You could of course argue that the music is intentionally bad to match the tone of rest of the film, but that would involve giving Twisted Pictures at least some amount of praise for thinking any of this through. Songs such as a teen angst anthem about blood disease, featuring the cringe-worthy chorus of ?Why are my genetics such a bitch? highlight the awful nature of this awful, awful film. The edgy burlesque element feels more trashy and camp than sexy and stylish, not helped of course by the trashy stylings of one Paris Hilton, while the music gives the audience the impression it was written and performed by a group of brain damaged chimpanzees with guitars. However at every single hurdle it comes to, REPO falls flat on its face. The burlesque inspired costume design demonstrates the projects yearning to be the next Rocky Horror Show, and the edgy take on the musical formula only seems to reinforce that fact.
Under the helm of Darren Lynn Bousman, director of such atrocities as the second, third and forth instalments of the Saw franchise, REPO attempts to be so much more than it ever has to right to be. Which of his children should take over his flourishing business empire. Meanwhile the head of GeneCo, doomed to pass away rather soon, must make the hardest decision of his life. The catch however being that if a payment is missed, the organs will be repossessed in a pointlessly over-the-top and gruesome manner by the frankly absurd Repo-Man. Those who can pay for the operation do so and hear nothing else, for those who cannot afford the surgery, they offer a payment plan. In a future ravaged by organ failure, GeneCo offers artificial organs to patients in desperate need of a transplant. A genre I personally am not too familiar with. Originally a stage show Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich, REPO: The Genetic Opera can best be described as a sci-fi-horror-gothic-rock-opera hybrid. And to those movie-lovers whose first encounter with the picture is this review, you are the lucky majority. The majority of film fans, fanatics or otherwise, are probably blissfully unaware that REPO: The Genetic Opera has finally made its way to Region 2 DVD this week.
Repo! The Genetic Opera - A must if you want to see Paris Hilton?s face fall off and Sarah Brightman claw her eyes out.
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