George 'Buck' Flower, Keith David, Meg Foster
A homeless drifter discovers a reason for the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor: a conspiracy by non-human aliens who have infiltrated American society in the guise of wealthy yuppies. W...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 10, 2000
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September 18, 2009Poorly executed? too clichéd? too silly? I couldn't care less about all that, It simply is a little, modest and loveable action/sci-fi pastiche with tons of fun.
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September 8, 2009What lets They Live down is the ending. It feels rushed and unfinished. A sequel would have been good but its too late now. The other thing is the unfortunate recycling of props from other, more successful films (Ghostbusters being one). It's not a big problem though as the rest ...( read more)
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July 18, 2009Excellent horror sci-fi flick and again what so many films are based around now, or copied.
The effects are great for the time as are the make up on the alien faces, truely spooky.
I love how the film is open ended to make your own mind up, no one really wins,
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May 31, 2009i haven't seen much of john carpenters work but i tell ya what... it's good! i saw christine recently and i've seen this. how fantastic are both movies? i like the scene at the end where the naked bird is shagging the alien. funny as fuck, b-movie scary as hell! grrrr. is it just...( read more)
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November 18, 2009It's just hard to watch John Carpenter's downfall. This is just one in the many disasters to follow. There are virtually no characters that stand out, the tone is nonexistent and it's hard to tell what was trying to be achieved here. I think the fact that it was based on an earli...( read more)
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November 16, 2009Personally, I think the ending sucked but, it seems that horror movies from the 80's always end like that. In fact, name for me an 80's movie that didn't end like that!
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October 31, 2009This is not a horror movie of the kind John Carpenter is famous for, it?s more of a Twilight Zone style science fiction film. The film uses anger about the crassly commercialized culture of the late eighties along with middle-class disenfranchisement in order to make highly subv...( read more)
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October 31, 2009Like the recent District 9 this movie looks good and seems to have a good concept, but what it delivers on is much more than that. The plot is very engaging and the concept is very interesting and well executed. The acting is not anything special but still it doesnt matter, when ...( read more)
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October 26, 2009old style, fun movie, probably closer to the truth than many will admit, poor dialog though.
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May 4, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
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June 30, 2007I heard they used the fight scene frame for frame on south park between Jimmy and Timmy.Roddy Piper and Keith David kick the shit out of each other!
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