Whether or not it’s successful on that front is up to the eyes and ears of the beholder. What sets this one apart from the rest (melodically speaking) is the fact that Repo! is a goth rock opera, thus making the film a bona fide trailblazer. With that in mind, Repo! is a welcome arrival. I haven’t really seen a solid rock opera on film since The Who’s Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar. The cinematic opera is extremely rare, especially nowadays, the rock opera doubly so. Then in an especially brave move, it sticks to its promise of being a full blown opera where dialogue is replaced by song, as opposed to the traditional book musical. Repo! dares to experiment with varying elements of horror, and intermingles them with the aesthetic style of films like Blade Runner. Sweeney Todd showed us that musicals could be more mature fare, as opposed to diabetic coma inducing musicals like Mamma Mia and High School Musical. Say what you will about this melodic gore-fest, but even the naysayers can’t deny that this film is an original.

It is endearing to me when a director uses his abilities to try and give us something new. The final result is a unique yet chaotic film with the potential of being a cult classic. Unbeknownst to Shilo, her father is keeping a load of dark secrets, one of them being that he IS the Repo Man.ĭVD FEATURES: “From Stage to Screen” featurette, audio commentaries, music sing alongs, webisodes, deleted scenes with commentary featuring director Darren Lynn Bousman and Paris Hilton.ĪNALYSIS: The musical genre gets gutted by the torture porn horror genre made popular by the Saw franchise and the Hostel films. The story revolves around Shilo (Alexa Vega), a sheltered girl who seeks to experience the world outside but who is under the constant watch of her father Nathan (Anthony Stewart Head). If your organs are from GeneCo and you fall back on your payments, the Repo Man will come to take back GeneCo property.

The policy saves the human race, but years down the road a surgery addicted society find themselves crazed on super painkillers and cowering in fear of the Repo Man, GeneCo’s legal assassin. GeneCo comes to humanity’s aid by providing the world with financed organs. SYNOPSIS: In the near future, an epidemic causes a series of random organ failures.

STARRING: Alexa Vega, Anthony Stewart Head, Sarah Brightman, Paris Hilton, Paul Sorvino, Ogre, Bill Moseley, Terrane Zdunichīased on the Stageplay, Book, Music, and Lyrics by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich

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