They Live
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: John Carpenter Run Time: 93 min. Release Year: 1988
Starring: George Buck Flower, Keith David, Meg Foster, Peter Jason, Roddy Piper
Just added: before the screenings of They Live this weekend, we will be screening the 8 minute short film Hi! You Are Being Recorded, the new stoner surveillance thriller from directors Kyle Greenberg & Anna Maguire!
You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You’re wrong. Dead wrong. John Carpenter’s They Live is back at The Frida Cinema.
When a down-on-his-luck drifter (wrestling legend Roddy Piper) finds a pair of sunglasses that reveal the hidden reality beneath our world—subliminal messages, skeletal overlords, and a media-controlled population—he decides it’s time to fight back. What follows is part paranoid thriller, part genre-blasting satire, and all Carpenter.
They Live is the ultimate Reagan-era gut punch—a sci-fi cult classic that hides anti-capitalist fury beneath its B-movie surface and delivers it with bubblegum, shotgun shells, and one of the greatest alleyway brawls in cinema history.