The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

The History of the Universal Logo (11 movies items)

"3rd Logo "The Globe" Notable Films Under This Logo -The Hunchback of Notre Dame -The Phantom of the Opera"

Movie Reviews (part 3) (50 movies items)

" The Ups: Excellent makeup. A surprisingly effective tinted ballroom sequence. The Downers: Weak acting even for a silent film. It is pretty slow, especially if you know the story by heart."

Year By Year Of My Favorite Flix (94 movies items)

"Later on as a kid, since I lived in the Chicagoland area, that meant that an important part of my young viewing habits was the midwestern version of a localized TV horror show called Creature Features. One of the things I remember most about this program was how the beginning credits ran with a montage of scenes of some of the most famous black & white horror flicks, including the most famous scene of this one. And for me, out of the bunch, the scariest was the image of the Phantom revealing him"

The Phantom of the Opera

“It has a tremendous amount of things in common with Dracula, it’s a canonized lion of a film despite not being much good and interminably boring, yet it’s blessed with a central performance that is probably the entire reason that the film continues to endure. I suppose the most accurate way to describe to would be: classic-by-default.

Gaston Leroux’s source material, on the surface level, should lend itself incredibly well to stage and screen, but there has yet to be a totally satisfying adaptation. Some lean too strongly in favor of musical numbers and lavish sets and costumes (the 1943 version and the thundering, inexplicably popular Andrew Lloyd Weber stage show) or too far into Gothic horrors and grotesque makeups (the 1989 version springs to mind). None of them have be” read more

My Queue (121 movies items)

"Points: 2 Voters : phillydude, Mr. Saturn 93 min"