Website: "Repo! The Genetic Opera"

Repo! The Genetic Opera is a Rock Opera film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman adapted from the original play production written by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich.

The film version has become the "spiritual" successor to the Rocky Horror Picture Show, it seems.

The premise of the play and the subsequent 2008 film is a severely dystopian world where organ transplants are commonplace and easy, just don't ask who had the organ before you. Organ transplants may be easy but, the payments are not. Those who default on a single payment get a visit from the Repo Man and his leather bag of sharp objects. He will repossess that organ and leave your now debt-free corpse where he found you.

Anyway, this is not a film review, I'm here to talk about the film's Flash website.


Warning: Some of the imagery may be disturbing. You have been warned. The film is rated R for violence, sex, drugs, and surgical addiction. The website is around the PG-13 range.


The website would not have been terribly compelling without Flash.

The Flash website captures the colorfully grim feel of the film very well while keeping the productions stage origins intact (recurring stage/stage-poster themes, etc.). The prominent feature buttons slide out like morgue stretchers. The footer navigation bar has a solemn headstone feel. The background of the main navigation page is particularly interesting with the floating billboards (I'm assuming the spotlight directions are randomly generated).

However, some elements of the site could use some work.

This is defiantly an interface where Function picked up Form at a bar and woke up in a bathtub full of bloody ice the next morning. Many of the sub-menus take you away from the main page without an obvious method of return. The "kill the sound, please" button is clever but, not "loud" enough (it is the small megaphone in the upper-right corner).

The site was designed by Wiretree (their site would be worthy of a blog entry itself).