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Plot: 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.
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MCT:October 12, 2008
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MCT:October 4, 2008
The original and unique musical features a bloody singing and grotesqe display of talent. Dark and mysterious, this film delivers thrill at its best by providing an original and unique backstory similar to the campy and unique qualitys of Rocky horror picture show,
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MCT:October 3, 2008
"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."
Oh, did I mention it is a rock opera? I think this might just become an instant cult classic. Check out the trailers - it's going to be insane! -
MCT:September 22, 2008
It looks soooo bad it could be awesomely good! Plus, it's premiering at my beloved Bloor Cinema at the After Dark Film Festival. I just might get to see it with a 800 crazy genre geeks.
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MCT:September 22, 2008Ambition and style can?t make up for Repo!?s failure as a musical, or make me shake the nagging feeling that this was created specifically for girls in their early teens who love Hot Topic and decorate their myspace pages with hot pink skulls. Don?t believe it? Check out the song ?Seventeen?: ?Something?s changing/I can feel it/I?m seventeen now/Why can?t you see it?/Seventeen and you can?t stop me/Seventeen and you won?t boss me!/You cannot control me, father/Daddy?s girl?s a f***ing monster!? And if you thought those lyrics were a little too on-the-nose and witless, then imagine a movie filled with songs like that, set to some of the least memorable melodies of any musical in recent memoty. It?s unabashedly childish in its approach?campy, convoluted, and almost always annoying. Only Sarah Brightman survives this goofy mess unscathed (even if her character doesn?t), with a God-given set of pipes (unlike Paul Sorvino) and the only scene in the film that absolutely works 100%, a creepy cool moment in which she projects ghostly images of Shilo?s mother from her glowing bionic eyeballs while singing.
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MCT:September 18, 2008Saw veteran Darren Lynn Bousman finally proves himself to be a major creative talent with this long-awaited industrial rock opera-- and the result is a frantically entertaining musical like you've never really seen before. But that, unfortunately, is only the first twenty minutes.
Once the opening cartoon kicks in and is quickly followed by an impressive CGI shot of a nightmarish futuristic city, you already know Repo! is bound to obtain a cult status. Despite the fact that it is probably bound to happen, there are so many choices that went wrong here, such as the regrettable slip from cynical, pitch-black humour to emotion overblow. Indeed, like most musicals, it has a narrative that kind of goes around in circles until the third act, where the pompous, gooey grotesquerie goes berserk and takes the lead. Repo! The Genetic Opera is rarely boring nonetheless : the rich, inspired and very trashy set design does the very best it can to hide the rather low budget with jaw-dropping results, particularly during the climactic opera scene. The lighting also has to be mentionned : whether it's sparkling blue, blood red or powdery yellow, every scene is lit just the right way to generate a twisted atmosphere that inspires sympathy, doubt or repulsion. But it's not enough to prevent the non-stop loudness of the final result. The song arrangements are so hazily sonorous it's hard to walk out of it humming more than one or two numbers.
Still, the entertaining characters are defended by strong pipes-- that also includes Mrs. Hilton, in a positively surprising turn as surgery-addicted vixen Amber Sweet. Unlike the Saw films, where most of the cast didn't have a chance to truly shine, everyone here pretty much gets their own spotlight, resulting in memorable on-screen performances by Skinny Puppy's Ogre, Terrance Zdunich, Sarah Brightman, Bill Moseley, Anthony Head and especially Alexa Vega, not counting all the other supporting roles. Those are not soul-searching roles, of course, but their cartoonish nature can easily be justified (and enjoyed).
It's been a long road with the horror sequels for Bousman, a mostly downhill one, but this project is sure to lift his name above. Also, by ditching the nauseating quick-fire editing that was used to the bone in his ealier work, the result could have been really, really worse. Anyway, the man (and his kick-ass crew) have shown the horror spectacle fans that were present at the world premiere that his latest work matched the hype. -
MCT:July 20, 2008
Good to see Tony Head exercising his lungs again, and this looks to be a stunner. But when are we going to get Ripper: The Series?
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MCT:July 19, 2008
I had the chance to see Repo! at the world premiere's screening in Montreal yesterday along with many other viewers and a part of the crew and cast as well. The ambiance was excellent, I was ready to see a great rock opera. Well, it was okay. I liked some characters, especially Repo and Blind Mag. But some others weren't too good. I must also admit that some of the lyrics were bad and could have been written by a twelve year-old teenager. But otherwise, I enjoyed the work done on the art, makeup and set direction.
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MCT:July 15, 2008
I Can't wait for this movie to come out. i saw the trailer back in 2007 and it instantly caught my attention.
I saw a few more trailers on youtube, and i definably can't wait.
this movie looks like its going to be great. -
MCT:July 1, 2008
WTF?!
I... NEED... THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After watching both trailers over and over again I've realized Paris Hilton actually... ROCKS!! OMFG!! What a cast!! -
MCT:April 10, 2008
This sounds cool, shame Paris Hilton is in it. Hopefully not a major role. Who in their right mind would cast her in yet another film. She can't act.
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MCT:March 16, 2008
Never saw the play or the short film, in fact I only know about this movie thanks to both imdb.com and Darren Lynn Bousman's shameless plugs for the movie that are peppered throughout the "Saw IV" DVD commentary. That being said, this sounds like it's in the same vein (pardon the pun) as "Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Little Shop of Horrors", two musical horror/comedies that I absolutely love. That, and I'm curious to see what kind of a movie Darren Lynn Bousman can craft other than another sequel to "Saw" (he's made THREE of 'em, for cryin' out loud!). Plus, Anthony Head plays the titular character, and every rabid fan of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (or anyone, like me, that has at least seen the infamous episode I'm referencing) knows that he has a fantastic singing voice. With any luck, this'll all add up to a bizzare yet fun night at the "Opera". I look forward to seeing it, even though the trailer comes off like a Marylin Manson video.
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MCT:December 14, 2007
Personally I'm not much of a Saw or horror fan myself, but any Buffy fan knows that as unusual of a choice that Repo is for him Anthony Head probably chose to do Repo for the musical aspect of it. I can't wait to see it, and hear him sing :)
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MCT:October 24, 2007
I just saw a preview for this during the Scream Award show on Spike and it looks INSANE! It's very very sad that Hilton is in it but Anthony Head is in it and that can't be bad.
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To the other "comment"...
This is neither emo nor goth.
Just appreciate it as a movie not just something else you can label.posted 176 days ago -
This movie is really goth and emo. not for me! but anthony stewart head and sarah brightman and alexa vega are acting in it. so i MIGHT watch it. maybe, maybe not. But sounds cool to me!
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