Skip to content

Missile Test

Some of Those Responsible: Ray Nelson

They Live

Author capcomPosted on September 23, 2008December 12, 2023Categories Empty Balcony, Shitty Movie Sundays

After heaping backhanded praise on three John Carpenter films, never totally lauding nor completely decrying them, there is nothing ambiguous about my critique of They Live, Carpenter’s paranoid vision from 1988 of rampant consumerism and Reaganomics. It stinks. Continue reading “They Live”

Departments

  • Shitty Movie Sundays
  • Empty Balcony
  • October Horrorshow
  • Photo Dump
  • Politics & War
  • Miscellany

Purchase My Books

  • Impact Winter
  • The Blasted Lands

Recent Launches

  • Talk to Me October 30, 2026
  • The Yeti October 25, 2026
  • Turistas October 21, 2026
  • The Ghost, aka An Taibhse October 20, 2026
  • Splatter University October 17, 2026
  • Evil Dead (2013) October 16, 2026
  • House (1977) October 15, 2026
©2004-2026 Missile Test, All Rights Reserved