What is the movie The Thing about?
What is the movie The Thing about?
In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot (Kurt Russell) and the camp doctor (Richard Dysart) lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.
The Thing / Film synopsis
Is The Thing 1982 a remake?
The 1982 film was actually a remake of 1951’s The Thing from Another World (Fresh at 89%), which was itself adapted from the 1938 novella “Who Goes There?” We also have to fit in the 2011 movie also called The Thing (Rotten at 35%), which was actually a prequel to the 1982 film.
Was The Thing 2011 a flop?
The Thing premiered on October 10, 2011 and was released on October 14, 2011. The film was a commercial flop, grossing $31.5 million against a $38 million budget, with mixed reviews from critics.
What was the monster in The Thing?
The Thing is an extremely hostile shape-shifting extraterrestrial organism and the primary antagonist of the 1982 science-fiction film The Thing, its prequel, video-games and literature. The Thing has the ability to assimilate other life forms in order to survive and spread.
