The Thing

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• Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Copper and MacReady find several empty cans labeled "karosin" outside the Norwegian camp. The Norwegian word for kerosene is actually "parafin".
• SPOILER: Kurt Russell was almost injured in the scene where he blows up the alien Palmer with a stick of dynamite. Apparently, he had no idea exactly how big of an explosion it would produce, and the reaction that he has in the movie is genuine.
• John Carpenter has stated that of all his films, this is his personal favorite.
• The Thing came out in the early days of home video with stereo sound. It also came during the time videophiles began to learn how to decode the matrixed surround track encoded on Dolby Stereo films by use of a left minus right decoder with delay applied. The Thing was one of the main films that were recommended to test out the setups due to the aggressively directional surround stereo mix, especially in the opening helicopter chase. The Thing was among the first movies to advertise that it had a "matrixed surround track" on its packaging for the stereo soundtrack versions.