80s cult films are del.icio.us
Cult Film - They Live
Director: John Carpenter
Budget: $5,000,000
They Live Actors:
Rowdy Roddy Piper: Nada
Keith David: Frank
Meg Foster: Holly Thompson
George Flower: The Drifter
Raymond St. Jacques: Street Preacher
Plot from Cult Film They Live
John Carpenter's best cult film from the 80's is a slow and deliberate immersion of the daunting and worrying fable of the corrupt, deceiving and indifferent society from the 80s, that had wrapped itself around its people and who in turn have blindly accepted their fate. The cult film is multicultural in more forms than anticipated; the leading and upwardly mobile alien race (a favorite of 80's cult film producers) who have gelled themselves into the Human psyche and exploited it to its full potential. This is the story of an everyman, a no one, a Nada [Roddy Piper] who stumbles upon their secret in the cult film, via an underground movement whose mission is to sabotage their plans and awaken the world to its sinister plans.
With the help of a pair of iconic cult movie sunglasses, that shows the world as it really is, not in colour, but a black and white parallel world that the sub-conscious has chosen to ignore. With subliminal messages as "OBEY", "CONFORM", "MARRY AND REPRODUCE", "CONSUME", "WATCH TELEVISION" and "SLEEP". It is through this thought control that the alien cult have this world tied up and neatly packaged for its own manipulative uses, to further themselves at the expense of the meek, mild and the lowly sufferers of a job less and hungry world. This is the battle of self-awareness and one mans struggle with a reality check that has these alien beings staging war against the up-rising and rebellious armies from the gutters and streets. They Live You Sleep; where will your consciousness take you when the sleep is washed from your eyes. This cult film welcomes you to the real world.
What better plot could you imagine for an 80's cult movie??!? In spite of all the great cult movie material in They Live, this cult film is probably better known for its iconic fight scene between WWF/cult movie great Roddy Piper and Keith David (of cult film Reality Bites and Clockers fame). This legendary cult film battle lasts approximately 4 minutes. A little known fact is that this cult movie battle was the inspiration for the classic South Park Cripple Fight Episode.The Cripple Fight and the Piper/David fight sync perfectly. Check out the YouTube video below for this top notch 80's movie battle.