(Christian Slater) strikes up a romance with her.When Veronica and J.D.

The alien buried in ice is actually alive and has the ability to imitate human form.

The group must find a way to distinguish who the real person is from The Thing and stay alive.

Richard Eden as Alex Murphy, RoboCop in the television series Robocop.

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Director James Cameron had already shown his technical mastery withThe Terminator, but his work onAliensis astounding.

He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for.

Very soon McClane realizes that there’s no one to save the hostages – but him.

Snake Plissken looking intently off-camera with his head tilted to the left In ‘Escape From New York’.

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The cast of Heathers stand together and look off camera wearing ’80s clothes and hairstyles.

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At Westerburg High where cliques rule, jocks dominate and all the popular girls are named Heather, it’s going to take a Veronica and mysterious new kid to give teen angst a body count.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1987’s ‘Predator’

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Robert De Niro escorts a handcuffed Charles Grodin in Midnight Run.

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A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.

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Kurt Russell as R.J. MacReady in The Thing, looking around with a lantern.

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A team of researchers set out to study an alien spacecraft found in Antarctica, where they also discover an alien body on the site. The alien buried in ice is actually alive and has the ability to imitate human form. The group must find a way to distinguish who the real person is from The Thing and stay alive. John Carpenter’s 1982 film is a remake of 1951’s The Thing from Another World and stars Kurt Russel as the hero RJ MacReady.

Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places.

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Peter Weller as RoboCop standing in a store in ‘RoboCop’.

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In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.

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Bill Murray as Carl Spackler faces off against a gopher in ‘Caddyshack.'

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Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley holding a large weapon and looking at an object offscreen in Aliens.

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Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.

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Bruce Willis as John McClane looking down from a broken window in Die Hard.

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New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon McClane realizes that there’s no one to save the hostages – but him.

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