Stylish fashion plates love to dish it out to those who are less stylish or less fashionable, but when it comes to life and death moments in horror movies, nobody cares about the labels on your clothes: what matters is the quality of your fight.

As a tribute to blue-collar horror heroes, we've put together a small showcase of the best horror movies featuring ordinary, hard-working workers who just happened to have blue collars on their shirts and steel-plated hearts in their bodies.

They Live (1988)

The immortal Roddy Piper and the fearless Keith David star as construction workers who must alert the human race that the planet has been invaded by a very stealthy alien race. Nobody cares that their clothes reflect their manual labor.

Cheap Thrills (2013)

Facing eviction, struggling family man Pat Healy steals away to a bar for a drink, where he runs into an old friend who is also struggling economically (Ethan Embry). When a rich couple offers them money for some "cheap thrills," their blue-collar heroism is put to the test.

The Collector (2009)

Day laborer Josh Stewart is an ex-convict who hasn't been able to go straight yet, so when his wife needs money to pay back some loan sharks, he's willing to do what it takes to get the money, which puts him in danger when he picks the wrong house to rob.

Mulberry Street (2006)

Six people in lower Manhattan are living in miserable conditions, but it's about to get much, much worse for them due to a mysterious virus that transforms rats into hungry mutants who, in turn, bite humans. Need we add that the humans are then transformed into flesh-hungry mutants? Wardrobe malfunctions are definitely not on anybody's mind by that point.

Graveyard Shift (1990)

Stephen King's short story inspired a movie that paid tribute to workers, including an exterminator, a drifter, and a variety of textile factory laborers. They must battle rats that really don't like blue-collar heroes at all.