Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper
A disfigured musician sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music.
DVD Release Date: September 4, 2001
Stats: 787 reviews
Tried to watch this again recently. Had given it a decent review based on memories of seeing it a LONG LONG time ago. Boy, can memories be deceiving! This movie is damn near unwatchable. I couldn't sit through more than about 5 minutes at a time. Between the performances and the ...( read more)
The first movie where it really smacked me upside the head that someone behind the scenes was pullilng the strings-the director.
I can't get enough of this film!
The songs are out of this fuckin world, the performances are great, the whole Paradise universe is something to remember for the rest of your life.
The movie (and the sounds) stay with you forever... watch with twice, thrice, four times, a thous...( read more)
Wonderful nostalgic cheesy musical, parodic and vibrating blend of concepts and myths from literature, film and rock n' roll that transcends thanks to Brian DePalma's trademark bizarre and striking mise en scène. Jessica Harper is an adorable doll, William Finley and Paul Willia...( read more)
Holy coke fueled horror/comedy/romance musical Batman!
Does anyone else think William Finley looks like Allison Janney?
El mejor musical de la historia segun mi opinion, esta pelicula para mi es un clasico de clasicos, una de las muchas obras maestras de Brian di Palma. actuacion MAGISTRAL de Paul williams como Swan ell fenomeno musical y creador de estrellas que vendio su alma al diablo a cambio ...( read more)
I appreciate the soul that went into it but it's a love/hate kind of film and I sure didn't love it.
LETTERBOX. Muy entretenida y artísticamente lograda. El único problema es el personaje de Gerrit Graham, en quien se equipara lo femenino con lo ridículo. / Very entertaining and artistically accomplished. The only problem is Gerrit Graham's character, in whom the feminine is equ...( read more)
A wonderful cult movie. A bit dated but still amazing. A lot of quotes: Phantom of the opera (of course), Faust, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and also Notre-Dame de Paris.
It's not comparable to anything else by De Palma. A must see to every rock music lovers!
"Phantom of the Paradise" is one of those over-the-top cult classics that emerged from the 1970's and not to even mentioning that this was director Brian DePalma's only attempt of making a movie musical. A cult classic.
Its right up there with "The Rocky Horror Picture Show",
"Young Frankenstein",and "Tommy" as one of the weirdest movies of all time. The ideas that came from this movie is unbelievable...all from the decade of the 1970's.
Who would have thought that Paul Williams(who basically was one of a handful of one-hit-wonders that came outta of the 1970's and also wrote and composed the theme song for the TV series The Love Boat)could pull off a character based on "The Phantom of the Opera?" Who told him that he could launch a movie career with a movie that was all rock and no roll.
I guess Ken Russell ripped off several ideas to his "Tommy" form this movie..."Phantom...." is 1 year older than "Tommy"...!
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