‘The Thing’ opens in U.S. theaters 30 years ago today (1982)


Video: 'The Thing' trailer

(Friday, June 25, 1982)The Thing, a science fiction horror film about scientists in the Antarctic who are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills, opened today in U.S. theaters.

Directed by John Carpenter, the film stars Kurt Russell.