One Of Carpenter's Best!

Rating: 7/10 (29 February 2012)

Kurt Russell stars in John Carpenter's 1982 sci-fi/horror remake of the 1951 film, "The Thing from Another World" and based on the story, "Who Goes There?" A team of Antarctica scientists encounter a shape-shifting alien lifeform. This is set in the winter of 1982 with a team of male scientists and a helicopter pilot, R.J. MacReady (Russell) who find a dog and Norwegians that have been infected by a mysterious alien lifeform. They discover that the alien presence has the ability to assimilate human cells and shape-shift. As some of the team members become infected, MacReady and the others begin not trusting each other and try to survive. This is one of Carpenter's best that has amazing special effects by Rob Bottin and Russell is great as usual. I highly recommend this.