The Thing
Dir. John Carpenter (1982, IMDb #161)
A horror film with Black people in it? Oh you best believe we’re going to be bringing up The Beige Death Index. And guess what? This film has a bugfuck crazy score of 0%. No beige deaths.
Yes. Unbelievable. We made Alan (The Beige Index Intern) triple-check. T.K. Carter (Nauls) and Keith David (Childs) make it through unscathed. Though some depressing broader-universe The Thing lore (comics and novelisation, which, yes, we also made Alan read) suggests that Nauls was a goner.
But that doesn’t count. The man made it to the credits safe and sound? That’s good enough for us.
SCORE: CREAMY
Cast
Film Details
Budget15m USD | Gross19.6m USD |
IMDb User Score8.2 | Metacritic57% |
Synopsis
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Major Wins and Nominations
0 wins and an additional 3 nominations (approximate).






