The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Directed by Rupert Julian
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
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But no one is going to mistake Derrick Borte’s film for Rupert Julian’s The Phantom of the Opera , Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull , or Michael Mann’s The Insider .
(His eyes are as wired-open as Lon Chaney's in The Phantom of the Opera, only Gallo didn't use wires.)
If anything, Verbinski (working in an unencumbered R-rated register, from a darkly adult script by Justin Haythe) seems more indebted to classic Lon Chaney silents like The Phantom of the Opera and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, early examples of body horror undergirded with deep psychological damage.
It’s not quite Lon Chaney’s “The Phantom Of The Opera” for a new generation and thematically it’s more of a snack than a meal.
…looking like Phantom of the Opera meets one of the engineers from Prometheus…
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But I love phantomly films, and am a fan of The Phantom of the Opera — from the eerie 1925 silent version starring Lon Chaney, to the bloody slasher 1989 version featuring Robert Englund, I’ve always been at least somewhat entertained by the story.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera is a pleasant diversion, but it still runs behind Lon Chaney's The Phantom of the Opera and Claude Rains' The Phantom of the Opera.
Lon Chaney had been scheduled to play the role, a wise casting decision after his success in the silent classics "The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and " The Phantom of the Opera .”
This tragic romance element is played as a delightful Gotham set Phantom of the Opera tragedy…
…a bizarre facial covering that's somewhere between The Phantom of the Opera and those see-through masks they sell at Spirit Halloween…
…there’s a lot of the Phantom of the Opera in this gothic, tragic villain…
Clayface ultimately is not that different from countless other stories, from The Phantom Of The Opera to Darkman, about a disfigured, broken man and the brave, innocent woman who sees something beautiful inside him…