Who’d have thought we’d ever see here alongside the former Phantom of the Opera starlet? Perhaps most disturbing though is the appearance in the trailer of Paris ‘I’m an actress me’ Hilton. Plus the comic book panels used throughout are a nice touch, although again this is a bit old hat now. It’s quite powerful on the one hand, faintly ridiculous on the other but then musicals often tread this fine line.īeing a rock opera, this is a decidedly dark affair and the effects, while bringing nothing new to the silver screen, are at least effective in a Dark City-esque fashion.

I particularly like, at the halfway point, the whispering of the words ‘Assassin’, ‘Murderer’, ‘Monster’ to describe Head’s Repo Man life, followed by his bellowing of ‘I’m only living a lie’. As a huge fan of musicals, it also appears to come with the requisite shoehorning of dialogue in song form.

The trailer shows off the vocal talents of Buffy’s Anthony Head and we catch a few glimpses of Sarah Brightman (who thought up that bit of casting?) so you’d assume that it will deliver on the song front.

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