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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
1,029 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 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
565 views, 1 comment

Latest by Rigger: How can you forget to mention that Repo! is going to star Anthony Stewart Head. I'd think him to be more »