Repo Man
Set in the seedy world of car reposessors, Alex Cox’s Repo Man cruises through the south Los Angeles streets strung-out on equal doses of satire, science fiction, conspiracy theories, and social commentary. But more importantly, it’s fueled with the threat, fear, and paranoia of living in President Reagan’s America. Though in Cox’s film, the threat of nuclear annihilation isn’t coming from the Russians, it’s coming from inside the trunk of a ’64 Chevy Malibu driven by mad scientist J. Frank Parnell (Fox Harris), Kiss Me Deadly-style.