Yashua Kimbrough (jimniexperience) A young deliquent is recruited by a repo agent to repossess people's cars. Along the way he has adventures with his co-workers, run-ins with his criminal friends, and the rival repo gang the Rodriguez Brothers, and falls for a woman chasing UFO's and aliens.The race is on for a $20,000 Chevy Malibu , but everyone after the prize is unaware the aliens are hiding in the trunk of the car!

Red-Barracuda Repo Man is one of a select band of films which is regarded as an indisputable cult movie. Probably the main reason for this is that it does that thing that so many cult offerings do and that is to mash-up genres, in this case we have a post-modern comedy with sci-fi elements. The humour takes pot shots at many things such as advertising, conspiracy theorists and religion, while the sci-fi revolves around something dangerous and glowing in the boot of an old car, in a definite nod to the film-noir classic Kiss Me Deadly (1955). So, it is a film of many disparate elements for sure. It is notable for being British director and one time 'Moviedrome' presenter Alex Cox's debut film. It has to go down as his best effort really, seeing as it is the one where his idiosyncrasies are held together in a self-contained whole the most effectively. It is, however, a wilfully bizarre movie. After losing his job a young punk begins work as a repo man. Soon thereafter a reward is placed by shady government people for retrieval of a 1964 Chevy Malibu which has something in the trunk that fries anyone unfortunate enough to look at it.The story isn't really the main selling point, it's no more than a framework in which Cox uses to put together a selection of his odd-ball ideas. The screenplay is well-written though with interesting lines sprinkled throughout and the film is full of fun sight gags such as the fact all products in the movie have generic labelling or the fact that all watches have no hands. We even have a career best performance from a young Emilio Estevez as Otto, the disaffected punk youth central character, it really reminds you of what he was capable of given the right material, while Harry Dean Stanton gets a rare lead role as a world-weary repo man and needless to say he is excellent value. Topping things off, the movie benefits from a punk soundtrack, often with a spaghetti western edge, it's a score which gives the movie both attitude and sense of time and place which only serves to elevate it further. Repo Man is a very fun, yet very off-beat, movie. One of the touchstone cult movies of the 80's.

SnoopyStyle Dr. Parnell is driving a car with a trunk that lights up and disintegrates anybody who opens it. Slacker punk rocker Otto (Emilio Estevez) hates his grocery store job and gets fired. His girlfriend dumps her while sleeping with somebody else at a party. Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) tricks him to repo a car and he's not happy. His parents give away all of their money to a TV preacher and he's forced to take up on Bud's offer. Leila shows Otto a picture of aliens that is suppose to be in a car trunk and then there's a $20k bounty on a Chevy Malibu. Otto battles other repo men, his old punk friends, government agents and UFO enthusiasts as he tries to collect the huge bounty. Miller (Tracey Walter) is the spaced out mechanic at the repo lot. There are some crazy sit going on here. It's a wild irreverent indie. What it's great at is that it gets a sense of the rundown L.A. world. There are great lines like "John Wayne is a fag". It's a low rent indie and it's happy to be there. It's a little punk and something different.

videorama-759-859391 Repo Man which earned 80's cult status, isn't anything to make a big fuss of, but if seeing it back in the 80's, it would a much more positive impact on me. The idea is intriguing. Tough guy, Estevez, the star here, does well. In my opinion, he's an under-appreciated actor, he's much better actor than you think, in front of the naked eye. Is he a better actor than his brother, Charlie? Seriously.... yes. He transforms well into different characters, his career should of gone further, or may'be he decided to give up the acting gig and just concentrate on writing and directing. I'd go with the latter, but he shouldn't of quit acting. In fact he is bloody good in this, as Otto, who unwittingly finds himself, sucked into some repo work, but also falls in love with a weird girl who harbors a secret, involving aliens. Unfortunately Otto and co, repo an alien's car. Whenever someone opens a boot of this car, that someone is only left with their boots as they're body disappears, prefore we see a blinding light and the victim's lit up skeleton, which I found fascinating, although the film I didn't. We have some pro actors too. The actor alien is great, but on the surface RM isn't anything special. It does have it's comic moments (the scene with Estevez and stoned TV. glued parents is a hoot) It's surprising to think Cox followed this up with the much bigger and better, Sid And Nancy. To me RM is small fry, compared to the other, but you gotta start somewhere. Trademark, is ballsy Estevez, calmly retorting, to his new employers, by purposely wasting a perfectly good can of beer. Unforgettable. It's strange how not much happening movies earned cult status like this. It's just a too cool for school movie: That's your answer.