FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
They Live
Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer87%as of 2024-10-27
- Rotten Tomatoes average7.2/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic55/100as of 2025-10-08
What it is
They Live is a 1988 American science fiction action horror film written, directed, and scored by John Carpenter, and starring Roddy Piper, Keith David, and Meg Foster. It was based on the 1963 short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by Ray Nelson.
At a glance
- Genres
- Action / Science fiction / Thriller / Horror / Adventure
- Original language
- English
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