The 2000s were an amazing time to be a lover of weird musicals. It was the era of A Very Potter Musical before Darren Criss defected to Glee, and the era of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. But more than anything, it was the era of Repo.
Repo! The Genetic Opera is the kind of movie that shouldn’t have happened, a gothic, over-the-top dystopian musical that managed to star actors from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Goodfellas, and Spy Kids, as well as Paris Hilton. The film, an adaptation of the stage show of the same name, was directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and starred Terrance Zdunich as the GraveRobber, the narrator of this sick little world. It’s been called a feature-length Evanescence video, Succession for goths, and Morbius if it were a musical, but none of these comparisons truly capture the viewing experience.
