Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise has to be one of the 5 or 6 strangest films I have ever seen.
The film is a rock n’ roll sendup of “The Phantom of the Opera” along with plenty of satire and critiques of the music industry and its attendant cultural contributions. And it’s just plain f—ing weird. Weird as in it is one of those films you can’t tell whether its pure dreck or genius — or maybe both.
BrianDepalma.Net has a long article about the film.