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Created Mar 02, 2008 11:55AM PST • Edited Mar 02, 2008 11:55AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Perfect 5.0

   A group of researchers are trapped in the arctic with a monster that can take over your body. Tensions rise as they try to survive a storm and figure out who is human and just who is The Thing.

4. Acting

   Really Great 4.5

   Kurt Russell owns this movie. He brings a vulnerability and a realism to MacReady that is seldom seen today. The cast understand the material and play everything low key so that you have no idea who is alien and who is human.

5. Male Stars Perfect 5.0

   Kurt Russell, Wilfred Brimley, T.K. Carter, Donald Moffat, Richard Masur, Keith David

6. Female Stars Good 3.0

   voice of Adrienne Barbeau

7. Female Costars Perfect 5.0

   There are no female co-stars

8. Male Costars Perfect 5.0

10. Film

    Perfect 5.0

    This is a very cold, creepy, scary, claustrophobic movie. Nothing in this movie is a computer generated effect.

11. Direction Perfect 5.0

    Once again John Carpenter hits it out of the ballpark. He sets up an atmosphere that is both scary and menacing. He knows how to rachet up the suspense to the point of breaking and then how to release that tension in a very scary sequence.

12. Play Perfect 5.0

    Kurt Russell has most of the dialogue in this movie. At times he serves as the narrator as he begins to leave taped recordings of what is happening. It is almost as if he has accepted early in the movie when the attacks start that he probably won’t survive this ordeal and wants people to know what has happened there. There is a few words and phrases that some might find objectionable but for the most part the language is pretty clean.

13. Music Perfect 5.0

    John Carpenter’s score is truly haunting. This movie works partly because of the score. It kind of reminds one of Jaws or Alien with it’s music. There are no songs played in this movie, just score. At times there is no music played at all and John just lets the scene play out because the scene doesn’t need music.

14. Visuals Perfect 5.0

    Like I said before, there are no computer effects in this movie. Everything was done with puppets and rubber suits. This adds to the realism of the movie. Too many directors today use computer graphics in there movies because it looks cool and that doesn’t add to the story. Having a creature that the actors can touch and be in the same room with and act off of gives a very real feeling.

15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 2.0

    This movie really isn’t that violent. There a a few explosions and deaths but most of the alien infecting stuff happens off screen. There is no sex or nudity in this movie at all.

17. Sex Innocent 1.0

    This movie contains no sexual content.

18. Violence Fierce 2.1

    There is little violence in this movie but when there is violence it is usually involving a character getting burned with flame thrower or someone getting their face peeled off

19. Rudeness Profane 3.0

21. Reality

    Fantasy 5.0

    Obviously this movie is 100% fantasy. There are no outerspace monsters that are going to come down and take over your body.

22. Circumstantial Fantasy 5.0

23. Biological Fantasy 5.0

24. Physical Fantasy 5.0