But there’s still the fine print.” She arched an eyebrow at me. “Their card wasn’t declined or anything, right?” I said. “But this is where they wanna take it from there? Shit. Rowling” and “Ben Stiller” flashed by in the tumble of papers. That’s what they pay me for: to kickstart their puny mortal brains.” She was stalking around her office now, and didn’t even notice when she knocked over the towering, always-teetering pile of requests: the names “J.K. “I give them the notion of artificial organs purchased on credit at outrageous APRs - which is fuckin’ brilliant, by the way: it’s a beautiful extrapolation of the insane for-profit health care system some of these mortals insist on - which of course logically leads to the question, ‘What happens when someone can’t make the payments?’ Which was all theirs. She glared at me but otherwise ignored the comment.
“Hey, I told you to quit with these Hollywood types when Garry Marshall took your concept for a dark drama about a hooker and turned it into Pretty Woman,” I soothed. “Christ, have you seen what these assholes are doing with the idea I so generously bestowed upon them?” She didn’t quite throw Repo Men at me - for which I was grateful, because an enraged muse can hurl something as physically nebulous but as psychically powerful as a story with the force of a tornado - but she was about to if I didn’t calm her down. “Please tell me I didn’t fuckin’ inspire that,” she snarled the first time she heard me say it. If you thought Sweeney Todd was the only horror musical, then you're dead wrong.I’m not a muse. Plus, the songs are genuinely fantastic, as they capture a vibe of both musical theatre and hard rock. It's dripping with character thanks to how bombastic everything is.
The gory practical effects are like a comic-book version of the human anatomy, and the bright and overly stylised visuals reflect this. Soon, GeneCo gets involved in her life, and things get wild.Įverything in this movie is deliciously pulpy. Sadly, these organs are only yours if you can keep up with your payments otherwise, the dreaded Repo Man will come to collect.Īlongside the grander narrative of the world comes the exciting tale of a young girl called Shilo, who suffers from weak genetics, and thus is kept inside by her father. But, out of the ashes rose a company named GeneCo, who introduced an organ replacement system that saved thousands. Repo! is a rock opera based in a twisted future where a disease has decimated the population.
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