“Seventeen and you can’t stop me! Seventeen and you won’t boss me! You cannot control me, father! Daddy’s girl’s a fucking monster!”

The teenage years are hard. With hormones raging, you’re still very much a child but expected to make important decisions about the rest of your life. It’s even more difficult in a futuristic dystopian hellscape in which healthcare has been commodified in the wake of an environmental plague. And everyone you meet is singing. Director Darren Lynn Bousman follows a seventeen-year-old struggling to survive this cruel world in Repo! The Genetic Opera, an edgy musical extravaganza that must be seen to be believed. 

Shiloh Wallace (Alexa PenaVega) is a teen trapped in her father’s house. Convinced she has a rare blood disease inherited from her long-deceased mother, she spends her days studying rare insects while locked inside her cozy room. But this isolation hides a deadly secret: her father Nathan (Anthony Head) works as a repo man for the nefarious GeneCo megacorporation, built on leasing organs to desperate patients, then forcibly removing them when payments are missed. When the president of the company, Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino), receives a devastating diagnosis of his own, he must choose a successor from his three miscreant children. Frustrated with his own progeny, he finds himself drawn to Shiloh, the daughter of his long-lost love.   

In the latest episode of Bloody FM’s The Lady Killers podcast, cohosts Jenn Adams and Rachel Reeves are joined by special guest Shelby Novak to sing along with the perplexing cast of this dark and twisted fantasy. Why does Nathan isolate his daughter? Why does Mag (Sarah Brightman) gouge out her own eyes? Is this Paris Hilton‘s best performance? Have we ever loved Bill Moseley more? They’ll answer these questions and more while chatting about body modification, capitalism, and Hot Topic memories at the opera tonight. 

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