The Thing (1982)

Review: The Thing (1982)

Director: John Carpenter

Cast: Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, David Clennon,

Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell
Keith David
Keith David
Wilford Brimley
Wilford Brimley
T. K. Carter
T. K. Carter
David Clennon
David Clennon

Plot: Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. They soon discover that this task will be harder than they thought, as they don't know which members of the team have already been assimilated and their paranoia threatens to tear them apart.

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Old horrors, newly packaged

Old horrors, newly packaged

Shout! Factory releases new Blu-ray editions of John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) and William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist III (1990), each disk sporting a new 2K transfer and a wealth of supplementary […]

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More in-flight entertainment

More in-flight entertainment

Flying to England a few weeks ago for my nephew’s wedding, my experience of airline entertainment was even less satisfying than on my trip to Beijing last year. As before, the wide selection of movie choices was undeniably eclectic – in […]

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