Phantom Of The Paradise

A better rock'n'roll parody than THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, and one of director Brian De Palma's more original efforts, PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE combines elements of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and the Faust legend into a fairly entertaining, but only sporadically successful, horror-musical comedy. Finley is an unknown songwriter whose best composition is stolen by the evil and unscrupulous record producer Williams, who wants to use it as the basis for a new "sound" with which to open his glittery rock palace, the Paradise. Finley accuses Williams of the theft, but the record producer frames the songwriter on a phony drug charge and has him thrown into prison. When t...