Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. They soon discover that this task will be harder than they thought, as they don't know which members of the team have already been assimilated and their paranoia threatens to tear them apart.
An American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter. Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell novella Who Goes There? It is a remake of the 1951 movie The Thing from Another World. A prequel with the same name was released in 2011.