Legendary horror director John Carpenter has denied that his cult 1988 satire They Live is an allegory for Jewish control of the world, after the film was co-opted by online neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

In another brilliant testament to social media madness, Carpenter took to Twitter to criticise members of the alt-right who have decided the film is a direct attack on an apparently Jewish establishment, calling the appropriation "slander and a lie".