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Titolo originale: The Thing
Regia: John Carpenter |
Anno: 1982
Origine: United States of America | Canada |
Generi: Horror Mistero Fantascienza
Tag: spacecraft | helicopter | space marine | based on novel or book | isolation | mutation | paranoia | grave | snowstorm | research station | alien life-form | alien | remake | survival | creature | helicopter pilot | antarctica | shape shifting alien | alien infection | survival horror | sled dogs | alien monster | alien parasites | isolated place | uncertainty | blood test | body horror | ambiguity | lovecraftian | critical | ominous | antarctic |
Cast: Kurt Russell | Keith David | Wilford Brimley | T.K. Carter | David Clennon | Richard Dysart | Charles Hallahan | Peter Maloney | Richard Masur | Donald Moffat | Joel Polis | Thomas G. Waites | Norbert Weisser | Larry Franco | Nate Irwin | William Zeman | Jed | John Carpenter | Adrienne Barbeau |

Gli scienziati di una base di ricerche in Alaska raccolgono un cane lupo che i loro colleghi norvegesi hanno tentato di abbattere. Lo mettono nel canile mentre due di essi si recano nella base norvegese che trovano abbandonata e piena di cadaveri. Trovano anche i resti di quello che sembra un disco volante. In breve il cane viene posseduto da una strana forza e si trasforma in belva. Il panico si diffonde nella base.

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During the scene where Blair destroys the radio and is subsequently subdued by MacReady, Childs, Fuc [...] D
(at around 1h 30 mins) When Mac, Garry and Nauls are underground, they split up and go alone to sepa [...] D
Characters wearing glasses go from the severe cold outside, to the apparently toasty warmth inside t [...] D
(at around 15 mins) As the camera pans through the empty camp, after Bennings calls Nauls on the int [...] D
(at around 7 mins) Norwegian pulls the same grenade out of the box twice. D
(at around 1h 20 mins) When Windows takes a blood sample from Nauls, he clearly gets Nauls' blood on [...] D
Palmer is tied up on the couch next to Gary when he is revealed to be a Thing. and starts to mutate, [...] D
All exterior shots of the tool shed where Blair is imprisoned show the window next to the door has b [...] D
(at around 1h 30 mins) As the men come down the stairs into the generator room, Nauls and Garry head [...] D
(at around 32 mins) The alien Norwegian dog is caged with the American dogs and starts mutating whil [...] D
(at around 1h 22 mins) Although necessary for the special effect jump scare, holding a blood sample [...] D
When Windows is taking blood samples from the thumb of the survivors, he uses the same scalpel, wipi [...] D
(at around 1h 15 mins) When the creature comes out of Norris's chest, there is a wide-shot with Mac [...] D
(at around 5 mins) The chess moves spoken by the computer don't match the ones on the screen; also s [...] D
(at around 1h 12 mins) Childs breaks down the door with an ax, doing extensive damage to it, but sev [...] D
The infected Palmer attacks Windows, throwing his bloody corpse against a ceiling lamp and then onto [...] D
After the initial attack by the rifle-wielding Norwegian, MacReady says "First goddamn week of winte [...] D
Between the time Fuchs talks to Mac about Blair's notes, calling the snowcat 'the Thiokol' (another [...] D
(at around 38 mins) When viewing the ruined flying saucer from the cliff, the hoods on Norris and Pa [...] D
(at around 8 mins) The overwhelming majority of people from Norway are taught English from a young a [...] D
(at around 1h 15 mins) As Dr. Copper puts the defibrillator onto Norris' "chest mouth", in the next [...] D
(at around 23 mins) When MacReady and the doctor find the two-headed body, it's frozen solid. Howeve [...] D
(at around 1h 23 mins) When Windows is being eaten and mauled by Palmer a brief shot reveals a man h [...] D
(at around 1h 23 mins) When one of the characters turns into the thing, he flies upward onto the cei [...] D
(at around 1h 11 mins) When Nauls is let back inside and the men question him, there are multiple co [...] D
The profusion of pistols, shotguns, automatic weapons, flamethrowers and explosives is entirely ridi [...] D
(at around 18 mins) While they are looking at the ice block in the Norwegian base, several of the ic [...] D
(at around 4 mins) The front part of the rifle used by the Norwegian at the beginning is different t [...] D
(at around 9 mins) MacReady's bottle of whisky is completely covered in snow when he leaps into the [...] D
Despite the assessment that the all the physical matter connected to the Thing is part of its whole, [...] D
When MacReady, Garry and Nauls discover the loose floorboards in the tool shed, they investigate dow [...] D
This story takes place on the first day of winter. This is on the winter solstice which for Antarcti [...] D
(at around 10 mins) On the "first day of winter" (June 21st) there is no daylight south of the Antar [...] D
When Copper and MacReady visit the Norwegian base, they find the ice block where the Thing was origi [...] D
Stray dogs potentially carry rabies and distemper and other transferable diseases. As a result no on [...] D
Clark casually shuts the dog-Thing in the enclosure with the sled dogs, without taking time to intro [...] D
(at around 58 mins) After MacReady asks if the blood test would have worked, it is seen twice above [...] D
While burning the creatures might destroy the outside cells of what they were imitating, it would do [...] D
The alien dog apparently runs from the Norwegian science station to the American station. Considerin [...] D
(at around 55 mins) When Mac is in the tool shed talking with Blair, the bottle of vodka from which [...] D
(at around 12 mins) When the men are gathered around the dead Norwegian, Fuchs is seen standing amon [...] D
(at around 4 mins) While the guy in the chopper with the rifle fires several shots at the dog, and w [...] D
(at around 44 mins) MacReady says "It's forty below outside." That would be a freakishly warm winter [...] D
(at around 1h 23 mins) After Palmer's blood leaps from the dish after being scorched by Mac's flamet [...] D
(at around 1h 24 mins) Windows' head is pulled completely into the Palmer-thing's mutated jaws when [...] D
(at around 39 mins) When MacReady and Norris are approaching the hole in the ice next to the spacesh [...] D
(at around 8 mins) When Garry shoots the rifle-wielding Norwegian in the eye, the Norwegian's goggle [...] D
(at around 52 mins) When Blair destroys the radio room, he fires seven shots from a six-shot revolve [...] D
At one point they are looking out the window at the thermometer which reads well below zero. There s [...] D
(at around 1h 6 mins) When Fuchs goes outside following the mysterious figure outside the lab, there [...] D
(at around 1h 23 mins) When one of the characters is slammed into the ceiling, a piece of the ceilin [...] D
(at around 1h 17 mins) When the "Head Bug" is shown trying escape the facial features still retained [...] D
(at around 39 mins) When Norris and Mac climb down into the crater and are walking towards the open [...] D
(at around 1h 5 mins) When MacReady visits Fuchs in his room, and Fuchs mentions preparing their own [...] D
The UFO was around 60 feet under the ice. We are told it had been buried for 100,000 years. But the [...] D
(at around 1h 15 mins) When the Norris-Thing's chest erupts, Dr. Copper's chewed-off arms and the de [...] D
(at around 52 mins) When MacReady goes to check the helicopter after he sees Blair, he is wearing a [...] D
We see McCready drinking at the beginning of the film. He is shown in a camera shot from below and w [...] D
Windows, who is mauled and killed by Palmer-Thing, begins to change after a couple of minutes. But D [...] D
(at around 15 mins) Right after Bennings yells on the intercom to turn the music down and we see his [...] D
During the many interior scenes where the flamethrowers was used, resulting in large fires being sta [...] D
(at around 1h 15 mins) When the Doctor goes to hit Norris with the defibrillator the second time, hi [...] D
(at around 25 mins) When Blair does the autopsy on the burned creature he takes out the inner organs [...] D
When Windows hands MacReady his blood sample, the wound on his forehead is dark red with clotted blo [...] D
(at around 21 mins) Copper and MacReady find several empty cans labeled "karosin" outside the Norweg [...] D
(at around 1h 6 mins) When Mac yells to Norris in the rec room, "Any of them move you fry 'em," a sh [...] D
(at around 48 mins) When the characters are burning the bodies of Bennings, the dog monster and the [...] D
(at around 18 mins) At the Norwegian base, when Mac and the doctor enter the room with the ax in the [...] D
(at around 5 mins) When MacReady plays Chess Wizard and spills his drink into the circuit board, we [...] D
Flamethrowers would be useless in Antarctica, especially outside. Gasoline (even in the form of napa [...] D
At 4:35 into the film a sign in front of the base says, 'US National Science Institute Station 4'. L [...] D
(at around 1h 19 mins) During the blood test scene (before the Palmer reveal), even though there are [...] D
(at around 1h 13 mins) As Mac comes out of the supply room with the flare and dynamite, the TNT stic [...] D
(at around 28 mins) The hole that dog chews in the chain-link fence keeps changing sizes between sho [...] D
(at around 53 mins) When Blair is destroying the radio room he drops the axe to the floor and fires [...] D
(at around 5 mins) The chess game MacReady plays vs. what appears to be a dedicated chess-playing co [...] D
(at around 1h 3 mins) When MacReady is making the tape recording, he mentions that "Windows found so [...] D
(at around 1h 15 mins) Copper's sleeves suddenly roll up when Norris' jaws clamp down on his forearm [...] D
(at around 1h 20 mins) When MacReady is administering the blood test with the hot wire, we see the c [...] D
MacReady believes every part of the creature can act as a whole, and thus comes up with the "blood t [...] D
When the Dog-Thing attacks the dogs, it squirts one dog in the face with its slime, making the dog l [...] D
(at around 8 mins) When the helicopter explodes there are almost no parts near it. Later while it is [...] D
(at around 1h 20 mins) Although Fuchs has told them that the alien organism is highly infective, the [...] D
MacReady states "I think it rips through your clothes when it takes you over." but there is no expla [...] D
(at around 8 mins) When the Norwegian is firing on the American scientists at the beginning of the m [...] D
(at around 12 mins) When MacReady and the doctor go off to check the Norwegian base, it is said they [...] D