They Live is a 1988 film directed by John Carpenter, who also wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym ?Frank Armitage?. The movie is based on Ray Nelson's 1963 short story Eight O?Clock in the Morning. Part science fiction thriller and part black comedy, the plot posits a world in which some of the monied elite (i.e., the "yuppies") are actually aliens oppressing the poverty-stricken lower classes through subliminal media advertising. Plot John Nada (Roddy Piper) is a homeless laborer who finds work on a Los Angeles construction site, but has no place to stay. One of the workers, Frank Armitage (Keith David), takes him to spend the night at a local shantytown. While being shown around, he notices some odd behavior at a small church across the street. Investigating the next day, he discovers that the soup kitchen they are operating is a sham. The choir practice is a recording, scientific apparatus and stacks of card

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