Country: USA
Year: 1988
Duration: 95'
John Nada, a worker who has just moved to Los Angeles, discovers by wearing a strange pair of dark sunglasses that many of the people are actually aliens who are controlling the city's inhabitants by means of subliminal messages. Even though he is being chased by the police, John manages to investigate the occurances and, with the help of his friend Frank, enters the cove of the extraterrestials.
Biography
film director
John Carpenter
(Carthage, New York, 1948) debuted in 1974 with the science fiction film Dark Star and next made three low budget films, Assault on Precint 13 (1976), Halloween (1978) and The Fog (1980), which made him one of the best-known directors of American New Horror. In 1981 he directed Escape from New York and the following year The Thing continuing his study of horror movies and science fiction. He confirms his status among the genre’s best with subsequent works such as Vampires (1987), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), and Ghosts of Mars (2001). Between 2005 and 2006 he directed two episodes of the TV series Masters Of Horror. His last movie is The Ward (2010). In 1999, Torino Film Festival dedicated a complete retrospective to his opus.
FILMOGRAFIA
Dark Star (id., 1974), Assault on Precint 13 (Distretto 13: le brigate della morte, 1976), Halloween (Halloween: la notte delle streghe, 1978), The Fog (Fog, 1980), Escape from New York (1997: fuga da New York, 1981), The Thing (La cosa, 1982), Christine (Christine, la macchina infernale, 1983), Big Trouble in Little China (Grosso guaio a Chinatown, 1986), Prince of Darkness (Il signore del male, 1987), They Live (Essi vivono, 1988), In the Mouth of Madness (Il seme della follia, 1994), Village of Damned (Villaggio dei dannati, 1995), Escape from L.A. (Fuga da Los Angeles, 1996), Vampires (id., 1998), John Carpenter’s Ghost of Mars (Fantasmi da Marte, 2001), Masters of Horror (ep. Cigarette Burns, TV, 2005; ep. Pro-Life, TV, 2006), John Carpenter's The Ward (The Ward - Il reparto, 2010), John Carpenter's Suburban Screams (serie tv, 2023).
Cast
& Credits
Director: John Carpenter.
Plot: dal racconto Eight O'Clock in the Morning di Ray Nelson.
Screenplay: Frank Armitage (pseudonimo di John Carpenter).
Director of photography: Gary B. Kibbe.
Coordinatore effetti speciali: Roy Arbogast.
Costume designer: Robert Bush, John Young.
Art director: Marvin March.
Music: John Carpenter, Alan Howarth.
Editor: Gib Jaffe, Frank E. Jimenez.
Cast and characters: Roddy Piper (John Nada), Keith David (Frank), Meg Foster (Holly Thompson), Peter Jason (Gilbert), George «Buck» Flower (baraccato), Raymond St. Jacques (predicatore di strada).
Producer: Larry Franco.
Production company: Alive Films per Universal.
Plot: dal racconto Eight O'Clock in the Morning di Ray Nelson.
Screenplay: Frank Armitage (pseudonimo di John Carpenter).
Director of photography: Gary B. Kibbe.
Coordinatore effetti speciali: Roy Arbogast.
Costume designer: Robert Bush, John Young.
Art director: Marvin March.
Music: John Carpenter, Alan Howarth.
Editor: Gib Jaffe, Frank E. Jimenez.
Cast and characters: Roddy Piper (John Nada), Keith David (Frank), Meg Foster (Holly Thompson), Peter Jason (Gilbert), George «Buck» Flower (baraccato), Raymond St. Jacques (predicatore di strada).
Producer: Larry Franco.
Production company: Alive Films per Universal.