Item Details
The thing [videorecording]
Universal Pictures presents ; in association with Morgan Creek Productions ; a Strike Entertainment production ; produced by Marc Abraham, Eric Newman ; written by Eric Heisserer ; directed by Matthijs van Heijningen.
- Format
- DVD; Video
- Summary
- When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.
- Director
- Matthijs van Heijningen
- Performer(s)
- Eric Christian Olsen, Joel Edgerton, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ulrich Thomsen.
- Release Date
- 2011
- Run Time
- 103 min.
- Language
- In English, dubbed Spanish or dubbed French, with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish.
- Closed-captioned.
- Optional descriptive audio in English for the visually impaired.
- Rating
- MPAA rating: R; for strong creature violence and gore, disturbing images, and language.
- Notes
- Based on the story Who goes there? by John W. Campbell, Jr.
- DVD release of the 2011 motion picture.
- Bonus features: deleted and extended scenes ; featurettes ; commentary with director Mattijs van Heijningen and producer Eric Newman.
- Credits
- Music, Marco Beltrami ; editors, Julian Clarke, Peter Boyle ; director of photography, Michel Abramowicz.
- Published
- Universal City, CA :Universal Studios,2012.
- Publisher no.
- 61115236 Universal
- Description
- 1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD ; anamorphic widescreen (2.40:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround (English, Spanish and French) and DVS 2.0 stereo. surround (English).
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