True cult films should be transgressive, edgy, and rebellious. This one feels engineered and intentional, not genuinely obscure but trying to achieve a commercially viable obscurity that instead feels artificial.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Mar 7, 2024

Essentially, it's a brave, bold and brash piece of film-making that deserves to find a cult home on DVD.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 4, 2019

What I love most about Repo! is how fun the music is. While not everyone is a trained singer, they all bring an electric energy to the performances.

| Oct 24, 2018

I'm at a loss to say whether any of this is good or bad, and whether "good and bad" are meaningful words in the first place.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2018

The lowbrow and highfalutin collide in an orgy of upscale disembowelment as director Darren Lynn Bousman gives uneasy birth to the gore opera.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2013

The case for its quality is solid, the music is catchy, and "Repo!" may just destined for cult royalty.

| Oct 21, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2011

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Andrew Lloyd Webber meets SAW!

| Jun 2, 2010

Repo! isn't like anything else out there, for whatever it's worth, or anything I've ever seen; between us, though, I'm going to hold out for a midnight staple more my speed.

| Dec 17, 2009

This is a Grand Guignol science fiction rock opera. The plot is minimal and for a rock opera, there is too little real melody.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 13, 2009

Falling somewhere between Rocky Horror, Moulin Rouge! and Eyes Without A Face (with songs!), Repo! The Genetic Opera is the filmic equivalent of what architects call a 'folly'.

Full Review | Mar 6, 2009

somewhere between Nine Inch Nails and The Rocky Horror Picture Show

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2009

There is too much ambition on display for the film to be completely dismissed, but good intentions carry Repo! only partway toward success.

| Feb 19, 2009

Truly, the movie doesn't gain a lot from being set to music; after about half an hour it starts to feel like a gimmick.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 3, 2009

If you're looking for insight into the death and resurrection of Christ, look no further: I can think of no better means by which to experience the cumulative effect of three days in hell in under 100 minutes.

| Original Score: F | Jan 20, 2009

Repo! lingers long after it ends, due in great part to a handful of memorable tunes and its persistent funky attitude, marked by an impressive desire to savor oddity and unconventional displays of heartache.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 13, 2009

No, fans of "Mamma Mia!" won't be too thrilled with "Repo! The Genetic Opera."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 10, 2009

[A] gory, off-putting musical, which tries to combine Gothic rock stylings with the grotesque sensibilities of so-called, 'torture-porn' horror-thrillers.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 5, 2009

Bousman's editing and camera angles are consistently inventive, and the production design (Blade Runner is a big influence, as is Disneyland's "Haunted Mansion" attraction) squeezes a lot of bang out of every buck.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 18, 2008