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They Live (1988)

Name: They Live
Director: John Carpenter
Genre: action film, horror film, adventure film
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 7.2

They Live is a 1988 American science fiction action horror film written, directed, and scored by John Carpenter, and starring Roddy Piper, Keith David, and Meg Foster. It was based on the 1963 short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by Ray Nelson. Set in Los Angeles, it follows a working class drifter (Piper) who discovers that the ruling class are camouflaged aliens, which drives him on a quest to expose them…

Directed by John Carpenter · Shot by Gary B. Kibbe · Music by John Carpenter · Ratio 2.35:1 · 94 min

Behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes: They Live (Carpenter, 1988) with Roddy Piper and Keith David — Serious Feather · 12 min
7 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About They Live — CineFix · 6 min

Elsewhere

More by John Carpenter

Revenge of the Colossal Beasts — 1962
Terror from Space — 1963
Captain Voyeur — 1969
Dark Star — 1974
Assault on Precinct 13 — 1976
Halloween — 1978
Someone's Watching Me! — 1978
Elvis — 1979
The Fog — 1980
Escape from New York — 1981
Halloween: Extended Edition — 1981
The Thing — 1982
Christine — 1983
Starman — 1984
Big Trouble in Little China — 1986
Prince of Darkness — 1987
Memoirs of an Invisible Man — 1992
Body Bags — 1993
In the Mouth of Madness — 1995
Village of the Damned — 1995
Escape from L.A. — 1996
Vampires — 1998
Ghosts of Mars — 2001
The Ward — 2010

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