Daughter [*]Lucille Meredith as Female Interviewer [*][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Blanchard_%28actress%29]Susan Blanchard[/url] as Ingenue [*] Norman Alden as Foreman [*]Dana Bratton as Black Junkie They Live is a 1988 science fiction / horror film directed by John Carpenter , who also wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym Frank Armitage. The film is based on Ray Nelson