The Thing

United States of America, 1982

Film
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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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Collection

Not in ACMI's collection

Credits

producer

David Foster

Lawrence Turman

visual effects

Albert Whitlock

Henry Schoessler

Duration

01:49:00

Production places
United States of America
Production dates
1982

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-1091

Language

English

Subject categories

Horror

Mystery

Science Fiction

TMDB-Movie

1091

Wikidata

Q210756

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