I know what you're thinking. What could be better than a below-low-budget sci-fi/horror hypersexualized
movie based off of a musical, with a playwright who also decided to star in both stage and screen adaptations? Well, then, what if we up the ante! It's also a socially-conscious cyberpunk movie musical, written, directed, scored and costumed by people in 2008 who have decided that 1996 is as far as the future goes, thanks... so it's also a goth/raver socially conscious cyberpunk movie musical, complete with blue-streaked hair, muppet-fur and clunky vinyl boots! No? We need to aim higher to do better? Well, here comes the kicker, the one element that will immortalize this film:
Starring Paris Hilton. Singing. In S&M gear. And a wig. Doing drugs. Lo, I bring you
REPO! The Genetic Opera! (The film.) NSFW or self respect.
posted by Slap*Happy
on Sep 5, 2008 -
53 comments
Amongst the many companies with offices in Manhattan is
a multibillion-dollar French conglomerate that handles "diversified commodities, energy, shipping, real estate, manufacturing, and communications." The owner,
Gerard, is one of the richest men in the world, and, at 75, his children and grandchildren stand to inheirit a tidy sum of perhaps half a billion each upon his passing. Unless you've been in a cave for a few decades, one of them has — given syndication, perhaps even daily — been making you laugh for a long, long time. A heiress and
princess who you first met
live from New York (where she met her husband), then a yuppie in
a movie of Christmas indignities, and finally in a small,
barely aired show about, er, nothing ... meet
Elaine Julia, the multibillion-dollar heiress, Northwestern dropout,
Emmy-winning actress, and even
a distant relative of Richard Dreyfuss. And then compare her to a
certain other celebrity heiress.
posted by WCityMike
on May 2, 2007 -
52 comments
