Repo! The Genetic Opera (DVD, 2009) Paris Hilton, Alexa Vega, Bill Moseley, Ogre

Description: Repo! The Genetic Opera In the not-so-distant future, a worldwide epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GENECO, a biotech company that offers organ transplants... for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession... and hunted by the REPO man! Details Length 1 hrs. 37 mins.Rating RReleased: Jan 20 2009Production Year 2008UPC Code 031398104360Studio Lions Gate FilmsPackaging KeepNumber of Discs 1Disc SS-DLSubtitles English and Spanish Features- From Stage to Screen Featurette- Audio Commentary with Director Darren Lynn Bousman and Actors Bill Moseley, Alexa Vega and Ogre- Audio Commentary with Director Darren Lynn Bousman, Co-Creators Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich and Music Producer Joseph Bishara- Legal Assassin Featurette- Theatrical Trailer AudioEnglish Dolby Digital 5.1VideoWidescreen 1.78:1 Color (Anamorphic) CastParis HiltonTerrance ZdunichOgrePaul SorvinoAnthony Stewart HeadAlexa VegaSarah BrightmanBill Moseley ProductionCarl MazzoconeOren KoulesMark BurgDaniel Jason Heffner DirectorDarren Lynn Bousman By fusing THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW and BLADE RUNNER, this futuristic tale of horror modernizes the "rock opera" genre with original music and rich, dark production design. Spoiler Alert; the following preview gives away a lot of the story line. Likening Repo! The Genetic Opera to its predecessors, Little Shop of Horrors and Rocky Horror Picture Show, conveys this film’s high camp and operatic bursts of song, but does little to describe how absolutely bizarre Repo! is. Like Rocky Horror, Repo! was written for stage performance by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich, who stars as a Graverobber, dolled up in vampiric makeup to resemble Rocky Horror’s iconic tranny, Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Hiring newbie director, Darren Lynn Bousman, fresh out of film school to shoot this mutant movie, Smith and Zdunich clearly focused on writing comedy into extremely gruesome slasher scenes, which works with mixed results. Stills of comic strips contextualize each scene, telling the story of biotech corporation Geneco’s repossessions of organs that they implanted into various patients to save human lives during a long history of operations. Organs, here, were bought on credit, and as the economy nosedives, citizens of this a makeshift Gotham City cannot pay bills, and must forfeit their lives to repo men making a killing around town, literally. Heading this enterprise is CEO Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino), who has two bickering sons, Luigi (Bill Moseley) and Pavi (Nivek Ogre), whose white facemask is third generation Phantom, borrowing directly from Winslow Leach’s in Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise. Central to the plot is head repo guy/slaughterer, Nathan Wallace (Anthony Head of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), who hides his career path to preserve his sexy teenage daughter, Shilo’s (Alexa Vega), innocence. As Shilo discovers her godmom, Blind Mag (Sarah Brightman), and the "Z"-addicted surgery slut, Amber Sweet (Paris Hilton), she embarks on adventures through an urban landscape constructed of metal gear, corpse piles, and S/M zombie girls, while dad straps people up in his torture chamber to take back body parts. Hmmmm. Since Repo! looks likes a Marilyn Manson video, its musical niche sensibility will only appeal to fans who like Goth and Industrial music. To anyone who doesn’t go for that look, it does impress for its sheer dedication to choreography and song. In the least, Repo! The Genetic Opera is an anomalous glimpse into visionary horror.

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