movie poster for THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD

Flicks ID

14178

Cert

12

Running time

83 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951)

CHRISTIAN NYBYHOWARD HAWKS

Plot

An American scientific expedition stumbles across a long-buried UFO and it's extraterrestrial occupant in the ice of the North Pole. When they dig it up and take it back to their camp for study they unwittingly wake the creature from its hibernation. The original sci-fi paranoia trip based on the short story 'Who Goes There' by John W Campbell and later updated in glorious fashion by John Carpenter as 'the Thing'. A must for fans of the latter's ooze-fest.