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John Carpenter's 'The Thing' released

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John Carpenter, director of The Thing Kyle Cassidy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Universal released John Carpenter's The Thing, which opens with a flying saucer crashing to Earth and follows an Antarctic research team menaced by a shape-shifting alien. Critics savaged it on release, but it later came to be regarded as a classic.

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  1. PressJohn Carpenter's The Thing Had An Icy Critical ReceptionDen of Geek
  2. OtherThe Thing (1982)AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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