Erik (The Phantom of the Opera) strangles the publisher and tries to retrieve his music, only to be disfigured when the publisher's assistant throws etching acid in his face. In the musical horror film "Phantom of the Paradise" (1974), Winslow (the Phantom character) gets his head caught in a record-press, while Robert Englund's horror-version has him selling his soul to Satan and having his face mutilated as a result. This version also has a gruesome variation on the mask, in which Erik is sewing flesh to his face. In Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation, only half of Erik's face is deformed (thus the famous half-mask often
Phantom of the Paradise movie which they saw together more than 20 times was "Phantom of the Paradise", Brian De Palma's 1974 rock musical, based loosely around "Phantom of the Opera" (both this and "Electroma" feature 'a hero with a black leather outfit and a helmet')." The electrocution scene in "Romeo's Distress" was created in tribute to Beef's death on stage. Phantom of the Paradise Phantom of the Paradise is a 1974 American musical rock opera horror comedy film written and directed by Brian De Palma, and scored by and starring Paul Williams. In the film, a disfigured composer writes his music for a