John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’
Man is The Warmest Place to Hide.
1982 | 14 A | United States of America | John Carpenter | English, Norsk | 109 minutes
Join us at the Rio Theatre for the final Friday Late Night Movie selection of 2025, John Carpenter‘s seminal work of winter-y body horror, THE THING.
This 1982 remake of Howard Hawke’s 1951 classic is a bleak, tense and frightening sci-fi thriller that delivers some truly memorable practical and makeup effects, in addition to Kurt Russell‘s pitch-perfect performance. THE THING is an ice-cold white-knuckle chiller about about scientists in the Antarctic who are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.
“THE THING is a peerless masterpiece of relentless suspense, retina-wrecking visual excess and outright, nihilistic terror.” (Empire Magazine)
“THE THING is one of [Carpenter‘s] greatest moments, creating a terrifying atmosphere of claustrophobia, suspense and paranoia. And Kurt Russell is as good as he’s ever been, wearing one of the best beards in movie history.” (Total Film)
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THE THING (John Carpenter, 1982 / 109 mins / PG) It’s the first week of winter in 1982. An American research base is greeted by an alien force, that can assimilate anything it touches. It’s up to the members to stay alive, and be sure of who is human, and who has become one of the Things.
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