Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

PotP is a bizarre musical from Brian De Palma that has all the hallmarks of a ridiculous failure, but somehow it works. It’s the story of a musician who writes a great work inspired by Goethe’s Faust. He’s offered a contract by an evil record producer, and through naïvety and misfortune becomes the Phantom in a loose retelling of The Phantom of the Opera.
It's more entertaining than it has any right to be given the absurdity of the situations, but in a strange way that's also what holds it together.

3½ house vibes out of 5