Granted, there is a measure of originality in conceiving a horror-inflected rock opera on scientific and political themes, and no film starring Paris Hilton as a marginalized heiress whose poorly grafted face slides clean off her skull is entirely without its guilty pleasures.īut when you live by the song, you die by the song.
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.Īdapted from a theater production with lyrics and music by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich, “Repo!” feels destined to please a campy coterie of fans and no one else.
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