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HORROR

MYSTERY

SCIENCE FICTION

Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.

name	character
Wilford Brimley	Dr. Blair
T.K. Carter	Nauls
David Clennon	Palmer
Keith David	Childs
Richard Dysart	Dr. Copper
Charles Hallahan	Vance Norris
Peter Maloney	George Bennings
Richard Masur	Clark
Donald Moffat	Garry
Joel Polis	Fuchs
Kurt Russell	R.J. MacReady
Thomas G. Waites	Windows

name
John Carpenter	director
Stuart Cohen	producer
David Foster	producer
Larry J. Franco	producer
Bill Lancaster	screenplay
Ennio Morricone	composer