A NIGHT AT THE GENETIC OPERA

[defrog]

ITEM [via YesButNoButYes]: Regarding the recent news that MTV is remaking Rocky Horror, evidently the idea’s being made even more redundant by this year’s OTHER film version of a successful S&M stage musical influenced by horror movies:

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Directed by the guy who did the Saw sequels

Pro: nifty Pythonesque B-movie plot where big HMOs repossess yr organs if you miss a payment, excessive Goth BDSM imagery, cast includes Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino and Ogre from Skinny Puppy

Cons: the music is warmed over nu-metal, cast includes Sarah Brightman and Paris Hilton (yes, that one)

Is it the 21st Century Rocky Horror? I doubt it. But it’s demented enough that I may just have to see it anyway.

Can we have yr liver,

This is dF

Comments

They ripped off Reposession Mambo

[garbagecanmusic.livejournal.com]

or vice-versa...

The plot for "Reposession Mambo" starring Forest Whitaker, due out at the same time:

"Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed."

Who knew that they could milk this storyline twice?

Re: They ripped off Reposession Mambo

[def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com]

Huh. This just like when they had two "killer asteroid heading to Earth" films and two "volcano erupts in America" films coming out at the same time. Granted, the odds of two "we've come to take yr liver back" films are slimmer. A lawsuit surely can't be too far off.