoot it. You feel bad at first, but you soon come to realize that
this canine is not man’s best friend. We see these isolated men get put in a
position where they don’t know who to trust, since they have no idea who has
been infiltrated by The Thing. It makes the isolation even worse, and the filmmakers
did a great job creating that kind of atmosphere. You cannot help but feel the
paranoia set in as you wonder where the enemy will come from next.
The
original The Thing is a classic among sci-fi and horror movies, and it should
be seen at least once by any fan of those particular genres. It was a great delight seeing it again, and it even managed to gross out my wife when she walked in on one scene.
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