- Country: USA
- Genres: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Release: 1982-06-25
- Director: John Carpenter
- Writers: Bill Lancaster , John W. Campbell Jr.
- Language: English | Norwegian
- Stars: Kurt Russell (I) , Wilford Brimley , Keith David (I) , Richard Masur , T.K. Carter , David Clennon , Richard Dysart , Charles Hallahan (1943–1997) , Peter Maloney , Donald Moffat
- Runtime: 109 min
- Awards: 5 nominations
- AKA: A dolog (Hungary) , The Thing (Canada) , The Thing (United Arab Emirates) , Creatura (Romania) , Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt (Austria) , Det grusomme udefra (Denmark) , The Thing (Australia) , El enigma de otro mundo (Colombia) , The Thing - 'se' jostakin (Finland) , Vec (Slovakia (Slovak Republic)) , A valami (Hungary) , 怪形 (Hong Kong) , The Thing (South Africa) , The Thing , 怪形 (China) , Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt (Germany) , Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt , Stvor (Croatia) , Padaras (Lithuania) , Нечто , O Enigma de Outro Mundo (Brazil) , Η απειλή (Greece) , The Thing (Indonesia) , Нечто (Russian Federation) , John Carpenter's The Thing (United States of America) , Нещото (Bulgaria) , La cosa (Peru) , The Thing (France, French Republic) , Створ (Serbia) , 遊星からの物体X (Japan) , Quái Vật Biến Hình (Vietnam) , The Thing (Egypt) , Şey (Turkey) , Tvor (Czech Republic) , La cosa (Spain) , Yuuseikara no Buutai X (Japan) , Vec , La cosa (El enigma de otro mundo) (Spain) , Tingen fra en annen verden (Norway) , द थिंग (India) , The Thing (United States of America) , La Chose (France, French Republic) , The Thing (Singapore) , The Thing (India) , Coś (Poland) , 遊星からの物体X (Japan) , Ha-Davar (Israel) , Veio do Outro Mundo (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Stvor (Slovenia) , Щось (Ukraine) , El enigma de otro mundo (Uruguay, Eastern Republic of) , The Thing (India) , Radījums (Latvia) , Věc (Czech Republic) , The Thing (Sweden) , The Thing (Korea) , L'effroyable chose (Canada) , La cosa (Italy) , La cosa (Mexico) , The Thing (Philippines) , 突變第三型 (Taiwan) , The Thing (Thailand) , El enigma de otro mundo (Argentina) , The Thing (United Kingdom) , La cosa de otro mundo (Argentina) , The Thing (Finland) , La cosa del otro mundo (Mexico) , THE Thing (Netherlands the)A dolog, A valami, Cos, Creatura, Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt, Det grusomme udefra, El enigma de otro mundo, Graha eksa se videsi, Ha-Davar, I apeili, John Carpenter's The Thing, L'effroyable chose, La chose, La cosa, La cosa del otro mundo, O Enigma de Outro Mundo, Sey, Stvor, The Thing - 'se' jostakin, Ti eksa bata yaha, Ti jinisa-X, Tvor, Vec, Veio do Outro Mundo, X de shi, Yûsei kara no buttai X, Η απειλή, Нечто, Нещото, 怪形, 突变第三型
- Plot:
Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. They soon discover that this task will be harder than they thought, as they don’t know which members of the team have already been assimilated and their paranoia threatens to tear them apart.
- IMDB:tt0084787
The Thing Cast · · · ALL
John Carpenter
Director
Kurt Russell
(I)
R.J. MacReady
Keith David
(I)
Childs
Wilford Brimley
Blair
T.K. Carter
Nauls
David Clennon
Palmer
Richard Dysart
Dr. Copper
Charles Hallahan
(1943–1997)
Norris
Peter Maloney
Bennings
Richard Masur
Clark
Donald Moffat
Garry
Joel Polis
Fuchs
Thomas G. Waites
Windows
Norbert Weisser
Norwegian
Larry Franco
Norwegian Passenger with Rifle
Adrienne Barbeau
Computer (voice) (uncredited)
John Carpenter
Norwegian (video footage) (uncredited)