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 the second film in the Original "The Thing Trilogy," and picks up directly after the first film, with Kurt Russell and Keith David reprising their roles as R.J. MacReady and Childs, with new characters portrayed by Paul Freeman, Donald Pleasence, Dennis Quaid, Art Hindle, Jeff Bridges and Moses Gunn. 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?, the final film in the original trilogy, 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.

MacReady makes it to the Antarctic coastline and is picked up by a Japanese Whaling ship, the Misaki Maru, and restrained after an outburst, but escapes and makes sure he isn't infected. MacReady steals the ship's helicopter and flies back to Outpost 31, exhausting it's fuel supply. MacReady then destroys the remains of the Outpost and the last Thing he killed. MacReady then takes one final look at the remains and sets off without the Helicopter.

He eventually finds another Outpost. Despite some of the concerns of some members that MacReady is a Thing, he is allowed to join them to discover the spacecraft that kept The Thing.

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Cast
· Kurt Russell as R.J. MacReady

· Keith David as Childs

· Paul Freeman as Dr. Hendry

· Donald Pleasence as Bart Caldwell

· Dennis Quaid as Jerry Connant

· Art Hindle as Samuel Dutton

· Jeff Bridges as Kinner

· Moses Gunn as Van Wall

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Music
Ennio Morricone returned to score The Thing Returns, after doing so for the first film. John Carpenter this time also did additional music. 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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