The Thing - Das Ding aus einer anderen Welt (OmU)

In the organizer's words:

At a remote research station in the Antarctic, a team of scientists encounters an extraterrestrial being that can perfectly mimic any life form. As mistrust and paranoia grow, the sense of community breaks down and the fight for survival begins.

The Thing is considered an influential milestone in science fiction horror, taking paranoia, mistrust and loss of identity to extremes in a closed research station in the Antarctic. Antarctica - as a seemingly "empty" landscape - is appropriated by foreign research groups, while the creature found reflects the consequences of a violent appropriation of the unknown. John Carpenter combines radical special effects with psychological intensity and tells a timeless allegory of the Cold War, the foreign and the disintegration of community. In visceral images, the endless icy desert becomes an existential stage: a place of absolute isolation, where the alien inescapably penetrates the community. Initially labeled a flop both by critics and at the box office - the film was released shortly after E.T. and thus had to compete with the optimistic image of an extraterrestrial visitor - the classic only developed its current cult status from the late 1980s onwards.