The Thing star Kurt Russell reflects on the movie's ambiguous ending more than four decades later. Released in 1982, John Carpenter's sci-fi horror film remains a classic, and one of the most beloved projects of his career. Russell stars in the film as MacReady, one member of a doomed Antarctic research team, who faces off against a shape-shifting alien being. The final scene of the movie famously sees MacReady and Keith David's Childs as the only survivors, though it's not revealed which one is actually the alien.
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