Shilo sneaks out anyway and in her nightly journeys she meets a grave robber (Zdunich) who introduces her to the Zydrate underground and reveals that Blind Mag, Shilo’s favorite singer, is going to lose her eyes because she will no longer be working with Geneco.Ī tangled web. He keeps her locked in her room, fearing she might die from the disease while he goes out for repossessions. Shilo (Vega) is the daughter of Nathan (Head), who is not only trying to find a cure for the blood disease that Shilo inherited from her mother, but is also Geneco’s repo man. His three children, the violent Luigi (Mosley), the mask wearing Pavi (Skinny Puppy’s Ogre, FTW), and surgery-and-Zydrate addicted Amber Sweet (Hilton) hope to inherit daddy’s company, but he is disappointed with his kids and has another person in mind: Shilo Wallace. The current head of Geneco, Rotti Largo (Sorvino), is terminally ill and plans to name his successor at “The Genetic Opera” when popular singer Blind Mag also plans to make her final performance. Geneco is the only legalized source of Zydrate, but a black market exists where grave robbers extract the drug from the brains of corpses. Another product Genco makes is Zydrate, a highly addictive pain killer often used by surgery addicts. They manage to make organ transplants affordable, but they also manage to get a law passed that allows the organs to be repossessed. The Story: Geneco becomes the top company when an epidemic of unexplained organ failures sweep the planet.

While Repo Men’s visuals draws more from Blade Runner, Repo! is definitely goth with frequent scenes involving corpses and/or graveyards. While there are some minor similarities (primarily a megacorp, their organ financing, and the use of repo men) the visuals, story-lines, and this being an opera make the two movies vastly different.

Overview: I was hoping to see this movie before seeing Repo Men so I could at least see how close to each other they were.

Repo the genetic opera soundtrack