They Live [Steelbook] (Blu-ray) R
You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they're people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 1, 2017
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Roddy Piper | |
Performer: | Keith David, Meg Foster, Peter Jason, Raymond St. Jacques, Sy Richardson & George 'Buck' Flower | |
Directed by | John Carpenter | |
Screenplay by | John Carpenter | |
Composition by | John Carpenter & Alan Howarth | |
Produced by | Larry J. Franco | |
Director of Photography: | Gary B. Kibbe |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Carpenter and his team seem to be having lots of fun. THEY LIVE, one of his best films, has the paranoid buildup of THE THING or HALLOWEEN...
Los Angeles Times
A fantastically subversive film, a nifty little confection pitting us vs them, the haves vs the have-nots.
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Variety
Rating: 7/10 --
Ultimately, the biggest take-home from rewatching They Live in 2018 is how scarily relevant this 1988 effort still is to this day.
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Starburst
Rating: 4/5 --
The film was was responding to the start of the US rust belt and Reagan-era consumerism, but its themes of working-class subjugation and omnipresent media control have only become more pressing.
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Guardian
Rating: 2/4 --
As a movie, They Live is lethargic. As election propaganda, it's terrific.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
A direct and effective direction that never gives itself to unnecessary trappings, 'They Live' has not lost a bit of the freshness that it already had three decades ago. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Espinof
A movie that used the horror genre to explore the nefarious nature of poverty, exploitation, consumer culture, and capitalism.
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Product Description:
John Nada (Roddy Piper) is a quiet loner, a drifter who gets work where ever he can find it. While working on a construction site in L.A. and sleeping in a vagrant community at night, John stumbles upon a secret society of alien beings who pose as wealthy and powerful people in human society. John joins a rebel group commited to exposing this conspiracy, and becomes their reluctant leader and the only hope of the human race. Former wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper is outstanding as the unassuming hero, playing the role with understated shock at what he uncovers and stubborn courage when he confronts it. Director John Carpenter laces the film with his trademark blend of humor and horror, making aliens that are hideously arrogant, greedy, and easy to hate, while the humans are confused and desperate in their struggle against them. The world looks a little different at the end of THEY LIVE, and one will never look at billboards, money, or sunglasses the same way again. The film contains the longest, and perhaps most realistic, fist fight in film history. Paying homage to INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, the film was based on the short story EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING by Ray Nelson.