Welcome to my world, the world of 80’s films where I go through some of my classic films and let you know about some of the really odd little ones that I have come across in later years that I didn’t know existed until late night viewing on a cable channel brings them to my attention.
For the first film I’m going to recommend is a new film that I hadn’t come across before a few days called ‘They Live’ WWF Wrestler ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper who plays John Nada a homeless labourer.
He discovers some strange goings on at a local church and after the police raid the local area investigates inside the church. He finds a box full of sunglasses, takes one for himself and hides the rest in garbage.
Eventually he puts on the sunglasses and becomes aware of the subliminal messages in all the media such as a billboard now simply displays the word "Obey"; without them it displays the ad that Control Data is "creating a transparent computing environment".
He soon discovers that the world has been influtrated by aliens (looks like he needs some fluorodine toothpaste on their teeth!!) who can only see with his rather large glasses on. Shocked and slightly peeved he goes out to stop them, not before a long fight scene with his buddy (voted in the top 10 fight scenes in movies! No less!), getting knocked out a 3rd story window by the woman he kidnaps and discovers the TV studio is the centre of the aliens operations.
Some nice use of communicators used by the aliens are the same prop that was used as the PKE Meter in both Ghostbusters features.
