They Live (1988) Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, John Carpenter, Al Leong

Based on the 1963 short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by Ray Nelson. Nada (Roddy Piper), discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of LA, he 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.