Lon Chaney plays the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star. It is most famous for Lon Chaney’s intentionally horrific, self-applied make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film’s premiere.
This is a silent film. This is actually a pretty scary movie. I would think that today it would garner a PG-13 rating. There are several very intense scenes. It is a really good film. Even if you don’t think you’d like a silent movie, I think you’d like this.
It is in that The Phantom comes from Another World and an entirely imaginary realm. And yet he is very much part of The Opera.