They Live (1988) directed by John Carpenter @ Naro Expanded Cinema

After The Thing and Christine, I'm always up for a John Carpenter horror romp at the Naro. Be sure to buy your tickets in advance on the Naro website.

RUNTIME: 93 minutes

SYNOPSIS: 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.

BLURBS:
"It is a big, silly barrel of fun, with a delirious, tongue-in-cheek script..." - Chris Bennion, The Times (UK)

"Carpenter's primary objective was to make a tough action flick, which he does; it fits snugly into his filmography's subset of urban mayhem movies (alongside 'Escape from New York,' 'Assault on Precinct 13,' and parts of 'Big Trouble in Little China')." - Jason Bailey, Flavorwire

"Behold the message as articulated by John Carpenter's sublime sci-fi opus: 'I'm giving you a choice: Either put on these glasses, or start eating that trashcan.'" - Calum Marsh, Slant Magazine