Superior Remake.

Rating: 8/10 (13 September 2013)

John Carpenter directed this superior remake of the 1951 original, based on the famous short story "Who Goes There?". Kurt Russell plays a pilot(R.J. Macready) in an American research base in the Antarctic, that one day is confronted by a helicopter with two people trying to kill a dog with a rifle. The two men come from a Norwegian base, and after both of them are killed, Macready flies them over to that base, where they find the remains of an alien spacecraft, and a thawed out block of ice, along with some frozen mutilated remains of the Norwegians who are brought back to the American base, which is soon overrun with the revived alien life forms after both the dog reveals itself to be a thing, and there is still life in the bodies being autopsied...
Extremely effective horror/Sci-Fi/ remake creates a palpable sense of fear and paranoia among the all-male cast, memorably acted by all, and impressively made with groundbreaking F/X that are quite believable and hold up today. One of the rare remakes better than the original, and actually has a point to it! Not usually the case sadly...