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The Thing from Another World

1951

Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks

Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer ...

6.9

8,515

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Mystery. Horror Scientist at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out!

	Author	Review
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The film has more frissons than most of today's mega-budget productions, simply because it has the grace to construct a meaningful situation and coherent characters."	POS
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Set the template for a decade of alien invasions."	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"Reactionary or not, it's still a masterpiece."	POS

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