Fresh
The atmosphere matches Chaney's performance perfectly. His grotesque appearance is achieved with wires, cotton balls, and eye-dilating chemicals, but his character, as usual, is animated from within.
Keith Phipps, AV Club
The Phantom of the Opera
The greatest horror film of modern cinema!
1925 · 1h 47m · Passed
Horror, Music
Directed by
Rupert Julian
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The Phantom of the Opera
Overview
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
Director and cast
- Rupert Julian Director
- Lon Chaney as Erik, The Phantom
- Norman Kerry as Vicomte Raoul de Chagny
- Mary Philbin as Christine Daaé
- Arthur Edmund Carewe as Ledoux
- Gibson Gowland as Simon Buquet
- Snitz Edwards as Florine Papillon
- John St. Polis as Comte Philip de Chagny
- Virginia Pearson as Carlotta
- Olive Ann Alcorn as La Sorelli (uncredited)
- Betty Van Allen as Ballerina (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Lon Chaney's performance as the hideous organist prowling the sewers beneath the Paris Opera is still a cornerstone of gothic horror.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
A grand, pulpy potboiler of a suspense melodrama.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh
The main inducement to watch remains Chaney's tragic, ineffably sad figure.
Lawrence O'Toole, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
Kerry is a colorless hero, Philbin contents herself with being pretty and becoming terrorized at the Phantom, and Chaney is either behind a mask or grimacing through his fiendish makeup.
Variety Staff, Variety
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