O2D In the early 70's there was a band called Kiss.They wrote great songs and struggled to get radio play. After releasing 3 classic albums,they release a live record and become extremely popular. They released 3 more classic albums and another live one and 3 years after becoming a band,they are the biggest stars in the world. What would be a good business decision at this point?Maybe release 4 mediocre solo albums and a 2 disc greatest hits.Hey,why not make a crappy movie that same year? In the 70s real movies weren't shown on TV so things like this were a big deal. Made for TV movies probably got the best ratings and they never put any effort into making them. This movie is about a mad scientist who works at an amusement park. Still reading?? He gets fired and makes a robot Kiss. You know what happens next. This movie is only for hardcore Kiss fans and it will just make them mad.Never,ever see this movie.

kingmonkey The Phantom Of The Park is one of the most criminally overlooked avant garde cinematic experiences from late 70s. writers Jan Michael Sherman and Don Budaythe have crafted a sublime, quasi-iambic pentameter loaded screenplay which evokes the very finest of 20th Century American writers (only Fitzgerald, say, or perhaps Mailer could have produced better) and allowed it to be transformed into a motion picture which time has proved to be the personification of an entire decade.outside of his performance in Tom Selleck hit Runaway, this is perhaps the defining role in the astonishing career of Gene Simmons. seldom has he ever been presented with a script of this quality to work with, if the world had not been distracted by the lacklustre performances of Ace surely an Oscar nomination would not have been out of the question.the special effects on display make a mockery of the claim that Star Wars, released around the same time, broke barriers in this field. they must be seen to be believed, and mercy is on us for the recent DVD release has preserved the artistic integrity of them. James Cameron owes a very big debt indeed to the pop band Kiss.you know those lists of 1,001 movies to see before you die? well, this really is one movie you must see before you die.

Michael_Elliott KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)BOMB (out of 4) The rock band KISS (Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley) are about to do a concert at an amusement park but a mad scientist (Anthony Zerbe), who lives under the park, has created some weird robot-zombies who are going to kill all the fans. This made-for-TV flick has the reputation of being one of the worst movies ever made and it pretty much lives up to that label. I wasn't expecting too much but considering you've got a legendary band and a director who has made a few good films in his career, the train wreck that is this film is rather shocking. I'm not even sure where to start but I guess you can begin with the god-awful story that never really makes any sense as it's never too clear why this scientist hates the band. This film really seems like it was just shot on the fly because there are so many mistakes in the story that one really questions what anyone was thinking when they screamed action. Another problem, outside the screenplay mistakes, is that there are countless mistakes in the movie that make this seem like you're watching an Ed Wood film. Take the monsters for example. We have a werewolf and Frankenstein's monster but they're all obviously wearing fake looking Halloween masks and a couple of them look straight out of the film ORGY OF THE DEAD. Another major mistake is that there are countless action scenes where people get thrown around yet there's never any attempt to hide the strings and ropes that are pulling and yanking the people. The first time I saw the strings I was thinking it was just a simple mistake but it kept happening over and over to the point where I wondered what the heck anyone was doing. Another funny good if that Ace Frehley's stunt double was a black guy and it's not too hard to tell when he's on screen as they do very little to hide the fact that we've got two different color men playing the same part. I know this movie was meant for kids but that's really no excuse for how bad this thing is. Fans of bad cinema need to put this at the top of their viewing list because I'm hard pressed to think of films with more errors and goofs. It's really hard to imagine what was going on in the minds of not only the director but even the four band members. Many have accused them of being willing to make a buck for anything and I think this film proves that. All four are horrible actors but I guess it's not fair to judge the performances too bad since it's doubtful any of them were trying that hard. Zerbe has appeared in films such as COOL HAND Luke and THE OMEGA MAN and he seems to have no problem embarrassing himself. We do get some "classic" rock numbers like Rock and Roll All Night and Beth but it's hard to sit through 96-minutes just for them. If you're not a fan of KISS I can't imagine you enjoying anything here. If you're lukewarm on the band then the badness will probably have you hitting the stop button. I think the only folks who could get any sort of entertainment out of this would have to be those who need to see every bad movie ever made.

tusken_2004-1 I have been a KISS fan since I was a little tyke, and back when this stinkburger came out on TV, I had to watch it. I only now realize that the world of music-related films must be pock-marked with bomb craters (no pun intended)left in the wake of such cinema gold as this poor excuse to sell cheaply-made action figures by MEGO. I mean, even Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) makes sense compared to this.It was a cartoon. A live-action cartoon. Joseph Barbera must have felt horrible after unleashing this poor excuse for a film on an unwitting public.But yet, as with so many other films that are real cheese-fests, I can't help but sit mesmerized by the events on screen. I'm not following the apparent lack of plot, nor am I really caring about the equally detestable special defects, I guess it's that I just go into Zombie mode with this film. If Dr. Forrester of MST3k really wanted to rule the world so bad, he would have used THIS film to turn Joel & the 'bots into so much mental cabbage.I am still a fan of KISS, however. This film failed to change that. All the same, I am NOT a fan of the people responsible for convincing Gene, Paul, Ace, and Peter that a TV movie of the week would be a great idea for publicity.I think that any film aficionado worth his/her salt owes it to themselves to see this film once. after that, appropriate dosage should be determined by your physician.