The Thing (1982) DVD

80 minute original documentation location footageRunning documentary with Kurt Russell and Director John CarpenterOuttakes from the filmCast production notesStoryboards and conceptual artLocation DesignProduction archivesProduction background archivesOriginal theatrical trailerProduction notesPost productionMenu MusicCast and filmmaker's notesLanguage: English/French/ItalianSubtitles: English/French/Dutch/Portuguese/Swedish/NOrwegian/Finnish/Danish/CzechRunning Time: 104 mins approxRatio: 2.35:1\n\nJohn Carpenter's apocalyptic The Thing was released in cinemas just two weeks after E.T. in 1982. The two movies could hardly have presented more contrasting ideas about extra-terrestrial life, and it was Carpenter's uncompromisingly bleak vision that lost out at the box-office. But his audacious remake of the Howard Hawks 1951 B-movie The Thing from Another World has since been acknowledged as a classic in its own right, not only for its pioneering makeup and special effects techniques, b1