Directed by: John Carpenter
Starring: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, and Keith David
The Thing Movie Summary
The Thing takes place during the winter at the Antarctic in 1982. We find an American Research Team standing outside their Camp watching some crazy Norwegians spin around the sky in a helicopter, frantically trying to shoot an Alaskan Malamute with the accuracy of an Imperial Storm Trooper. Eventually, the helicopter lands as the dog runs into the American camp. Since the sniper’s bullets are barely able to hit snow in this snow-covered wilderness, the helicopter pilot takes out grenades to kill the mutt. In all the excitement, he drops the grenade in the snow and then dies from the explosion as he tries to recover it. The remaining Norwegian calmly tells the baffled Americans, “Hey, that’s not really a dog. It’s an alien that will rip your mother fucking head off and take your place before anyone knows it,” but the problem is, this dumb ass foreigner doesn’t speak English. The only obvious thing for the Americans to do is kill him and take the dog as their pet.
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Next, we learn that the camp has been unable to contact the outside world via radio, and since this is many years before the Chinese made all of our electronics. For our young listeners out there, two way radios were these big boxes that people used to speak into to talk over long distances wirelessly before God invented cell phones.
So, instead of reporting the big shooting incident to any authorities, our hero, RJ MacReady, played by Kurt Russell – a character virtually identical to Snake from Escape From New York and Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China – he and Dr. Cooper played by Richard Dysart fly to the Norwegian camp for answers…that is if anyone can understand their questions. They find the camp destroyed and dead bodies everywhere. The mystery deepens when they find a large block of ice that looks about the size of a large coffin with a melted interior and a little bit further down the way, a mangled, hideous corpse. It kind of looks like a human, kind of doesn’t. What should our heroes do? Well, when in doubt, always bring the ominous object back to study it. What could possibly go wrong?
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