Customer Reviews:
 Complete Trash January 17, 2008
Ok, 1978 was a great year for hard rock band, Kiss, but this movie shows none of that. I'm still trying to recover from how bad it is. Don't get me wrong, I love B movies like, Plan 9 From Outer Space and Manos The Hands of Fate. Both of those films are miles above the stink that is Phantom of the Park. To be fair it does have moments that are so bad that you just have to laugh out loud. My favorite moment in the entire film is the fight between Frankenstein's Monster and Kiss. You have to see it to believe it. Also, the main villian was probably the only real working actor in the entire production. Overall, if you're a diehard Kiss fan you might like it, if you a fan of bad movies you probably will enjoy it, if you neither don't even bother.
 I'm glad I found this movie of the legendary band Kiss December 17, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm so glad that I found this movie Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, it sure brings memories of when I was younger watching KISS on tv when I was a child back in the seventies.
This movie is a disaster---and I'm a KISS fan! August 27, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I just have to CRACK UP at all the Kiss fans that have the cahonees to actually say this movie is at least in the slightest way respectable or passable!! This movie blows and I mean it blows HARD! Even Paul Stanley in an interview on VH1 said that the movie was probably the biggest disaster of KISS's career! He said that he was in the movie theatre during a screening and he actually SANK IN HIS SEAT as the people around him watched this abomination! lol
That being said, if you want to laugh your ever-loving butt off, buy this movie!!! Peter Criss and Ace are truly the WORST actors you will ever see! Ed Wood and Al Adamson are like Spielberg after you've seen this! What is with Ace and his weird quaking sounds and Gene's roaring like a lion? Anthony Zerby, who is a great and classic actor from the 60's and 70's, is so pathetic as this scientist that has this fabulous laboratory beneath Magic Mountain!! And the plot? Oh man! These cookie-cutters act as amulets to give KISS their "powers?" lol...Zerby, the mad scientist, is making KISS clones who will go on nationwide tv and hypnotize everyone into "rip rip, rip and destroy!" the world in anarchy!! I never thought KISS would serve to bring about armaggedon! lol...This movie is a stinker and a half! lol..
The part where Ace, Gene, Paul and Peter are sitting around the swimming pool has the most horrific dialogue in cinema history and is worth watching over and over for a belly laugh!
If you want total crapola to laugh at, rent this, but don't say it's quality and cool and true KISS nostalgia, it was a bomb then and is one now and even KISS admit that! lol
 Caveat Emptor: DVD-R presentation? August 4, 2007
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Unless I have been seriously hoodwinked, KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park is only available in DVD-R format. While this campy 70's rock 'n' roll sci-fi flick plays just fine, some potential customers may be discouraged by the fact that it is not a professionally-produced DVD. This film is still, however, recommended for cult movie fanatics and die-hard KISS fans alike. Unfortunately, the presentation leaves alot to be desired.
Fun in a sci-fi, 70's comic book sort of way... July 23, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
...but that's about it. Each of the 4 band members have special superpowers that come from their 4 magical talisman. An evil scientist who specializes in robotics creates fake Kiss clones & steals said talisman. The real Kiss is captured while the clones perform a dreadful concert, replacing the song "Hotter Than Hell" with "Rip And Destroy" (same music, different lyrics). This incites the fans to rebel against Kiss (and the amusement park this all takes place at) by rioting. Kiss regains their talisman, kick the crap out of the clones, find the evil scientist and...well, I couldn't even print a spoiler on this if I wanted to, because nobody (including Kiss themselves, when asked about the movie in interviews over the last 25 years) understood the ending.
So that's the plot. Even taking the "Ok, its a sci-fi comic book style movie" outlook, there are still 2 major reasons I only give this 2/5 stars...
1) The end made no sense
2) The acting is atrocious...not just Kiss, but just about everyone in this movie
...if the acting & ending were up to par, I'd have definitely given it 4, maybe even a full 5 stars.
There is one point of particular interest...in this movie, Kiss plays an (incomplete) acoustic version of Beth for the first time ever (this wasn't done again until Peter Criss released his 1994 solo record "Cat #1")
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