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Tapeheads
Why this pick
Shares Straight to Hell’s ragged late-1980s cult energy, deadpan criminal absurdity, music-scene attitude, and deliberately cartoonish comic violence.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1987 1h 26m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Straight to Hell
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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Repo Man
Why this pick
Alex Cox’s earlier punk-inflected desert-Los Angeles vision has the same off-kilter criminals, dry one-liners, surreal detours, and scruffy anti-establishment style.
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Mystery Train
Why this pick
A similarly stylized indie-night world: deadpan outsiders, music-driven cool, eccentric supporting characters, and a loose, nocturnal sense of danger rather than conventional plot momentum.
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The Big Lebowski
Why this pick
Its shambling misfit adventure, absurd criminal entanglements, desert imagery, and quotable deadpan make it a polished cousin to Straight to Hell’s comic lawlessness.
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Down by Law
Why this pick
Three mismatched criminals drifting through a stylized, music-conscious America gives it a close character-dynamic match, with laconic humor and a wonderfully unhurried outsider rhythm.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Three hitmen, Willy, Norwood, and Simms are staying in a posh Los Angeles hotel. After failing a job, they take off in a car with a pregnant woman named Velma, who is in on their scheme. They flee to Mexico to escape the wrath of their boss, Amos Dade, and rob a bank along the way. While driving through the desert, their car breaks down. They bury their suitcase of money and begin to walk.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Joe Strummer
Simms
Biff Yeager
Frank McMahon
Elvis Costello
Hives The Butler
Michele Winstanley
Louise
Martin Turner
Sharon Bailey
Del Zamora
Poncho
Luis Contreras
Sal