An extraterrestrial alien capable of replicating any living form it touches infiltrates an isolated research base in the Antarctic and sows suspicion and terror among the men trapped there. Which of them is still human and which a perfect alien facsimile John Carpenters The Thing the second adaptation of John W. Campbells 1938 novella Who Goes There received overwhelmingly negative reviews on its release in 1982 but has since been acknowledged as a classic fusion of the science fiction and horr