Phantom of the Opera

Silent, Drama, Horror Rated: NR 93 min
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LIVE MUSICAL SCORE!

Come see one of the all-time horror classics with live accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis during Halloween weekend!

Lon Chaney stars as the disfigured composer who rises from the Paris catacombs to haunt the city’s famous Opera House. He leaves a path of murder and mayhem in his love-mad pursuit to make his favorite young opera singer a star. Co-directed by Chaney and produced by Carl Laemmle, co-founder and then owner of Universal Pictures, the film literally features a cast of thousands — 5,000 to be exact.

Rapsis is a New Hampshire-based composer and organist who has specialized in creating live musical scores for silent film screenings for the past twenty years.

 

“It has two elements of genius: It creates beneath the opera one of the most grotesque places in the cinema, and Chaney’s performance transforms an absurd character into a haunting one.” — Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times
“A pinnacle of the Hollywood fantastic.” — J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
directed by
Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle
with
Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
country
United States
production company
Universal Pictures