In honor of They Live celebrating its 35th anniversary this year, Gabriel Theis digs into its anti-Reagan politics.

Right in the very movie moment when they heard it, the words completely freaked out the sinister skin-walking aliens of John Carpenter’s action-horror classic They Live. Now, 35 years after the ...

They Live, Carpenter’s 1988 paranoid freakout, deserves to be thought of as a masterpiece, an artist’s defiant last grab at substance before losing the thread. It’s a cheesy but lovable ...

A sense of realism probably had something to do with They Live’s success among audiences.Critics were polarized, loving or hating the film for its overt B-movie badness. Pro-Carpenter critics ...

America is a neoliberal horror movie: Why “They Live” is the perfect film for our depraved times "Rowdy" Roddy Piper may be gone, but his '80s cult classic about alien overlords has never ...

The American Cinematheque is launching the latest edition of its 70mm festival this week and it is (again) such a warm ...

Released a few days before the 1988 presidential election, “They Live” blows a big, wet raspberry at the decade’s greed-is-good ethos under the guise of a junky genre movie.

One thing to remember about They Live is that, in many ways, the 1980s were a nightmare. It was the era of Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority, when government officials were the unapologetic ...

“They Live” is finding life again. John Carpenter’s cult 1988 film is getting the remake treatment from Universal and studio-based Strike Entertainment, which are in negotiations to acquire ...