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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Does the dog die?
329 supporters
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Mycomni
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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4
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13
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
27 supporters
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34
Is an animal abandoned?
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1
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15
Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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23
Yes
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18
Is someone stalked?
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Yes
14
No
62
Is there domestic violence?
70 supporters
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88
5
SiRenfield
I mean there’s no women anyway. Only men are brutalized here
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Yes
9
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9
cherry
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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Is someone abused with a belt?
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19
Is a child abused?
88 supporters
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102
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crabby
There are no children in this movie.
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Addiction
11
Anonymous
Palmer is seen smoking marijuana
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Is there addiction?
13 supporters
Yes
5
No
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7
Day
A character is seen drinking several times, it's unclear if he's addicted to alcohol.
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Yes
29
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10
Anonymous
Macready drinks from a bottle but only once
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Animal
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Anonymous
The scenes where dogs were attacked and killed were faked with puppets.
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Does a horse die?
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107
Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
140 supporters
Yes
97
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69
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crabby
There are no animals in this movie other than the dogs.
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Are animals abused?
163 supporters
Yes
88
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Mycomni
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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zdy1994
Not by the definition here, but dogs do fight the thing, just no one is forcing them too.
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Yes
119
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VelBloo
Several dead dogs
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Is an animal sad?
63 supporters
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Yes
28
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Are rabbits harmed?
52 supporters
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23
Does a cat die?
138 supporters
Yes
4
No
128
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Mycomni
There are no cats in 'The Thing (1982)'
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Does a pet die?
131 supporters
Yes
59
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cherry
multiple dogs die, and while the emotional impact is not lingered upon long a man is viaibly distressed by this
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Does a dragon die?
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108
Are there spiders?
42 supporters
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Allandrel
An alien at one point does assume a very disturbing spider-like form.
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
15 supporters
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invadermac
The thing has snake/tentacle appendages at times
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
26 supporters
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79
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22
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invadermac
The thing has bug like appendages at times
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Assault
5
SiRenfield
There isn’t even any women
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Is someone drugged?
27 supporters
Yes
30
No
2
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hexbabey
several people are given morphine via injections, but they are aware that it’s happening.
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Is there pedophilia?
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24
Is someone held under water?
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28
Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Yes
56
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VelBloo
Several men are tied to chairs to conduct the famous blood test. One of them is the monster
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101
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SpaceCoyote
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's mouth covered?
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14
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Yes
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Anonymous
Lots of gruesome violence and body horror, but nothing of a sexual nature.
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Bodily Harm
Yes
110
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0
15
Anonymous
A man is seen frozen with blood coming out of his wrists
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sunnysilica
Copper's hands are cut off during the infamous defibrillator scene.
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Are there dislocations?
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Yes
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dustimp
The main characters find a dead body with a slit throat
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37
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WisdomPen
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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CrayZblu
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.
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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31
Is someone choked?
17 supporters
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georgiarose
not with hands, but with tentacles from the thing
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Yes
115
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invadermac
It is the only way to “kill” a thing, plus several people infected by it are burned
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
39 supporters
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5
Quite a lot. Every single scene where the Thing reveals itself includes major body horror.
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Is there amputation?
26 supporters
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SkylarSnow
When attempting to resuscitate someone, a man gets his arms bitten off.
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Yes
99
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2
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invadermac
Squashed in the thing’s mouth.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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43
Is there a hanging?
34 supporters
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4
No
74
33
Anonymous
There is a scene where a noose is visible but not used
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CrayZblu
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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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
72 supporters
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63
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hexbabey
a man is slammed against a shelf and we see him lose consciousness. another man says he’s stopped breathing
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Yes
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2
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Anonymous
Someone gets their arms chewed off and we see the broken and fragmented bones.
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Mycomni
A seizure is not the same as a heart attack.
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DjMuel
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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invadermac
And the doctor’s arms are bitten off while preforming cpr
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Is someone tortured?
73 supporters
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5
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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37
Does someone fall to their death?
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1
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Yes
93
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2
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notgoingtoaddcomments
Eyes swell with blood then explode.
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Is someone stabbed?
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12
Yes
57
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0
11
That's this movie's whole thing yeah
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
15 supporters
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Yes
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36
Does a kid die?
37 supporters
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No
89
11
crabby
There are no children in this movie. Only several grown men.
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33
2
Anonymous
There are no children in this film.
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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11
Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Yes
24
No
3
Does a major character die?
19 supporters
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Yes
20
No
0
Yes
25
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0
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hexbabey
several dogs and aliens die and/or are burned alive
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Does someone die?
1 supporters
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Yes
19
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Disability
Yes
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11
Is the r-slur used?
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39
Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
13 supporters
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Family
Does a family member die?
18 supporters
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14
Does a parent die?
18 supporters
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3
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crabby
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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steppy
Again, no sign of children in this movie
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Yes
4
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53
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WisdomPen
A few people do get ganged up on and tied up or locked up against their will
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Does someone cheat?
16 supporters
Yes
1
No
70
28
Quiet_Wyatt
Except the chess computer, who is in MacReady's words a "cheating b***h"
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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80
Yes
109
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0
20
Anonymous
During a blood test Palmer’s blood reacts violently and a silhouette comes out of nowhere
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Is there a shower scene?
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1
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79
2
Yes, but they're all frozen because the entire movie takes place in Antarctica.
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Are there clowns?
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88
Is someone possessed?
13 supporters
Yes
75
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13
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crabby
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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Is trypophobic content shown?
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13
Are there razors?
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12 supporters
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7
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16
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sp3xtkr
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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Are there mannequins?
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23
Gross
Does someone vomit?
84 supporters
Yes
71
No
27
17
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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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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49
Is there farting?
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Yes
0
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16
Is someone eaten?
27 supporters
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19
No
0
0
By the thing
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Is there on-screen pooping?
34 supporters
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12
Does someone spit?
9 supporters
Yes
24
No
50
17
Quiet_Wyatt
Much alien drool, mucus & ooze
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Is there audio gore?
42 supporters
Yes
71
No
0
3
Anonymous
The monster makes various gruesome sounds as it transforms itself.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
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32
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
25 supporters
Yes
1
No
60
5
VelBloo
There are no police in Antarctica
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Is there incarceration?
5 supporters
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Yes
9
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2
LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
42 supporters
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Yes
0
No
16
Yes
0
No
13
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
30 supporters
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0
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18
Is there bisexual cheating?
20 supporters
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Yes
0
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21
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
1 supporters
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0
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14
Medical
Yes
1
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75
0
sunnysilica
Not really, but there's an attempted defibrillation after a character has a heart attack.
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Yes
94
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1
11
invadermac
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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DjMuel
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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Yes
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No
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zdy1994
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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Is there menstruation?
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10
Does someone have cancer?
16 supporters
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Yes
1
No
75
Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
10 supporters
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Yes
3
No
8
Yes
85
No
6
13
Anonymous
Man is seen with slit wrists
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Is autism misrepresented?
28 supporters
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Yes
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12
Yes
26
No
27
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DjMuel
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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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Yes
1
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21
Is there autism specific abuse?
36 supporters
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Yes
0
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62
4
One of the characters that has been locked in a shack has tied a noose, but this is never acknowledged.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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9
Does someone have a meltdown?
7 supporters
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Yes
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1
Is there misophonia?
34 supporters
Yes
11
No
33
6
Screaming, wet squelching sounds from The Thing
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Yes
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No
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Heyo
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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Is there ABA therapy?
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12
Yes
0
No
48
Is there body dysphoria?
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Yes
1
No
17
Yes
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No
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invadermac
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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Yes
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hyperandrogenism
There are scenes in a small shack and in a basement.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
37 supporters
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Yes
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No
71
16
Anonymous
Man is seen frozen with wrists slit
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Yes
3
No
30
Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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Yes
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10
Are there sudden loud noises?
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Yes
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No
0
Yes
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0
Definitely some at the beginning
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Does a baby cry?
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Yes
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48
Is there screaming?
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Yes
13
No
0
2
Anonymous
F-bombs, religious exclamations, etc.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Yes
29
No
39
Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
13 supporters
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Yes
17
No
0
Is the fourth wall broken?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
34
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
21 supporters
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Yes
0
No
33
Does someone miscarry?
21 supporters
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Yes
0
No
72
Are there babies or unborn children?
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Yes
0
No
34
Is there childbirth?
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Yes
0
No
64
Are there abortions?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
66
Yes
0
No
66
13
zdy1994
There are no women in this movie.
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
38 supporters
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Yes
0
No
54
Yes
0
No
55
Are there usages of the n-word?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
56
Yes
0
No
56
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
29 supporters
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Yes
1
No
44
Yes
0
No
75
12
fulltimesnake
there are no explicitly queer people in the movie
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Are there fat jokes?
46 supporters
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Yes
1
No
62
Is there aphobia?
16 supporters
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Yes
0
No
17
Is a minority is misrepresented?
22 supporters
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Yes
0
No
18
Yes
0
No
71
11
Mycomni
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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Is there hate speech?
22 supporters
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Yes
1
No
70
Race
Is there blackface?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
36 supporters
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Yes
0
No
29
Religious
Is religion discussed?
10 supporters
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Yes
1
No
8
Are there demons or Hell?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Sex
Are there nude scenes?
35 supporters
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Yes
0
No
31
Is there bestiality?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
16
Does someone lose their virginity?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Is someone sexually objectified?
38 supporters
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Yes
0
No
31
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
77 supporters
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Yes
1
No
71
Yes
4
No
73
6
Anonymous
Not much but there are some references
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Is there BDSM?
20 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Sexism
Yes
0
No
32
Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Yes
1
No
27
0
DustedRxses
Someone has a heart attack.
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
23
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
25 supporters
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Yes
0
No
18
Social
Are there fat suits?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
19
Is someone homeless?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
31
Is existentialism debated?
10 supporters
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Yes
1
No
8
Are there anti-abortion themes?
31 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
3 supporters
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Yes
0
No
72
Are there end credit scenes?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Yes
95
No
6
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invadermac
NOT a happy ending
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
30
Does a car crash?
18 supporters
Yes
8
No
55
11
notgoingtoaddcomments
Snow tractor crash
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Does a plane crash?
10 supporters
Yes
73
No
10
12
hyperandrogenism
A helicopter crashes on screen and a spaceship (flying saucer) crashes before the movie.
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Is someone hit by a car?
21 supporters
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Yes
0
No
69
Violence
Does someone drown?
18 supporters
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Yes
0
No
70
Is there blood/gore?
52 supporters
Yes
98
No
0
15
Travis Clark
To just say there is blood & gore is a vast understatement
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Yes
3
No
67
14
notgoingtoaddcomments
No, but there is a large explosion with a mushroom cloud.
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Yes
81
No
0
9
hyperandrogenism
In the beginning a man is shot and they try to shoot the Thing.
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