Tag Archives: They Live
Halloween 40
So last week I posted about John Carpenter’s 70th birthday and his films like They Live and The Thing. Carpenter’s Halloween isn’t 70, but the film is celebrating its 40th birthday and the slash-terpiece will get re-booted by David Fincher this October. Despite sequels/prequels and remakes/reimaginings, nobody has been able to rekindle the magic of [...]
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Tagged 21st century, David Gordon Green, Halloween, John Carpenter, Paul Thomas Anderson, The Thing, They Live
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THEY LIVE at 25
John Carpenter’s They Live (1988) doesn’t sound like a classic movie: A drifter wanders into Nowheresville USA — a Los Angeles neighborhood devastated by an economic recession. After witnessing some suspicious activity surrounding a strange church, the man discovers a box of special sunglasses which reveal that the reality he’s come to take for granted [...]
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Tagged 25th Anniversary, class war, Halloween, John Carpenter, Reagan, recession, sunglasses, the finger, They Live
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