The Thing (1982)

Where to watch The Thing

• Apple TV Store
• HBO Max
• Amazon Video
• Rakuten TV
• Claro video
• Zavvi
• Sky Store
• Sky Go
• maxdome Store
• aho
• Wow Fiction Amazon Channel
• Videobuster
• U-NEXT
• Thalia
• blue TV
• Sky
• Sky X
• WOW
• saz
• pva
• Amazon Prime Video
• KPN
• JPC
• Hugendubel

Available on 24 platforms across 16 countries.

Chart positions today

Currently charting in 16 countries, best placed at #114 in Costa Rica.

• Costa Rica #114
• Japan #193
• Mexico #212
• Germany #213
• Switzerland #478
• Canada #491
• Guatemala #531
• Colombia #534
• Bolivia #538
• Venezuela #597
• Netherlands #602
• Chile #628
• Argentina #630
• Peru #638
• Ecuador #650
• Austria #726

Available languages

Audio: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Subtitles: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, NB, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Chart history

The Thing has spent 3 days in a top 3, 7 days in a top 10 and 244 days in a top 100 across the markets we track. Its best position anywhere is #1.

Cast

Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Masur, Donald Moffat, Joel Polis, Thomas G. Waites, Norbert Weisser, Larry Franco, Nate Irwin, William Zeman, John Carpenter, Adrienne Barbeau

Crew

John Carpenter (director), Bill Lancaster (screenplay), David Foster (producer), Lawrence Turman (producer)

Awards

0 wins from 3 nominations.

• Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Musical Score 1983 — nominated
• Saturn Award for Best Special Effects 1982 — nominated
• Saturn Award for Best Horror Film 1982 — nominated