Anthony Stewart Head from Buffy plays her dad.

She sings a song about being addicted to future heroin while wearing a leather bustier and trying to fuck a man who sucks glowing blue juice out of people’s brains. All of the above information is conveyed in the first minute through comic book panels that introduce the organ failures, GeneCo, and the main characters before Repo even touches its its live-action plot, which is a funky, Rapunzel-esque riff on how parents go too far in trying to protect their children and freedom of choice is man’s paramount virtue.

Somehow, the setup of Repo is not even a tenth of its story. All of the onscreen “repossessions,” of which there are not few, are rendered with alarming, gory realism. Permanently.ĭid I mention that Repo is produced by the same company that makes the Saw movies? Right, sorry. When someone can’t pay for their shiny fake heart, the Repo Man comes and reclaims the company’s property. A company called GeneCo steps in and invents expensive artificial organs that save the human race, but the high cost of the organs causes some to fall behind on payments for their life-saving new parts.

Repo, not to be confused with the Jude Law movie Repo Men (which may or may not have jacked Repo’s concept, no one could ever really figure that out in a court of law) is a sung-through goth opera set in a dystopian future where universal organ failures have decimated the human population.

Repo the genetic opera shirts