"Straight To Hell" is out now on DVD!

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...in a two disc edition with Cox's adaptation of a José Luis Borges short story, which I've yet to see but have reasonably high hopes for.

Anyway, anyone wanna talk about this movie? It features Joe Strummer and the Pogues and Courtney Love and Elvis Costello and Grace Jones and basically everyone else as well. It's a goofy-ass tribute to Leone style spaghetti westerns. Every line's a non-sequitor. It's generally nasty, sadistic and nightmareish. Some say the Sy Richardson character got ripped off wholesale for Samuel L. Jackson's character in "Pulp Fiction" (dunno if I'd go that far, but I'd bet some $ Tarantino had at least seen the movie when he came up with the character.) Jennifer Balgobin is hott. And so on.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 10 March 2006 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Jorge.

I have not seen this film, so cannot comment.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 10 March 2006 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I got it free with a magazine about 2 years ago and still haven't got round to watching it.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:02 (twenty years ago)

I loved this movie when I was 15. I used to watch STH and Roadside Prophets (Beastie Boys meets X and play Easy Rider) about once a month.
Dick Rude's finest onscreen moments. Jim Jarmusch's best death scene. "Come on Norwood, not the suit."
SALSA Y KETCHUP!

I don't know if I'd want to see it today and have my teenage exuberance voided.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I got it free with the mag as above.

Enjoyed it. Yep.

On looking around, found nothing but hate for it.

And now, it's being issued as a 'deluxe', everyone rating it.

Fo Gigure.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

it's okay. sy richardson is genius, strummer good, nice atmosphere and general anarchic charm but why oh why couldn't someone have drowned courtney love at birth?

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

the pogues... elvis costello... courtney love... see ya!

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:43 (twenty years ago)

What could be wrong with Cait O'Riordan singing "Danny Boy"?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I though Pinski meant "see ya!" as in, "I'm off to go watch this with great attention and affection."

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:46 (twenty years ago)

i have it on vhs! it's nutty.

― Knute Rockne, All American (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

This movie is lame as fuck. Spaghetti western should say it all.
Courtney is OK

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:57 (twenty years ago)

hahaha, no huk.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

i remember being so let down by this when it came out. i wanted more repo man, not a bunch of limeys. no offense, you bunch of limeys.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 10 March 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

It's actually a really great movie for Courtney-hatas! Her character is relentlessly obnoxious and irredeemable.

Before posting this thread I realised that "Joe Strummer + The Pogues" really isn't as much of a "OMG" proposition for certain sectors of ILX as it is to me. Oh well.

Huk, SALSA Y KETCHUP is the best! I have it stuck in my head.

And now, it's being issued as a 'deluxe', everyone rating it.

Hardly a deluxe d00d, the only special features ya get is, erhm, subtitles for the hearing impaired.

This movie is lame as fuck. Spaghetti western should say it all.

?_? These two sentences seem to contradict each other most vehemently!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Well, my version doesn't have the short story.

It does have the directors com and extras so ner should have bought the mag.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

bump

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 13 March 2006 10:17 (twenty years ago)

twenty years pass...

genuinely amazed I’d never seen this until today. absolutely no doubt knowing Tarantino’s film knowledge that Jules Winfield is indebted to Norwood. I’m going to learn “Salsa y Ketchup” on guitar just so I can convince my kids it was written for their age group. Music is killer, shocked when I realized the character Elvis Costello was playing that late into the film. Imagining the voice Jarmusch uses for his character as the one when he’s trying to explain a scene on his own set.

This is an immediate double feature classic.

― My homies buttthole surfers' record sounds like a f (Western® with Bacon Flavor), Tuesday, 16 June 2026 03:53 (five days ago)

Love this movie. Probably my third favorite Cox film (Repo Man > Walker > Straight To Hell > Revengers Tragedy).

― wipes chooser (unperson), Tuesday, 16 June 2026 04:15 (five days ago)

I stopped watching after 30 mins. Far from awful. I didn't find the central trio compelling.

― boners for bombs (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 June 2026 09:10 (five days ago)

You do have to have a lot of tolerance for friends messing about, takes at least some parasocial connections to enjoy.

Death & The Compass, the other film a young obnoxious Daniel_Rf was talking about upthread, actually turned out to be the superior film, though there are scenes lifted wholesale from For A Few Dollars More and Le Cercle Rouge.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 16 June 2026 09:29 (five days ago)

I'd forgotten I even have this!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 June 2026 06:35 (four days ago)

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