In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. For the rest of the film the men fight a losing (and very gory) battle against it, never knowing if one of their own dwindling number is the Thing in disguise. John Carpenter's The Thing is both a remake of Howard Hawks' 1951 film of the same name and a re-adaptation of the John W. Campbell Jr. story "Who Goes There?" on which it was based. Along with Ridley Scott's futuristic Alien, The Thing helped stimulate a new wave of sci-fi horror films in which action and special effects wizardry were often seen as ends in themselves.

[code]STARS...........: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David DIRECTOR........: John Carpenter WRITERS.........: Bill Lancaster (screenplay), John W. Campbell Jr. (story) GENRE...........: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Sci-Fi METASCORE.......: 57 TOMATOMETER.....: 84 IMDB RATING.....: 8.1/10  329,115 votes IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787 RUNTIME.........: 1h 48mn SIZE............: 5.96 GB VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4) BITRATE.........: 6000 Kbps (2-pass) RESOLUTION......: 1920x820 ASPECT RATIO....: 2.35:1 FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps AUDIO1..........: English E-AC3 5.1 640kbps AUDIO2..........: English E-AC3 4.1 640kbps AUDIO3..........: English AAC Dolby Stereo 265kbps AUDIO4..........: Commentary with John Carpenter and Kurt Russell AUDIO5..........: Commentary with Mike White, Patrick Bromley and El Goro AUDIO6..........: Commentary With Director of Photography Dean Cundey (Scream Factory) AUDIO7..........: Commentary With co-producer Stuart Cohen (Scream Factory) SUBTITLES.......: ENG, ENG-SDH CHAPTERS........: Yes SOURCE..........: Arrow Blu-ray ENCODED BY......: Sartre ENCODE DATE.....: 2019-05-08[/code]