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Synopsis

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. —IMDB

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Darren Lynn Bousman

Darren Lynn Bousman (born January 11, 1979) is an American film director and screenwriter.

Personal life

Bousman was born in Overland Park, Kansas, the son of Nancy and Lynn Bousman. He is a graduate of the Film School at Full Sail University. He attended high school at Shawnee Mission North High School in Overland Park, and studied film at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida. Bousman got engaged to Laura Bosserman on October 4, 2008 and subsequently married her on January 2, 2010.

Career

During 2004, he was pitching an idea for a movie called The Desperate to various American studios, who complained that the screenplay was too violent, and the plot was too close to Saw. David A. Armstrong who worked on Saw asked Bousman if he could show the script to Saw producer Gregg Hoffman. Hoffman read the script and called Bousman interested in producing “The Desperate”, but after showing the script to his partners Mark Burg and Oren Koules, the two decided… read more

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domina vegrandis

6Dec11

I can't believe this movie isn't a joke.

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Sam Flemming

6Aug11

Underrated at best

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TopcatPlayer

5Aug11

A largely misunderstood film. Took me a couple of views before i understood the film's tone, which shifts from deathly serious to an undercut of overstated violent sillyness. People expecting a musical should find out what Opera means. People expecting Sweeney Todd mixed with Rocky Horror, well you might be disapointed or not, you either love or hate it. Head and Brightman rule in their songs. Deserves a se/prequel

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Tony Smith

31May11

I liked its cheesiness and I thought the songs were catchy, Interesting premise but the jerks at Lionsgate could have thrown a bit more money towards it.

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    Graeme Higginson

    19Sep12

    More like the jerks at Lionsgate could have given it to a filmmaker with brians. Everything that is wrong about it is entirely compositional and structural. With a fairly unknown cast, eight million dollars could have easily made this a great film... unless Paris Hilton took most of it.

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Repo! The Genetic Opera: One week event at The Bloor Cinema!

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
I should have written this up after I saw this at TADFF. That would have been the proper thing to do but this was just one of those movies that I really wanted to write up but somehow found……
read on Twitchfilm.com

REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
[Our thanks to Justin Decloux for the following review of Darren Bousman’s cult horror musical.] REPO is an anomaly in the universe. It was funded by an actual studio (Lions Gate), it’s a musical (an R
read on Twitchfilm.com

REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 17, 2010
[Our thanks to Justin Decloux for the following review of Darren Bousman’s cult horror musical.] REPO is an anomaly in the universe. It was funded by an actual studio (Lions Gate), it’s a musical (an R
read on Twitchfilm.net

Repo! The Genetic Opera: One week event at The Bloor Cinema!

By Twitchfilm.net on July 17, 2010
I should have written this up after I saw this at TADFF. That would have been the proper thing to do but this was just one of those movies that I really wanted to write up but somehow found…
read on Twitchfilm.net

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Repo! The Genetic Opera

By Amir Syarif Siregar on June 1, 2010

Layaknya sebuah penampilan opera, Repo! The Genetic Opera berusaha memaparkan jalan ceritanya yang bernuansa horror lewat serangkaian lagu-lagu bernuansa rock yang ditampilkan oleh sutradara Darren…  read review

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