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. Another from John Carpenter; this political satire portrays a world where special sunglasses reveal that the elite, ruling, wealthy class are really aliens manipulating the rest of society.

It looks fine. The sunglasses world is particularly startling. Good music but slightly disappointing sound overall. The underpinning story of underclass values destroying middle and lower class life was fascinating although I think that the target audience possibly missed that. Biggest issues for me were the main guy being a terrible actor and the alleyway fight scene looking like god-awful wrestle mania. Not very scary but certainly very interesting and relevant...

Nada (Roddy Piper), a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking discovery, Nada fights to free humanity from the mind-controlling aliens.
Release date: 4 November 1988 (USA)
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Roddy Piper; Keith David; Meg Foster
Adapted from: Eight O’Clock in the Morning
Budget: $3 million
Distributed by: Universal Pictures, Carolco Pictures.

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Nada kills Holly and destroys the transmitter, and is fatally wounded by aliens in a helicopter. Nada gives the aliens the middle finger as he dies. With the transmitter destroyed, humans all over the world discover the aliens hiding among them.