In the year 2056 - the
not so distant future - an epidemic of
organ failures devastates the planet. Out
of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GeneCo,
a biotech company that offers organ
transplants, for a price. Those who miss
their payments are scheduled for
repossession and hunted by villainous
Repo Men. In a world where surgery
addicts are hooked on painkilling drugs
and murder is sanctioned by law, a
sheltered young girl searches for the
cure to her own rare disease as well as
information about her family's mysterious
history. After being sucked into the
haunting world 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.
A nice
beginning with a Graverobber introducing the story acting totally
insane bringing a nice touch to the
story.
There's many good close up shots on him performing his son while injecting
corpses with drugs which looked totally
dark and creepy.
There's a nice duet between Nathan singing with Shilo Wallace while she's sick in bed as well as her
acting powerful singing to a portait of
her mother on the wall and prancing
around the room and acting strongly
dramatic.
A great presence by Blind Mag calling to Shilo and telling her who she is which looked
ghostly as well as Nathan acting
like a brute towards Blind Mag with Shilo by trying to convince him what
will happen to her which looked strongly
done.
Many nice shots on the Graverobber in an
alleyway dancing around and injecting
some of the women with his drug and them acting crazy as
well as doing many zany dance numbers
with him as the whole scene looked
perfectly twisted and one of the best
moments in this film ever.
We spot some nice moments with Nathan looking insane and putting on his uniform
about to do some killings as well as him
swinging his knife towards some of his
victims tied in a chair.
There's nice moments with Luigi Largo by acting obnoxious towards other in a
dressing room before the opera starts
with him acting menacing too.
A good shot on a supporting character Marni hanging on a rope at
the opera stage acting gothic like and
then torturing herself which looked
almost hard to watch and then tragic
moments with her happening.
Also a nice duet dispute between Shilo telling Nathan that she hates him and
running away with lots of tense moments
with this scene.
There's a nice slaughtering war which
involved Nathan, Rotti Largo and Luigi on the stage with
many powerful actions on all of them.
Bottom line is that many horror films
like Phantom of the Opera,
Evil Dead or Carrie
became stage musicals due to their
popularity as horror films so the makers
decided to make a horror muscial as it
almost seems to be a tribute to the
Hostel flicks with a touch of
Phantom of the Opera. I had to
say that this film really worked as the
musical numbers were very intense and
disturbing with all that is happening and
original with the storyline too.
I sometimes had a hard time reviewing
this piece since I've never reviewed a
horror musical but did the best I could
since it was worth reviewing plus it was
fun watching it all the way through with
a good kick ass rocking score from start
to finish in it. Plus it had many cast
members who had musical stage experience
as well as horror film actors too trying
to take the bull by it's horns by
pursuing musical acting too so all in all
it was like a party flick.
The musical acting
is terrific in which we have a nice tense
performance by Alexa Varga (Shilo Wallace) as a
young sick person who brings tons of
charisma and character to her part in the
film never slacking off with 100 percent
pure energy too. She really knew what she
was doing with her part in the flick.
Paul Sorvino (Rotti Largo) had the perfect look as
a mafia leader in the film looking stocky
and rough like plus had a terrific and
powerful singing voice which was one of
the film's plus without a doubt. He
delivered alot to the story with what he
had to do in it.
Anthony Head (Nathan / Repo Man) really knew how to act
like a disturbed type of a family man in
the film as well as showing terrific
insane expressions on set. He was also
terrific with his menacing attitude too.
A true horror character he was.
Sarah
Brightman (Blind Mag) had the prefect looks as a
gothic type of person and seemed to look
very ghostly in her presence of the film
and was powerful in her singing voice to
top it all off in which she was supposed
to have done. Another great pointer for
this cast member.
Bill Moseley (Luigi Largo) was mainly an actor
than a singer but was passable and does
well with his obnoxious attitude in the
film like he normally plays in other
horror flick and does a musical horror
performance with this one. He stood out
very well in his role.
I have to tell you the best character
actor throughout this whole movie was Terrance
Zdunich (Graveroober) with his
evil looks as well as playing like a
madman he just stole the show with his
whole performance in the film. He did
everything from going wild as well as his
zany dancing. A fellow who knew his craft
for this story. He deserves an award for
best supporting actor if he hasn't gotten
one yet.
Paris Hilton takes
off a coat in an opera theatre exposing
her breasts.
A woman's stomach
is cut open while rescuing a newborn
Many bodies are cut open with their
insides torn out
A face is torn off
A hand is cut off
A woman is impaled on a metal fence on
stage at an opera along with many violent
bloodsheds and guts lying around
Eyes are ripped out
The music was very superb
having electronic rock music with the
heavy keyboard playing as well as the
heavy pounding guitar riffs throughout
this musical. It was very original and
extremely effective making the story look
great all composed by Darren Smith
and Terrance Zdunich. |
