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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
Wilbur Stark
Executive Producer

Ennio Morricone
Original Music Composer
Dean Cundey
Director of Photography

John J. Lloyd
Production Design
Henry Larrecq
Art Direction

John M. Dwyer
Set Decoration
Albert Whitlock
Visual Effects
Henry Schoessler
Visual Effects

Rob Bottin
Makeup Effects Designer
Ronald I. Caplan
Costume Supervisor
Gilbert Loe
Costume Supervisor

Trish Keating
Costume Supervisor

David Lewis Yewdall
Supervising Sound Editor
Colin C. Mouat
Supervising Sound Editor
Warren Hamilton Jr.
Sound Effects Editor

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

Cliff Kohlweck
Music Editor
Stuart Cohen
Co-Producer

Larry Franco
Associate Producer
Ken Diaz
Makeup Effects
John Zemansky
Property Master

Cyrus Block
Camera Operator

Dave Gordon
Dolly Grip
Kris Krosskove
Dolly Grip

John Carpenter
Original Music Composer
Alan Howarth
Original Music Composer

Phyllis Newman
Makeup Artist
Ken Chase
Makeup Artist




Robert Latham Brown
Production Manager
Roy Arbogast
Special Effects

Clyde E. Bryan
First Assistant Camera
Steve Tate
Second Assistant Camera
Kendrick Sweet
Sound Editor

Ernesto Mas
Assistant Sound Editor
John K. Adams
Foley Supervisor
Dick Warlock
Stunt Coordinator

Dan Anglin
Transportation Captain
Bob Cornell
Transportation Captain


Hans Metz
Special Effects Assistant
John K. Stirber
Special Effects Assistant

Michael R. Gannon
Assistant Property Master
Rocky Corsini
Craft Service

Michael Ploog
Production Illustrator
Mentor Huebner
Production Illustrator
Gary Meyer
Production Illustrator

Ron MacInnes
Production Assistant
Debbie Collier
Production Secretary
Yervant Babasin
Craft Service

Graeme Murray
Set Decoration
Fitch Cady
Unit Production Manager

Karen Kalton
Production Secretary
Robin Mounsey
Technical Advisor
Paul R. Prince
First Assistant Camera

David Geddes
Second Assistant Camera
Douglas Pruss
Second Assistant Camera
Lee Routly
Special Effects

Michael A. Clifford
Special Effects
Alois Stranan
Transportation Captain
Chris Helcermanas-Benge
Still Photographer

James L. Hurford
Best Boy Grip
Len Wolfe
Best Boy Electric
Spencer Hyde
Craft Service

Rob Bottin
Makeup Effects
Barrett J. Reid
Generator Operator

Drew Struzan
Art Designer