Phantom Of The Opera

Italian horror specialist Dario Argento has always cited his first viewing of the 1943 film version of Gaston LeRoux's gothic melodrama Phantom of the Opera as a seminal experience, and Phantom remained one of his favorite classic horror stories. Unfortunately, this adaptation of the classic tale is one of his least successful films. Paris, 1881: The reclusive Phantom (Julian Sands), who lives in the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera House, becomes entranced by a young soprano, Christine (Asia Argento, the director's daughter), and vows to make her a star. He begins by terrorizing Carlotta (Nadia Rinaldi), the diva in whose enormous shadow understudy Ch...