The Thing

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2000 Filmcritic.com

John Carpenter made one of his better films back in 1982 but had the unfortunate bad luck to have to release it two weeks after E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial came out. Luckily, The Thing endures as a very good horror flick: genuinely scary and full of tension, and populated by one bad-ass monster. Russell does some good work as the star, but it's the supporting cast that set the pace for dozens of trapped-with-a-monster knockoffs to follow over the next 20 years.

Rating

3.5 out of 5 Stars

  • Director: John Carpenter
  • Producer: David Foster, Lawrence Turman
  • Screenwriter: Bill Lancaster
  • Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard A. Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat
  • MPAA Rating: R

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