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Episode:

Repo! The Genetic Opera (aka Closet Joan Jett) with Joey Braccino
Category: TV & Film
Duration: 01:57:50
Publish Date: 2021-05-14 09:00:00
Description:

Fear Level: Spoopy with a side of e
Trigger Warnings: 

  • Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
  • Writers: Darren Smith Terrance Zdunich
  • Stars: Alexa Pena-Vega, Anthony Stewart Head, Paul Sorvino, Paris Hilton, and Sarah Brightman and Nivek Ogre (Kevin Ogilvie)

Repo: The Genetic Opera is a horror musical goth opera about a guy who repossesses organs, his sick daughter, a family full of underused character actors, and one very screamy grave robber. It's...a lot...but somehow also not enough. It is super weird though.

Topics of Discussion:
-Your favorite Spy Kid and Watcher/Librarian
-Corpse battering rams
-a little glass vial
-a little glass vial
-a little glass vial
-GRAAAAAVES!
-"You're at Nightmare Before Christmas and I need you at Rocky Horror Picture Show"
-Tough guys don't spit blood, they just fall over dead
-Have you heard of Sonny Corleone? No? GOOD!
-MS Paint comic interludes
-Literal mean puppet
-We're on a string of movies that don't handle sex workers well. Oof.
-Emily talks about Skinny Puppy
-God, there's just so much potential here that you're not using.
-We brainstorm half a dozen better versions of this movie using the same pieces they have here and and just arranging them differently
-I say again, THE RAW SEXUAL ENERGY OF ANTHONY STEWART HEAD

Recommendations:
-Evil Dead: The Musical
-Carrie: The Musical
-The Toxic Avenger: The Musical
-Spiderman: Turn off the Dark
-Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
-Zipperface: The Hobo Musical
-Courtney Crumrin
-The Crow
-City of Lost Children
-Skinny Puppy videos
-Romeo + Juliet
-Moulin Rouge
-Phantom of the Paradise
-Within Temptation- Black Symphony
-Malice Mizer videos
-Pink Floyd: The Wall
-Bioshock
-Deus Ex
-Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex
-Buffy Once more with feeling
-The Rocky Horror Picture Show
-Anna and the Apocalypse
-Labyrinth


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Joey Braccino
Twitter: @joeybraccino
Podcast: Talking Comics

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