They Live (1988) - w/Kevin Cole

Red Rose Film Club

Hal and Craig welcome guest Kevin Cole aka The Primal Root—owner and proprietor of the oft-mentioned Cap City Video Lounge—to discuss John Carpenter’s 1988 anti-capitalism, sci-fi masterpiece THEY LIVE. Discussions also include:

• The petition to put access to safe abortions on the ballot in Florida;

• Our new(ly indicted) king: George Santos;

• What we’ve been watching lately, including EVIL DEAD RISE, THE MOTHER, and RENFIELD;

• The stranglehold Reaganomics has had on the world for the last forty years; and

• The police as the enforcers of capitalism

LINKS:

• “The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People” by Sam Mitrani

• “They Live is a Timeless Anti-Capitalist Horror Classic” by Eileen Jones

• Slavoj Žižek on They Live

• “Reagan’s Recession” by Richard C. Auxier

• "Reagan" by Killer Mike