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In Memoriam
Gene Hackman, 1930-2025
A legend for more than six decades, Gene Hackman won two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and two BAFTAs.
Hackman was known for his gruff everyman, from Popeye Doyle in the French Connection to Royal Tennenbaum in...well, The Royal Tennenbaums.
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Directed by John Carpenter
Body Horror Film - Rated R - 109 Minutes - 1982
The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster. Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, it tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms.