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Film Negative & Print Format: 35 mm / 70 mm (blow-up)

Cinematographic Process: Panavision (anamorphic)

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Runtime: 109 minutes (1 hour, 49 minutes) 

Print Details: 35mm, 6 reels, scope presentation, Technicolor, Dolby Stereo, Eastman 5384, 9766 feet

MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) 

Budget: $15 million plus ads and prints

Filming Dates: June 1981 - December 1981 (Jan. 8 - Feb 2, 1982 re-shoots) 

Release Date: Friday, June 25, 1982

Opening Weekend US Screens: 840

Opening Weekend US Gross: $3.1m
Domestic Gross: $13.782m
North American Gross: $19.6m

Filming Locations: Stewart, British Columbia, CANADA
                                 Tongass National Forest, Juneau, Alaska, USA 
                                 Universal Studios, Universal City, California, USA

Taglines: Man is the Warmest Place to Hide. 
                 The Ultimate in Alien Terror.  
                 Look closely at your neighbor. Trust no one...they might be the Thing. (UK)

Universal Collector's Edition DVD: September 8, 1998

Universal Blu-ray: September 30, 2008

Universal 16X9 DVD: October 26, 2004

Scream-Factory Blu-ray: October 11, 2016
Arrow Video Blu-ray: October 23, 2017

Turbine Media 4K Blu-ray: March 2019 
 

IMDb: 8.1/10  Top 250: #160  (circa July 2021)

            8.2/10  Top 250: #158  (circa July 2022) 
            8.2/10  Top 250: #151  (circa July 2023) 

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Trailers: Theatrical Trailer  110 secs. 
               Teaser Trailer  97 secs. 
               Teaser Trailer (Ice block) 60 secs.