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Man is the warmest place to hide.
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In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror... and becomes one of them.
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Directed by: Dean Cundey, John Carpenter, Larry Franco
Produced by: David Foster, Wilbur Stark, Larry Franco
Composed by: Ennio Morricone, John Carpenter, Alan Howarth
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