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''The Thing'' (also known as ''John Carpenter's The Thing'') is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster, and starring Kurt Russell. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a parasitic extraterrestrial lifeform that assimilates other organisms and in turn imitates them. The Thing infiltrates an Antarctic research station, taking the appearance of the researchers that it absorbs, and paranoia develops within the group. The film is based on John W. Campbell, Jr.'s novella ''Who Goes There?'', which was more loosely adapted by Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby as the 1951 film ''The Thing from Another World''. Carpenter considers ''The Thing'' to be the first part of his ''Apocalypse Trilogy'', followed by ''Prince of Darkness'' and ''In the Mouth of Madness''. Although the films are narratively unrelated, each features a potentially apocalyptic scenario; should "The Thing" ever reach civilization, it would be only a matter of time before it consumes humanity. On June 25, 1982, ''The Thing'' opened in 840 theaters, and it was the #8 movie of the week at the box office. It remained in the top 10 for three weeks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''The Thing'' (1982) - Weekend Box Office Results )〕 The lower-than-expected performance has been attributed to many factors, including Steven Spielberg's ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'', which was also released by Universal Studios around the same time and featured a more optimistic view of alien visitation,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Carpenter’s The Thing This Way Comes )〕 and another popular science fiction film, Ridley Scott's ''Blade Runner'', being released on the same day.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = Box Office Mojo )〕 However, ''The Thing'' has since gone on to gain a cult following, received reappraisal from critics, and is even considered by some to be one of the greatest horror films ever made. The film subsequently spawned a novelization in 1982; a comic book miniseries adaptation, entitled ''The Thing from Another World'', published by Dark Horse Comics in 1991; a video game sequel, also titled ''The Thing'', in 2011; and a prequel film with the same title on October 14, 2011. ==Plot== In the Antarctic, a Norwegian helicopter pursues an Alaskan Malamute to an American research station. Upon landing the helicopter, a Norwegian accidentally drops a thermite charge, destroying the helicopter. The surviving Norwegian pursues the dog, firing a semi-automatic rifle, until he is killed by the station commander Garry, who is armed with a revolver. The Americans send a helicopter pilot, MacReady, and Dr. Copper to the Norwegian camp for answers, but they find only a charred ruin. Outside, they discover the burned remains of a humanoid corpse with a face that appears to have been fused together, which they bring back along with some video footage. The camp biologist, Blair, performs an autopsy on the corpse, which appears to be completely human. Later that evening, Clark kennels the Malamute with the station's sled dogs. Soon after being left alone, The Thing metamorphoses and attacks the other dogs. When he hears the commotion, MacReady pulls the fire alarm to alert the other camp members. After everyone sees The Thing assimilating the dogs, Childs attempts to incinerate The Thing with a flame thrower. Blair performs another autopsy which leads him to believe The Thing is able to perfectly imitate other organisms. The Norwegians' records lead the Americans to a buried flying saucer that the station's geologist, Norris, hypothesizes has been buried in the ice for over 100,000 years. Blair becomes increasingly suspicious of the others and secludes himself from them. He calculates that if the alien reaches civilized areas, all life on Earth will be assimilated within six to seven years. Fuchs tells MacReady that he is worried about Blair, and according to Blair's journal, the creature's remains are still active on a cellular level. The creature attacks Bennings, but Windows walks in during the assimilation and warns the others. They catch him outside before his metamorphosis is complete and MacReady burns The Thing before it can escape. They discover Blair has wrecked all the transports and killed the remaining sled dogs. The team corners Blair as he is destroying the radio and locks him in an isolated tool shed. Copper recommends a blood-serum test to determine who is assimilated, but the paranoid men turn on each other when they find the blood stores have been sabotaged. MacReady takes charge and orders Fuchs to continue Blair's work, but Fuchs disappears; MacReady, Windows, and Nauls find his burned body outside. Windows returns to warn the others while MacReady and Nauls investigate further. On the way back, Nauls cuts MacReady loose from the tow line. He assumes that MacReady has been assimilated when he finds a torn shirt with MacReady's name on it. As the team debates MacReady's fate, he breaks in and threatens to destroy the station with a bundle of dynamite if they attack him. Norris appears to suffer a heart attack after he and Nauls unsuccessfully attack MacReady from behind. When Copper attempts to revive him, Norris transforms and kills Copper. MacReady incinerates the creature and orders Windows to tie up everyone for a new test. Clark attacks MacReady, and MacReady is forced to kill him. MacReady explains his theory that every piece of the alien is an individual organism with its own survival instinct. One by one, MacReady tests everyone's blood with a heated piece of copper wire. Everyone is shown to be human except Palmer, whose blood flees from the hot wire when it. Exposed, Palmer metamorphoses and attacks Windows, forcing MacReady to burn them both. Leaving Childs on guard, the others head out to test Blair, only to find that he has tunneled out of the tool shed. They realize that Blair is assimilated and has been scavenging equipment to build a small escape craft. Discovering that Childs is missing and the station's power generator is destroyed, MacReady speculates that the Thing now intends to hibernate until a rescue team arrives. MacReady, Garry, and Nauls decide to dynamite the complex, hoping to destroy the Thing. While setting the explosives, Garry is killed and Nauls disappears, presumably assimilated. As MacReady rushes to set the charges, Blair; now assimilated into a larger monster emerges from below and destroys the detonator. MacReady triggers the blast with a stick of dynamite, and the base explodes. MacReady sits as the camp burns, and Childs reappears. Childs claims he was lost in the storm, pursuing Blair. Exhausted and with virtually no hope of survival, they acknowledge the futility of their distrust and share a bottle of scotch. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Thing (1982 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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