Beyond the extras, which we will get to in a bit, the sound and picture quality on the Blu-ray are stunning and completely warrant its purchase if you have the tech and are on the fence. If you’re wondering whether to get the DVD or the Blu-ray, there’s a lot to sway you to the hi-def side. One viewing, and you’ll know exactly the reasons why we’ve been singing its praises. There’s a good reason why it made almost all of our 2008 year-end lists. It’s an experience that is as visually stunning as it is over-the-top violent. Repo! The Genetic Opera is like nothing you’ve ever seen before. To miss out on this movie just because you don’t like her for whatever reason makes sense to you will be one of the biggest movie-watching mistakes of your life. If she has six minutes of screen time total, it’s a lot, and even then while she is in it, she’s damned good.

See? Told you it was an opera!įor those of you out there who are in the ridiculous “ I won’t watch this because of Paris Hilton” camp, let me get this out of the way … get the fuck over yourself, will you please? She’s hardly the star. Since this is a true opera, meaning all of the dialogue is sung and not spoken, you can bet that at the story’s heart there is a great tragedy just waiting to happen, and of course there is! Unbeknownst to anyone, Rotti holds a deep resentment for the Repo Man and thus puts together a plan to torture the poor guy by using Shilo against him. What does GeneCo do, you ask? They supply manufactured organs to those in need, but if you fail to pay your debt, they send the Repo Man out to reclaim your viscera in the most violent of ways. A society run by a ruthless company called GeneCo, which is headed up by an evil businessman named Rotti Largo (Sorvino) and his three maniacal kids (Moseley, Ogre, Hilton). As an act of both rebellion and curiosity, at night she slips into the seedier side of society without him knowing. The storyline follows a teenager named Shilo (Vega) who is sick of living under her father’s (Head) rules.

What is it? It’s like The Rocky Horror Picture Show crashed head on into the old EC horror comics of yesteryear. Bousman, knowing that what he had was something special, took the film on the road himself, and you know what? It sold out theatres just about wherever it played with hordes of people dressing up as the film’s characters ready to sing along. For those of you not keeping up - upon completion of the project Lionsgate wasn’t convinced of the movie’s marketability and, as a result, gave it a very abbreviated theatrical release.

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