“Mother can you hear me? Thanks for the disease.” Every song is that literal.) 7, Director: Darren Lynn Bousman, Writer: Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich (screenplay and play) Cinematographer: Joseph White, Starring: Paul Sorvino, Anthony Head, Paris. (Mom is the source of her illness, by the way: “I’m infected by your genetics,” Shilo sings in one of the film’s oddly peppy rock tunes. Poor, sick Shilo (Alexa Vega from the “Spy Kids” movies) doesn’t realize her dad is the mean old Repo Man, though - she just thinks he’s a mild-mannered, overly protective doctor named Nathan, still mourning the death of her mother. And he sings while he’s doing it! The most ridiculous example of this is a scene in which he’s got a guy hanging upside down and he’s disemboweling him while simultaneously talking on the cell phone to his teenage daughter, reminding her to take her medicine.

Zdunich, who also serves as our narrator, Graverobber, keeps popping up to explain the convoluted plot in malevolent tones.īut if you can’t afford to pay for your new heart or spleen, GeneCo sends the Repo Man (Anthony Stewart Head) to collect. That’s where the biotech company GeneCo steps in, headed by CEO Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino, inexplicably slumming - he really is a trained opera singer). The intentionally dissonant songs with their painfully clunky lyrics, which writers Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich first created for their “Repo!” stage musical, are set in a futuristic society where people’s organs mysteriously fail and transplants become not just necessary but fashionable.

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