A tense story of Arctic scientists trying to cope with the first of Hollywood's Cold War aliens.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2024

It’s not as true to the story as its brilliant remake, but this original film offers a energetic monster movie with a cast that makes you feel like you’re part of the team.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 8, 2023

If anything, Nyby and Hawks' film will appeal to cinephiles or at least make for a few good mocking laughs.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 30, 2021

Scenarist Charles Lederer has maintained an amazingly even keel, loading the dialogue with scientific jargon which sounded all right to these unscientific ears keeping it surprisingly natural under highly unnatural circumstances.

| Sep 21, 2021

This reviewer actually jumped twice while watching The Thing. That's how tense and tingling and unexpected Howard Hawks has made this fascinating picture.

| Sep 21, 2021

On the whole the movie is far and away the most original and ingenious in this new category of pseudo-scientific entertainment.

| Sep 21, 2021

Most of the principal roles are well handled, and the script is brightened by occasional bits of rather humorous banter. If you have a taste for this sort of pseudo-scientific stuff, this film is a fair sample.

| Sep 21, 2021

You had better see it soon, right away, before you hear too much about it from those who have had the pleasure. And the thrills and chills.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 21, 2021

For a quick cool-off on a hot afternoon there's nothing like a few chills up and down the spine -- all supplied In this latest piece of science fiction.

| Sep 21, 2021

The grim winter background of the story serves to emphasize the stark character of the plot and the number of scenes which have the authentic away-from-the-studio touch also highlight the eerie nature of the whole film.

| Sep 21, 2021

Spoil the story for those who pay their money? Nope. It is a virile story with action and suspense. Conflict and argument. The suspense angle is, of course, what keeps it going.

| Sep 21, 2021

Far-fetched in theme, it is nevertheless so well directed, produced, written and acted, one becomes completely lost in the vampirish goings-on.

| Original Score: 2/3 | Sep 21, 2021

The players, headed by Kenneth Tobey, as the Air Force pilot who gets into more trouble than most, and Margaret Sheridan are uniformly good and Director Christian Nyby proves himself an adept man at building suspense.

| Sep 21, 2021

It should scare the shirt off anybody who gets caught in its spell, and delight connoisseurs of the Jules Verne type of thrill fiction.

| Sep 21, 2021

[Charles Lederer's script] is a beautiful job of mixing comedy, action, suspense and real language to give good lifelike entertainment. The people talk, almost always, like people really talk, and behave just as believably.

| Sep 21, 2021

Few movie fans who relish goose-flesh film fare will want to miss The Thing.

| Sep 21, 2021

While the Thing is encased In ice, the picture has a disturbing quality that is heightened by the objective, documentary treatment of the camera -- a real, ominous "What is it?" feeling.

| Sep 21, 2021

A sensational thriller, albeit a fantastic one, imaginatively presented and possessed of much suspense and several spine-tingling sequences.

| Sep 21, 2021

If you can stomach all the pseudo-scientific hokum, you might get a kick out of this. If you like the scary kind of Thing.

| Sep 21, 2021

Dramatically, the picture is contrived and rambling; it also takes quite a bit of footage to get to its point. Audiences will have to be in the Buck Rogers mood to accept it.

| Sep 21, 2021