Monster of the Day #3058

Updated on June 30, 2020 By Ken Begg 10 Comments

The Cult Movie Classics channel on YouTube has posted the original and still best version of the oft-filmed Phantom of the Opera, that movie that cemented Lon Chaney’s status as cinema’s first great horror star. Unless you’re allergic to silent film, you could do far worse this long holiday weekend for a watch.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Sorry to go off-topic so soon, but I recently saw the colorized version of “Plan 9 from Outer Space,” and while I’m not a fan of colorization, they were at least clever about it. If you go to my blog, you can see some stills.
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  • bgbear_rnh

    I like the results for most films using the new techniques. Much better than “Turnerizing”. The color adds depth. I’ll probably get shot for saying I liked “It’s a Wonderful Life” in color. I am not sure how I would feel about “The Maltese Falcon”.

    Don’t miss colorized “The Killer Shrews” ;-)

  • Gamera977

    Lol, a little green around the gills Eros???

  • Gamera977

    At the risk of sounding like a Philistine I’ve actually watched the Hammer version with Herbert Lom way more often than this one.

  • I’m lucky enough to have a local second-run house that is a restored(ish) 1920s movie palace with Wurlitzer. They show this with live accompaniment every year, and I’ve been lucky enough to see it that way a few times. One of my very very favorites.

  • I can’t sit through this movie and I have no idea why.

    Seriously. No clue. Given what I do manage to sit through, it probably says a lot about me I don’t want said…

  • Eric Hinkle

    That must be an awesome experience.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Was this the first great horror movie, or would Murnau’s Nosferatu have that honor?

  • Ken_Begg

    That would be The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, from 1919.

  • Ken_Begg

    Chicago has a quite established Silent Film Society, so you can usually see this and/or Caligari or Nosteratu around Halloween each year.