Repo! The Genetic Opera 2008

Ben Lyons, At the Movies: I don't know if words can describe just how awful and disgusting and insulting this movie was to watch. Read more

Nathan Lee, New York Times: Darren Lynn Bousman, the director of several Saw sequels, has devised an excruciating new torture with Repo! The Genetic Opera. Read more

Sean O'Neal, AV Club: It's remarkable that none of this proves exhausting. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: The film is bad -- not good-bad, tacky-bad or fun-bad, just plain awful and nearly unwatchable. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Like a compost of Rocky Horror and Sweeney Todd, but without the floridity or the savage wit. Read more

Sean Howe, Entertainment Weekly: If steampunk bloodbaths aren't for you, it's a long wait for the fat lady to sing. Read more

Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: Bad-good in the way the Rocky Horror Picture Show must have seemed to nuns, except without the shock, musicality, or Meat Loaf Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Check out the trailer before you commit to this one; if it's for you, you'll know instantly. And if it's not, you'll know that, too. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: The smudgy pall cast over everything by director Darren Lynn Bousman might work for a five-minute music video, but it quickly becomes as tiresome as the general air of bombastitude. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This goth rock opera features buckets of gore, a campy score and melodrama galore in a calculated effort to become a 21st-century Rocky Horror Picture Show. Its creative juices, however, are strictly anemic. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: David Cronenberg might have made a great movie with the plot to Repo! The Genetic Opera. Read more

Susan Walker, Toronto Star: As it has evolved from a 10-minute cabaret piece, through a short film Bousman made in Toronto, to the big screen, Repo! The Genetic Opera has gained in both guts and gusto. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: Repo! might have been an SNL or MADtv skit, but as a movie, it should be repossessed by its financiers. Read more

John Anderson, Variety: So over-the-top it's purple. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: So embarrassing that, for the first time, I wanted to avert my eyes from the screen, although that might have also been because Repo! appears to have been shot with a cell phone. Read more