10 Horror Musicals You Need To See

9. Repo! The Genetic Opera

Sweeney Todd
Lionsgate

Set in a not too distant future where an epidemic of organ failures has allowed a company named GeneCo (which offers organ transplants to those in need) to rise to prominence, Repo is one of the most outlandish musicals you’ll ever see. It has cult film written all over it.

Thanks to Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino), surgery is now so commonplace that face and limb transplants have become a fashion statement, but there’s a terrible price to be paid by those who can’t keep up with the payments. Default on your new set of lungs and you’ll be visited by the Repo Man, who will come when you’re at your weakest and reclaim what’s legally GeneCo property.

This makes the Largo clan the most powerful family in the country, a position they secure with saturation advertising that advises the masses to vote to keep organ repossession legal “otherwise the company won’t be able to sell affordable hearts to those we love.”

Contributor

Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'