Straight to Hell (1987)

Synopsis: Idiosyncratic filmmaker Alex Cox (REPO MAN) directed this parody/homage to the fierce westerns of Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah. After a trio of dirty gunslingers--Norwood, Simms, and Willy--hold... Idiosyncratic filmmaker Alex Cox (REPO MAN) directed this parody/homage to the fierce westerns of Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah. After a trio of dirty gunslingers--Norwood, Simms, and Willy--hold up a bank, they ditch the dough and hide out with a spaced-out gal pal in a small western town. But they soon find that the wilderness hamlet into which they've stumbled is run by a murderous, incestuous clan of coffee addicts who are struggling for control against a small band of misfits and a greedy land developer. While the film is looser in structure than Cox's earlier REPO MAN and SID & NANCY, its strange pleasures include a spontaneous song-and-dance production number, the hysterically funny "Wiener Song," and cameos from such punk luminaries as Elvis Costello (as a coffee-dispensing butler) and the Pogues (as three brain-dead caballeros). The film is very weird, yet strangely rewarding. [More]

Starring: Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer, Courtney Love, Pogues

Starring: Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer, Courtney Love, Pogues, Grace Jones, Dennis Hopper, Elvis Costello, Jim Jarmusch, Zander Schloss

Director: Alex Cox

Director: Alex Cox

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