Paris Gets Repo'ed
Jan. 14 2009, Published 4:09 a.m. ET
We are so there when this one hits the Blu-ray shelves next Tuesday.
Paris Hilton (playing a character called Amber Sweet), Anthony Head (of TV's Buffy), and the original leading lady of Broadway's Phantom of the Opera Sarah Brightman star in the cult smash Repo: the Genetic Opera which was barely released to theaters last year.
Here's why: it's terrible. Yet, of the so-bad-it's-good variety.
It's set in the future after an epidemic causes widespread illness. A biotech firm sells replacement organs on an installment basis, like a car; if you fail to pay, they come and take it back.
Here's a sample of the lyrics sung by one of the Repo Men:
"90 days delinquent gets ya' repo treatment! I'm the masked horror on your street corner! Make your mama mourn ya! I'm the Night Surgeon!"
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