They Live Page #4

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
3,067 Views


When you get your master plan,

you let me know.

If we can see, we've got to find

the people who made these.

Yeah, if any of them are still alive.

A long time ago,

things were different.

Daddy took me down to the river and

told me about the power and the glory.

I was saved.

He changed when I was little.

He turned mean.

I ran away when I was 13.

He tried to cut me once

with a big old razor.

He held it up against my throat.

I said:
"Daddy, please. "

He kept moving back and forth,

like he was sawing down a tree.

Maybe they've always been with us,

those things out there.

Maybe they love it,

seeing us hate each other.

Watching us kill each other off.

Feeding on our own cold hearts.

I've got news for him.

There's going to be hell to pay.

I ain't Daddy's little boy no more.

Frank?

There's a meeting tonight at 11.

Watch out no one follows you.

The world needs a wake-up call.

We're going to phone it in.

Hey brothers...

There's something new going down.

They're using candyfloss packaging

to cover up a toxic waste dump.

Frank, glad you made it. Take your

glasses off. We're all human in here.

They're brand new.

We got the first shipment today.

They won't hurt.

There's less interference.

Go ahead.

- Any trouble getting here?

- No.

The city is crawling with cops.

Most of them are human.

They've been told we're Commies.

Some of them have been recruited.

- People are joining up with them?

- They sell out.

Promotions, bank accounts,

new houses, cars.

Perfect, isn't it?

We'll do anything to be rich.

Fluorocarbons have increased since

They are turning our atmosphere

into their atmosphere.

- What do these things want?

- They're free-enterprisers.

The earth is just another developing

planet. Their third world.

...deplete the planet,

move on to another.

They want benign indifference.

We could be pets or food.

But all we really are is livestock.

We need an assault unit.

Someone to hit them hard.

- You've got it.

- Ever seen their disappearing act?

Once.

- What's that?

- One of their watches.

Two-way radios.

You can listen to their broadcasts.

They've got secret code.

They push a button...

All of a sudden they're gone.

I've been trying to figure it out.

Listen up. We're obviously

not getting to enough people.

There should be twice as many people

here. We're getting too sloppy.

Their detection

is becoming more effective.

Stay aware. Go to work.

Do what's expected of you.

We've become reckless.

The movement is suffering.

Stop talking about it. It's time

we started spilling some blood.

Wait a minute! We don't stand a chance

with a few guns and grenades.

- What are we supposed to do?

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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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