Answer for question 4240.

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[Error: unknown template qotd]I just watched "Phantom of the Paradise" -- a completely zany musical that pastiches everything left, right and centre and takes the idea of selling your soul to get ahead in the pop business quite literally. Apparently it's often compared to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I didn't like that at all, but this reminded me much more of "Myra Breckinridge" and "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls", two other infamous comedy/horror/exploitation movies that I quite atypically enjoyed.
A naïve singer/songwriter ends up in a literally Faustian pact with a sinister showbusiness producer after his first attempt(s) at getting his due leave him hideously disfigured and dependent on the very man who is responsible for his misfortune. But he has to watch the girl he loves become corrupted by her own desire for fame, while the audience are complicit in an ever-rising tide of death and mayhem -- the ultimate entertainment experience...