Composer Winslow Leach (William Finley) is duped into selling his masterpiece cantata to the evil record producer Swan (Paul Williams), a Faustian mistake which leaves Leach horribly maimed by a record press and his voicebox replaced by a computer. Reborn as the Phantom, Leach plots a campaign of revenge against Swan, haunting the diminutive mogul’s music palace, the Paradise, and mooning over Swan’s latest acquisition, aspiring singer Phoenix. This glam rock amalgam of The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Grey was a box office disappointment for writer/director De Palma, but, like the Phantom himself, it has since risen into prominence in cult canon.
- Friday February 17, 2012 at 11:30PM
This screening is part of the larger thematic series:
- Metro Bizarro 2011/12
- Metro Bizarro: Mad Max (1979)
- Metro Bizarro: Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
- Metro Bizarro: The Holy Mountain (1974)
- Metro Bizarro: Plan Nine from Outer Space (1959)
- Metro Bizarro: Dune (1984)
- Metro Bizarro: The Warriors (1979)
- Metro Bizarro: Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
- Metro Bizarro: Frankenhooker (1990)
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