Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) on Netflix
R20081h 38mHorrorMusicalSci-Fi
In 2056 GeneCo sells transplants on payment plans, and Repo Men repossess the organs of clients who fall behind. Shilo Wallace, seventeen, has her mother's blood disease and is kept indoors.
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- Rotten Tomatoes40%
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Plot summary
Organ failure has swept the planet, and the megacorporation GeneCo supplies replacement organs on credit. Clients who fall behind on payments are hunted by Repo Men, who take the organs back. Rotti Largo, GeneCo's chief executive, is dying, and none of his children, Luigi, Pavi and Amber, strikes him as a worthy heir. He looks instead to Shilo Wallace, whose mother, Marni, was his former fiancée. Seventeen-year-old Shilo inherited Marni's rare blood disease and has never been allowed outside. Rotti promises a cure at GeneCo's fair, and she goes, meeting Blind Mag, the opera singer who speaks for the company and whose eyes are GeneCo's work.
Cast
- Jessica Hornas Jessica Adams
- Branko Lebaras Rotti's Chauffeur
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In 1996 Darren Smith had a friend going through bankruptcy whose possessions were going into foreclosure. That gave him the idea of a future in which not only one's property but also one's body parts could be repossessed.
- After years as a stage play, Repo! was made into a ten-minute short film, directed and financed by Darren Lynn Bousman to pitch the idea to studios. It starred Shawnee Smith as Amber Sweet, then named Heather Sweet, and Michael Rooker as the Repo Man.
- The story began as a stage piece by Smith and Terrance Zdunich called The Necromerchant's Debt, about a grave robber in debt to a Repo Organ Man, which premiered at the John Raitt Theater in 2002.
- Hilton's performance won her the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress at the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards, while the songs 'Chase the Morning', 'Chromaggia' and 'Zydrate Anatomy' were shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, though none were nominated.
- Repo! took $53,684 in its opening weekend, a $6,711 average per theater. Its full eleven-theater release earned $146,750 in the United States and $41,376 internationally, for a worldwide total of $188,126.
- In the earliest performances Rotti was not the father of Luigi, Pavi and Amber. He was written as a younger brother to Luigi and Pavi, while Amber was Luigi's daughter.
- Yoshiki, the leader of X Japan, produced the soundtrack for the film, and he also composed one extra track specially for it.
