10 Famous Horror Movie Moments That Were Completely Improvised

The history of wrestlers on film is a decidedly mixed bag. For every Dwayne Johnson becoming his generation's most insanely charismatic action star, there's a Hulk Hogan as Mr Nanny.

Still, one thing you do get when casting a wrestler is a knack for a killer scenery-chewing one-liner, honed from years of ringside trash talk. And that's exactly what "Rowdy" Roddy Piper brought to John Carpenter's satirical anti-consumerist alien occupation picture.

Even people who have never seen They Live know the moment where Piper's John Nada strides into a bank, wielding a shotgun and says: "I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum". And even people who don't know the scene will recognise the line from a long pop cultural afterlife that has included being appropriated by Duke Nukem.

Piper has said that it was just some nonsense that he came up with in the moment. Carpenter, on the other hand, suggested that he had picked the line out of the wrestler's notebook full of potential trash talk lines. Either way, Piper's addition to Carpenter's script is what made it really zing.

Carpenter has made many horror classics which may be more iconic overall than They Live. But do Halloween or The Thing have an individual line as memorable as Piper's bubblegum quip?