They Live
Nada is a naïve person who will discover a pair of sunglasses that can show the world in particular. Those glasses that will show the world in the form of the reality of the alien takeover of the land. Nada walks through the streets of Los Angeles and notes that the media and the government aim to keep the population under control, and that most of the social elite of foreigners are trying to dominate the world. Nada is trying to adapt to the reality of those glasses and to organize new plans to liberate humankind from aliens who dominate the mind and the earth. The task seems fantastical but it seems disastrous to Nada.
1941, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
19 March 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 October 1938, USA
16 January 1948, Carthage, New York, USA
30 September 1952
26 April 1931, New York City, New York, USA
23 June 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 January 1965
19 July 1957, USA
22 March 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 January 1969, Gravette, Arkansas, USA
28 October 1937, Milton-Freewater, Oregon, USA
28 March 1949, New York City, New York, USA
22 July 1944, Hollywood, California, USA
9 November 1916, Bronx, New York, USA
4 June 1956, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
February 07, 2015
Cheesy fun from the 1980s.
February 19, 2014
Carpenter should stick to what he's good at-scaring folks-and leave the political satire to Spitting Image.
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."
April 26, 2016
With Carpenter's clear, widescreen direction and his skill and enthusiasm at their highest peak, this is a masterpiece.
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.
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').
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.
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.
June 04, 2007
All in all, an entertaining (if ideologically incoherent) response to the valorization of greed in our midst.
August 06, 2013
As a movie, They Live is lethargic. As election propaganda, it's terrific.
