Phantom of the Paradise (1974): "I want that hot Beef injection!"

Doom Generation

Legendary music producer, the mysterious Swan (Paul Williams) is searching high and low for the perfect sound to open up his ultimate Rock Palace. While holding auditions he hears it, Winslow Leach (William Finley) presents his epic cantata, Faust. With the help of his right hand man, Philbin (George Memmoli) Swan plots to steal the music away and give it to his own find The Juicy Fruits (Archie Hahn, Jeffrey Comanor, Harold Oblong) and sets Winslow up to be sent away to Sing Sing. Succeeding in sending Winslow away, Swan attempts to open The Paradise with stolen music, upon hearing this Winslow escapes on a rampage that ends with his head in a record press, disfiguring him. Believing he's dead, Swan again attempts a reopening this time with the Juicy Fruits as the Beach Bums who Winslow, now the Phantom, attacks again. In the following auditions, the Phantom insists upon Phoenix (Jessica Harper) is the only one who could be his voice and sells his soul to have his music heard, but Swan cannot tolerate perfection in anyone but himself so again he he searches for another to sing Faust when he finds...Beef (Graham Greene) who dies onstage performing a dead man's music at the hands of the Phantom. Since someone burned for her to sing, Phoenix takes the stage and takes her place beside Swan as his bride set for assassination on stage the following night.

The days are long and the nights are frightening, nothing matters anyway and thats the hell of it - Phantom of the Paradise, this week on Doom Generation.

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