Far-Out Horror Musicals Peaked With ‘Phantom of the Paradise’
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. At the top of the music industry mountain sits Swan (Paul Williams), the world’s leading music producer. Almost all the movement and shaking in the biz came from his meddling and genius, starting with his on-the-nose label, Death Records, and the boy band the Juicy Fruits.
- ▪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.
- ▪At the top of the music industry mountain sits Swan (Paul Williams), the world’s leading music producer.
- ▪Almost all the movement and shaking in the biz came from his meddling and genius, starting with his on-the-nose label, Death Records, and the boy band the Juicy Fruits.
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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.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000823607","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"io9","SECTION":"movies","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"movies","TAGS":"horror-month,phantom-of-the-paradise,retro-review","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise tells a distressingly…
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