“The Thing”, the 1982 horror science fiction thriller, considered one of the most terrifying movies ever to come out of Hollywood, with a music soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone and John Carpenter, was directed by Carpenter, based on the 1938 novella “Who Goes There?”, by author John W. Campbell Jr. starring Kurt Russell, A. Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, Thomas G. Waites and a brilliant Vancouver Island wolf/Alaskan Malamute hybrid dog named Jed, now streaming restored and free on Tubi:
“…a 12-man American research crew at the isolated Antarctic station ‘Outpost 31’…
“…takes in a stray sled dog chased by a Norwegian helicopter.
“The dog turns out to be a lethal, shape-shifting alien parasite that absorbs and perfectly imitates any living organism.
“As crew members are secretly replaced one by one, suspicion and terror tear the team apart…”
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