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Surreal [3FM] They Live (1988)

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They Live (1988)

Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller [USA:R, 1 h 34 min]
Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George 'Buck' Flower
Director: John Carpenter

IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7.3/10 (81,091 votes)

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. (IMDb)

Critical reception:

Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an approval rating of 83% based on 48 reviews; the average rating is 7.2/10. The critical consensus reads: "A politically subversive blend of horror and sci fi, They Live is an underrated genre film from John Carpenter." Metacritic, an aggregator of film critics' ratings and reviews, gave the film a rating average of 52 out of 100. (Wikipedia)

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