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Genres:
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Horror /
Musical /
Sci-Fi
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Director:
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Darren Lynn Bousman
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Actors:
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Marty Adams,
Sarah Power,
Sarah Brightman,
Terrance Zdunich,
Jessica Horn,
Branko Lebar,
Brianna Buckmaster,
Anna Kostan,
Brad Austin,
Alexa Vega,
Paul Sorvino,
Anthony Head,
Paris Hilton,
Bill Moseley,
Nivek Ogre
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Duration:
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97 min.
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Rating:
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(6.5/10)109
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Plot Summary:
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In the year 2056 - the not so distant future - an epidemic of medium failures devastates the planet. Insensible of the calamity, a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech convention that offers organ transplants, for the treatment of a premium. Those who misconstrue their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted at hand villainous Repo Men. In a mankind where surgery addicts are hooked on painkilling drugs and carnage is sanctioned by law, a sheltered young female searches for the cure to her own rare disease as proficiently as information anent her brood's curious history. After being su... cked into the haunting in every way of GeneCo, she is unable to turn back, as all of her questions will be answered at the wildly anticipated spectacular event: The Genetic Opera.
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Overrated!
At best ok, but definately fails to live up to all the hype
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Claudia PuigThe biggest mystery about Repo! The Genetic Opera is why the grisly Goth-horror musical is opening the week after Halloween. The second-biggest mystery is why this unfunny, unscary, preposterous bloodbath about organ transplants is opening at all. And why did a serious singer like Sarah Brightman sign on and donate her pipes to this infernal, self-indulgent misfire? Director Darren Lynn Bousman must have hoped to make a cult favorite along the lines of Rocky Horror Picture Show. And since he directed SawsII, III and IV, perhaps out of professional courtesy he didn't want to open on the same day as the most recent installment of the franchise. But such a macabre affair would seem to have a short shelf life. Its derivative production design s...
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