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Repo's Live Organ Trafficking Musical Show Hits The Road

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:30:00 PDT

That gothy little musical, Repo! The Genetic Opera, is hitting the road this summer. Click through for the big beautiful tour schedule. Here's hoping Director Darren Bousman and Terrance Zdunich (the long-haired Zydrate peddler) will both be on the road with the feature.

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Sarah Brightman Flashes Her Holographic Eyes, Belts Out New Repo! Song

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:00:00 PST

The goth-y movie musical Repo! The Genetic Opera, set in a sad dystopia where organ harvesting is common practice, has released a new song video-clip out into the world. Powerhouse singer Sarah Brightman haunts the screen as Blind Mag, who sings to her long lost god daughter and spits out holographic pictures from her eyes. The duet is titled "Chase The Morning."

After the third time I saw Blind Mag's dead eyes projecting Shiloh's mom in front of her I gotta say, I'm a little addicted, and I thought the Zydrate ditty was catchy. The musical is released this week in theaters on November 7.

Paris Hilton's "Scalpel-Slut" Drug Addiction Explained

Meredith Woerner — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:00:00 PDT

Our favorite dystopian surgery movie, Repo! The Genetic Opera, has released a feature exposing the "scalpel sluts" of the future — those people who just can't stop hacking into their bodies and faces for new parts. Paris Hilton plays one of the many sluts who just can't get their fill of the surgery drug Zydrate. Her dual personalities on Repo come to light in this clip — one is the adorable "sweet" spokesperson for Zydrate, the other is a Zydrate junkie jonesing for the sweet relief that comes in the little glass vial. The clip also features the Zydrate song, which is by far my favorite Repo tune.

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Sexy New Repo Pics Show Silk Stockings And Surgery

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:20:00 PDT

It's getting closer to the opening date of Repo The Genetic Opera, and these beautiful stills of a scantily clad Paris Hilton and Anthony Head (Giles) with his hands literally inside a screaming mans chest are rekindling my interest. I swore that I could love no other scifi musical like I loved Rocky Horror, but I'll be damned if Repo isn't making me smile and sing along, plus the idea that a corporation can "collect" back the life sustaining organs you purchase may be the next step once this economic crisis wipes out health insurance and Social Security in the future.

Repo the Genetic Opera takes place in a dystopian future where the masses depend on one company to replace their failing organs — just don't miss a payment or they'll rip it right out of you. Check out the picks and listen to the Repo soundtrack at the movie's Myspace page Myspace page. Repo will have a small release on November 7th.

Giles Sings, Dances, Slices Your Borrowed Organs Out

Meredith Woerner — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:40:00 PDT

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]

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

Kevin Kelly — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:30:29 PST

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.

How did a movie like this get made? Bousman, who also directed Saw II through IV, first made a ten minute "trailer" of the stage production of Repo! in order to try to sell it as a film. These are the comic book-style opening titles that tell you what you're in store for. Hopefully the Hollywood executives he's just given the finished film to will see fit to unleash it on theaters.

New 'Repo!' Art [Bloody Disgusting]

Body Organs Get Yanked In Clash Of Repo Movies

Kevin Kelly — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:30:11 PST

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.

In one corner, you have Director Darren Lynn Bousman's independent effort with Lionsgate, Repo! The Genetic Opera. Weighing in on the studio side is Repossession Mambo from Universal. While Repo! stars Paul Sorvino and Paris Hilton, Mambo has Jude Law and Forest Whitaker. Both are about people who pay for body organs on credit, and then find out what happens when they can't pay the bills. So long new set of lungs!

To make things even more bizarre, Bousman blogged that they are sharing post-production facilities with Repossession Mambo. Talk about being able to see what the enemy is up to. He remains steadfast that his film will trump Mambo, and points out they "We really did start this Opera shit!" He seems to have a valid argument as well, since he'd already shot a short version of Repo! in 2006, and used it to pitch the feature to studios. Plus his movie has singing and dancing and... Paris Hilton.

One of these is a dramatic movie, and the other one looks like a Rocky Horror Picture Show for a new generation. We'll let you decide which is which.

Every so often two films come down the pipeline with the same basic plot and smash into each other. Once the dust settles, a winner is declared, and the loser slinks into bargain bins and late-night showings on cable TV. This gave us such memorable box office battles as Armageddon vs. Deep Impact, Volcano vs. Dante's Peak, A Bug's Life vs. Antz, and Transformers vs. Transmorphers.

Repo! vs. Repo Hits The Editing Room [Bloody Disgusting]