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271 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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They Live is a 1988 science fiction action thriller film, directed by John Carpenter, starring Roddy Piper, Keith David and Meg Foster.
- 245 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
- posts span Jun 5, 2012 to Nov 5, 2026
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60 of 271 · most liked firstThey Live is a fantastic film but every time I introduce it to a Gen Z friend I'm reminded that the plot boils down to, "two hobos carry out a series of workplace mass shootings because they believe half the population are aliens wearing human skin"
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's film They Live (1988)
neutral · AI labelView post →watching THEY LIVE, a 30-year-old movie that frames a homeless camp sweep as an obvious evil conducted by violence-addicted cops
positive · AI labelView post →Now watching: They Live
neutral · AI labelView post →Halloween Costume Inspired by "They Live" (1988), the John Carpenter Film
neutral · AI labelView post →In case anyone's wondering, my favourite Carpenter movie is They Live (1988) 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →They Live (1988) 🎬🖤 Directed by John Carpenter
neutral · AI labelView post →you can watch They Live on youtube for free but it has mandatory unskippable ad breaks. incredible format for this specific movie
positive · AI labelView post →Now watching my 500th film this year! They Live (1988) I have come here to watch 500 films in a year and kick ass, and I’ve just started my 500th film.
positive · AI labelView post →a while ago someone said all men think about the roman empire every day. i only think about the romans a couple times a week max but I think about the 1988 john carpenter movie "They Live" at least once a day
positive · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 They Live (1988) By Dan Liles
neutral · AI labelView post →17. John Carpenter has the highest number of stone cold genre classics. Halloween. Escape from NY. The Thing. Big Trouble. Prince of Darkness. They Live. In the Mouth of Madness. & more! Absurd. 18. The Descent (Brit version) is a perfect film. 19. X-Files's Home is an all time great horror movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Broke my tolerance break and watching “They Live” I don’t usually like Sci-Fi but this is good so far. Nice addition to my Letterboxd
positive · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 They Live (1988) By Dan Liles
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching 'They Live.' when this movie came out, the richest person in the world was worth $20 billion
neutral · AI labelView post →Peter Jason was a character actor so prevalent (267 roles) you could not get through the 80s or 90s without seeing him on film & TV on the regular. Hell in 1988 alone he appeared in SUNSET, RED HEAT, THEY LIVE, and ALIEN NATION. That's one year! He was EVERYWHERE for 30yrs of his career. Everywhere!
neutral · AI labelView post →They Live was a groundbreaking film because it showed the consumer that advertisements are in fact meant to sell things
positive · AI labelView post →OMG THIS IS AMAZING! (and if you haven't seen the amazing b-movie "They Live" and the 20 minute long fight to get someone to wear sunglasses, you haven't lived... ALSO? Very relevant to our times, as this video proves)
positive · AI labelView post →In light of the video I shared earlier today, I have to recommend the low-budget sci-fi 80s B-movie, "They Live". Rowdy Roddy Piper leads a movie about ... well ... let's just say this movie is probably MORE relevant today than when it was made. A John Carpenter classic. A must-watch. #Movies
positive · AI labelView post →Not a lot of living people have been in a movie better than They Live.
positive · AI labelView post →In the 1988 sci-fi horror film They Live by John Carpenter, when Roddy Piper and Keith David infiltrate the Alien headquarters at the film's climax, they overhear billionaires talking about having completely taken North America by 2025, opening the door for global takeover by dismantling everything
neutral · AI labelView post →Wow, good work, making the film "They Live" a reality. 👌 They Live among us, now in the Whitehouse. 😨
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 They Live (1988) By Devon Whitehead
neutral · AI labelView post →Brazilian protest art depicts Trump and Elon as aliens from John Carpenter's classic SF horror movie They Live.
neutral · AI labelView post →Any fans of John Carpenter’s 1988 film, They Live?
neutral · AI labelView post →Dave is the best former pro wrestler turned actor ur right but no pro wrestler has been in a better movie than They Live
positive · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 They Live (1988) By Patrick Connan
neutral · AI labelView post →They Live (1988), good movie
positive · AI labelView post →They Live is such an incredible movie but the funniest thing about it is when people are like "It's so prescient!" no, it's just that things haven't gotten any better in the past four decades!
positive · AI labelView post →Really putting my Criterion Channel subscription through its paces this month. Now watching: THEY LIVE (1988, dir. J. Carpenter), a movie I imagine has absolutely zero resonance or importance to today’s world
negative · AI labelView post →Just watched John Carpenter's THEY LIVE (1988) for the first time, and the date the film gives for the complete takeover of Earth by the rapacious alien billionaires is, uh, 2025.
positive · AI labelView post →A horror (Sci-Fi) movie a day keeps the doctor away. Today's film is 1988's They Live. One of our fav Carpenter films! Great story, solid cast, great tone & pace. Dialogue a little shaky. I'm all out of bubble gum! #theylive #sci-fi #psychostudios #psychostudios21
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching for the first time: THEY LIVE (1988) A John Carpenter film #filmsky 🎬 #movies 🎬 #cinema 🎬📽🎥🎞 #edwardthemoviebuff
neutral · AI labelView post →My feelings right now on the 1988 film They Live by John Carpenter
neutral · AI labelView post →Smart glasses in the 80's, from They Live, a cult scifi horror movie by John Carpenter. #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →A modern twist on some old school culture jamming. The visual reference is John Carpenter’s 1988 sci-fi/horror film They Live. It’s what inspired Shepard Fairey’s Andre the Giant OBEY bills in the 90s.
neutral · AI labelView post →Any fans of John Carpenter’s 1988 film, They Live?
neutral · AI labelView post →#filmnoir #moviesky #filmsky Tuesday has a feel. THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948) Farley Granger & Cathy O’Donnell
neutral · AI labelView post →THEY LIVE inks for @creep-o-rama.bsky.social 🕶️ #putontheglasses #art #inkdrawing #horrormovies
neutral · AI labelView post →They Live (1988) Directed by John Carpenter
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching They Live 🎬🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 They Live (1988) By Oliver Barrett
neutral · AI labelView post →Yep about to watch this 80s classic. Time for another rewatch of They Live. Films just awesome and Roddys best movie. #filmsky #theylive #80s
positive · AI labelView post →'They Live' film study by Justin Parpan. #comics #art #film
neutral · AI labelView post →Hell yeah, make a whole movie out of the They Live fight
positive · AI labelView post →Hey, so, the 1988 John Carpenter film "They Live" is free to watch on YouTube. No, the irony isn't lost on me.
neutral · AI labelView post →Respect to They Live, but The Running Man is the superior 80s anticapitalist movie despite getting no respect. They Live: sci-fi metaphor that boils down to broad cynicism about consumerism Running Man: here's how a police state controls people and here's how you form a coalition to overthrow it
neutral · AI labelView post →The best way I can put it is Gavin Newsom is something straight out of John Carpenter’s movie They Live
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 They Live (1988) By James Rheem Davis
neutral · AI labelView post →every time there is an article about how upsetting the dystopian subway ads are I feel so profoundly understood, like we’re both in the film They Live and have tried on the sunglasses
neutral · AI labelView post →Next Friday let's plan on watching one of my favorite noirs: THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948). Film starts at 8pE. #TCMParty ^JW #SummerOfDarkness
neutral · AI labelView post →happy Friday! 🍾 my #LastFourWatched - The Cat Returns only got 4 stars because when they revealed who Yuki was I cried lol & They Live came off as more of a comedy than horror film but I loved it!
positive · AI labelView post →More physical media #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched : Dagon Debug They Live Braindead (Dead-Alive)
neutral · AI labelView post →N. Berlatsky getting incredibly angry that no one else thinks the movie They Live is antisemitic
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a full episode of the rarely seen Showtime series First Works, featuring a full-length, career retrospective interview of John Carpenter around the original theatrical release of his film They Live. 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfdO...
neutral · AI labelView post →John Carpenter's 🕶'They Live'🕶 is from 1988. Horror film which in beginning show terrible scenes of police brutality \ clearing homeless camp and now just looks like average police \ ICE activity. 👹🕶👹🕶👹 Another film that turned into documentary about the evil rich abusing us at large.
positive · AI labelView post →Sunday night = movie night. Finally time for They Live. #HorrorSky
neutral · AI labelView post →These signs at a Tesla dealership protest 💀 (Inspired by John Carpenter's 1988 film They Live)
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day in 1988, the film I think is the most under appreciated John Carpenter movie, THEY LIVE, was released.
positive · AI labelView post →I think it's time to revisit my Mass Media As Threat movie marathon Network, They Live, Videodrome, Running Man
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