Now, before we get into the main points of how you can watch 'The Thing' right now, here are some important things to know about the Universal Pictures, The Turman-Foster Company horror flick. The Thing starring Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter has a R rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 49 min. The release date of the movie is June 25th, 1982. The movie received a user score of 81/100 on TMDb, which is based on reviews from 7,591 engaged users.
Ready to dive into the plot? Here's the plot: "A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims."
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'The Thing' Release Dates
Watch in Movie Theaters on June 25th, 1982
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‘The Thing’ is an American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter. It is a remake of the 1951 movie ‘The Thing from Another World’, in turn based on the 1938 John W. Campbell novella ‘Who Goes There?’ A "remake with a twist" to the 1982 film with the same name was released in 2011.
