The original Sci-Fi story was about aliens who were using humans as food - you had a "heart attack" and ended up in the meat locker.
Carpenter rewrote the script to feature aliens who were using the earth as a Third World sweatshop. I usually don't like major departures from the script but this one was a subtly hilarious sendup of "Free Trade".
IMHO, the most chilling line: "We have one who can SEE". Watch the movie and find out how and what Piper saw.
BTW, I also thought the fight scene was overlong, but I read somewhere that Piper and Keith Davis really got into it and didn't want to quit, so Carpenter let them run with it. And, Meg Foster is always great - TRIPPY eyes.
“I came here to chew bubblegum and kick a$$, And I’m all out of bubblegum.”
One of the best campy sci-fi movies ever.
OMG, Glide, Oatka knows who Meg Foster is too!
Oatka, Glide was freaking out for days trying to figure out who Meg Foster was. He calls her the girl with no eyes.