Miss one, however, and one of GeneCo’s Repo men will come calling…scalpel in hand.įrom such a complex set up, Repo! then takes a traditional approach to its main narrative thread. Make all your payments, and everything is fine. Organ transplants are expense and most people must finance their necessary surgery. Thanks to endless advertising, the work of company symbol/songbird Blind Mag, and the relentless pursuit of profit by founder Rotti Largo and his inauspicious children – sons Luigi and Pavi, and fame whore daughter Amber Sweet – everyone now has a second chance at life. Enter GeneCo and their genetically engineered replacement parts. A plague has struck the world’s population, turning once healthy organs into failing blobs of flesh. In Bousman’s more than capable hands, the not too distant future is a grim landscape littered with corpses. Now available on DVD, this ridiculously creative repugnant roadshow lives up to every ounce of its wild-eyed ingenious promise. When Lionsgate, the beneficiary of the filmmaker’s Saw support, gave the greenlight, it was an uphill struggle to get the film made, and then recognized. With Bousman’s support, a 10 minute financing “trailer” was cobbled together and taken around. Developed by composers Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich, it began as a stage play. Entitled Repo!: The Genetic Opera, this morbid modern take on the classical artform stands as one unique, spellbinding experience. So imagine everyone’s surprise when, after leaving the lucrative series, Bousman’s first feature ends up a Grand Guignol Gothic musical featuring a cast including Sarah Brightman, Paul Sorvino, and Paris Hilton. Best known for turning the sensational suspense thriller Saw into a practical, money-making franchise, many dismissed him as a genre journeyman – capable of creating gruesome, horrific terrors, but not much else. Such is the case with Darren Lynn Bousman. Sometimes, a filmmaker has to trudge away in demographically determined limbo in order to get his or her chance to stand up and shine. There’s also a strange synchronicity between the two completely competent business extremes. Why make something daring when you can make dollars. Bankability and commercial viability often trump things like talent, imagination and artistry. Vision is hard to come by in today’s ‘crank ’em out and count the pennies’ Hollywood.
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