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Far-Out Horror Musicals Peaked With ‘Phantom of the Paradise’
The 1974 cult-classic sees a wronged composer transform into a creature from beyond, terrorize the music industry that bit his sound and spat him out.
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If you put every horror-tinged musical on a word map, chances are Phantom of the Opera and The Rocky Horror Picture Show would take up a good amount of the space. Against these cinematic goliaths, no film evokes gothic horror in a fun, freaky, and uncannily prescient way quite like Phantom of the Paradise.
Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise tells a distressingly common music-industry horror story. At the top of the music industry mountain sits Swan (Paul Williams)…
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