Repo! The Genetic Opera

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 ...more

This movie's best box office hope is that some overly charitable critic will say it is so bad it's good, which might attract ticket buyers who enjoy sniggering derisively and making rude comments at the screen. (You know who you are.) That's because this goth-horror rock musical comes up lacking on nearly every level. The wall-to-wall songs not only feature embarrassingly dopey lyrics and instantly forgettable melodies, they aren't even mixed very well. The instruments often sound as if they are ...more

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 ...more