Wow, what an amazing movie concept, especially during the hard economic times we a facing. Imagine a world where if a person is in need of an organ (liver, kidney, etc.) and instead of waiting months on a donor list, they could simply purchase one from a pharmaceutical company. The catch is, if you fall behind on your payments, the company sends a hired assassin to repossess the organ sold to you. That’s the premise of Lions Gate Films and Twisted Pictures latest DVD / Blu-Ray release, Repo... Read Full Story
I have one word for Repo! The Genetic Opera : Insane.
Wait, I also have one more: Unwatchable.
Darren Lynn Bousman, the man responsible for directing Saw II , III and IV , directs this perverse musical (based on the stage play by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich), with about as much flair and energy as a mechanical wind-up doll whose key is starting to stop. What should be an absolutely unhinged descent into the wickedly macabre is instead a surreal slide into idiocy and turgid... Read Full Story
A mix of goth, steampunk, rock-opera and gore, this contender for the next cult-classic is now available on DVD. There is a lot of goth cred... Anthony Stewart Head (Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) plays the guilt-ridden Repo Man . The director Darren Lynn Bousman gets his cred from directing the Saw sequels. Sarah Brightman (origininated the role of Christine on Broadway for Phantom of the Opera) plays an ethereal opera singer Blind Mag in some stunning costumes. The film is based on a... Read Full Story
~ Written by: Kristen Jones
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the show. “Repo! The Genetic Opera Soundtrack ” is not just a movie, it is an event and with the release of the soundtrack on September 30, 2008 it has become a worldwide phenomenon.
First of all this is not your typical musical. Director Darren Lynn Bousman (best known for his work in the Saw films), along with writer’s Terrance Zdunich and Darren Smith have seen to that. The soundtrack mixes Goth/Industrial music with Opera... Read Full Story
This movie sucks. It's, more like a raging music video spectacle in the vein of "Rocky Horror." Nope, that's not a compliment. Adapted from a stage play, "Repo!" takes place in a not-so-distant future where organ failure has become a worldwide epidemic. GeneCo comes up with the medical technology to create new organs from scratch and installing them as easily as changing the tires on your car. In order to make the surgeries affordable, they offer financing, but if you can no longer afford to... Read Full Story
Despite the fact that
Repo! The Genetic Opera has failed to generate
incredible interest in its theatrical release (or maybe because of it), the
filmmakers are taking the show back on the road for a second Repo Road Tour.
Director
Darren Lynn Bousman ( Saw II - IV ) and co-creator and cast
member
Terrance Zdunich will accompany their film on a whirlwind,
cross-country, five-cities-in-five-nights tour December 4th - 8th.
You can check out Repo with the filmmakers on
hand in... Read Full Story
From the producers of the Saw franchise and director Darren Lynn Bousman ( Saw II , Saw III and Saw IV ), based on a screenplay by Darren Smith & Terrance Zdunich from their original stage play, Read Full Story
Have a free evening this week? We were being polite. Of course you do. We suggest filling that evening by watching a new musical horror / sci-fi / comedy out in selected theaters.
Repo! The Genetic Opera tells the story of a not-too-distant future, where a wave of organ failures results in economic and social collapse save for one company - GeneCo. Run by Rotti Largo (a Humpty Dumpty-like Paul Sorvino), GeneCo sells replacement organs. When customers fail to pay for their new livers... Read Full Story
Previously: Saw II: Finding a Formula Saw III has been widely acknowledged by fans as the one film in the Saw series that jumped the shark and went against the formula established Leigh Whanell and Darren Lynn Bousman in Saw II . But the success of Saw III can also be attributed to moves by Whannell and Bousman to fully inhabit their individual creative roles. Leigh Whannell did not attempt to partner with Bousman on the script, while Bousman grew in his capacity as a director. By respecting... Read Full Story
Directed by Daryn Lynn Bousman, Repo! The Genetic Opera became an instant cult classic when it was released in 2008. True to its distinction as a rock opera, the music never stops and aside from a few snatches of spoken dialogue, the entire movie is one song after another. This can get frightfully tedious for some fans of horror musicals like Rocky Horror or Sweeney Todd which provide breaks between bursting into song. But Repo! is exactly what it claims to be, a genetic opera to the very... Read Full Story
