In the not too distant future, organ transplants are common place and anyone can have a transplant for a price but, if you should forfeit on payment, the Repo Man comes to reclaim what is no longer yours. This results in the borrower’s bloody death as the organs are ripped out of their body.
Paul Sorvino is the man in charge of GeneCo, the company that controls body transplants. He has three children, the surgery obsessed Ogre (from Skinny Puppy), the very angry Bill Moseley (from a number of good horror movies including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), and the spoiled rich girl and aspiring singer Paris Hilton (from a variety of amateur sex tapes), and they all want his fortune. On Sorvino’s payroll is Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy The Vampire Slayer), a doctor who is overprotective of his daughter Alexa Vega (Spy Kids). There are some other interesting characters including the eye transplanted Sarah Brightman (from many of Anthony Lloyd Webber’s productions) and graverobber and drug dealer Terrance Zdunich (who also happens to be one the movie’s writers).
Musicals are usually fairly dodgy and unchallenging, but Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog has shown they have potential and cult appeal. Repo favours the darker side of life and music, with compositions that range from wailing goth opera to thrashy rock (with Joan Jett making an appearance on guitar during one of the songs). I should probably know more of the musicians listed than I do, but I did see David J (from Goth pioneers Bauhaus) and Melora Creager (Rasputina) in the credits. The sets looks nice, some of the lyrics are clever (while some are ridiculously simplistic), and it has enough style and substance to hold it together. Grab some absinthe and turn up the stereo.
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