Sci Fi History: The Thing (1951)

This movie scared me as a kid and is one of the best films of the 1950s. A group of scientists at an arctic research station are visited and attacked by an alien being. James Arness stars as the alien, but you can’t recognize him without the makeup. John Carpenter remade the film in 1982 starring Kurt Russell.  In 2001, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.