An Arctic research crew thaws something out of the ice, and the something starts hunting them through the corridors of a snowbound outpost. Officially directed by Christian Nyby, but the overlapping crosstalk and the locker-room ensemble are pure Howard Hawks fingerprints. James Arness lumbers around as a humanoid vegetable from beyond the stars, predating Carpenter's 1982 remake by three decades. Cold War paranoia frozen into 87 minutes of arctic suspense. Cabin fever before the genre had a name.