A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Practical Effects
Rob Bottin's creature work still out-CGIs everything made since.
Direction
Carpenter builds dread so thick you can taste the Antarctic cold.
Score
Ennio Morricone's pulsing synths haunt your nervous system for days.
Director
John Carpenter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bottin was 22 and worked himself into the hospital; he kept designing creatures from his bed.
The film flopped against E.T. then became the most influential horror movie of the decade.
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