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repo! the genetic opera

Giles Sings, Dances, Slices Your Borrowed Organs Out

In the future, organ failure is as common as a cold, and the huge company GeneCo has a monopoly on supplying humans with much needed organ replacements. But there's a catch: The minute you miss a payment on your new organ, GeneCo sends someone to cut the organs back out. Anthony Head (Giles from Buffy) plays the singing and dancing organ Repo Man in Repo! The Genetic Opera.. While I love Head, and his soulful pipes, from the look of the trailer this movie is trying way too hard hard for the cult favorite niche — it's seconds away from selling t-shirts at Hot Topic. [Sympatico vis Bloody Disgusting]

8:40 AM on Fri Jun 27 2008
By Meredith Woerner
1,374 views, 20 comments

Latest by n/a: @winkingskunk: Seconded. @gemma1: What, you need a reason? more »

repo! the genetic opera

"Repo! The Genetic Opera" is an Epic of After-Market Body Parts

Darren Lynn Bousman's Repo! The Genetic Opera is one of the two organ repossession movies coming out this year, and now it's gone viral with a creepy-looking donation poster (jump below see it) urging you to give until it hurts. This "Warnerian-Rocky Horror-meets-Bladerunner musical" takes place in a future where massive organ failures plague humankind. But the sickly masses can ward off death by financing an easy-clone organ implant from GeneCo. If you can't pay when the loan comes due, a repo agent will yank your fancy new organs like a bad tooth. And it's an opera, of course. We've got the awesome repo poster below. More »

8:30 AM on Mon Jan 21 2008
By Kevin Kelly
898 views, 10 comments

Latest by scfaulkner: Not only does it have Anthony Stewart Head (whose brother, Murray, gave us the immortal One Night in Bangkok) but it's got Ogre from Skinny Puppy, and Paris Hilton. What could possibly go wrong? more »

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Body Organs Get Yanked In Clash Of Repo Movies

In the future, you'll be able to pay for new organs on credit, just like decorating your home. But what happens when you can't payoff the new body parts you've been enjoying? That's the premise of not one but two new films coming out next year. And one of them is a musical. Only in Hollywood. More »

10:30 AM on Mon Nov 19 2007
By Kevin Kelly
453 views, 1 comment