They Live
Nada will discover a pair of sunglasses that can show the reality of the world. A new look from that discovery about the fact that foreigners have taken over the land. The man walks through the streets of Los Angeles wearing his hideous discovery and notes that the media and the foreign government are planning to keep the population under their control, that foreigners are trying to control the world and are working to recruit them to serve them. Nada's goal lies in the discovery of the liberation of mankind and the world from the aliens who dominate the earth.
28 March 1949, New York City, New York, USA
10 May 1948, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
10 April 1961, Hollywood, California, USA
19 March 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 July 1944, Hollywood, California, USA
February 17, 2017
Carpenter's primary objective was to make a tough action flick, which he does; it fits snugly into his filmography's subset of urban mayhem movies (alongside 'Escape from New York,' 'Assault on Precinct 13,' and parts of 'Big Trouble in Little China').
November 10, 2015
Campy, satirical classic has lots of violence, profanity.
October 10, 2012
They Live is the looniest movie of the season and also one of the most engaging.
February 19, 2014
Carpenter should stick to what he's good at-scaring folks-and leave the political satire to Spitting Image.
June 04, 2007
A fantastically subversive film, a nifty little confection pitting us vs them, the haves vs the have-nots.
August 06, 2013
John Carpenter's They Live has cult favorite written all over it, and part of the reason is the way it regenerates the cheap, juicy, surprisingly potent sci-fi of the 1950s.
June 04, 2007
All in all, an entertaining (if ideologically incoherent) response to the valorization of greed in our midst.
October 10, 2012
The joke is in the material; the idea itself is funny and daring. And some time soon, They Live suggests, with grim, knowing wink, the joke may be on us.
April 26, 2016
With Carpenter's clear, widescreen direction and his skill and enthusiasm at their highest peak, this is a masterpiece.
December 01, 2013
Behold the message as articulated by John Carpenter's sublime sci-fi opus: "I'm giving you a choice: Either put on these glasses, or start eating that trashcan."
August 06, 2013
As a movie, They Live is lethargic. As election propaganda, it's terrific.
February 07, 2015
Cheesy fun from the 1980s.
