Repo! The Genetic Opera

Director: Darren Lynn Bousman, Darren Lynn Bausman

Overview

Saw series mainstay Darren Lynn Bousman reunites with Twisted Pictures producers Oren Koules and Mark Burg for this futuristic shocker detailing a terrifying epidemic of organ failures. The denizens of planet Earth have been devastated by inexplicable and widespread organ failures, and as a result scientists begin planning a substantial organ harvest. Though an innovative biotech conglomerate subsequently offers the fearful public a means of maintaining their health by enacting a series of hassle-free organ payment plans, things begin to get messy when it's revealed that the financed body parts are subjected to legal default, and that failure to maintain proper payment will result in forceful repossession of the organs. Paul Sorvino and Spy Kids' Alexa Vega star alongside celebrity socialite Paris Hilton in the Lionsgate film.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/19/2010
UPC:	0031398104353
Original Release:	2008
Rating:	R
Source:	Lions Gate
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:37:00
Sales rank:	13,672

Special Features

Closed Caption; From Stage to Screen featurette; Audio commentary with director Darren Lynn Bousman and actors Bill Moseley, Alexa Vega and Ogre; Audio commentary with director Darren Lynn Bousman, co-creators Darren Smith and Terrence Zdunich and music producer Joseph Bishara; Legal Assassin featurette; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Anthony Head	Nathan Wallace / Repo Man
Bill Moseley	Luigi Largo
Paris Hilton	Amber Sweet
Paul Sorvino	Rotti Largo
Sarah Brightman	Blind Mag
Alexa Vega	Shilo Wallace
Nivek Ogre	Pavi Largo
Terrance Zdunich	Grave Robber,Composer
Darren Smith	Composer

Technical Credits

Darren Smith

Terrance Zdunich

Darren Smith	Screenwriter
Terrance Zdunich	Screenwriter
Mark Burg	Producer
Daniel J. Heffner	Producer,Producer
Oren Koules	Producer
Carl Mazzocone	Producer
Darren Bousman	Producer,Executive Producer
Jonathan McHugh	Executive Producer
Sarah Greenberg	Executive Producer
Johanna Ray	Casting
Peter Block	Executive Producer
Jenny Jue	Casting
Jason Constantine	Executive Producer
Tim Palen	Executive Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Repo! The Genetic Opera
1. An Epidemic of Organ Failures [3:14]
2. Genetic Repo Man [4:19]
3. Things You See in a Graveyard [5:59]
4. Legal Assassin [5:50]
5. Mark It Up [3:37]
6. Thankless Job [6:55]
7. Payment Past Due [7:06]
8. Zydrate Anatomy [3:29]
9. Night Surgeon [7:51]
10. Chase the Morning [2:44]
11. Seventeen [6:05]
12. At the Opera Tonight [7:57]
13. Testify! [3:06]
14. Chromaggia [4:23]
15. Let the Monster Rise [4:03]
16. I Didn't Know I'd Love You So Much [8:09]
17. Genetic Emancipation [3:22]
18. Geneco's Story Continues... [3:09]

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Disc #1 -- Repo! The Genetic Opera
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Also From Lionsgate
Featurette: "From Stage to Screen" - "Legal Assassin: A Repo Man on the Edge"
Theatrical Trailer
Set Up
Subtitles: English
Subtitles: Español
Subtitles: Off
Audio Commentary: Director Darren Lynn Bousman, Actors Bill Moseley, Alexa Vega & Ogre: On
Audio Commentary: Director Darren Lynn Bousman, Actors Bill Moseley, Alexa Vega & Ogre: Off
Audio Commentary: Director Darren Lynn Bousman, Co-Creators Darren Smith & Terrance Zdunich, Music Producer Joseph Bishara: On
Audio Commentary: Director Darren Lynn Bousman, Co-Creators Darren Smith & Terrance Zdunich, Music Producer Joseph Bishara: Off

Editorial Reviews

Because Darren Lynn Bousman had just soullessly toiled away on the second, third, and fourth Saw movies, it would be easy to dismiss him as a hack with no vision beyond that required to see his next paycheck. But if churning out those movies was a necessary evil toward making his passion project, Repo! The Genetic Opera, then all is forgiven. Repo! was excoriated by critics for such reasons as the casting of Paris Hilton, as well as its risky premise: an R-rated opera in which surgically implanted organs are repossessed for nonpayment. It seems many critics couldn't get past their knee-jerk reactions, because if they had, they would have recognized Repo! as the ambitious feast of originality that it is. This is what Tim Burton should have gone for with Sweeney Todd: a dark, dystopian epic that's emotionally satisfying, but also sometimes funny, and lives up to the expected scope of its format. As the father and daughter at the center of the story, Anthony Head and Alexa Vega bring terrific depth of feeling to their characters, and Buffy fans will be especially delighted to see Head (their beloved Giles) in the leading role he so richly deserves. It helps to have plenty of feeling built in to the songs from the original stage musical, composed by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich, whose lyrics stop just short of being comically literal. The supporting performances are also effective in context, from Paul Sorvino to soprano Sarah Brightman, with even Hilton herself fitting into the film's thrust. It's important to remember that Repo!'s trash factor is intentional, as this film actively aspires to join the lurid ranks of film's great exploitation movies. But there's nothing unintentionally trashy about it, either in terms of its sentiments (the tragic story is plenty involving), its social commentary (our appearance-obsessed society gets a wicked skewering), or its production (a balance between sweeping digital cityscapes and low-tech sets that embrace Repo!'s stage origins). Even the comic-book panels that advance the narrative work perfectly with Bousman's design. "Narrated" by a sympathetic gravedigger who traffics in street surgical drugs, Repo! The Genetic Opera has got "future cult classic" written all over it. It could be the Rocky Horror Picture Show of gothic rock operas, to a receptive audience. And Bousman proves he has good creative vision after all, free from those snapping traps that had shackled him.