So I'm a little jealous I'll admit it.

The natural progression for a musical is as follows.  Workshop shows, bigger markets, Toronto, Broadway and then the movies.  Repo the genetic opera came out two years after my horror musical Spider Baby and they leap-frogged from Toronto straight to a movie.  Then again they don't have a release date but still the movie has been made and I'm still struggling to get produced in small markets.

Still I just wish I could have been there for the pitch.

A producers office somewhere in Hollywood.

Producer:  Okay what have you got for me?
Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich:  Okay we got a horror story about organ reposession.
Producer:  Mmmmm....interesting.   Who do you have?
Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich:  Well it's directed by the guy who did Saw 2 Darren Lynn Bousman



It stars Paul Sorvino



Anthony Stewart Head



 
Sarah Brightman



And Paris Hilton



Producer:  I don't know-

Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich:  But wait here's the twist.  It's a horror rock opera.

Producer:  Is there gore?

Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich::  Does the pope shit in the woods?

Producer:  Who do I make the check out to?

And thus movie history was made.

The invisible movie.

And yet despite the internet buzz Repo is not coming to a movie theater near you anytime soon.  Why?  Lionsgate is sitting on it for reasons they refuse to release.  The internet buzz says that Sweeny Todd is still to fresh in peoples memory and they want it to stand on it's own instead of having people draw comparisons.  Well, no matter when you open people will compare the two.  I mean how many gore infested horror opera movies are there anyway?  Hmmmmm?

Till it's release it has played a few festivals.  I got a little excited when I found it it's opening this month at the Fantasia Festival.  Till I found out the festival was in Ontario Quebec Canada.  3000 + miles is a little more than I'm willing to travel.

And what if it never opens?  I almost wish it doesn't.  Then it will become a true cult film.  Cult movies used to mean that only a select few had ever seen or heard of it.  Now it's just any piece of weirdness bored kids film on their cell phone and edit on their Mac.  If it never get's shown it could join the ranks of legendary lost films that people have only heard about.  Films like The Monkeys paw, Number 13, Drakula halála, and of course London after Midnight. 

But I sometimes think that I've built it up too much in my mind.  All I've seen is two trailers and I can't wait to see the whole thing.  I'm so desperate for something fresh and new but I can't help think I'm setting myself up for dissapointment.

The lasting effects

I've seen way too many movies in my life.  If you just count the movies I saw on Netflix that's a little over a year of my life wasted.  As such I've become a bit jaded.  It's been so long since I've heard music I found really interesting or saw a horror film that actually scared me.  But the trailers and images from this film have actually made me a little afraid of the dark.  I literally had trouble going outside last night to turn off the water because of these images in my head.




And for some reason I was convinced that the Repo man was comig for me.




I'm trying to keep my expectations low.  But it's tough when you've watied this long to see something truly new and it has such great trailers.