Stars: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George Flower

Director: John Carpenter

Summary: A drifter stumbles upon the awful truth when he dons a special pair of sunglasses. Ghoulish creatures are masquerading as humans, and are controlling society through the use of subliminal messages...

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 conspiricy, and becomes their reluctant leader and the only hope of the human race. 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 humour 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.

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Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Commentary by director John Carpenter and 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper, Featurette, Making of, John Carpenter profile, Trailer
Year:	1988
Release Date:	September 22, 2008
Runtime:	90 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	O P T D 1274
Keywords:	Live, They, John, General, Wide, Screen, Horror, Occult, Sci, Fi, Carpenter's
Genre:	Horror/Occult