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The Thing

R
Movie
2011
1h 43m
English
Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.
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Written By: Eric Heisserer

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wambie says...
6 years ago
Apparently by reading the comments here and on the 1982 version, not many know the original movie was actually The Thing from Another World 1951. All being based on the 1938 book Who Goes There?.
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Mr. Sackamano says...
7 years ago
A fun worthy prequel...I would be down to see a 3rd film too... Both films are better than most of the dribble Hollywood flicks at us
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DRNKMNKY says...
8 years ago
Not bad but definitely not as good as John Carpenter's 80ies horror classic of the same name. Its more of a action sci/fi movie with some scary moments than a proper horror flick. The SFX and acting is mostly good and the story's pace quite nice. However I never fully emerged into the flick, it just didn't grip me as Carpenter's did!
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gamerdave69 says...
3 years ago
Unfairly maligned. I have no trouble recommending this to anyone who hasn't seen either of The Thing movies. This is a prequel, so if you haven't seen either film, watch this first and then the original. The original is better so watching it last makes sense. If you have seen the original, this one fleshes out some of the beginning very nicely. As sequels go, this one is great compared to something like the Matrix sequels.
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beardedmovienut
4/10  3 years ago
**Part of my 2022 Sci-Fi Tuesdays**

The Thing 2011 has a fault way too many prequels suffer from, and that is that it answers questions that doesn't need answering. I had no need to really see that the Thing, from Carpenter's The Thing, was an alien. I gathered that from what happens in the movie More
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Whitsbrain
6/10  3 years ago
A prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 classic with the same name this copycat turned out to be better than I thought it would be. It offered nothing too original except a smart Ripley-type character who was decent and likeable. The filmmakers managed to tie the ending of this story into the opening of More
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John Chard
5 years ago
Hvem går det?

The Thing is directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. and adapted to screenplay by Eric Heisserer. It's based on the novel "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell and is a prequel to "John Carpenter's The Thing" from 1982. It stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomse More
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Wuchak
11 months ago
**_More of the same with a female protagonist, but well done_**

An American paleontologist (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is recruited by a doctor and his assistant (Ulrich Thomsen and Eric Christian Olsen) to travel to a Norwegian base in Antarctica to examine a colossal craft buried under the ice an More
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