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- Spoilers (15)
Certification
Sex & Nudity
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- There are pictures of women in their underwear in the wall of the rec room and a woman in a bikini in the tool shed.
- There is no sex or nudity in this film.
- Reference is made to underwear which have been soiled with blood.
- A man in his underpants runs down the hallway. (no nudity)
Violence & Gore
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- The burnt corpse of a man is found. It is completely black with ashes. It is implied that he torched himself before the thing could assimilate him.
- When the thing transforms, it is always gory and scary.
- A character is killed by a gunshot. Minimal blood is shown.
- An autopsy is performed on a dead thing. They take out its organs, and examine them in detail. While not gruesome, the scene is very gross.
- The thing kills various dogs in a kennel in a variety of gross ways, but it is pretty brief.
- When the thing is attacking the dogs in the kennel, a man shoots one of them to make its death quick and painless. Very little blood.
- The thing (disguised as a man) has gasoline poured on him and is set on fire.
- A brief fistfight ensues.
- Several men have their thumbs cut and the blood put into dishes for testing. The cutting shown and there is very a large amount of blood that oozes out. This happens twice. Some people may be grossed out by this.
- The thing latches its mouth onto a man and thrashes him around. He is eventually thrown into a shelf, where we see his bloodied body onscreen briefly.
- A man is shot square in the forehead. Seen from a distance.
- An alien is blown up onscreen with a dynamite. No blood.
- Bloody, shredded clothes are seen.
Profanity
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- "Goddamn" is used.
- 5 uses of fuck 1 used as motherfucker 2 used as fucking 2 used as fuck you
- Sparse uses of the f-word, a handful of s-words, "damn," and "hell."
- 6 uses of "shit," including one use of "bullshit" and "shithead."
- 3 uses of "bitch," including one "S.O.B."
- More than 10 uses of "hell", "damn", and "ass" each.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Some characters are shown to have alcohol dependency
- One character smokes marijuana.
- A brief heroin joke.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- Rated R for Grisly Bloody Violence Including Unsettling Disturbing Images, and Some Strong Language.
- The creature of the title has no defined form. What it looks like, or what it even IS, can't actually be described.
- The movie is very tense because paranoia is the main theme, as no one knows who is human or alien.
- Several jump-scares that come out of nowhere.
- The aliens are disturbing to look at. They are basically a mixed up pile of body parts with a head and tentacles. They also have rows of sharp teeth. Each alien is differently designed.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- When the research crew is in the Norwegian base, they find the frozen corpse of a man with his wrists and throat slit, implying the man committed suicide.
- When the characters transform, the gore is very highly detailed with a lot of blood and tearing of flesh. The characters faces have deformation of features, eyes bulging, skin splitting, tendrils squirming, etc.
- The research crew uncovers a dead thing. It has an incredibly gruesome design, with two faces melted together, and it is covered in blood and slime.
- A man's chest cavity opens up and turns into a mouth, biting another mans arms off. His head then separates from his body revealing green tissue in his neck.
- One of the characters transforms into the thing offscreen. It pops out of the floor as a huge monster with the character's face on its head, and one of the dogs from the kennel (now hairless and covered in slime) comes out of its stomach.
- A husky transforms into a monster. It is seen as a writhing blob with limbs and a dog head, before red tentacles emerge from its body, as well as claws that grip to the ceiling.
- A man gets his arms bitten off by the thing. It comes out of nowhere, and is shown onscreen. Gory, but very brief.
- A man reveals itself as the thing. Its hands extend into claws, his head inflates and stretches, and eventually the head splits open and turns into a giant sharp toothed mouth.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
- Several people have morphine injected into them.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- The movie follows the members of a research station in Antarctica confronting a shape-shifting alien. The Thing is often described as one of the scariest movies in the history of cinema and is especially known for its horrific and disturbing visual effects; there are many gruesome deaths, creepy creatures and an intense atmosphere of dread. This is a science-fiction/horror film likely to scare impressionable viewers of all ages.
- During a blackout, theres a jump scare where an alien runs past a man making mysterious sounds.
- A man is infected and walks out into the snow, falling to his knees. The research team gathers around him and he lets out a creepy/eerie scream and has a rather eerie look on his face.
- Huskies in a kennel are assimilated and devoured by the thing, and one dog is shot to avoid a more painful death. Some animal lovers may find this scene upsetting.
- In one scene an imitation has gasoline poured on it and it is lit on fire, the imitation lets out a roar that is very disturbing sounding.
- There is a scene were a man suddenly transforms into an alien and rips another mans arms off.
