They Live (1988)

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.
John Carpenter
Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George ‘Buck’ Flower
23 Nov 1988 (USA)
3 nominations.tt0096256 , Dystopia, Social Commentary, Alien Invasion, Sunglasses