Speed reviewing, Nov. 2019 – part three
More recent viewing, heavy on the sci-fi, fantasy and horror – the latter including an ambitious Netflix series and a grim documentary about violence in […]
Review: They Live (1988)
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George Buck Flower, Peter Jason,
Roddy Piper
Keith David
Meg Foster
George Buck Flower
Peter Jason
Plot: Nada, a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking discovery, Nada fights to free humanity from the mind-controlling aliens.
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Plumbing the depths of pulp
John Carpenter has had a long, uneven career, the chief foundation of which (after a couple of very good small features, Dark Star and Assault on Precinct 13) was the highly successful and influential Halloween. Personally, I’ve never […]