Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. They soon discover that this task will be harder than they thought, as they don't know which members of the team have already been assimilated and their paranoia threatens to tear them apart.
This movie contains 49 potentially triggering events.
First off, the dog the HuskyThing had assimilated is dead but had died before the start of the movie. There were (more or less) nine dogs in the kennels when the HuskyThing arrived. Since only two dogs ran out after Clark opened the kennel, that means seven dogs were assimilated into the HuskyThing. While one dog wasn't assimilated, the poor thing *was* partially dissolved in acid (and thus, I'm assuming it died due to the extent of its injuries). One of the characters, Blair, kills the remaining dogs in the kennel after seeing the BenningsThing. Either way, lots of dogs die, this is not the movie for you if you're sensitive to dog deaths, especially to Husky deaths and brutal dog deaths.
One of the dogs hadn't been fully assimilated by the Thing, as the thing was torched before it could assimilate that one too, and despite being conscious and 'alive' the poor doggo was heavily dissolved by acid due to the attempted assimilation.
Technically no, but after one assimilated character dies, a still-living head pries itself off of the body and grows legs.
There is no pain or discomfort depicted, but it is, visually speaking, a human head being separated from a human body.
An assimilated human fuses its hand into the skin of a normal human’s face and it’s the last he’s seen alive. It’s unclear what his exact cause of death is, so I’m voting no, but if you are extremely sensitive to this I would be careful
there is a cadaver of an attempted assimilation cut short where the teeth of the people are extremely deformed from said attempt - the camera focuses on it for some time before cutting away
Not by an evil spirit, but they do get taken over by the Thing. Sometimes it's able to completely take over someone and mimic them so that everyone thinks they're still human.
It doesn’t really look like vomit. More like a small high pressure hose stream of a weird liquid. I’m pretty sensitive to vomit scenes and it didn’t bother me.
What could possibly be triggering for previous patients of MI's is that a man who becomes delusional and psychotic with knowledge of the Thing's abilities is forcibly restrained, sedated and locked in a cabin away from the other researchers.
No idea why people are voting no for this. This movie is littered with scenes of people becoming paranoid, delusional and attacking each other as a result. It's essentially the theme of the film.
Yes, there are very much anxiety attacks. The whole film is about mistrust and suspicion, so many characters end up panicking at several moments in the film.
The black guys weren't the first to die, and it's made pretty clear no one is safe from the thing, thus not making it a race thing. In fact, Childs (one of the aforementioned black guys) survives *until the end of the movie*, after which his death is only confirmed in the 2002 'The Thing' video game (because apparently Carpenter said the 2002 game was canon so).