The Thing from Another World (aka "The Thing")

Look Out … it’s The Thing
The Thing from Another World (aka "The Thing")
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  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Subtitles in English, French and Spanish
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 5, 2003
  • Originally Released: 1951
  • Label: Turner Home Ent

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User Ratings: 7,942
Rating: 3/4 -- It's still a very harrowing and action packed horror film... Full Review
Cinema Crazed
Nov 16, 2012
Set the template for a decade of alien invasions.
New Yorker
Sep 16, 2013
Rating: A+ -- The Thing (From Another World) (1951) is an influential and taut horror and science-fiction B-film hybrid, loosely based (by screenwriter Charles Lederer) on the short story Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr. Full Review
AMC Filmsite
Sep 29, 2019
Rating: 61/100 -- A solid, workmanlike film that holds up better than one would expect. Full Review
Film and Felt
Mar 13, 2011
Rating: 3/5 -- Perhaps the most famous shot of the movie is also one of head-slapping irrelevance. Full Review
Suite101.com
Oct 14, 2011
5 stars out of 5 -- [I]t's a Cold War masterpiece, paranoid tension building slowly as a team of egghead scientists and square-jawed air force officers discover a deep-frozen UFO.
Total Film
May 1, 2007
Lively science fiction film, with dubious politics. Full Review
Classic Film and Television
Aug 10, 2011

Description by OLDIES.com:

Arctic researchers discover a huge, frozen spaceling inside a crash-landed UFO, then fight for their lives after the murderous being ( a pre-Gunsmoke James Arness) emerges from icy captivity. Will other creatures soon follow? The famed final words of this film are both warning and answer: "Keep watching the skies!"

A snappy ensemble. An eerie theremin-infused Dimitri Tiomkin score. Rising suspense, Crisp Christian Nyby direction. All merge in an edgy classic produced by Howard Hawks (Bringing Up Baby, Rio Brave) and filled with Hawksian trademarks of rapid-fire dialogue and of people united by do-or-die stress. Keep watching the skies and the screen. Don't miss a moment of "one of the best sci-fi thrillers of the '50s" (John Stanley, Creature Features).

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A wonderfully crisp script and quick-paced direction distinguishes this film about an alien creature discovered near an Arctic outpost. Members of a scientific research team cart the frozen pilot back to camp where it thaws out--much to their regret.

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Scifi Horror Classic Movie Lover: from Media, PA US -- July, 14, 2006

This is a decent movie. While the dialogue and characters are passably done, the scientist is rather foolish to the point of unbelievable, and the actual appearances could use some work. I'd like to see just a touch more alien quality, and maybe some follow-up on the sangrivorous sprouts.

That said, the best part about this movie is the Creature Concept. A regeneration, blood-drinking beclawed seed-filled strossus.


the thing from another world Movie Lover: from freeport, NY US -- March, 21, 2006

one of my favoret horror movies or all with james arness AKA matt dillon to have this on dvd and great quality if you grew up in the early 50s you have to get this dvd
MIKE


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  • Sales Rank: 10,483
  • UPC: 053939668629
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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