They Live Page #5

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
3,088 Views


- We bide our time.

We locate their signal

and shut it off.

Dave works at KRDA.

He may have located the signal.

KRDA is clear.

The transmission is going out clean.

The signal is from somewhere else.

It's important to find out exactly

where this signal is coming from.

I've got to talk to someone.

- Are you okay?

- Yeah, I'm okay.

- I thought I'd killed you.

- I thought so, too.

I didn't know.

I'm so sorry.

I just want to...

Can we?

Get out!

- They're killing everybody.

- I've got to find her.

There's nothing you can do out there.

If I can get this working,

I can listen in.

- Frank...

- What?

- Get set.

- Sh*t!

- What was that?

- I don't know.

Your wristwatch has malfunctioned.

This entryway will disappear...

Move! Down there!

Seven seconds.

Six seconds.

Two seconds.

One second.

If you need assistance

in finding your destination, -

- bilingual instructions

are posted in each corridor.

- What language is that?

- I don't know.

- Where are we?

- I think we're under the city.

Some kind of underground base.

- There's got to be a way out.

- I hope nobody saw us drop in.

Operation Steelfist is a success.

We have eliminated the terrorists.

We got 'em!

We wiped 'em out!

It's a win, man.

They got to meet the A-Team.

I'm hearing something.

By the year 2025,

America and the entire planet -

- will be under the protection

of this power alliance.

The gains have been substantial for us

and for you, the human power-elite.

You have given us the resources

we need for our expansion.

In return, the per-capita income

of each of you has grown.

This year alone,

it's an average 39%.

I've received word that our forces

have won a major victory.

The underground terrorist network

has been destroyed.

The situation is normal again.

Hi boys, I didn't know

you'd been recruited.

You should have dressed

for the party now you can afford it.

I'm proud to be here.

Have you seen the whole place?

- I haven't had a chance to.

- I'll show you around.

I knew we had a lot in common

the first time we met.

- Where the hell are we?

- Backstage of the show.

This place serves its purpose.

Did you get here using one of these?

I know it's only for emergency,

but they're so much fun.

You think that's something,

take a look at this.

- Take a closer look.

- Attention, commuters.

Flight Alpha 7 to Andromeda

is now ready.

That's where they come from.

I don't know how it works.

It's a gravitational lens.

It puts a bend in the light and

you move from place to place.

The whole thing

works like one big airport.

They've got their act together,

believe you me.

Evening, boys. Looking sharp.

Wait till you see

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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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