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The thing / Universal City Studios, Inc. ; a Turman-Foster Company production ; produced by David Foster & Lawrence Turman ; directed by John Carpenter ; screenplay by Bill Lancaster.
LIBRA DVD 012 419
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Campbell, John W., Jr. (John Wood), 1910-1971--Film adaptations.
- Campbell, John W.
- Campbell, John W., Jr. (John Wood), 1910-1971.
- Life on other planets.
- Antarctica.
- Life on other planets--Drama.
- Antarctica--Drama.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Science fiction films.
- Horror films.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Film remakes.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Collector's edition ; Anamorphic widescreen.
- Place of Publication:
- Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2005]
- Language Note:
- In English or dubbed French; optional subtitles in French or Spanish.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 (English); Dolby Digital 2.0 (French).
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- Dolby digital 2.0
- Dolby digital 5.1
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Set in the winter of 1982 at a research station in Antarctica, a twelve man research team finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has remained buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Unfrozen and unleashed, the THING creates havoc and terror as it changes forms and becomes one of them.
- Participant:
- Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, Thomas Waites.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Dean Cundey; editor, Todd Ramsey, music, Ennio Morricone.
- Notes:
- Based on the story Who goes there? / by John W. Campbell.
- A remake of the 1951 motion picture The thing from another world.
- Special features: commentary with Kurt Russell and John Carpenter; John Carpenter's The thing : terror takes shape (80 minute making-of documentary); original theatrical trailer; outtakes; behind-the-scenes stills; storyboards and conceptual art; annotated production archive.
- "All-new digitally remastered picture."--Container.
- Aspect ratio 2.35:1.
- ISBN:
- 0783227507
- 9780783227504
- 1417010908
- 9781417010905
- OCLC:
- 47005157
- Publisher Number:
- 025192543722
- 20329 Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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