The Thing (1982)

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"Directed by: John Carpenter With: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David Plot: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills. " I know I'm human. And if you were all these things, then you'd just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, "

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"Carpenter's direction is slow, dark, and stately; he seems to be aiming for an enveloping, novelistic kind of effect, but all he gets is heaviness. - Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader Mr. Carpenter has demonstrated that he can make good, comparatively plain, old-fashioned scare movies and effective suspense thrillers, but he seems to lose his own head when he combines two or more genres, as he . - Vincent Canby, New York Times Because this material has been done before, and better, especially in the"

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" Upon uncovering a frozen alien life form, a team of biologists in Antarctica slowly become infected and replicated by the parasitic alien. Kurt Russell plays a bad-ass scientist named MacReady in this chilling classic from director John Carpenter. At the end of the film, MacReady finds his colleague Blair, who claims he was off chasing one of their infected peers in the blizzard. Unsure if either or both of them have become "the thing," the pair share a bottle of booze while they watc"