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Mood:
- SuspensefulScary
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Plot:
- Deadly CreatureEvil AlienSurvivalAlien EncounterConfinedDangerDeadlyEscapades more...
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Genres:
- HorrorSci-FiThrillerHollywood Tone
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- Antarctica
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Style:
- Gory
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Based on:
- Remake
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Attitudes:
- SeriousFantastic
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Look:
- Special Effects
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- ProfanityViolent Content
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The Thing, 2011
English, Norwegian
USA, Canada
Profile of The Thing
The mood of The Thing is scary and suspenseful. The plot centers around evil aliens, deadly creatures, and imprisonment or confinement. It is a horror, sci-fi, and thriller movie. Stylistically, The Thing is gory and has a Hollywood tone. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. The setting is Antarctica. The Thing happens in contemporary times. Visually, it involves special effects. It is a remake. The Thing is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that it includes profanity and violent content.
Summary of The Thing
Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an epidemic among a group of researchers as they're infected, one by one, by a mystery from another planet. Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up. When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew's pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish. The Thing serves as a prelude to John Carpenter's classic 1982 film of the same name. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen, the thriller is produced by Strike Entertainment's Marc Abraham and Eric Newman (Dawn of the Dead).
Details
| Language: | English, Norwegian |
| Country: | USA, Canada |
| Release date: | 10 October 2011 |
| Runtime: | 103 min |
Cast and Crew
as Kate Lloyd
as Adam Goodman
as Sam Carter
as Derek Jameson
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Users Reviews
- 15.March.2012
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- by: Daniel Kollin
- Daniel Kollin rated this movie
4/10Disappointing
- 06.March.2012
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- by: bigrussian8
- bigrussian8 rated this movie
9/10Amazing
