When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.
Acting
Bridges' Oscar-nominated alien physicality is genuinely unhinged.
Direction
Carpenter's softest film — he actually believed in love, apparently.
Score
Jack Nitzche's synth-strings will live in your head rent-free.
Director
John Carpenter
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