Repo! The Genetic Opera!

Darren Lynn Bousman, the director of several “Saw” sequels, has devised an excruciating new torture with “Repo! The Genetic Opera.” Set about 50 years hence, this high-concept, tone-deaf musical imagines a dystopian society afflicted by widespread organ failure, biological black markets and spontaneous outbreaks of painfully monotonous rock 'n' roll.

IN the “Saw” horror movies that he has worked on, Darren Lynn Bousman has unflinchingly subjected his characters to excruciating tortures. He has burned them alive, frozen them to death and crushed their skulls in spiky, Venus flytraplike headgear. But what really turns his stomach are movie musicals. “Anything that breaks into song, where they're talking, talking, talking, and then there's a big [...] Vai alla recensione »

The idea of the director of Saw II, III and IV going at Paris Hilton seems like just revenge for her punishable assaults on acting. In this atonal, faux-arty rock opera about a futuristic bull market in internal organs, Hilton is suitably clueless as Amber Sweet, the daughter of an aria-singing mob boss (Paul Sorvino). Amber trades in her organs like fashion accessories.

How's this for a future: In the year 2056, which will look like a post-consumer apocalypse, one company will have a monopoly on designer plastic surgery and organ transplants, giving easy financing terms with gruesome, life-ending repossession if payment is not rendered on time. And there will be songs, lots of songs. Adapted by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich from their own stage production and [...] Vai alla recensione »