Repo! The Genetic Opera is a fiercely original sideshow of bloody mayhem unlike anything you’'ve ever seen. Based on the stage play of the same name, Repo! is an industrial rock musical told entirely through song and set in a neo-Gothic future world of flesh, blood and leather. Underneath the madness is a timeless opera tale with a full cast of Shakespearean archetypes.

After an epidemic of organ failures ravage the planet, the greedy corporation Geneco controls the cities by selling transplants. But there'’s a catch. Those who miss their payments get their organs repossessed by knife-wielding “Repo Man” Nathan (Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Anthony Stewart Head), a tragic protagonist forced to do the dirty work by greedy Geneco president Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino) in order to protect his sick daughter Shilo. On top of that, Largo is dying, and a power struggle over his empire ensues by his three demented children (Bill Moseley, Paris Hilton and Skinny Puppy'’s Nivek Ogre). Toss in a mysterious blind diva (Sarah Brightman) and a crazy, narcotics-dealing graverobber (co-writer Terrance Zdunich), and you have a recipe for absolute chaos.

Having cast off the shackles of the Saw sequels, director Darren Lynn Bousman has finally come into his own as a filmmaker. While it’'s certainly original enough to stand on its own, its status as a bizarro opera will place Repo! alongside The Rocky Horror Picture Show as a cult favourite that will be revisited by an ever-growing legion of fans.