The Thing From Another World (1951)




Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan - The Thing From Another World

The Thing From Another World

The Thing From Another World


The Thing From Another World

The Thing From Another World




Members of the U.S. military quickly travel from Alaska to the North Pole to join scientists who have reported the crash of an unidentified flying object. While trying to extract the saucer from the deep snow, they accidentally destroy it but manage to save a frozen inhabitant. Back at the remote base, this frozen human thaws and reveals an insatiable thirst for blood. Dubbed "The Thing," it threatens the lives of everyone at the base. Unable to defeat it with conventional weapons, the team searches for a way to exploit its vulnerabilities.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Thing From Another World

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 50s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Peter Biskind
Seeing Is Believing, How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties
New York, 1983

Douglas Brode
The Films of the Fifties
Secaucus, NJ, 1976

Chris Steinbrunner and Burt Goldblatt
Cinema of the Fantastic
New York, 1972

Articles with substantial mentioning of The Thing From Another World

Kim Newman, The 10 Scariest Movie Jumps, in: Empire, nr. 162, 2002 pp. 12-13