Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Tuesday's Overlooked Movie: Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park

I just saw this TV-made movie on 35 mm print last Monday. It's supposed to be a horror movie, but it's almost a kiddie picture. The film's not very good, to put it mildly (though it was directed by veteran Gordon Hessler), but its cheerful jerkiness is entertaining throughout. Wouldn't you laugh at Gene Simmons acting badly and throwing flames out of his mouth to the sound of a lion roaring? The Kiss guys have also raybeams coming out of their eyes! And they can fly!

As for the music, I don't really care for Kiss, but some of the song are actually pretty good power-pop items.

Here's a sample from the film with "Hotter than Hell" to other lyrics.

More Overlooked Movies at Todd Mason's blog.

4 comments:

Anders E said...

Bollocks! Kiss must be destroyed! This is it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSPs-MrGsAw

Juri said...

You're absolutely right, Raspberries was a much better band than Kiss ever was, but I was pleasantly surprised over some of the songs in the film. There were some slower ones, and they sucked big time.

Anders E said...

Speaking of finding power pop in unexpected places, I found this some time back. They may have looked like a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band with all that facial hair and the cowboy hats, but the song is really good. alas, when i checked out the album on Spotify I found that the rest sounded like the band looked...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJtf7R_oVaw

Anders E said...

Speaking of finding power pop in unexpected places, I found this some time back. They may have looked like a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band with all that facial hair and the cowboy hats, but the song is really good. alas, when i checked out the album on Spotify I found that the rest sounded like the band looked...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJtf7R_oVaw