Overview - The Thing

Date of release

Genres

  • Horror
  • Mystery
  • Science Fiction

Runtime: 109 minutes

Homepage: The Thing

Budget

$15,000,000.00

Revenue

$19,629,760.00

Spoken Languages

  • English
  • Norsk

Production companies

  • Name: Universal Pictures

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: The Turman-Foster Company

    Production country United States of America

Overview

In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror... and becomes one of them.

Cast

  • Name: Kurt Russell

    Character: MacReady

    Popularity: 37.224

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  • Name: Keith David

    Character: Childs

    Popularity: 22.334

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  • Name: Wilford Brimley

    Character: Blair

    Popularity: 11.278

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  • Name: T.K. Carter

    Character: Nauls

    Popularity: 3.872

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  • Name: David Clennon

    Character: Palmer

    Popularity: 5.342

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  • Name: Richard Dysart

    Character: Dr. Copper

    Popularity: 5.438

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  • Name: Charles Hallahan

    Character: Norris

    Popularity: 7.39

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  • Name: Peter Maloney

    Character: Bennings

    Popularity: 3.332

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