Today, most people [even KISS fans] realize this is truly a bad movie. But on the Halloween weekend of 1978 it was all-the-rage for rock-n-roll teens and pre-teens glued to their TV set for the NBC Movie of the Week, the premiere of KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK. And it was absolutely Freaking! Trippin.' Bananas. [Insert any other favorite '70s slang for 'great']. But without a doubt, it happened at the right moment. Just like watching Elvis on the Ed Sullivan Show in the '50s - or the Beatles in the '60s - this was the exact moment when kids celebrated an emerging cultural change in mass media. It didn't matter if the movie was good or bad, whether the plot made sense or not. Here was KISS [all teen boy's secret passion] performing for free on fuckin' NBC. Performing not just for them, but for everybody. Perhaps the most unexpected thing that followed a week later was the feeling of emptiness when each of the band members released solo albums, signaling a rupture in the KISS army. Now, almost 50 years after that first NBC broadcast, audiences can relive the nostalgia of Rock & Roll All Night, Beth and Shout It Out Loud.

The movie reflects a story that was rushed and is in constant flux because of both network intervention and in-fighting between band members. Gene Simmons once remarked in an interview "Nobody knew how the film was going to end. That was the director's problem. We just showed up and kinda did what we were told to do." But there IS an ending. Or, at least, it does stop. The plot involves everything from Frankenstein to martial arts. The story surrounds KISS performing a three-night sold-out concert at Magic Mountain amusement park. The developer of the park, a 'mad scientist' named Devereaux (played by popular character actor Anthony Zerbe) is pissed off because his budget for experimentation has been slashed and - worse - KISS is taking his spotlight. So he creates an android KISS to destroy KISS. After he jails the real KISS in his dungeon, the simulated KISS begins performing (badly) at the concert. But then rockstar KISS escapes, crashes the concert, fights the robotic KISS, and wins. Somehow in the middle of all this, Devereaux dies (maybe). The End. Move on. Nothing more to see here.

In 1979, a year after the NBC Movie of the Week, this movie was re-edited and released to theaters in Europe under the title KISS IN ATTACK OF THE PHANTOMS. This disc also contains that version in widescreen and stereo.

A USA film in English language; in DVD encoded for
ALL REGION NTSC, playable on any American DVD machine