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Reviews

Adam Smith, Empire:

The Thing is a peerless masterpiece of relentless suspense, retina-wrecking visual excess and outright, nihilistic terror, placing 12 men at an Antarctic station while a shapeshifter takes them over one by one.

Anton Bitel, Little White Lies:

The Thing is set in an all-male environment, and is as much a study of masculinity in crisis as an update of the sort of siege scenario that [John] Carpenter had already played out in Assault on Precinct 13.

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[The movie] is a very modern witch hunt, as the station’s men attempt to weed out any trace of that [alien] femininity from their ranks.

Sebastián Martínez Díaz, Film Cred:

This tale of an amorphous alien represents the unease that was held for Soviet infiltration of American soil during the Cold War.

Wael Khairy, RogerEbert.com:

This underlying sense of uncertainty is even present in Ennio Morricone’s score. It plays like an eerie heartbeat to the impending doom lurking inside Outpost 31.

Sean Wilson, D&C Film:

Few horror films are so relentlessly cryptic - and relentlessly bleak.

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