DVD review (region 2)
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman
Starring Paris Hilton, Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino, Bill Moseley, Sarah Brightman
Release date 9 March 2009

In the future, high price organ transplants are offered by a multinational company called GeneCo. However, those who bail on their bills have their offending appendages sliced out and “repossessed”. Meanwhile, a sickly young girl searches for some reason…

Imagine a movie that is so desperate to appeal to the doom and gloom element of the Goth market that it effectively dares you to have a good time. Well imagine no more because Repo has arrived. Featuring an instantly forgettable, thudding, dark metal score and set design that is so ominously over the top that even the crew of the Underworld movies might pause for thought, this is one of 2009’s first certified catastrophes.

Indeed, even the sight of Razzie-nominee Paris Hilton and horror icon Bill “Chop Top” Moseley doing a duet cannot break the boredom and, as the god-awful “music” goes from terrible to torturous, you will be forgiven for wanting to tear your own ears off.

Obviously trying to be a Rocky Horror Show for the 21st Century, director Bousman seems to have totally missed the fact that Richard O’Brien’s five star classic had a scorching soundtrack – and a real sense of fun - to bolster the onscreen craziness.

No wonder Lionsgate dumped this dud to DVD… Calum Waddell

VERDICT: 2/10
Think of a 90-minute Evanescence music video. This is Repo. Welcome to hell.