Last night writer-director Darren Lynn Bousman hosted a record release party for the Repo! The Genetic Opera soundtrack, which becomes available for purchase on September 30th (get details here). In attendance were stars Bill Moseley, Alexa Vega and even Paris Hilton, who took some time out of her night to sit down and chat with SpookyDan about the horror musical, which hits limited theaters November 7th. Read on for the skinny,
Paris Hilton, Good Charlotte and SpookyDan talk REPO!, and industrial music!
While working for Bloody-Disgusting, I often get to meet a lot of cool people. Sometimes strange things happen when our horror world intersects with mainstream pop culture. Last night in West Hollywood was the record release party for the REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA soundtrack, which streets on September 30th.
While at the fiasco, we were lucky enough to chat with star Paris Hilton and her boyfriend Benji Madden (of the band Good Charlotte) about REPO!, Industrial music, and what horror films she likes!
Paris talked a bit about why she thinks everyone should check out REPO!.
"It’s like a movie you have never seen before," she tells SpookyDan. "It's fun, sexy, scary, and HOT. The CD is certainly not a typical Paris Hilton CD. Amber Sweet is a very twisted human being, and you must see her!"
In the film, Amber Sweet's character has to wear a lot of prosthetics, Hilton talked a bit about the experience.
"I had a lot of make up on everyday. It depended because in every scene I look different from the next. One day I had my face completely tore off and looked like Freddy Krueger, that took like five hours! It was a lot of fun. I always have been offered roles where I would play an airhead, the typical dumb blonde roll. With Repo it was the first time being offered something else, I love horror films, I love the SAW films. So it was amazing that he [director Darren Bousman] would consider me for a roll like this."
Before auditioning for the role of Amber Sweet, Hilton read the script, which she says was a weird experience.
"It's very weird when you are reading it. I have a creative mind, I trusted his [Bousman’s] vision. I have read a million scripts that suck, and this one was actually cool! It has a great story and a heart to it, even though it has a lot of blood and guts, its funny to at times. And the music is great!"
Benji Madden chimes in about the possibilities of collaborating with Paris, which is slim to none.
"We keep that kind of separate, but we definatly influence each other’s work, she listens to everything I do and I listen to everything she does, we are more behind the scenes with our musical tastes. When I met her, she had already finished this film, and because of the music and subject matter, its been great to share (different kinds of) music with her. She can actually wrap her brain around Cradle of Filth, Covenant, Wumpscut and VNV Nation, but she had never really been around this environment before. Now I am always making her mix CDs of Industrial and some darker metal."
"I like it a lot, but I had never heard it before," Paris adds. "I didn’t even know who Skinny Puppy was before REPO!. But now, because Ogre plays my brother in the film, I wanted to check them out. Just being a part of REPO! has introduced to so much new music!"
Madden continues, "We will turn the lights down, light some candles and listen to Skinny Puppy. One of my Favorite songs of all time is by a band called Assemblage 23, when I played it for her she freaked. She really loved it. It made me so happy. And Paris doing this movie was a big part of her grasping the industrial scene, the music can be kind of a shock, But Repo certainly helped her open her mind to it. A lot of people didn’t grow up with industrial, I was lucky to have an older brother and friends who turned me onto a lot of it."
Continuing on industrial music, Madden talks about maybe an industrial direction for Good Charlotte...
"Well, Stephan for Apoptygma Berzerk is one of my best friends, he has already done like three remixes for us now. I sang on the new Apop record that he is working on now. We are going to work on some stuff together, but I think we have to be realistic for what our fans will accept. You can hear on (our last) CD that we dip our toes in it, and sneak some programming in there. I feel like we would piss the scene off a little bit if we went heavily in that direction. I am a closet industrial kid, and I don’t really feel like having industrial kids give me shit because, well we play pop music. There are some bands out there that are doing great things for the scene, like AFI. But a lot of people hate on them because they want to feel like its their own, and don’t want to share it. But I think it’s great what they are doing. Its kind of like what the punk bands did for bands like us, just opening the doors musically for us."
Back to horror, Hilton tells us that she's always been a fan of horror films...
"I just love scary movies. Obviously SAW and the old ELM STREET movies. That Jason dude with the mask from FRIDAY THE 13TH."
Before she left Mr. Disgusting grabbed Paris for a minute where she confirmed rumors that she would be very much interested in working on a sequel to REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA. She tells us that it will all depend on how successful this film is (obviously) and that she would like to do something different than the solo CD she just completed. Watch for more on this soon.
Paris Hilton plays Amber Sweet in the upcoming horror rock-opera REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA, which opens in November.
Click here to learn how to purchase the entire soundtrack on September 30th.
I'm with you, graverobber! I've been waiting to see this for so long now...I just hope I don't ruin it by having too high of expectations! I tend to do that with movies.
So some twonk from Good Charlotte thinks APB, Assemblage 23, Covenant and VNV Nation are "industrial" (haha), and Paris Hilton loves the 'Saw' movies. Yeah, that figures.
perfect example of everything im against, in relating to benji the dog's statement about not wanting to piss off fans, that's stupid, if you cant be true to yourself and remember to always challenge yourself and be something you want to be rather than something a public wants, that's just being a puppet. true artists of this world expand, challenge themseves, and get better and learn new things, you dont dumb down an entire audience who will predict your every fucking album, that's just stupid. but that's just coming from someone who doesnt respect what our music industry has become, when im an old man the oldies are going to be 50 cent, eminem, cradle of filth...that's just ridiculous, it's going to be embarassing talking to the youth of the future about the meanings of "our generation's" music, i hate thinking how it will be 50 years from now...ugh ugh
Ok i'm excited for this movie and all, but i got irritated when I heard the word "Sequel". Do we seriously have to have a sequel to every fucking movie now? Is there any possible way, and this may sound far fetched, that we can make a good movie and not need a sequel?
Butters, I agree with you. I am the most obsessed person in the planet [probably] about REPO! I haven't seen the movie yet, but I'm all against a sequel. If the movie's good, it'll be good, and different and unique. If it's meant to be a cult classic, it will become one. Now, if they try to recreate the "originality" in a sequel.. well, that's an oxymoron right there, correct? They should just let this be. Take a cult film, Rocky Horror, for example, and look at what became of their so called "sequel" Shock Treatment. Tsc, tsc.
'Do you really think that douche sits around and listens to Skinny Puppy and Cradle of Filth'
Just because she is fucking gorgeous does NOT mean that she can't possibly listen to music of that kind.
'and Paris Hilton loves the 'Saw' movies. Yeah, that figures.'
WTF is that supposed to mean?
Since when did musical and movie taste define who you are...If so, what music and movies should she listen to to be considered cool or liked by you? I imagine that she couldn't give a shit anyway...
You people all hate on her for no reason and she has done absolutely NOTHING to you personally...I seriously don't understand it...You people really need to get off your fucking high horses..and get over yourselves.
Ive seen the movie twice now (at FantasticFest in Austin), and let me tell you guys that it's simply amazing. I can't stop thinking about how awesome it was.
lol sorry to bum you out man. I'm just trying to do my part to spread the word! This amazing film deserves a better fate than what Lionsgate is giving it, and I hope and I believe that if people demand it enough, good things can happen!
YOUR SOOO LUCKY!!! You got to meet Paris!!! *dies*
I hope skinny puppy works with her on her next cd. Paris is so versatile, it would be awesome to see her do something that isnt pop/r&b influenced.
Together, we can change REPO!'s fate! I've been spreading love and word for this film since I saw the "At The Opera Tonight" clip at last year's Scream Awards :D I hope I have a theatrical experience with this film like you did.
I hope you do, too. It's an experience, for sure. There is the upcoming road tour, and I'm sure they'll do more cities than just the original 7 they listed. One can only hope that the road tour creates a demand for the film to play in the theaters of the cities it visits. I mean, look at what it's done in Austin just by playing once...
Here in Austin, the festival owners said they're going to do everything in their power to obtain a print and screen weekly midnight showings, hosted by the people out here who do the weekly Rocky Horror shows!
...I thought I'd die before the day came that I saw HILTON and OGRE in the same photo, let alone TOUCHING...
...wow, thank you REPO! for making the impossible happen.
....<3 Ogre.
AmandasEvolution thinks Paris Hilton is "fucking gorgeous". Yeah, that figures. <cue rant in which AmandasEvolution comes to Paris Hilton's 'rescue' even though the rant will, at some point, admit that Paris Hilton "couldn't give a shit anyway", rendering the rant null and void before it even begins> "Hate on her"? She isn't even a fucking blip on my radar 99.9% of the time and this is the first time I've ever typed the fucker's name out online.
I love Paris Hilton - but she needs to ditch that tool of a boyfriend. OK maybe I am jealous, but come on! Nobody was there to listen about Good Charlotte or industrial music, it was about Paris' work in Repo! and on the soundtrack.
I never thot that there was such a fan base for this zero.
This is one chick who has no talent...check that-she knows how to make an x-rated movie. The fact that she continues to get horror movie gigs is not a testament to her acting abilities, but to her box office draw. I'm amazed that she still garners so much attention. I think I'll soak my head.
Movie does not seem interesting at all. A musical featuring Paris Hilton, crappy pesudo-industrial music, and directed by the same guy who made Saw 2-4? Count me out x 1000.
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