The job was never his choice but something he was basically blackmailed into doing by the real villain of the film: Rotti Largo. The “Repo Man,” on the other hand, is a persona–a mask that he wears in order to repossess life-saving organs from a financially stunted public. Not only is everything within the movie delivered through song, but the characters and their relationships with each other get rather dramatic.)īasically Nathan Wallace is a loving, but overly protective father with a tragic past and a really crappy job. (At least, “normal” when you remember that this is not just a slasher film, but a rock opera.
The truth is, he is actually a pretty normal guy. Now, we’ve talked about our strange attractions to psychopathic characters in the past, but the thing about Nathan Wallace is that he isn’t really a psychopath by Webster’s standards–though he acts like one. And while he is definitely no saint, and definitely no role model, much of the unexpected charm in this gory musical experience comes from Nathan Wallace: the dreaded “Repo Man,” played by the talented Anthony Head. And part of why we come back to Repo! again and again has a lot to do with one particular character. Yeah yeah, while many out there will protest that The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the go-to cult classic for the season, in our house we do things a little differently. …What? Was that not what you were thinking? That’s right: it’s Repo! The Genetic Opera, a gothic rock-opera horror-musical brought to you by creators Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich. And some, while not necessarily popular–or even fully comprehensible–when they first came out, have gained a massive cult following over the years, making them pretty much a staple for any Halloween celebration.Īnd when you think the words “Halloween” and “cult classic” in relation to each other, there is, of course, one movie that immediately springs to mind.
Some are dark, some are campy, some are old, and some are new. Around this time of year our senses become bombarded with a particular type of media–an entire season marked by spiderwebs, bloody handprints, full moons and black cats… and scary movies.
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