"I made her the money grubbing ho that she was, and he calls me a disgrace,"
A rock updating of the Phantom of the Opera story, where a musician (William Finley) is ripped off by an unscrupulous record exec Swan (Paul Williams). The musician ends up disfigured when he tries to stop the exploitation of his music. Thus the musician becomes the phantom, and Swan signs him up to create a rock opera, but whilst doing so the phantom develops an obsession with Phoenix (Jessica Harper) and sets out a plan to get her to perform his music and gain revenge on Swan.
Throwing in radical politics and a pop at machiavellian managers, this updating of the Phantom story, also adds a dash of Faust and Dorian Gray, then throws in some fun pastiches of rock and surf songs. Then is topped off by De Palma's split screen direction, to produce an entertaining rock opera.
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