They Live is a B-Movie But the ‘B’ Stands for Brilliant | CineFix Top 100

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John Carpenter’s They Live from 1988 was a stiff middle finger to Reagan era consumerism with the swagger of a professional wrestler. The story of a drifter uncovering a vast alien conspiracy to keep humanity subjugated with hypnotic suggestion and subliminal messages is a schlocky b-movie veneer on maybe the most prescient political film of the 80s. Clint, Cal and Alex talk about smartly deployed idiocy, the sneaky difficulty of the film’s black and white photography and the Nostradamus-level prediction Carpenter made 40 years ago that’s absolutely come true.

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