The Faust-Mephistopheles legend is fitted into the business of star-making in the music industry, and this business is fitted in turn into a Phantom of the Opera plot format. The fittings are not awfully snug, nor awfully comfortable. The project perhaps needed more follow-through in the writing and a more self-assured, less self-conscious hand in the directing (Russ Meyer's for example). Brian De Palma's direction is peppy enough, maniacal enough, in fits and starts, although it may leave the spectator feeling a little queasy. Starring, and musical scoring by, Paul Williams. (1974) — Duncan Shepherd
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