Repo! The Genetic Opera

Aroview: Gore-soaked goth opera set in a future necropolis where worldwide organ failure has necessitated a global organ-selling empire with an attendant team of ruthless repo men.

Sarah Brightman's impressive pipes and the industrial-rock art direction contribute to the film’s guilty entertainment value, but the variable actors are mostly let down by a fatally prosaic lyric sheet and near-atonal musical score. Financed after the director made his Hollywood mark (and money) with the SAW sequels, it's an ambitious misfire that is still beloved by the hardcore goth and fetish set.

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