REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA

The official website for Darren Lynn Bousman's unconventional project, Repo! The Genetic Opera is up today with lots of musical clips, and background on the world and characters the film revolves around. Originaly created for the stage by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich who now along with Bousman, also the director of the stage version, they are bringing it to the big screen. If you haven't heard about the project it is the first slasher horror musical as far as anyone seems to know. Which of course has made the critics already dislike it, and Paris Hilton is in it which has now made everyone hate it. I am going to stay open minded and view it without expectations and maybe I'll be surprised. Although Hilton is the only one anyone is talking about she is not the lead and the ensemble also includes Anthony Head and Sarah Brightman. I love Anthony Head like any fan of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series and he has a great voice and impressive background in London's musical theatre. As you'll see at the site the plot is set in the not-so-distant future when an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet, scientists gear for a massive organ harvest. A biotech giant comes up with easy organ payment plans, but all financed organs are subject to legal default, including repossession at the hands of repo men. Odd definitely but I do give Bousman credit for thinking outside the box having the guts to follow through. Check it out and let me know what you think.