Metal Messiah

A bizarre scifi rock opera like little else being produced under the banner of Canadian film at the time Metal Messiah is about an enigmatic metallicskinned stranger trying to stop societys selfdestructive obsession with rock and roll Anchored in Torontos live music scene if the late 1970s this dystopian parable was the feature film debut of local music impresario and director Tibor Takács Working with screenwriter Stephen Zoller Takács film is a crudely crafted episodic work that plays out like a glam version of Amos Poes avantpunk NYC flick The Foreigner 1978 but with even more ambition attempting to scale to the bombastic rock opera heights of films like Phantom of the Paradise 1974 and Tommy 1975 from httpwwwcanuxploitationcomreviewmetalmessiahhtml