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Emilio Estevez, Olivia Barash, and Harry Dean Stanton in Repo Man (1984)

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Repo Man

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Edited into

    • Cent une tueries de zombies (Short 2012)

Featured in

    • "Siskel & Ebert" Cult Video (TV Episode 1987)

      Clips are shown.

    • Words (Short 1987)

      Clips shown

    • The Celluloid Closet (1995)

      Otto (Emilio Estevez) assumes Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) is a homosexual cruising for young boys.

    • Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)

      Excerpts appear in the film.

    • Forty Years of Fuck (TV Movie 2005)

      Clips are shown

Features

    • Elephant Parts (Video 1981)

Followed by

    • Repo Chick (2009)

Referenced in

    • "Siskel & Ebert" The Color of Money/Sid and Nancy/Down by Law/Clockwise (TV Episode 1986)

      Referenced during the "Sid and Nancy" review.

    • Wisdom (1986)

      John Wisdom (Emilio Estevez) can be seen on a bus adorned with the graffiti "Plate O' Shrimp", a reference to Repo Man, which also starred Estevez.

    • "Siskel & Ebert" The Best Films of 1986 (TV Episode 1987)

      Referenced.

    • They Live (1988)

    • "Camp Midnite" Show 103 (TV Episode 1989)

      The movie is mentioned in Rodney Bingenheimer's intro.

References

    • The Farmer's Wife (1928)

      In the scene where Plettschner stops Otto before he tries to save Marlene. He asks him if he whats to be a chicken man.

    • The War of the Worlds (1953)

    • Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

      The nuclear apocalypse device in the trunk of the car is inspired by the similar device from the box in the locker from 'Kiss Me Deadly'

    • The Flintstones (TV Series 1960–1966)

    • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series 1962–1992)

      Otto mocks, "Put him on Johnny Carson?" as in: put him "the scientist" as a guest on The Tonight Show Starring "Johnny Carson".

Spoofed in

    • Kamillions (1990)

    • Nerdland (2016)

      The King has glasses like Parnell from this movie.

Spoofs

    • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

      in final scene, close up of Otto's eyes darting back and forth as car flies over L.A., with city lights reflected on window glass; spoofs "Beyond the Infinite" scene in "2001"

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