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Check Out the Bizarre Trailer for Alex Cox's 'Repo Chick'
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Do you like Repo Man? No, not Repo Men, the new organ-snatching action flick starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker. I'm talking about Alex Cox's 1984 cult classic starring Emilo Estevez as a newbie repossession agent for the Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation. If so, I'd like to know how this debut trailer for Repo Chick strikes you, because, well... you'll soon see why I'm curious.
Going solely off of what's in the trailer below, were Repo Chick made by anyone else, it would be laughed off of the Internet. Considering it was written and directed by Alex Cox, however, as a "spirtual sequel" to his excellent genre-bender (it looks to play in the same world sandbox without any story continuity), I'm willing to hold out hope that all this green screen, pulpy madness plays to a higher agenda; as opposed to looking only slightly more technically proficient than, say, Birdemic.
Jaclyn Jonet stars as the titular Repo Chick, an expert takerbacker who has set her sights on the white whale of repossessions: a moving train! The trailer looks to meld Public Access level green screen compositing with Spice World levels of We Know What We're Doing is Silly for a combination that is either going to be inspired or insipid. But what say you, Alex Cox fans? Is Repo Chick the Repo Man follow-up you've spent a quarter of a century hoping for or will you continue to live your life as if Cox' original creation stayed stag?
Alex Cox Reveals More About the Non-Repo-Sequel
Filed under: DIY/Filmmaking »
Alex Cox has a really crowded business card: Cult Filmmaker. Fallen from Grace. Hollywood Outsider. Looking for a Comeback. In the 1980s, he was a Next Big Thing after Repo Man (1984), which is undoutedly the greatest movie ever made about paranoia, cars, punks and aliens in Los Angeles. He quickly followed that with Sid and Nancy (1986), a dizzying biopic of Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols and his deranged girlfriend Nancy Spungen. That film not only earned a cult following, but also got a fair measure of mainstream critical recognition.
Afterward, Cox's career struggled to regain the same kind of momentum. His next film, Straight to Hell (1987), was almost universally dismissed as an exercise in weird, but his fourth film, Walker (1988), was a hit among European film buffs, and it was recently bestowed with a high-class Criterion DVD release. Since then his films had very sporadic distribution and some of them remain very difficult to see, including the acclaimed Highway Patrolman. And the ones that are available on DVD tend not to generate much enthusiasm. But Cox is out there trying, and according to a recent Village Voice interview, he hopes to return to the concept of repo men.
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