Product banner image

Slasher icons - The Thing

Product description

Slasher icons - The Thing

The Thing (la Cosa) is a 1982 American-Canadian science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter and written by Bill Lancaster. Based on the 1938 novel by John W. Campbell Jr. Who Goes There ?, tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the "Thing," a parasitic extraterrestrial life form that assimilates and then imitates to other organisms. The group is overcome by paranoia and conflict as they learn that they can no longer trust each other and that either of them could be the Thing. It stars Kurt Russell as a team helicopter pilot, R.J. MacReady, and includes A. Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, and Thomas Waites in supporting roles.
 
Production began in the mid-1970s as a faithful adaptation of the novel, after the popular 1951 The Thing from Another World. The Thing went through various directors and writers, each with different ideas on how to approa

Slasher icons - The Thing

Product description

Slasher icons - The Thing

The Thing (la Cosa) is a 1982 American-Canadian science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter and written by Bill Lancaster. Based on the 1938 novel by John W. Campbell Jr. Who Goes There ?, tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the "Thing," a parasitic extraterrestrial life form that assimilates and then imitates to other organisms. The group is overcome by paranoia and conflict as they learn that they can no longer trust each other and that either of them could be the Thing. It stars Kurt Russell as a team helicopter pilot, R.J. MacReady, and includes A. Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, and Thomas Waites in supporting roles.
 
Production began in the mid-1970s as a faithful adaptation of the novel, after the popular 1951 The Thing from Another World. The Thing went through various directors and writers, each with different ideas on how to approa