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The Thing
Directed by
Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
R
2011
1h 43m
Horror
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Science Fiction
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6.3
34%
43%
6.2
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A group of scientists researching an alien spaceship found in the Antarctic come face to face with the ship's, not quite dead, occupant.
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Cast of The Thing
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Kate Lloyd
Joel Edgerton
Carter
Ulrich Thomsen
Dr. Sander Halvorson
Eric Christian Olsen
Adam Finch
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Jameson
Paul Braunstein
Griggs
Trond Espen Seim
Edvard Wolner
Kim Bubbs
Juliette
Jørgen Langhelle
Lars
Jan Gunnar Røise
Olav
Stig Henrik Hoff
Peder
Kristofer Hivju
Jonas
Jo Adrian Haavind
Henrik
Carsten Bjørnlund
Karl
Jonathan Walker
Colin
Ole Martin Aune Nilsen
Matias (Heli Pilot)
Michael Brown
Security Guard
Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Director
Eric Heisserer
Writer
John W. Campbell Jr.
Novel
The Thing Ratings & Reviews
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
It reduces things to nothing more than a highlight reel of terror, none of it particularly scary even if what is being presented is done so with a fair amount of skill.
Shockya.com
Perri Nemiroff
Nowhere close to the caliber of Carpenter's version, but visually stimulating, creepy and well paced enough to get your heart pumping.
The Atlantic
Christopher Orr
The line between homage and apery is a fine one, and The Thing teeters on it at times.
Detroit News
Tom Long
It's not rocket science, but The Thing does offer solid cheap thrills for the slick gore crowd, proving once again: Horror doesn't have to be horrible.
Village Voice
Brian Miller
John Carpenter should approve of this reasonably respectful and tough-minded prequel to his 1982 The Thing.
Film.com
Eric D. Snider
It's the horror equivalent of one of those cheap, straight-to-video animated sequels that Disney's always putting out: same title, same story, none of the inspiration.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
The geographical isolation still produces shivers, but the repeated motif no longer resonates.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
In terms of scares, this old-fashioned "Thing" is better than most new things.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
This movie is basically a sno-cone "Alien" or "Predator" and we've seen nearly a dozen of those.
Washington Post
Sean O'Connell
Here's the thing about the new "The Thing." It isn't as satisfying as the old "The Thing." And it's nowhere near as enthralling as the vintage "Thing," which inspired every other "Thing" to follow.
CinemaBlend
Katey Rich
It's frustrating to see talent, money and time poured into a project that's just a pale, pointless imitation of something that's already perfectly great on its own.
NPR
Ian Buckwalter
Like The Thing itself, the film seeks to ape the form and behavior of something genuine, but you don't need a fancy test to tell that this is a shoddy replica.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Where the earlier film pulsed with precisely calibrated paranoia and distinctly drawn characters, this inarticulate replay unfolds as mechanistically as a video game.
USA Today
Scott Bowles
Part horror film, part space thriller and all gore-fest, the movie ends up being a lot like its protagonist: a mess of a monster that stretches itself too thin to scare much.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
It's an imperfect facsimile, guilty of borrowing too many ideas from the earlier film, and then executing them with differing results.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
One gut-busting death after another, terror giving way to tedium.
What the Flick?!
Alonso Duralde
Not as good as either of the previous Things, but it cobbles together the best elements of each.
Boston Globe
Tom Russo
Dutch director Matthijs van Heijningen and company deliver lean suspense, and they update the Carpenter crew's gnarly alien-shapeshifter effects skillfully enough to remind us why the concept captures geek imaginations.
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
Comes from a world where everything needs to be explained in meticulous, knowing detail.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tirdad Derakhshani
The problem with the new film is that rather than explore the story from a fresh angle, it follows, virtually beat by beat, the events of the Carpenter film.
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