Friday, October 21, 2011

The Phantom of the Opera



Thrills (#83)
This 1925 version is creepier than the one by Andrew Lloyd Weber. Lon Chaney did his own makeup, and he looks pretty gross. Some sequences in the movie seemed long, but that's probably because there was no talking.
Snitz Edwards was in this movie (he was in Thief of Bagdad, too), so that's happy. Snitz is a great name. Other than that, I much prefer the Weber remake.
Skip ahead to 1:02 -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgVw4xLuV1s

3 comments:

melilotnfosco said...

david cook does a nice job, but i still think it's a horribly boring song

hobbitsister said...

not when cook sings it

melilotnfosco said...

yes, it is. sorry.