The Thing

Starring: Winstead, Mary Elizabeth and Thomsen, Ulrich

Product Description

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 a creature is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads among a group of researchers as they encounter something inhuman that has the ability to turn itself into an exact replica of any living being. 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 a 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 thing 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.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 025192072789
• Release Date: February 2013
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Publisher: Studio Distribution Servi
• Director: Heijningen, Matthijs Van, Jr.
• Starring: Winstead, Mary Elizabeth, Thomsen, Ulrich
• Runtime: 1 hour, 43 minutes
• Number of Disks: 2
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

The story is lost in excess gore.

This is “John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)” AKA “The Thing” (1982) Not to be confused with “The Thing from Another World”(1951) with James Arness. Yep, we are confronted by a dog-splitting being from the great beyond. Being isolated, we must evaluate, track, and kill this most obviously menacing "Thing". But what, who, and where is it? In an attempt at graphic surprises, we have sacrificed the character and mood of the book ("Who Goes There" by John W. Campbell Jr.), and the original movie ("The Thing from Another World)". Ah, you say, what if you do not compare? Still, it is a sticky blob story that has no personality of its own. The one thing that makes this thing is that it is psychic. Surprisingly to me is to find that the computer voice is done by Adrienne Barbeau. This movie is fun to watch and say, "don't look there," but it is far from extraordinary.