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KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Gordon Hessler released in USA on 28 october 1978 with Anthony Zerbe
KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1979)
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Add to a movie listKiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (known as Attack of the Phantoms in Europe and Kiss Phantoms in Italy) is a 1978 television film, starring American hard rock band Kiss. The film's plot revolves around Kiss, who use their superpowers to battle an evil inventor (Abner Devereaux, played by Anthony Zerbe) and to save a California amusement park from destruction.
NBC aired the film at the height of Kiss' popularity in the United States. Due to the film's poor acting and semi-comedic script, most Kiss fans disliked the film. Despite the film's poor quality, it has attained cult film status. The members of Kiss themselves despised the film for making them appear buffoonish. For years after its airing, no one who worked for the group was permitted to mention the film in their presence.
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The film opens at Magic Mountain, where Melissa (Deborah Ryan) and her boyfriend Sam (Terry Lester) are enjoying a day at the amusement park. Sam, a park employee, disappears early in the film while investigating the laboratory of Abner Devereaux, who is the park's head engineer and the creator of a series of lifelike cybernetic creatures on display throughout the park. It is subsequently revealed that Sam has been transformed by Devereaux into a mindless cyborg through the use of a tiny mind-control device attached to Sam's neck.Actors
Anthony Zerbe
(Abner Devereaux)
Deborah Ryan
Carmine Caridi
(Calvin Richards)
Gene Simmons
(The Demon)
Lisa Jane Persky
(Dirty Dee)
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