John Carpenter’s They Live! starring professional wrestler Roddy Piper happens to be a rather fun piece of 80′s popcorn cinema, whilst maintaining something of a more political idealogy than most of its sort. The film actually reminds of early-Cronenberg in parts, with the biting satire of They Live! similar to that of Videodrome. For this writer Carpenter represents the epitome of 1980′s genre filmmaking, to the extent that he has actually struggled to work outside of that era. 

The blatant nature of the way in which consumerism is attacked seems incredibly topical within the current economical climate™, and coupled with the video game aesthetics served to feel incredibly contemporary, while the sociocultural critique maintains the film has a soul usually lacking in films of this nature.