MAKE SURE YOU PUT THE GLASSES ON!
This week on Midnight Cinema, we're tuning in to John Carpenter's They Live. It's the alien-invasion, anti-consumerist, pro–back-alley-fistfight classic that proves the real monsters were inside the boardroom all along.
Roddy Piper stars as Nada, a drifter who stumbles upon the single most powerful accessory in movie history: a pair of sunglasses that reveal the ugly truth beneath our shiny, ad-soaked reality. Billboards bark commands. Newscasters rot from the inside out. Capitalism is literally not human. And the only way to wake people up… is to beat the living hell out of your best friend in an alley for six uninterrupted minutes.
We dig into Carpenter's simmering Reagan-era rage, the film's journey from cult oddity to internet scripture, and why They Live somehow feels more relevant now than it did in 1988. We talk alien yuppies, pirate TV resistance, iconic one-liners, and the sheer confidence of a movie that says, "No, the fight should be longer."
Put on the glasses. Question authority. Trust no billboard.
And remember: we have come here to chew bubblegum and talk cult cinema… and we're all out of bubblegum.
And if you make it through the night without being hypnotized by a TV signal, exposed as an alien, or dragged into a six-minute alley brawl, come hang with us for more late-night deep dives into cult classics, conspiracy cinema, and all the wonderfully unhinged movies we adore at
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