Does a slasher's job in cutting up the greedy music business moguls with its sharp satire.
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03/07/09
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:14
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Brian De Palma's great, overlooked 1970s glitter-rock comedy-musical spectacle is a memorable combination of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and FAUST. Winslow Leach (William Finley) is a talented young... [More]
Starring: William Finley, Paul Williams, Jessica Harper, George Memmoli
Director: Brian De Palma
Reviews for Phantom of the Paradise
1 - 15 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
A very good horror comedy-drama about a disfigured musician haunting a rock palace. Brian De Palma's direction and script makes for one of the very rare 'backstage' rock story pix, catching the garishness of the glitter scene in its own time.
09/24/07
Top CriticA fairly entertaining, but only sporadically successful, horror-musical comedy.
09/24/07
This was one of De Palma's early efforts, and its excesses can be chalked up to youthful enthusiasm -- the ideas seem appealingly audacious even when they misfire.
09/24/07
As in that other great musical spoof, The Girl Can't Help It, Phantom of the Paradise draws withering links between product and consumer.
09/05/06
Nothing that remarkable about the plot in itself, but De Palma employs his love of gadgetry to imaginative effect, and casts a satirically beady eye upon the money-hungry foibles of the music industry.
06/24/06
Filled with bizarre colors, vintage 70s-era rock and truly imaginative ideas, it's still a thrill.
05/26/06
No review available.
07/23/05
An elaborate disaster, full of the kind of facetious humor you might find on bumper stickers and cocktail coasters.
05/09/05
Top CriticNo review available.
12/22/04
Better than it has any right to be.
12/12/03
No review available.
09/11/03
Splendid rock satire with nice songs and a great stylish look
08/26/02
De Palma's goth-goth-glam horror satire hasn't aged too well, but it's still a hoot.
09/26/01
a gaudy, silly, but undeniably innovative merging of Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera and the Faust legend into a giddy art-rock opera
09/11/01
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