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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

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


Production and Crew

Bill Lancaster
Screenplay
Ennio Morricone
Original Music Composer
John M. Dwyer
Set Decoration

Dean Cundey
Director of Photography
Henry Larrecq
Art Direction

Wilbur Stark
Executive Producer
John J. Lloyd
Production Design

Albert Whitlock
Visual Effects
Henry Schoessler
Visual Effects

Rob Bottin
Makeup Effects Designer
Gilbert Loe
Costume Supervisor
Trish Keating
Costume Supervisor

Ronald I. Caplan
Costume Supervisor
David Lewis Yewdall
Supervising Sound Editor

Charles E. Nippell
Best Boy Electric
Cliff Kohlweck
Music Editor
Colin C. Mouat
Supervising Sound Editor

Raymond Stella
Camera Operator
Warren Hamilton Jr.
Sound Effects Editor

Steve Maslow
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Larry Franco
Associate Producer
Ken Diaz
Makeup Effects

Stuart Cohen
Co-Producer
John Zemansky
Property Master

Kris Krosskove
Dolly Grip

Cyrus Block
Camera Operator
Dave Gordon
Dolly Grip

John Carpenter
Original Music Composer
Alan Howarth
Original Music Composer

Ken Chase
Makeup Artist
Phyllis Newman
Makeup Artist

Dick Warlock
Stunt Coordinator

Michael R. Gannon
Assistant Property Master
Lee Routly
Special Effects
Michael A. Clifford
Special Effects

Dan Anglin
Transportation Captain

Gary Meyer
Production Illustrator

Yervant Babasin
Craft Service

Roy Arbogast
Special Effects
James L. Hurford
Best Boy Grip

Paul R. Prince
First Assistant Camera
Chris Helcermanas-Benge
Still Photographer

Michael Ploog
Production Illustrator
John K. Adams
Foley Supervisor

Bob Cornell
Transportation Captain
Clyde E. Bryan
First Assistant Camera

Mentor Huebner
Production Illustrator
Fitch Cady
Unit Production Manager


Hans Metz
Special Effects Assistant
Graeme Murray
Set Decoration
Douglas Pruss
Second Assistant Camera

Karen Kalton
Production Secretary
Steve Tate
Second Assistant Camera
Debbie Collier
Production Secretary

David Geddes
Second Assistant Camera
Len Wolfe
Best Boy Electric
Ernesto Mas
Assistant Sound Editor

John K. Stirber
Special Effects Assistant
Rocky Corsini
Craft Service

Ron MacInnes
Production Assistant
Alois Stranan
Transportation Captain
Robin Mounsey
Technical Advisor

Robert Latham Brown
Production Manager
Kendrick Sweet
Sound Editor

Spencer Hyde
Craft Service
Rob Bottin
Makeup Effects
Barrett J. Reid
Generator Operator