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Movie Description
A wonderfully crisp script and quick-paced direction distinguishes this film about an alien creature discovered near an Arctic outpost. Members of a scientific research team cart the frozen pilot back to camp where it thaws out--much to their regret.
Synopsis
One of the great science fiction classics made in the 50s -- the period when the genre thrived.
A group of US scientists and servicemen, stationed on the North Pole, encounter an odd magnetic phenomenon that confuses all of their instruments. When the crew goes out to investigate, they find a block of ice containing an odd life form. But this is no archeological discovery -- because when the block melts, an invincible, grotesque creature, smarter and more powerful than humans, rises and goes on a rampage, almost destroying the polar station. Now the occupants of the station have to stop The Thing before it kills them... and embarks on its plan to destroy the planet.
Film Notes
The Turner videocassette is part of the "RKO Collection."
Industry Reviews
"...[A] sci-fi classic..."
USA Today - Mike Clark (02/28/1992)
"...THE THING is a rare cautionary Cold War tale that's also plain fun..."
Entertainment Weekly - Joshua Rich (08/01/2003)
5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's a Cold War masterpiece, paranoid tension building slowly as a team of egghead scientists and square-jawed air force officers discover a deep-frozen UFO."
Total Film - Jamie Russell (05/01/2007)
"Dimitri Tiomkin's rousing score cranks up the tension while Russell Harlan's atmospheric cinematography helps convince us that we really are in some icy wilderness."
Sight and Sound - Geoffrey Macnab (04/01/2007)
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