The Thing

Syfy HD, 9pm

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The shape-shifting alien that ran amok among a group of scientists at a remote Antarctic station in director John Carpenter’s grisly1982 sci-fi chiller strikes again in a gory remake-cum-prequel. Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays a palaeontologist who discovers that an alien buried in the ice can mimic any living form. The Cgi-effects overkill of the new version cannot match the original’s far more insidious chills. 2011, 15, 103MIN