This Sci-Fi Classic Remains One Of John Carpenter’s Best Works
John Carpenter is a legend in the horror community. With a career spanning over 50 years, he has given the world the Halloween franchise, The Thing, andThe Fog as well as creating incredible music to go alongside his films. To this day, with his 74th birthday just celebrated, Carpenter continues to create new features, expand existing movie mythology, and tour with new music.
While his contributions to the horror genre are undeniable, his prowess in the genres of action and sci-fi should not be overlooked. In fact, it could be argued that one of his best features falls into the latter genre. They Live debuted in 1988 and has since become an iconic piece of film history not only for its storyline and interesting effects and visuals but for its scathing political commentary on capitalism and consumerism.
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«Rowdy» Roddy Piper stars in They Live as Nada, a construction worker on the fringes of society. He meets Frank (Keith David), a fellow worker, who takes him to a soup kitchen/homeless encampment to get a bite to eat. Both men pontificate on the state of the world, Frank is bitter and angry at the inequality between the rich and poor and the fight to live, whereas Nada believes in working hard and eventually getting what is due.
In the camp is a television set that periodically gets interrupted by pirate signals warning of the evil overlords that control the human race. During one of the broadcasts, Nada notices a priest mouthing along with the hacker's speech and observes him and the de facto leader of the encampment Gilbert going off into the church across the way. The next day Nada investigates the church, finding «They Live We Sleep» scrawled on the wall and a
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