Repo! The Genetic Opera (aka Closet Joan Jett) with Joey Braccino

Fear Level: Spoopy with a side of e Trigger Warnings: Director: Darren Lynn Bousman Writers: Darren Smith Terrance Zdunich Stars: Alexa Pena-Vega, Anthony Stewart Head, Paul Sorvino, Paris Hilton, and Sarah Brightman and Nivek Ogre (Kevin Ogilvie) Repo: The Genetic Opera is a horror musical goth opera about a guy who repossesses organs, his sick daughter, a family full of underused character actors, and one very screamy grave robber. It's...a lot...but somehow also not enough. It is super weird though. Topics of Discussion: -Your favorite Spy Kid and Watcher/Librarian -Corpse battering rams -a little glass vial -a little glass vial -a little glass vial -GRAAAAAVES! -"You're at Nightmare Before Christmas and I need you at Rocky Horror Picture Show" -Tough guys don't spit blood, they just fall over dead -Have you heard of Sonny Corleone? No? GOOD! -MS Paint comic interludes -Literal mean puppet -We're on a string of movies that don't handle sex workers well. Oof. -Emily talks about Skinny Puppy -God, there's just so much potential here that you're not using. -We brainstorm half a dozen better versions of this movie using the same pieces they have here and and just arranging them differently -I say again, THE RAW SEXUAL ENERGY OF ANTHONY STEWART HEAD Recommendations: -Evil Dead: The Musical -Carrie: The Musical -The Toxic Avenger: The Musical -Spiderman: Turn off the Dark -Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 -Zipperface: The Hobo Musical -Courtney Crumrin -The Crow -City of Lost Children -Skinny Puppy videos -Romeo + Juliet -Moulin Rouge -Phantom of the Paradise -Within Temptation- Black Symphony -Malice Mizer videos -Pink Floyd: The Wall -Bioshock -Deus Ex -Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex -Buffy Once more with feeling -The Rocky Horror Picture Show -Anna and the Apocalypse -Labyrinth Follow our guests: Joey Braccino Twitter: @joeybraccino Podcast: Talking Comics Follow us on twitter @proghorrorpod Follow Emily on twitter @megamoth Emily's Website: Megamoth.net Follow Ben on twitter @benthekahn Pre-Order Ben's new book, Renegade Rule. Follow Jeremy on twitter @jrome58 Visit his website at JeremyWhitley.com RSS Feed: https://feeds.transistor.fm/progressively-horrified Website: https://progressivelyhorrified.transistor.fm/ Join our Patreon at: patreon.com/progressivelyhorrified to support the show, get bonus episodes, early access to upcoming episodes, and a cool Progressively Horrified t-shirt. Come back next week to hear about Attack the Block! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ JOIN JEREMY'S ZOOP CAMPAIGN AND HELP MAKE GREAT COMICS! https://zoop.gg/c/slay Take our listener survey: http://bit.ly/progressivelyhorrified-survey Sign up to support Progressively Horrified on Patreon for as little as $5 a month and get bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/c/progressivelyhorrified Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.