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The thing, Universal City Studios, Inc. ; a Turman-Foster Company production ; producers, David Foster, Lawrence Turman ; director, John Carpenter

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MPAA rating: R

The thing

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Universal City Studios, Inc. ; a Turman-Foster Company production ; producers, David Foster, Lawrence Turman ; director, John Carpenter

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Set in the winter of 1982 at a research station in Antarctica, a twelve man research team finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has remained buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Unfrozen and unleashed, the THING creates havoc and terror as it changes forms and becomes one of them

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John Carpenter's The thing