Repo! The Genetic Opera
In 2056, a disease caused by the body organs of people crippled spreads around the planet. From tragedy, a savior appeared: GeneCo, a biotech company providing organs transplanted tissue for profit. Those who fail in paying on time is to regain authority is chased by thugs Repo Men. In a world of surgery, painkillers and murder is legally permited, a little girl goes to seek to cure her rare disease as well as information about her mysterious family. After being swept into the world of GeneCo, she can not go back, and all of her questions will be answered to a spectacular event is predicted to be mad: The Genetic Opera.
5 December 1962, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
29, June, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
22 September 1958, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
October 21, 2012
The case for its quality is solid, the music is catchy, and "Repo!" may just destined for cult royalty.
December 17, 2009
Repo! isn't like anything else out there, for whatever it's worth, or anything I've ever seen; between us, though, I'm going to hold out for a midnight staple more my speed.
November 10, 2008
All-out thriller with few Bond touches but plenty of high-octane action.
March 06, 2009
Falling somewhere between Rocky Horror, Moulin Rouge! and Eyes Without A Face (with songs!), Repo! The Genetic Opera is the filmic equivalent of what architects call a 'folly'.
November 07, 2008
Like a compost of Rocky Horror and Sweeney Todd, but without the floridity or the savage wit.
November 21, 2008
David Cronenberg might have made a great movie with the plot to Repo! The Genetic Opera.
February 15, 2013
The lowbrow and highfalutin collide in an orgy of upscale disembowelment as director Darren Lynn Bousman gives uneasy birth to the gore opera.
November 10, 2008
I hated this movie.
June 02, 2010
Andrew Lloyd Webber meets SAW!
November 21, 2008
As it has evolved from a 10-minute cabaret piece, through a short film Bousman made in Toronto, to the big screen, Repo! The Genetic Opera has gained in both guts and gusto.
April 13, 2009
This is a Grand Guignol science fiction rock opera. The plot is minimal and for a rock opera, there is too little real melody.
