Darren Lynn Bousman is the master of extreme horror who helmed the Saw franchise through films II, III and IV. He stepped away from the director's chair for Saw V to chase a long held dream to place a musical on the big screen. That dream became a reality with the release of Repo! The Genetic Opera, a bloodthirsty futuristic nightmare set to a relentless rock/goth/industrial soundtrack.
Buffy's Anthony Head plays the film's grim reaper, an organ repossession man doing the bidding of an out of control biotech company called GeneCo. The Phantom of The Opera's original Christine, Sarah Brightman, is GeneCo's most prominent (and endangered) client, Blind Meg. And press darling Paris Hilton is Amber Sweet, GeneCo's spoilt heiress, a role you could say she was born for.
"This is not your parents' opera. This is blood and violence, and killing and death, and sex and singing and opera," cautions Bousman, who stopped by the Suicide Girls' office to talk about his labor of love, its unlikely cast, and how he's using grassroots enthusiasm as the final piece in his jigsaw puzzle to plug the gap where his marketing budget should be.
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