Movie Facts

In the book that the movie 'The thing 1982' is based on titled  'who goes there' by John Campbell. There are some key attributes of the alien creature that was not revealed in the movie. 

Firstly, the organism doesn't need to eat or breathe because it can harness cold fusion in its cells, they split water molecules and merge the two hydrogen atoms together to make helium and lots of energy.  

Secondly, Dr Blair believed it has a default form and was likely artificially created to spread an alien civilization around the universe. When they found the creature it had three red eyes and tendrils in its head and Dr Blair came to the conclusion that when it had finish assimilating all the life forms it would return to its default form, unless it needed adaptations to survive. 

Thirdly, the creature is telepathic and as it thawed out in the book, it would mess with the minds of the crew and it knew what they were all going to do. They couldn't hide anything from it. 

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The movie titled "The thing" is based on the Book called 'Who Goes there' by John Campbell. In the '80s version of the film, there are some differences from the book. In the book, the alien wasn't discovered by a separate Norwegian expedition. It was discovered by the same crew. 

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In the book the alien has a default form, a creature with a humanoid shape and three red eyes. The creature also has tentacles in it's hair. In the book the creature doesn't need to eat or breathe because it has cold fusion proteins, the cells can get energy directly from water molecules by splitting it and fusing hydrogen. In the movie this ability is never exposed. The book also mentions that the cells of the organism are identical from the victim cells except for the nucleus. Most of the science is cut out of the movie.