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The Thing

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Calorie Rating: 153
Released: 1982-06-25
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 109 Minutes
Budget: 15000000
Revenue 19629760
Homepage: http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/the-thing/
Studios: Universal Pictures, The Turman-Foster Company,


In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror... and becomes one of them.

Director / Directors

Candy Artmont
Script Supervisor
Christine Wilson
Script Supervisor

Michael Steele
Second Assistant Director
Jeffrey Chernov
Second Assistant Director
Larry Franco
First Assistant Director



Cast

Kurt Russell
Character: MacReady
Keith David
Character: Childs
Wilford Brimley
Character: Blair

T.K. Carter
Character: Nauls
David Clennon
Character: Palmer
Richard Dysart
Character: Dr. Copper

Charles Hallahan
Character: Norris
Peter Maloney
Character: Bennings
Richard Masur
Character: Clark

Donald Moffat
Character: Garry
Joel Polis
Character: Fuchs
Thomas G. Waites
Character: Windows

Norbert Weisser
Character: Norwegian
Larry Franco
Character: Norwegian Passenger with Rifle
Nate Irwin
Character: Helicopter Pilot

William Zeman
Character: Pilot
Adrienne Barbeau
Character: Computer (voice) (uncredited)
John Carpenter
Character: Norwegian (video footage) (uncredited)

Jed
Character: The Dog (uncredited)


Production and Crew

John J. Lloyd
Production Design

Wilbur Stark
Executive Producer
Dean Cundey
Director of Photography
Henry Larrecq
Art Direction

Bill Lancaster
Screenplay
Ennio Morricone
Original Music Composer

John M. Dwyer
Set Decoration
Stuart Cohen
Co-Producer
Cyrus Block
Camera Operator

Ronald I. Caplan
Costume Supervisor
Gilbert Loe
Costume Supervisor
Trish Keating
Costume Supervisor

Charles E. Nippell
Best Boy Electric
Steve Maslow
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Raymond Stella
Camera Operator

David Lewis Yewdall
Supervising Sound Editor
Warren Hamilton Jr.
Sound Effects Editor

Cliff Kohlweck
Music Editor
Colin C. Mouat
Supervising Sound Editor

Larry Franco
Associate Producer
Ken Diaz
Makeup Effects


Kris Krosskove
Dolly Grip
Dave Gordon
Dolly Grip

John Carpenter
Original Music Composer
Alan Howarth
Original Music Composer
Phyllis Newman
Makeup Artist

Ken Chase
Makeup Artist
Steve Tate
Second Assistant Camera

Ernesto Mas
Assistant Sound Editor
Debbie Collier
Production Secretary
David Geddes
Second Assistant Camera

Michael A. Clifford
Special Effects
Len Wolfe
Best Boy Electric
Mentor Huebner
Production Illustrator

Fitch Cady
Unit Production Manager
Karen Kalton
Production Secretary

John K. Stirber
Special Effects Assistant
Paul R. Prince
First Assistant Camera

Kendrick Sweet
Sound Editor

Hans Metz
Special Effects Assistant
Rocky Corsini
Craft Service

Dan Anglin
Transportation Captain
Graeme Murray
Set Decoration

Robin Mounsey
Technical Advisor
Alois Stranan
Transportation Captain

Clyde E. Bryan
First Assistant Camera
Bob Cornell
Transportation Captain

Michael R. Gannon
Assistant Property Master
Lee Routly
Special Effects

Douglas Pruss
Second Assistant Camera
Chris Helcermanas-Benge
Still Photographer

James L. Hurford
Best Boy Grip
Spencer Hyde
Craft Service

Robert Latham Brown
Production Manager

Dick Warlock
Stunt Coordinator
Michael Ploog
Production Illustrator
Yervant Babasin
Craft Service

Ron MacInnes
Production Assistant

John K. Adams
Foley Supervisor
Gary Meyer
Production Illustrator

Roy Arbogast
Special Effects
Rob Bottin
Makeup Effects

Barrett J. Reid
Generator Operator
Rob Bottin
Makeup Effects Designer
Albert Whitlock
Visual Effects

Henry Schoessler
Visual Effects
John Zemansky
Property Master