A companion piece to Bousman's own rock musical Repo! The Genetic Opera.

Set in a carnival located in Hell, three lost souls wander round in this limbo, encountering an odd assortment of carny characters and the Devil himself.

A self-funded project by the director which looks great. Lots of nice use of colour on a minimalist set. Not all the songs are great however, but they could be growers and I'm willing to give this a rewatch as it comes in at under an hour. Which disappointed me at the time, but now I think to be a good sign.

Utterly utterly bonkers!
Like Repo! The Genetic Opera meets Creepshow meets House Of 1000 Corpses, but way more leftfield.

Three tales torn from the pages of Aesop's Fables, screwed up, swallowed, digested and partly regurgitated, partly shat out, then mixed together and served in a long glass with a dollop of squirty cream and a cherry on top.

Like explaining the worst nightmare you ever had to a terrified child.

Whenever I watch a musical or a Disney animated movie I know that a huge part of how much I’m going to like it will depend on how good the songs are going to be. This has a few songs I liked, but many of them came off as middling, meaning nothing terrific. It had potential, but they just got lazy with the story. Many movies feel too long these days, but the 55 minutes runtime was not enough for this and the 3 tales. Doesnt feel coherent enough at all. I like Emilie Autumns voice
See credits for one of the best songs.

You will NOT go home humming any of the songs in this "musical." Nor will you know exactly what the purpose of this film was. Impressive looking for the $500,000 budget claimed on IMDB. No main character, or interesting emotional story to follow, just a bunch of rather vanilla song and dance numbers strung together with a "twisted carnival" theme. Characters run around being punished by bad songs and off key "sing-talking." THE HORROR!!!! Almost seemed like a movie version of Insane Clown Posse "Halls Of Illusions" but not as entertaining. I applaud it for being short and to the point...though I have no idea what the point was. Not as unique or violent as "REPO! The Genetic Opera." Wasn't really edgy enough or creative enough to get me exited about it, but I can tell the filmmakers had a lot of passion for the project.

The tunes are pretty neat and it's pretty to look at but that's about it.

I like what Darren Lynn Bousman and his librettists are doing, or trying to do, but the limited production value & scope of his new rock-horror-musical suggest that he isn't reaching far enough to make his movies' grasps at all impressive.

Clever music & narrative, but it's too slight in the execution & presentation, lacking the excessive nastiness & fun bombast of REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA, which had better music but was actually too excessively nasty & bombastic for my tastes (other than the fantastic scene in which Paris Hilton loses her face).

Someday Bousman will get the mixture just right, small budgets be damned, and my Goldilocks complex will be appeased.

A companion piece to Bousman's own rock musical Repo! The Genetic Opera.

Set in a carnival located in Hell, three lost souls wander round in this limbo, encountering an odd assortment of carny characters and the Devil himself.

A self-funded project by the director which looks great. Lots of nice use of colour on a minimalist set. Not all the songs are great however, but they could be growers and I'm willing to give this a rewatch as it comes in at under an hour. Which disappointed me at the time, but now I think to be a good sign.

Great concept, awesome look and production design, great makeup and characters, but meh execution. I understand the film was made in about a week with a low budget and I tip my hat off to the creators but never really felt engaged with the story or characters. The songs should be the highlight and weren't terribly memorable either.

When you have a musical with a bare-bones plot and only one or two set locations, you have to really come strong with good songs or dance numbers or something exciting and this doesn't cut it. The songs seem half-finished and the dance choreography seems made up on the spot. There are some cool set designs and costumes and make ups, though, and the general feel of the film make it watchable. The runtime helps, too. At an hour, it doesn't overstay its welcome.

Utterly utterly bonkers!
Like Repo! The Genetic Opera meets Creepshow meets House Of 1000 Corpses, but way more leftfield.

Three tales torn from the pages of Aesop's Fables, screwed up, swallowed, digested and partly regurgitated, partly shat out, then mixed together and served in a long glass with a dollop of squirty cream and a cherry on top.

Like explaining the worst nightmare you ever had to a terrified child.

This is my 2nd Darren Lynn Bousman film, the other being Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008). Both these films are something fascinating visually about them but there is just too much of it (kind of reminds me of Rob Zombie). Bousman just piles and piles on it until the we stop seeing the beauty that was there. He also hammers in the message, again and again and leaves nothing for the audience. This musical is based on Aesop's Fables and the audience is never allowed to figure anything out for themselves. This might actually be more the fault of Terrance Zdunich, since he wrote both musicals. Anyway, these films are not without interest and I don't regret I saw them. I hope they are a sign of better things to come.

Found this movie just very boring and the songs were not that great either at least repo had some fun songs and the story of the movie didnt feel like it was finished at least it was short.

3 stars for the gorgeous music, no more for the disjointed plot. Meh. I bought the soundtrack. I'm good.

You will NOT go home humming any of the songs in this "musical." Nor will you know exactly what the purpose of this film was. Impressive looking for the $500,000 budget claimed on IMDB. No main character, or interesting emotional story to follow, just a bunch of rather vanilla song and dance numbers strung together with a "twisted carnival" theme. Characters run around being punished by bad songs and off key "sing-talking." THE HORROR!!!! Almost seemed like a movie version of Insane Clown Posse "Halls Of Illusions" but not as entertaining. I applaud it for being short and to the point...though I have no idea what the point was. Not as unique or violent as "REPO! The Genetic Opera." Wasn't really edgy enough or creative enough to get me exited about it, but I can tell the filmmakers had a lot of passion for the project.