An in-depth look at the making of John Carpenter's cult classic sci-fi horror The Thing, telling the story of a group of researchers in Antarctica who encounter a parasitic extra-terrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates other organisms.
Practical Effects
Bottin's grotesque creature work that nearly killed him.
Direction
Carpenter's calm recounting of absolute on-set chaos.
Director
Michael Matessino
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rob Bottin was only 22 when he designed the creatures, working 7 days a week for over a year and eventually checking himself into a hospital from exhaustion.
The Thing bombed against E.T. in 1982, but its VHS afterlife made it the definitive case study in how 'failure' becomes masterpiece status.
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