They Live is a 1988 American satirical science fiction action horror film written and directed by John Carpenter. Plot: The film stars Roddy Piper, Keith David, and Meg Foster, the film follows John Nada a drifter who discovers through special sunglasses that the ruling class are aliens concealing their appearance and manipulating people to consume, breed, and conform to the status quo via subliminal messages in mass media. Trivia: The movie cost about $4 million to make. At release it was numbe