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Critic Adam Smith
rated 10

Back in 1997 Carpenter told Empire that "You'll never, ever, see anything like The Thing again." Like MacReady and Childs we're still waiting.

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Kasper Løvborg
rated 10

The scariest film I've ever seen, leaving me sweaty-handed and wide-eyed in disbelieving terror every single time I watch it. Carpenter's film is bathed in tension, perhaps most memorably in the classic scene with MacReady testing the sa...

3 years ago
Jerome
rated 9

Den här filmen är så bra och läskig. Förstår inte hur en film från 80-talet är bättre och läskigare än alla skräckfilmer som släppts senaste 30 åren

1 year ago
Jonas Nordlund
rated 8

Härlig mysteriefilm som berikar en långt efteråt, lite som en bok gör. Mycket bättre än zombieproduktionerna vi tvingats vänja oss på sistone.

1 year ago
Michael Thomsen
rated 8

Kender mange der synes det er verdens bedste gyser... det gør jeg så ikke helt, men hvis man er til genren, skal den helt sikkert ses.

2 years ago
Robert Nowak569
rated 8

80ziger Jahre spitzen Film.

1 year ago
Petter Ståhl
rated 7

En tydligt gammal film men med imponerande effekter och sminkning som gör att den håller sjukt bra idag. Underhållande och ständigt spännande skräck. Roliga karaktärer med bra kemi är klistret för en film som bara innehåller 12 personer. Väl struk...

9 months ago
Marcus Thörnblom
rated 10

Ett rent mästerverk på alla sätt. Carpenter gör här sin allra bästa film där han lyckas bygga upp en klaustrofobisk stämning tjock nog att ta på. Morricones musik ligger som en matta över alltihop och förstärker därmed klaustrofobin ytterligare. R...

1 year ago

Cast & Crew

John Carpenter
As Norwegian (video footage) (uncredited)
John Carpenter
Composer
John Carpenter
Director
Keith David
As Childs
Kurt Russell
As R.J. MacReady
Richard Masur
As Clark
Adrienne Barbeau
As Computer (voice) (uncredited)

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In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror, and becomes one of them. Isolated and paranoid, the team must fight for survival against the shape-shifting alien that can take on any form, including their own. As the creature assimilates and impersonates its victims, who can be trusted? The team's desperate battle for life and humanity unfolds in this chilling horror masterpiece.

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