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They Live (1988)  link to They Live on IMDb  

Number: 611

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7.3/10 (72312 votes)

Country: USA, 93 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Horror, Sci-Fi

Director(s): John Carpenter

Cast: Roddy Piper (as Nada), Keith David (as Frank), Meg Foster (as Holly), George 'Buck' Flower (as Drifter), Peter Jason (as Gilbert)

Medium: Digital Copy, AAC 5.1 - English

Storyline: 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.

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