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Man is The Warmest Place to Hide.
Man is The Warmest Place to Hide.
Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction - 1982
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8.1
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Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. They soon discover that this task will be harder than they thought, as they don't know which members of the team have already been assimilated and their paranoia threatens to tear them apart.
Director:
,
John Carpenter
Cast:
,
Kurt Russell
,
Wilford Brimley
,
T.K. Carter
,
David Clennon
,
Richard Dysart
,
Charles Hallahan
,
Peter Maloney
,
Richard Masur
,
Donald Moffat
,
Keith David

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Rated:
R
Runtime:
109 min
Release date:
25 Jun 1982
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Norwegian
Budget:
$15,000,000
Revenue:
$19,629,760
Awards:
3 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
Mr. Carpenter has demonstrated that he can make good, comparatively plain, old-fashioned scare movies and effective suspense thrillers, but he seems to lose his own head when he combines two or more genres, as he [does here].
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
Because this material has been done before, and better, especially in the original The Thing and Alien, there's no need to see this version.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
Russell's sub-Eastwood heroics hardly compensate for the absence of all characterisation, while Bill Lancaster's script boasts the most illogical climax any monster movie ever had.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
If it's the most vividly guesome monster ever to stalk the screen that audiences crave, then The Thing is the thing. On all other levels, however, John Carpenter's remake of Howard Hawks' 1951 sci-fi classic comes as a letdown.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
6 Jun 2007
rotten:
Carpenter's direction is slow, dark, and stately; he seems to be aiming for an enveloping, novelistic kind of effect, but all he gets is heaviness.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
25 May 2011
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