This isn’t some dusty relic from the 1980s. This is the film that, more than any other, lays bare the enemy’s core tactic in our time: hide in plain sight, broadcast your commands through the very medium people trust most, and make sure the masses never even question the programming. John Carpenter didn’t call his 1988 movie They Live a warning. In interviews years later, he flat-out said it’s a documentary. And the longer you look at the world around us today, the harder it is to argue with him.

You’ve felt it. That queasy sense that something is deeply, spiritually wrong with the air we breathe. Not just the politics, not just the economy — the culture. The stories we tell ourselves. The images we let into our homes every single night.

While the rest of the world argues about the latest tweet or Supreme Court ruling, a quieter, older operation has been running for a hundred years: the most sophisticated propaganda machine ever built, aimed straight at the human soul. And it’s not coming from Moscow or Beijing. It’s coming from a few square miles in Los Angeles called Hollywood.