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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
3,103 Views


what I'm going to show you now.

Here's the brains of the operation.

The signal goes out through

the satellite all over the world.

Pretty fancy.

I'm not too familiar with it.

This is as far as we go.

Can you get us inside? I've never

seen the inside of a TV studio.

- You look like the one to ask.

- I guess it wouldn't be a problem.

Those boys over there

are friends of mine.

My buddies would like the grand tour.

Can we go inside?

Be serious.

Do you have authorization cards?

Right here.

Watch the door.

- Soundproof. Where's that signal?

- Up on the roof.

- If Holly made it, she could help us.

- You're making a big mistake.

- We made the mistake?

- No, listen.

I thought you understood.

It's business, that's all it is.

You still don't get it.

There ain't no countries anymore.

They're running the whole show.

They own the whole planet.

They can do whatever they want.

We can have it good for a change.

If we help them, they'll leave us

alone to make some money.

You can have a taste of the good life.

It's what everybody wants.

- You'd do it to your own kind?

- What's the threat?

We all sell out every day,

might as well be on the winning team.

See you, boys.

Let's go.

Was that the two minute break?

We must be running long.

What the hell is going on?

Down!

- Now what?

- Find out where the hell we are.

Excuse me!

Do you know Holly Thompson?

Holly Thompson.

Assistant program... something.

Security alert. Sections Delta

and X-ray report to the fourth floor.

Who's Holly?

Sh*t!

I hate to interrupt. Could you

tell me how to get to the roof?

- How do I get to the roof?

- Turn left at the end of the hall.

There's got to be more than one way

to get up there.

Security 950. They're on the move.

- I hear them on the 19th floor.

- We're on the 21st. We've got them.

Holly!

Come on!

Security alert.

Intruders heading for the roof.

Frank! Are you and Holly clear?

I'm clear, are you?

Don't do it.

Don't interfere. You can't win.

Drop your weapon.

Stand away from the dish

or we'll open fire.

- Come inside with me.

- You have ten seconds. Nine...

Eight. Seven.

Six.

The Oscar winners

give a press conference...

- Gloria, you look like sh*t.

- What happened?

All the sex and violence on the

screen has gone too far for me.

I'm fed up with it. Film makers

have to show some restraint...

What's wrong, baby?

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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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