Yikesville!!! This flick's got plenty o'scary stuff in it! Lots of gross stuff too, like blood and ick. Hepcat Hermits are sort of on the fence about gross stuff, admittedly. Some of us like Bloodsucking Freaks, for instance. That movie's gross and a bit disturbing, but also sort of funny and has a creepy midget in it, maybe the creepiest movie midget of all time, Ralphus. If you liked the walls of sewn together bodies ( Ewww! Super ick! But also kinda cool) from Jeepers Creepers, you may enjoy certain aspects of Repo. If not, well there are some other redeeming qualities.
Plenty o'groovy chicks, for instance, and it seems like there's not a non-brunette in sight! Hepcat Hermits are notorious (in their own minds and what's wrong with that?) for generally preferring brunettes, except in certain instances such as Jayne Mansfield, who's blonde, or Nancy Sinatra who is, well, sorta multiple choice. And then there's Ann-Margret, who's a redhead. But she's THE redhead, dig? & we really we dig a lot of groovy chicks, it's just that it's probably 3-1 in favour of the brownheads, for some reason.
There are lots of fishnets and interesting boots. This movie takes place in the future, which is a plus. We learn that in the future people will all wear black and enjoy getting unnecessary surgery as well as breaking into song at the drop of a corpse. Lots of music is generally not a problem, but what is a problem that Hepcat Hermits usually dig songs that are short and catchy, with the exception of the occasional Pink Floyd, and the songs in Repo are usually long and not catchy.
Some actors appear who may be known to the HH - Tony Head, the guy that played Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one of the grooviest shows of what regular people would refer to as recent years, as well as Paul Sorvino and Bill Moseley, just to name a few. Moseley we like because he was a fun wackjob in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and a scary wackjob in several flicks by Mr. Robert Zombie. Here he's just as evil as ever, and singing up a bloodstorm.
The absolute best part, for our purposes, is a girl who has artificial eyes that can project holograms! That's so cool! It's like her eyes are R2-D2! Now I wonder, would she be able to see the holograms? As we like to say here - sure, why not?
BONUS: Speaking of Star Wars*, hot on the heels of Repo I watched Fanboys. What can I say? The movie is completely cliche ridden, and one contrived scene follows after another. Yet despite these qualities, I didn't like it much. Partly because it presents all Stars Wars fans as being, well, like the guys in the movie. We're not all like that, though it's not really a big problem since we HH-er's like to stay secret and hidden like the rebel base, so the film functions as good anti-propoganda. It's hard to decide which of the characters I liked least, and generally, the Hepcat Hermit likes a movie with likable** characters. The flick does have Veronica Mars in it and guess what? She's not blonde anymore! She's brunette! She has come over to the dark hair side! HH-ers dig brunettes, Mars, and girl sleuths, so that part's kinda boss. Princess Leia and Captain Kirk also appear! So that's okay. It also has the guy that played Jimmy Olsen in Superman Returns. Unfortunately, in neither movie does he marry a gorilla.
The laughs in Fanboys come fast and furious at a breakneck pace of at least once half an hour. Well, maybe not that bad, but for a comedy I was definitely not getting the heehaws as much as I'd like. Maybe it was the mood I was in, though? You never know. The characters do have a van with Star Wars stuff painted on it, so that's all right.
*In news that's called a segue, when you talk about one thing then go into another, but tie it together. It's pronounced seg-way. They used to report the news without segues and then Watergate happened. Coincidence?
**(Am I really supposed to write likable without an "e" after "k"? I dunno, it looks like lickable to me. Well, you know best, magic computer).
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