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.
10 April 1961, Hollywood, California, USA
11 December 1948, USA
28 March 1949, New York City, New York, USA
16 January 1948, Carthage, New York, USA
10 May 1948, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
28 October 1937, Milton-Freewater, Oregon, USA
19 July 1957, USA
30 September 1952
6 March 1948, Kern County, California, USA
9 November 1916, Bronx, New York, USA
17 April 1954, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
31 January 1965
22 March 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 July 1944, Hollywood, California, USA
17 June 1955, Inglewood, California, USA
4 October 1938, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, 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').
October 10, 2012
They Live is the looniest movie of the season and also one of the most engaging.
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.
August 06, 2013
As a movie, They Live is lethargic. As election propaganda, it's terrific.
June 04, 2007
A fantastically subversive film, a nifty little confection pitting us vs them, the haves vs the have-nots.
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.
November 10, 2015
Campy, satirical classic has lots of violence, profanity.
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
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.
