The

Hellwood Archive

Cult cinema, true crime, strange history and cultural oddities.

Stories from the darker corners of film, television, music, literature, crime, history and the unexplained.

los angeles

Nighttime 1980s Los Angeles street with anonymous supermarket packaging, punk flyers and a mysterious parked American sedan

Repo Man, Generic Food and Punk Los Angeles: How Alex Cox Made the Perfect Anti-Brand Movie

Repo Man turned punk Los Angeles, generic supermarket packaging and a radioactive Chevy Malibu into one of the strangest American...

04 Sep 2026 • Archive Note