1982, 109 minutes
Directed by John Carpenter
Man is the warmest place to hide.
In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they save the dog, it is not what it seems. They investigate the abandoned camp the dog came from and discover what the scientists there found: a giant, alien spacecraft, buried deep below the ice, with something dug out. Now it's up to the men in the camp to survive, but who do they trust?
A remake of the 1951 film The Thing from Another World and the original novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, this version pops more as a possible continuation of events from the original movie, powered here by lead actor Kurt Russell and a fantastic crew of character actors, including Keith David, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Richard Dysart and Richard Masur. An intense, slow burn, now regarded as one of the high points of science fiction horror, with non-CGI shocking special effects by Rob Bottin and an Ennio Morricone score that seems to pay homage to Carpenter's personally composed scores from his earlier movies.