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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, Province of BC, Ministry of Tourism, Film Promotion Office,


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
Michael Steele
Second Assistant Director
Jeffrey Chernov
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
Jed
Character: The Thing (uncredited)
John Carpenter
Character: Norwegian (video footage) (uncredited)

Adrienne Barbeau
Character: Computer (voice) (uncredited)


Production and Crew

John J. Lloyd
Production Design
Henry Larrecq
Art Direction

Wilbur Stark
Executive Producer
John M. Dwyer
Set Decoration

Dean Cundey
Director of Photography
Ennio Morricone
Original Music Composer

Bill Lancaster
Screenplay
Albert Whitlock
Visual Effects
Henry Schoessler
Visual Effects

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

Trish Keating
Costume Supervisor

Warren Hamilton Jr.
Sound Effects Editor
Raymond Stella
Camera Operator
David Lewis Yewdall
Supervising Sound Editor

Cliff Kohlweck
Music Editor
Steve Maslow
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Colin C. Mouat
Supervising Sound Editor

Charles E. Nippell
Best Boy Electric
Stuart Cohen
Co-Producer

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


Dave Gordon
Dolly Grip
Cyrus Block
Camera Operator

Kris Krosskove
Dolly Grip
John Carpenter
Original Music Composer
Alan Howarth
Original Music Composer

Phyllis Newman
Makeup Artist
Ken Chase
Makeup Artist

Dan Anglin
Transportation Captain

Robin Mounsey
Technical Advisor
Robert Latham Brown
Production Manager

John K. Adams
Foley Supervisor

Steve Tate
Second Assistant Camera

Hans Metz
Special Effects Assistant
Graeme Murray
Set Decoration

Alois Stranan
Transportation Captain
Roy Arbogast
Special Effects

Douglas Pruss
Second Assistant Camera
James L. Hurford
Best Boy Grip
Len Wolfe
Best Boy Electric

Dick Warlock
Stunt Coordinator

Clyde E. Bryan
First Assistant Camera

John K. Stirber
Special Effects Assistant
Kendrick Sweet
Sound Editor
Michael R. Gannon
Assistant Property Master

Rocky Corsini
Craft Service
Spencer Hyde
Craft Service
Michael Ploog
Production Illustrator

Lee Routly
Special Effects
Yervant Babasin
Craft Service
Karen Kalton
Production Secretary

Bob Cornell
Transportation Captain

Ernesto Mas
Assistant Sound Editor

Debbie Collier
Production Secretary
Fitch Cady
Unit Production Manager
David Geddes
Second Assistant Camera

Gary Meyer
Production Illustrator
Michael A. Clifford
Special Effects

Mentor Huebner
Production Illustrator
Paul R. Prince
First Assistant Camera
Chris Helcermanas-Benge
Still Photographer

Ron MacInnes
Production Assistant
Rob Bottin
Makeup Effects
Barrett J. Reid
Generator Operator

Drew Struzan
Art Designer
Debbie Kennard
Production Assistant