Does the dog die?
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The Thing
Movie • 1982 • Horror
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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.
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Your Triggers
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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.
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Abandonment
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Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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(SPOILERS)
the only instance i can think of is when Fuches leaves and sacrifices himself before he can turn
the only instance i can think of is when Fuches leaves and sacrifices himself before he can turn
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Abuse
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There are no children in this movie.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
141 supporters
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I mean there’s no women anyway. Only men are brutalized here
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone gaslighted?
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not in the context of a toxic relationship but a major theme of the movie is distrust and knowing those around you may be lying/manipulating
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone stalked?
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The creature exists in the same space as the men and keeps taking them over to survive, but it does not fit the stereotypical definition of "Stalking".
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Addiction
Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Macready drinks from a bottle but only once
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Palmer is seen smoking marijuana
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Is there addiction?
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A character is seen drinking several times, it's unclear if he's addicted to alcohol.
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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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.
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Does a cat die?
283 supporters
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There are no cats in 'The Thing (1982)'
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There are no animals in this movie other than the dogs.
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Does a pet die?
266 supporters
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multiple dogs die, and while the emotional impact is not lingered upon long a man is viaibly distressed by this
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Is there a dead animal?
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Several dead dogs
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Is an animal sad?
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The dogs are clearly distressed when the dog-thing transforms and starts assimilating them.
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Are there spiders?
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An alien at one point does assume a very disturbing spider-like form.
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Are there bugs?
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The thing has bug like appendages at times
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Are there snakes?
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The thing has snake/tentacle appendages at times
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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The scenes where dogs were attacked and killed were faked with puppets.
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Assault
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Lots of gruesome violence and body horror, but nothing of a sexual nature.
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None of the violence in this movie is of a sexual nature. In fact, there is no sex related action in the film.
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Is someone drugged?
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several people are given morphine via injections, but they are aware that it’s happening.
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Is someone restrained?
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Several men are tied to chairs to conduct the famous blood test. One of them is the monster
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There isn’t even any women
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Bodily Harm
Is there excessive gore?
143 supporters
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That's this movie's whole thing yeah
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Is there body horror?
107 supporters
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Quite a lot. Every single scene where the Thing reveals itself includes major body horror.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
84 supporters
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And the doctor’s arms are bitten off while preforming cpr
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Does a head get squashed?
81 supporters
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Squashed in the thing’s mouth.
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Are any teeth damaged?
79 supporters
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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
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Is someone burned alive?
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It is the only way to “kill” a thing, plus several people infected by it are burned
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Is there a hanging?
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There is a scene where a noose is visible but not used
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Is there cannibalism?
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Could be mistaken for it.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
56 supporters
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A man is seen frozen with blood coming out of his wrists
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Is there amputation?
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When attempting to resuscitate someone, a man gets his arms bitten off.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Near the end the alien plugs up a mans mouth with it’s hand and you can hear the man struggle to breathe
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Does someone asphyxiate?
46 supporters
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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
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Does someone break a bone?
44 supporters
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Someone gets their arms chewed off and we see the broken and fragmented bones.
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Is someone choked?
33 supporters
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not with hands, but with tentacles from the thing
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Are any hands damaged?
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Copper's hands are cut off during the infamous defibrillator scene.
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Does someone have a seizure?
27 supporters
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A seizure is not the same as a heart attack.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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a man is slammed against a shelf and we see him lose consciousness. another man says he’s stopped breathing
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Is there decapitation?
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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.
There is no pain or discomfort depicted, but it is, visually speaking, a human head being separated from a human body.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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I actually don't think there's a single set of stairs in the entire movie
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Eyes swell with blood then explode.
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Is there throat mutilation?
1 supporters
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The main characters find a dead body with a slit throat
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Children
Does a kid die?
113 supporters
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No
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There are no children in this movie. Only several grown men.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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There are no children in this film.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
58 supporters
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several dogs and aliens die and/or are burned alive
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Does a major character die?
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Only two characters survive long enough to make it to the credits, but it is heavily implied that they do not survive for much longer after the events of the film.
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Does someone die?
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Yes. Every character in the movie dies, possibly including the titular "thing."
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a parent die?
42 supporters
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No
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We're not made aware of any of these men's families, so we don't know if any of them are parents.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Again, no sign of children in this movie
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Does someone cheat?
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No
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Except the chess computer, who is in MacReady's words a "cheating b***h"
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Is someone kidnapped?
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A few people do get ganged up on and tied up or locked up against their will
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
97 supporters
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During a blood test Palmer’s blood reacts violently and a silhouette comes out of nowhere
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Yes
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In the blood testing scene, some fingers are cut using a razor. It's not in relation to self harm though.
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Is someone possessed?
23 supporters
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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.
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Are there clowns?
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No, YOU'RE the clown
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Yes, but they're all frozen because the entire movie takes place in Antarctica.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
175 supporters
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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.
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Is there audio gore?
72 supporters
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The monster makes various gruesome sounds as it transforms itself.
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Is someone eaten?
51 supporters
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By the thing
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Does someone spit?
21 supporters
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Much alien drool, mucus & ooze
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
8 supporters
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This movie came out almost 20 years before 9/11
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
52 supporters
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No
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There are no police in Antarctica
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LGBTQ+
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
1 supporters
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Palmer smashes up the radioes to keep the group from calling for help.
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
55 supporters
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The blood is not gathered by syringe, but by cutting their thumbs with a knife. A syringe is shown when tranquillising a dog.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
41 supporters
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1
No
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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.
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Is electro-therapy used?
35 supporters
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1
No
90
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Not really, but there's an attempted defibrillation after a character has a heart attack.
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Are there heart attacks?
23 supporters
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A character gets a heart attack and flatlines
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Is there a hospital scene?
22 supporters
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Well, there's a few autopsy scenes. That might make people uncomfortable. This movie has a lot of gore and body horror, it's pretty gross.
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Mental Health
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Man is seen frozen with wrists slit
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Yes
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One of the characters that has been locked in a shack has tied a noose, but this is never acknowledged.
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Yes
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Man is seen with slit wrists
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Yes
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
52 supporters
Yes
0
No
86
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Unless you count the thing!
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27
Is a mentally ill person violent?
48 supporters
Yes
38
No
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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.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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No
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Yes
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Is there body dysmorphia?
35 supporters
Yes
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No
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This is a tough one, but no, the thing assuming other people’s form by consuming them and changing shape is not body dysmorphia.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
33 supporters
Yes
85
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There are scenes in a small shack and in a basement.
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Yes
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Are there anxiety attacks?
30 supporters
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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.
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Is there misophonia?
1 supporters
Yes
19
No
38
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Screaming, wet squelching sounds from The Thing
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Natural Disasters
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
66 supporters
Yes
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No
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Definitely some at the beginning
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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No
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F-bombs, religious exclamations, etc.
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Paranoia
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No
0
Yes
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No
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Pregnancy
Yes
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No
48
Yes
0
No
87
Does a pregnant person die?
37 supporters
Yes
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No
81
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There are no women in this movie.
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Yes
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Yes
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Prejudice
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Does an LGBT person die?
43 supporters
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No
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there are no explicitly queer people in the movie
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Yes
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Yes
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Does the black guy die first?
28 supporters
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No
86
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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).
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Yes
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
1 supporters
Yes
1
No
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No romantic or sexual relationships are depicted in the movie.
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Religious
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No
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Yes
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No
21
Sex
Yes
0
No
33
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
99 supporters
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Yes
1
No
87
Is there sexual content?
85 supporters
Yes
4
No
88
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Only verbally, there are no women or sexual relationships in this movie
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
28
Sexism
Yes
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No
48
Sickness
Yes
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No
31
Yes
1
No
24
Does someone have a stroke?
21 supporters
Yes
1
No
38
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Someone has a heart attack.
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Yes
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Social
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
0
No
44
Yes
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No
26
Spoiler
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No
24
Yes
0
No
85
Does it have a sad ending?
1 supporters
Yes
109
No
6
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NOT a happy ending
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
33 supporters
Yes
12
No
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Snow tractor crash
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Does a plane crash?
23 supporters
Yes
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A helicopter crashes on screen and a spaceship (flying saucer) crashes before the movie.
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Yes
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
82 supporters
Yes
115
No
0
18
To just say there is blood & gore is a vast understatement
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Yes
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82
Is there gun violence?
42 supporters
Yes
98
No
0
10
In the beginning a man is shot and they try to shoot the Thing.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
16 supporters
Yes
4
No
78
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No, but there is a large explosion with a mushroom cloud.
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