John Carpenter's The Thing is a 1982 horror film directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell. The film follows a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter a parasitic alien life form that assimilates and then imitates other organisms. As the researchers struggle to survive and escape the
John Howard Carpenter is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as a master of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award and lauded him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions". On April 3, 2025, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.