Straight to Hell occurs as 1987 film by Alex Cox, featuring Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer, Courtney Love, Dick Rude, Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Elvis Costello, Xander Berkeley, and members of The Pogues. Its tagline is: "A story of blood, money, guns, coffee, and sexual tension."

Typically viewed as a parody of Spaghetti Westerns, it is really extra of an court. When a film received near there are no caring reviews, it has (such as many more of Cox's films) achieved the minor cult status, largely due to its cast of musicians, many of whom use cult followings of their have.

the film was non originally designed to become manufactured a least bit, & the cause for a preponderance of musicians in the cast was the symptom of a concert tour of Nicaragua that was planned in the first place. Political problems arose on a trend lines of a left-wing government of Nicaragua, & the tour was cancelled. Witharound its place Cox decided to develop the elastic, & the wad of actors he can assemble, produce a picture in Almeria, Spain. Cox & co-star Dick Rude wrote a script withinside the hurry, & the entire film was shot in only little joe weeks.

A plot of Straight to Hell (whenever there may become said to be 1) concerns ternary inept hitmen (played by Richardson, Rude, & Strummer) world health organization, fallowing blowing the job, rob the bank & flee to Mexico to escape the wrath of their boss (played by Jim Jarmusch). It are to a ghost town dog by the gang of coffee-addicted killers, one of these days leading to the inevitable battue at the prevent. A picture has been accused of existence of these gargantuan "in-joke", that couple become, however victims world health organization launder acquire it appreciate a moving-picture show for its subtle wit & absurdity.

A prevent of the film announces an impending sequel: Back to Hell. These are extremely unbelievable that Cox ever seriously contemplated such the film, for the such picture processed as the lark he sure never stand required it to exist as a real commercial profits. Also near each independent character is flushed at a prevent of the film. (These come perchance noteworthy that a sole survivors are women & minorities, by having a exception of Dennis Hopper's character of I.G. Farben, who instigates the final battle and reaps the spoils.) Nevertheless, for the film's DVD release Cox reassembled much of the cast and crew for a short documentary called Back to Hell, in which they reminisce about the making of the film.

Straight to Hell was rated "R" for violence and language. A latter understanding caught a producers by surprise, when a writers deliberately refrained from either including any rather profanity in the dialogue. Potentially a word "hell" appears simply in the title (at one point the character quite observably says "what the heck is going on here?"), & the insults that fly prior to a encounter come there are no worse than "go boil yer head!"

Alex Cox turned down the risk to direct ¡Three Amigos! in order to film Straight to Hell.