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Related: About this forumCold Enuff? Watch: 'THE THING! From Another World' (1951) SciFi Horror in the The Arctic 🌨
- James Arness is The Thing from Another World! in this fan- made remake of the trailer.
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'The Thing from Another World,' sometimes referred to as just 'The Thing,' is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction-horror film, directed by Christian Nyby, produced by Edward Lasker for Howard Hawks' Winchester Pictures Corporation, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
The film stars Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, and Douglas Spencer. James Arness plays The Thing.
The Thing from Another World is based on the 1938 novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell (writing under the pseudonym of Don A. Stuart).
The film's storyline concerns a United States Air Force crew and scientists who find, frozen in the Arctic ice, a crashed flying saucer and a humanoid body nearby. Returning to their remote arctic research outpost with the body still in a block of ice, they are forced to defend themselves against the still alive and malevolent plant-based alien when it is accidentally thawed out...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World
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Cold Enuff? Watch: 'THE THING! From Another World' (1951) SciFi Horror in the The Arctic 🌨 (Original Post)
appalachiablue
Jan 2024
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AltairIV
(660 posts)1. An absolute classic of the genre
appalachiablue
(42,906 posts)2. Yes. Watching this as a little kid w my dad scared me to death!
Doc Sportello
(7,962 posts)3. Had some nice humorous touches too
Wasn't over the top like most sci-fi films then.
comradebillyboy
(10,467 posts)4. An absolutely great Sci-fi/horror movie.
I first saw it on TV back in the late 50s. If you have a good story to tell you don't need to rely on CGI and car chases to keep the audience engaged.