Director of ‘The Breakfast Club’,’ Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ , ‘Planes, Trains And Automobiles’ and countless other bad-ass movies died yesterday. Here’s our ten reasons why John Hughes was metal!

1. Chet as the Shit Monster from Weird Science looks like a living Ed Repka cover.

2. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It’s about bunking off school. Something every 15-year-old metal head aspires to.

3. Judd Nelson’s character in The Breakfast Club. Total metaller.

4. Weird Science has Ratt’s ‘Wanted Man’ on the soundtrack. And Killing Joke’s ‘Eighties’. And Van Halen’s ‘Oh, Pretty Woman’.

5. Curly Sue’s character, played by Alisan Porter looks like a tiny Vito Brata, guitarist from White Lion.

6. Emilio Estevez in The Breakfast Club inspired the Bay Area thrash scene to wear high-tops. Maybe.

7. Ally Sheedy’s character in the Breakfast Club never expresses her musical tastes but if she could, you know she’d fuck to Type O Negative. But she wouldn’t fuck her shrink.

8. Ferris Bueller contains ‘March Of The Swivelheads’ by the English Beat, which is where Nine Inch Nails got the name of one of their B-sides, ‘March Of The Fuckheads’. True story.

9. Home Alone. The Wet Bandits, slamming irons into faces and a polka band.

10. He produced a movie called ‘Reach the Rock’. \m/