REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA

** Like all my reviews, this contains massive spoilers **

In my opinion, one of the most underrated musicals of all time. As far as horror-musicals, it has the quality of Sweeney Todd and the oddity of Rocky Horror Picture Show. The story is probably the most powerful part of this movie as it takes 3 plot points and makes every one work for the other.
The primary story is as follows:
It's the near distant future. There has been an epidemic of organ failures. Millions of lives are lost. Hope is lost. But wait! Out of the shadows comes Geneco, a company who offers salvation: organ replacements! And if you can't afford to pay the costs, Geneco offers Organ Financing. After a while they branch out - they start offering surgery for the sake of fashion. Plastic surgery is now all the rage! To top it all off, Geneco comes up with a new, powerful painkiller: Zydrate. The only problem is that Zydrate is a very addictive drug and as such, it was only a matter of time before it hit underground. However, the only way to obtain Zydrate (outside of Geneco) is through the dead. So, Graverobbers are the number one dealers of "street Zydrate"; extracting it from the corpses that are littered throughout the city. And remember the Geneco Organ Financing option? Like all Payment Plans there are consequences if you miss your payment. The penalty Geneco issues if you miss your payment? REPOSSESSION! That's right, Geneco has made organ repossessions legal - if you miss your payment on your organ, Geneco will take the organ back!
That's not all that's going on!
Nathan Wallace has a secret. 17 years ago, he and his wife Marni Wallace were expecting a baby. However, right before her due date Marni gets sick. Nathan, a skilled doctor, attempts to conjure up a cure for his ailing wife. Unfortunately, the medication ends up killing his wife! As she lay there dying, Nathan knew he could only save one! He performs a quick C-Section birth and is able to save their daughter - Shiloh. Now, in order to make sure he never loses Shiloh, Nathan shields her from the world by keeping her bed ridden (as she also has a blood disease that was supposedly inherited from her late mother)...under no circumstances can she leave her house! All she knows about the world is that there is a company called Geneco out there (who has now become the most powerful company in the world!) and that their spokesperson his a woman named Blind Mag (an opera singer) - who Shiloh looks up to from afar as sort of an idol. She knows that tonight is Blind Mag's final performance. Shiloh would love to be a famous singer herself (even being the next Blind Mag) but knows she will never leave the confines of her home. Thanks to Nathan, Shiloh knows nothing about how twisted the world had become.
One evening, Shiloh Wallace is visiting the tomb of her mother, Marni (which is attached to the house), and reading a book when she notices a strange looking bug on the door that leads to the outside. She knows that she can't go outside, but she is also a bug collector and this would be an excellent addition to her collection. Promising to herself that: "This will be be quick. It's in my sights. I'll capture it...and run back inside, and be back home in time" she goes out after it. While outside she runs into the Graverobber (who is also the story's narrator), and he tells her about how "it's his job to steal and rob - GRAVES!" He robs from the dead, the Zydrate that he turns around to sell on the black market (as eluded to at the beginning). Geneco, who of course does not condone the selling of their drug on the black market, have a 'Graverobbers Will Be Shot On Sight' law that is strictly enforced. During one of his rants, the Graverobber (who is still with Shiloh) is surrounded by the police. Rotti Largo, Geneco's founder and CEO, was monitoring the situation and tells the police to let them go. A Repo Man then cuts in front of the police, and approaches Shiloh. Fade to black.
We cut to Shiloh's bedroom where Shiloh is just regaining consciousness. She tells Nathan, who is in the room taking care of her, she was certain she was outside. Her father tries to explain that she fell unconscious from not taking her medication on time and had passed out. All was just a dream. Shiloh believes him (she has no reason not to) and Nathan leaves the room. After all she doesn't know what the real world even looks like - nor does she know the biggest secret of all: her father, Nathan Wallace, is the head Repo Man! She thinks he is only an ordinary doctor.
You find out through the use of comic strip-style story-telling (as they do with all their character introductions throughout the movie), the full story of Nathan Wallace. Meanwhile, we then see Shiloh's lament as she sings about how she is "...infected by her genetics."
Yet another side story is revealed...that of the Largos: Rotti Largo (who, as we found out, is Geneco's CEO) and his children - Luigi, Pavi, and Amber Sweet. Rotti was the world's savior! He created Geneco to help those (who normally could not get the help with Health Care) the transplants they need to live a long, happy life. However, just over 17 years ago, HE was dating Marni and he thought he had the perfect life. That is until Marni met Nathan. She stands Rotti up at the altar, breaking Rotti's heart! This changes Rotti - for the worse. He decides that if he can't have Marni, neither can Nathan. He gets one of his Genterns (a Geneco intern/nurse) to swap poison with Nathan's regular medications. The same medication that Nathan concocted to cure Marni's sickness. It was because of this that Nathan kills his wife (which Nathan still blamed himself for). Rotti, will never share this secret - because of his he has Nathan at his mercy.
But, as irony would have it "the man who cured the globe cannot stop his own extinction". Rotti Largo finds out he is dying, and doesn't have much time left. A company with the power of Geneco, needs an heir. Who can be the successor? There's Luigi Largo, Rotti's oldest son. There's just one problem, Luigi has a very nasty temper and tends to kill anyone who annoys him. Not very good management material. There's always Pavi Largo. His other son, who hides a horrifically scarred face under a mask of human skin. Specifically, he tends to wear the "faces" of others. Preferably a woman's face. Someone like that has a few too many issues to run a company of Geneco's magnitude. I guess that just leaves Amber Sweet. Rotti's lovely daughter (well not really, as she is played by Paris Hilton), who also wants to be the voice of Geneco one day, claiming herself to be the best singer in the planet. Her issue is that she is addicted to "street Zydrate" and she contradicts everything Geneco stands for. Rotti is confused, angry, and disgusted with his children. Who is a worthy heir to Geneco?

Will Shiloh ever find out what the real world has to offer?

Will she ever find out about her father's alter ego of the murderous Repo Man?

Will Rotti's children mature enough to take over Geneco? If not, WHO?

and

What's the story with that Graverobber?

Saw director Darren Lynn Bousman and Lionsgate Pictures takes you into the colorful world of REPO! The Genetic Opera. Like it's title, it's an opera (with little to no spoken words) telling this amazing tale for all to witness! Recommended for anyone looking for a beautiful story...under the guise of a horror movie!  A MUST for Rocky Horror Picture Show fans.
You'll watch it again and again.