Saturday, October 29, 2011

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

  Don't let that "From the Producers of Saw" worry you.   This movie is about as frightening as a sneezing kitten.  It has the potential to be a real cult classic, however, what with its combination of comic book styling, massive gore, goth art direction, a genuine diva (Sarah Brightman), and a genuine wannabe diva (Paris Hilton).

In a dystopian future, surgery is the new hot thing.  You can buy organs in installments but, if you fail to pay, they send Repo Men to take back your liver or fake boobs or whatever you bought.  The founder of Geneco, Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino), has a long-standing grudge against one of his Repo Men, Nathan Wallace (Anthony Stewart Head), because Wallace stole his fiancee.  She later died in childbirth.  17 years later, Shilo Wallace (Alexa Vega), is beginning to learn that her world is not as it appears.  Rotti learns he's dying, and since he hates his three spoiled psycho children (Bill Moseley, Paris Hilton, and Ogre from Skinny Puppy), he has to find someone to leave his mega-corporation to in his will.  Guess who he picks?

I got this on Netflix a year or so ago and bought it soon thereafter.  It's just taken me this long to get to R.

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