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Synopsis: Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No Imagination", "Submit to Authority". Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued.
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director(s): John Carpenter
Production: MCA/Universal Pictures
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
52
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
R
Year:
1988
94 min
3,055 Views


Close the door.

Drive.

Not too fast.

They're gone.

- Just keep driving.

- Where am I going?

- Are you married?

- Yes.

- Please, don't lie to me.

- No.

Live alone?

- Your place.

- I'd rather not.

I'm afraid I must insist.

Hi, Holly!

- I don't know what you want.

- Just quiet.

It's like a drug. Wearing

these glasses makes you high...

...but you come down hard.

- Things didn't turn out well today.

- You're not the only one.

I'm sorry,

but I needed you to get away.

You have two guns.

You're not sorry, you're in charge.

We're in trouble. They're everywhere.

You can see them with these glasses.

We're being controlled by these things

and we've got to stop them.

I'll do whatever you want,

just don't hurt me, please.

Listen to what I'm saying to you.

You're fighting the forces of evil...

that can only be seen with sunglasses.

- Take a look.

- I'll wear your glasses, if you want.

If I don't see what you see,

I'm going to see it anyway.

- You have it your way.

- It's not my way... It's your way.

- Don't f*** with me.

- I'm thirsty.

Go ahead.

I'm sorry I have to be here.

- So your name's Holly?

- Holly Thompson.

That's a pretty name.

What do you do?

Assistant program director. Cable 54.

A TV station? They're sending

signals out of TV sets.

No, I'm all right.

Holly Thompson.

Yes, I'll hold.

Frank?

- Don't let anybody see you.

- I've had a rough couple of days.

I want nothing to do with you.

How many people did you kill?

- They're not people.

- You crazy son-of-a-b*tch.

You ain't showing me nothing.

I've got a wife and kids.

Leave me alone.

Get out of here.

No!

One week's pay.

It's the best I could do.

Wait!

You'd better find someplace to hide.

- Try these on.

- You crazy mother!

- Put these on.

- Stay away from me.

I'm trying to save you

and your family's life.

You can't even save yourself.

I'm giving you a choice. Put these on

or start eating that trash can.

- Not this year.

- Okay.

Come on.

I don't want to fight you.

Stop it.

Put on the glasses.

I told you

I didn't want to be involved.

Dirty motherf***er.

Take a look. Put them on.

No!

I'm sorry.

Put the glasses on. Put them on!

F*** you!

Look! They're everywhere.

They can see us.

They're at 5th and Spring.

Hold on. You aren't the first one

to wake up out of a dream.

What's that?

Brother, life's a b*tch...

and she's back in heat.

I want a room.

Ain't love grand?

CONFORM:

Don't wear those glasses too long.

It's like a knife in your skull.

- How long have they been there?

- Who knows?

- Where do they come from?

- They ain't from Cleveland.

I don't need that sh*t!

What are we going to do?

- Wait.

- Wait for what?

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John Carpenter

John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, musician, and composer. Although Carpenter has worked with various film genres, he is associated most commonly with horror, action and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s.Most films of Carpenter's career were initially commercial and critical failures, with the notable exceptions of Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), and Starman (1984). However, many of Carpenter's films from the 1970s and the 1980s have come to be considered as cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. The cult classics that Carpenter has directed include Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987), They Live (1988), and In the Mouth of Madness (1995). He returned to the Halloween franchise as both composer and executive producer for the horror sequel Halloween (2018). Carpenter is also notable for having composed or co-composed most of his films' music; some of them are now well-known, with the main theme of Halloween being considered a part of popular culture. He won a Saturn Award for Best Music for the film Vampires (1998). Carpenter has released three studio albums, titled Lost Themes (2015), Lost Themes II (2016), and Anthology: Movie Themes 1974–1998 (2017). more…

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