They Live

Genre: Sci-Fi

Worldwide gross$13.5M

Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No Imagination", "Submit to Authority". Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued.

🏆 4 nominations total

Genres

Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director

John Carpenter

Cast

Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster

Released

4 November 1988

Runtime

1h 34m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

7.2 / 10

Votes

162,515

Metascore

55

Rotten Tomatoes

87%

Box office

$13,447,978

Budget

$4,000,000

Edition

Base