The Thing is the prequel to the horrifying original.

Antarctica, 1982. Three Norwegian scientists are searching for the source of a high frequency when the snow cat they are in plummets down a shaft.

The trio uncover a spaceship and an unknown mammal known only as 'The Thing'.

Dr. Sander Halvorson (Ulrich Thomsen), a Norwegian scientist, visits an American Paleontologist, named Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and convinces her to fly to Antarctica to examine the organism.

So Kate and her colleague, Adam (Eric Christian Olsen), fly in to the Norwegian camp in Antarctica. There they meet the team made up of Norwegians and Americans.

The organism is removed from the ground. It is placed in a wooden room back at the camp still encased in the ice block. Sander decides to take a tissue sample from the creature, ignoring Kate’s advice to preserve it.

They leave the room and soon the ice block begins to melt. ‘The Thing’ isn’t dead; it is very much alive and dead set on feeding its passion for blood and violence.

It breaks out of the ice and jumps through the ceiling. Upon discovering its escape Sander launches a search party. But one by one the team are killed off. It has infected one of the team.

The monster takes cells from its victims and then replicating them, meaning that it has the ability to look and sound just like a human. ‘The Thing’ is amongst the team, but how do they find out who it is without becoming murderers?

The Thing is terrifying. The way that the virus spreads is terrifyingly believable. ‘The Thing’ isn’t so scary but the action scenes definitely are.