The Thing from Another World

The Thing from Another World

1951 · 87 min · EN · NR · 6.7 (721 votes)
Dir. Christian Nyby · Starring Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, James Young, Dewey Martin · Music Dimitri Tiomkin

“Natural or Supernatural?”

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Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

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A chilling, isolated outpost in the Arctic becomes a battleground against an unknown threat. The stark black and white visuals amplify the mounting dread and paranoia as a group struggles to survive against an insidious alien presence.

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