They Live

1988 • 94 minutes

4.6

967 reviews

86%

Tomatometer

Eligible

About this movie

They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live. Horror master John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) directs this heart-pounding thriller. Aliens are systematically gaining control of the earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission. Humanity's last chance lies with a lone drifter who stumbles upon a harrowing discovery a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal the terrifying and deadly truth.

Ratings and reviews

4.6

967 reviews

Joachim Jupiter

December 17, 2013

This is not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination. This is a great bad movie. And as far as wrestlers moonlighting as actors goes, this is the best one I've seen so far. Well worth the watch for all the over-the-top violence.

13 people found this review helpful

Southern Cross (David Kemp)

April 9, 2015

You have to love the movies that came out back then because, they challenged the intellectual mind. most of the directors and writer disguised our societies on how they controlled us by, turning it into a movie. now you can see today just how much control some of the most powerful people and corporations actually have over nations including the government. It has been said before there are free will of our conscious mind never was actually freed. for we had been played no different like the mouse in a maze.

47 people found this review helpful

Tristan Selthun

March 5, 2015

Don't you think that if the Aliens knew about the glasses that They would have made it there number 1 priority in the first place to find them and destroy them? I wanna know who was the first person to realize that Aliens are everywhere and who made the glasses?

7 people found this review helpful