What is The Thing / They Live about?

THE THING, 1982, Universal, 108 min. John Carpenter reimagined the 1951 sci-fi classic as something altogether more disturbing, pitting helicopter pilot Kurt Russell and a crew of Arctic scientists against a ravenous, shape-shifting alien being. One of the finest sci-fi films of the past 30 years. With one of Ennio Morricone’s greatest scores from the 1980s. THEY LIVE, 1988, Universal, 97 min. Construction worker Roddy Piper learns that the world is run by skull-headed aliens who are permeating society with subliminal messages to mindlessly consume. Glimpsing the truth with special sunglasses, he and fellow drifter Keith David join the underground to rebel against the mind control in one of director John Carpenter’s wildest films.

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What is The Thing / They Live about?: THE THING, 1982, Universal, 108 min. John Carpenter reimagined the 1951 sci-fi classic as something altogether more disturbing, pitting helicopter pilot Kurt Russell and a crew of Arctic scientists against a ravenous, shape-shifting alien being. One of the finest sci-fi films of the past 30 years. With one of Ennio Morricone’s greatest scores from the 1980s.
THEY LIVE, 1988, Universal, 97 min. Construction worker Roddy Piper learns that the world is run by skull-headed aliens who are permeating society with subliminal messages to mindlessly consume. Glimpsing the truth with special sunglasses, he and fellow drifter Keith David join the underground to rebel against the mind control in one of director John Carpenter’s wildest films.