Repo Man (nicht verwenden)

Part of the special series NACHTBLENDE

Nachtblende: THROWBACK 1984

While exceptional director Alex Cox is currently putting all his energy into bringing a new film to the world, we look back at one of his wildest, most extravagant, and best films, which also happens to be his debut. *REPO MAN* feels like an '80s Carpenter film on way too many stimulants. One of a kind and one hell of a ride!

Not just a job – it’s an adventure! A semi-motivated young punk named Otto Maddow (Emilio Estevez) starts a fresh career as a Repo Man, that is, a repossession agent – an employee of a company that retrieves leased cars when payments are no longer made. Alongside the seasoned Bud (Harry Dean Stanton), he finds himself in situations that are at best absurd and, at worst, life-threatening, as a mad scientist with dead aliens in his trunk races through L.A. This is only the beginning of a long series of insane encounters...