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The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster.Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, it tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms.
The events of The Thing as well as other happenings are told from the perspective of the alien, a shape-shifting sentient biomass that can absorb and imitate other lifeforms. The alien thinks of itself as an "explorer, an ambassador, a missionary" of the biomass it consists of, the primary instinct of which is to "commune", i.e. absorb and ...
The Thing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 1982 horror film The Thing, directed by John Carpenter. Ennio Morricone and Carpenter serve as composers. The album was released by MCA Records in 1982, in conjunction with the film's release.
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The effects were designed by Rob Bottin, except for the Thing's dog form, which was designed by Stan Winston. [3] In 2011, a prequel to the 1982 film was released, directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., which was created using computer-generated effects for the Thing in addition to practical effects. However, in the film's production, most of ...
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Despite the film being critically panned at the time of its release, the award show was criticized in later years for the nomination of Ennio Morricone's score for John Carpenter's The Thing for "Worst Musical Score".
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