Summer of 1982: 15 Classic Films Turn 30

THE THING
Release Date: June 25
U.S. Box Office: $19,629,760
2012 Adjusted Gross: $52,880,200
Another week, another underappreciated sci-fi masterwork. Director John Carpenter's remake of the 1951 "The Thing from Another World" created a claustrophobic sense of paranoid dread with its Antarctic setting and elicited screams with some astonishing practical effects.

THE THING
Release Date: June 25
U.S. Box Office: $19,629,760
2012 Adjusted Gross: $52,880,200
Another week, another underappreciated sci-fi masterwork. Director John Carpenter's remake of the 1951 "The Thing from Another World" created a claustrophobic sense of paranoid dread with its Antarctic setting and elicited screams with some astonishing practical effects.