Fatal Attraction

The film grossed US$156.6 million. In 2003 it was released on DVD. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Glenn Close), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Anne Archer), Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the original film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. It was directed by Adrian Lyne. In 1982, John Carpenter made a more faithful version of the story "Who Goes There?" under the remake-suggestive title The Thing. The movie was adapted by James Dearden and Nicholas Meyer from an earlier, script by Dearden for British television. Not mentioned by AMC was the fact that the creature's face is never clearly seen in the film.

It stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer. The makeup artist "knew he had a winner" and used that face in the movie. Fatal Attraction is a 1987 horror/slasher film which tells the story of a married man who has an affair, only to discover that the woman with whom he had the affair is not ready to let it end. At one point, a woman in the next car screamed and fainted upon seeing the creature. I mean, I'm not gonna be ignored, Dan!". He would test each one by putting the full makeup on Arness and taking him for a drive through Los Angeles. "Well, what am I supposed to do? You won't answer my calls, you change your number. The makeup artist supposedly went through several revisions of the creature's face.

When American Movie Classics was showing the movie in the 1990s, the introduction related a story about the creation of the creature's makeup. One character describes it as an "animated carrot". In the original story, the "Thing" is a lifeform capable of assuming the physical and mental characteristics of anyone it chooses. The screenplay changes the fundamental nature of the alien as presented in Campbell's short story: Lederer's "Thing" is a humanoid monster whose cellular structure is closer to vegetation although it must feed on human blood to survive. It was directed by Howard Hawks (uncredited) and Christian Nyby for Hawks' Winchester Pictures, which released it through RKO Radio Pictures Inc.

Campbell, Jr. The movie was loosely adapted by Charles Lederer from the story "Who Goes There?" by John W. Oddly, no players are named during the otherwise-complete opening credits; the only cast credit is at the end. James Arness plays The Thing, in unrecognizable costume and makeup.

It stars Margaret Sheridan, Dewey Martin, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite and Douglas Spencer. The Thing From Another World is a 1951 science fiction film which tells the story of scientists at a remote Arctic outpost who fight an alien being.