Repo! The Genetic Opera

2008
18
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

27K

YOUR RATING

This is the teaser trailer for Repo! The Genetic Opera, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman.

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Dark Comedy Rock Musical Steampunk Horror Musical Sci-Fi

A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

27K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins & 1 nomination total

Trivia
The producers have stated that this film is really just the middle part of a planned trilogy. The next chapter would be a prequel to the events shown in this film and is tentatively titled "Repo!: The Beginning". No time frame has been given for when production could start on the next movie.

Goofs
In the picture which shows Pavi skinning the woman's face, Ogre's real face is shown, instead of Pavi's scarred face.

Quotes
Shilo Wallace: [Graverobber whistles Blind Mag's song] Hey! That's Blind Mag's song.
Amber Sweet: Who did that?
[Graverobber points to Shilo]
Amber Sweet: [to Shilo] So you think you got heart? So you think you got balls? So you think Mag can sing?
Shilo Wallace: I don't think nothin' at all!
Amber Sweet: So you think Mag has pipes? Well it's my time to shine! When the Repo-Man strikes!
Shilo Wallace: What are you talking about?

Alternate versions
In the original script the film began with the character Shilo Wallace going down to her mother's tomb and the first song was 21st Century Cure. The creators thought that how the movie started was too slow so they decided to take the song 'Genetic Repoman' that was suppose to play at the end of the film and put it at the very beginning. Then they cut the scene Thing's You See in a Graveyard into two separate parts and played part 1 after Genetic Repoman. This gave the film more of a bigger and dramatic opening.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Quantum of Solace/Madagascar 2/Soul Men/Repo! The Genetic Opera/The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

Soundtracks
Depraved Heart Murder At Sanitarium Square
Music by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich

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Featured review

7/10

Rare Gem

Such a movie gives me hope - that sometimes between all the remakes, prequels, sequels, reboots and directors cuts and whatever bores we still get now and then a gem to watch.

What the world needs are certainly more such fine imaginations like Repo! The Genetic Opera. Somehow the movie reminds me a little of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and that's for sure not the worst reference.

Well, the genetic opera is filled with fine ideas, gore, slash and some good songs. It is an explosion of blood compared with all the blood- and lifeless productions which flood the screens of cinema and all the networks nowadays.

If you like musicals and gore, this is made for loving you - and don't forget to watch The Devil's Carnival, also directed by Darren Lynn Bousman: a horror musical.