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The Thing
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New version of the 1951 horror film set at an Antarctic research station in winter 1982, where a twelve man research team discovers an alien which has been buried in the ice for 100,000 years. As i...
New version of the 1951 horror film set at an Antarctic research station in winter 1982, where a twelve man research team discovers an alien which has been buried in the ice for 100,000 years. As it defrosts, the form-changing "Thing" wreaks havoc, creates terror and becomes one of them.
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- Creator
- Universal Pictures ; screenplay by Bill Lancaster ; produced by David Foster, Lawrence Turman ; directed by John Carpenter
- Included Title
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- Thing : terror takes shape
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Languages
- English, French, Spanish
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Collector's edition, widescreen version
- [Universal City, CA] : Universal Home Video, Inc., [1998]
- ©1998
- Physical Details
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- 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide
- ISBNs
- 9780783227504, 0783227507
- OCLC
- ocm40494156
- Credits
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- Kurt Russell, A. Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon
- Photography, Dean Cundey ; editor, Todd Ramsay ; music, Ennio Morricone
- Based on: Who goes there? by John W. Campbell, Jr.
- Videodisc release of 1982 motion picture.
- Special features: commentary with director John Carpenter and Kurt Russell; theatrical trailer; outtakes; and John Carpenter's The Thing: terror takes shape, an 80 minute original documentary.
- DVD.
- Closed-captioned.
- In English and French languages with English captions and French subtitles.