Conspiracy Thrillers The B-Movie With a Message With They Live, filmmaker John Carpenter balanced camp with social commentary. Not all critics liked the tactic.

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 ...

3. John Carpenter wrote They Live under an alias. Carpenter has always been a multi-hyphenate kind of filmmaker, directing, writing, producing and scoring his movies.

However, the director’s filmography is full of underrated genre gems that have become cult classics since their release. The biggest example of this is the 1988 horror sci-fi action film They Live.

In the years since its 1988 release, They Live has transformed, now considered a cult classic to all, and a prophetic masterpiece to many.