Prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter sci-fi horror about the titular Thing, a shapeshifting alien and one of movie’s most...
Prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter sci-fi horror about the titular Thing, a shapeshifting alien and one of movie’s most iconic monsters.
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scott Pilgrim vs The World) travels to Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime: she joins a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice. Inside she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. When a simple experiment wakes the alien, Kate must join the crew's pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton, Animal Kingdom), to keep it from killing the group off one at a time.
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34 %170 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
43 %41,332 reviewsAudience score rating
"John Carpenter should approve of this reasonably respectful and tough-minded prequel to his 1982 The Thing."
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Village Voice
Village Voice"A cinematic hot dog: It's full of body parts, but you won't get much from consuming it."
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USA Today
USA Today"In the annals of redundant remakes, The Thing is a particularly irritating example."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"One gut-busting death after another, terror giving way to tedium."
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone"It has a lot of gory Gotcha! moments, and many scenes in which an endless supply of Things are incinerated by flame throwers."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"This creature splatter is excellent stuff but the director has no interest in the splatterees."
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New York Post
New York Post"The film is technically solid, with good effects."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"For a film that takes place in such a cold locale, it all feels awfully warmed-over."
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A.V. Club
A.V. ClubThe Thing (2011) | Details
- Rating
- MA15+, for strong creature violence and gore, disturbing images, and language
- Runtime
- 103
- Genre
- Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
- Country of origin
- USA, Canada
