Friday, July 14, 2023

Watching THEY LIVE when it was first released

I saw John Carpenter's They Live at Towne Cinema 8 on the southern end of the border of Winnipeg's Exchange District. The audience was scanty and the fight scene was loooong, and on concrete. 

It was the time of Ronald Reagan's "It's morning again in America." I wanted to like the film much more than I did. I wanted to believe in aliens, but the glasses revealed some messages I actually agreed with.

When I stepped outside the mosquitoes were bad. Bring on the Malathion, baby! 

No comments: