They Live

They Live is a 1988 sci-fi movie directed by John Carpenter. The story revolves around a drifter who finds special sunglasses that allow him to see that aliens have taken over the Earth.

• The film is based on Ray Nelson's short story 'Eight O'Clock in the Morning'.
• Director Carpenter appears in the movie as a homeless man.
• The fight scene lasts for 5 minutes 20 seconds.
• Carpenter wrote the film under the pseudonym Frank Armitage.
• The movie was shot in just eight weeks.

• I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.
• You see them on the street. You watch them on TV.
• We could be pets, we could be food, but all we are is livestock.
• This world may have blinded me, but the Lord has let me see.
• You're okay, this one: real fuckin' ugly.