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The Thing
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #368
- IMDb #139
- Google retired #357
- Rotten Tomatoes #710
- Metacritic #1326
- Letterboxd #83
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1577
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #311
- Metacritic Critics #2773
- Metacritic Audience #43
- Criticker #141
- Douban #487
- Kinopoisk #378
- AlloCiné #221
- Trakt #170
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 57, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 71, everyone else 84.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A American research team in Antarctica takes in a dog being shot at by a Norwegian helicopter from a nearby outpost. They soon discover the dog is a shapeshifting alien lifeform that assimilates and imitates other organisms. Paranoia erupts as the group realizes the creature could be any one of them, and they must find a way to identify and stop it before it escapes.
Details
- Director
- John Carpenter
- Writer
- Bill Lancaster
- Based on
- Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell
- Released
- 25 June 1982
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Norwegian
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $15.0M
- Box office
- $19.6M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 3 →0 wins from 3 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards 1983 | Worst Musical Score | Ennio Morricone | Nominee |
| Saturn Award 1982 | Best Special Effects | Nominee | |
| Saturn Award 1982 | Best Horror Film | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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| Best Special Effects | Nominee |
| Worst Musical Score | Ennio Morricone | Nominee |