Who Goes There?
by John W. Campbellliterary work· published 1938
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A remote scientific research expedition at the North Pole is invaded by a monstrous alien, reawakened after lying frozen for centuries after a crash-landing. The alien is intelligent, cunning and a shape-changer who can assume the form and personality of anything it destroys and soon it is among the men of the expedition, killing and replacing them, using its shape-changing ability to lull the scientists one by one into inattention and destruction.
Adaptations (4)
Who Goes There? has been adapted into 4 films, from 1951 to 2020. The most recent is Friend of the World (2020).
The Thing1982 · film · 109 min · dir. John Carpenter · IMDb ↗A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
The Thing2011 · film · 103 min · dir. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. · IMDb ↗When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.
Friend of the World2020 · film · 50 min · dir. Brian Patrick Butler · IMDb ↗IMDb4.691%After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general leads a filmmaker through a bunker as paranoia escalates and reality begins to fracture. Blending dark comedy with psychological and body horror, this post-apocalyptic thriller explores isolation, storytelling, and the fragile boundary between truth and delusion.
