Color: Trapped Under Ice Coloured Vinyl.. 180 Gram Vinyl housed in Tip On Gatefold Sleeve with Poster. UPC: 850068977321 Waxwork Records present the deluxe film score reissue to 1982's sci-fi horror classic, John Carpenter's The Thing . Composed by the legendary Ennio Morricone, the score to The Thing is a landmark musical composition that is cold, dark, minimal, and effective. Considered to be John Carpenter's directorial masterpiece, The Thing is praised as one of the greatest films of it's genre by both fans and critics. Starring Kurt Russell and A. Wilford Brimley, The Thing follows a team of researchers in Antarctica as they are infiltrated by a parasitic extraterrestrial life form that assimilates other organisms and then imitates them. The classic soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone effectively captures the cold, isolated tone of the story and film, and marks one of the few John Carpenter directed films that Carpenter did not score himself.