The Thing Returns

The Thing Returns is a 1985 American science fiction horror film directed by Rick Rosenthal, produced by John Carpenter and written by Bill Lancaster. The film is

a Sequel to Carpenter's The Thing (1982) and picks up directly after the first film, with Kurt Russell and Keith David reprising their roles as R.J. MacReady and Childs. The plot involves MacReady hunting down The Thing, a shape shifting alien, in Antarctica, leading him to a new outpost as well as a research complex called the Strata Medical Laboratory.

Production began in 1983, a year after the first film. Filming took place in Juneau Alaska in refrigerated sets in Los Angeles throughout 1984. Rob Bottin returned to helm the practical creature effects of the film. The film released in the United States on June 10, 1985 to negative reviews.

The film, like the first and third, found an audience when released on home video and television. A sequel, The Thing III: Who Goes There?, was released on October 15, 1992.

Plot
The film picks up during the final events of the first film, where R.J. MacReady and Childs acknowledge the futility of their distrust and share a bottle of scotch whisky near the burning ruins of Outpost 31 in the winter of 1982. Childs tells MacReady to leave so he could freeze. During his final moments before freezing, Childs is seemingly assimilated by the shape shifting "Thing" that attacked the Outpost.

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Cast
· Kurt Russell as R.J. MacReady

· Keith David as Childs

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Music
Ennio Morricone returned to score The Thing Returns, after doing so for the first film. All of Morricone's unused parts of his previous work on the first film that we're supposed to be used for it we're put into this film, as well as serval new tracks, like "Humanity III."

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