Parents who haven’t had the chance or inclination to take their children to the opera may find this musical experience a good way to introduce their family to the art form. There she is forced to make a terrible decision. Driven by jealousy, he kidnaps Christine and drags her down into his dark lodgings in the sewers. But their romance only infuriates the increasingly possessive Phantom. Reunited, the two friends are soon madly in love.
But none are so mesmerized as Raoul (Patrick Wilson), the theater’s patron and a childhood companion of Christine’s. Stepping up to the spotlight, Christine enchants the other performers as well as the paying customers. Inspired by the original 1925 silent version, this lavish Technicolor production remains one of the most unforgettable adaptations ever to be filmed.His chance to showcase his protegee comes when the opera’s attention-seeker lead soprano Carlotta (Minnie Driver) storms off of the stage during one of her frequent tantrums. A heroic baritone (Nelson Eddy) tries to win the affections of Christine as he tracks down the disfigured “monster” who has begun murdering those who resist his mad demands.
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transforms into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine DuBois (Susanna Foster) the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music. One of the most popular stories of all time, Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera is the legendary horror tale, starring Claude Rains as the masked phantom of the Paris Opera House. Wells and Gaston Leroux-and featuring the filmmaking talents of celebrated directors such as Tod Browning, James Whale, and Jack Arnold, along with legendary actors like Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Claude Rains, Elsa Lanchester, and Lon Chaney, Jr.-these 8 classics are where it all started for genre lovers (and you know who you are!) For the first time in Enzian’s history, all of them can be seen in the same week. Based on the works of famed authors such as Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, H.G. Spawning hundreds of knock-offs, sequels, models, comic books, magazines, books, toys, t-shirts, lunch boxes and more, these iconic film masterpieces have had a profound effect on the art and culture of multiple generations of movie fans. Perhaps the most influential cycle of films in cinema history, the Universal Classic Monsters of the ‘30s, ‘40s, and early ‘50s have proven to be immortal-dreamlike, macabre, horrific, atmospheric, haunting, and among the most wonderfully crafted films of all time.
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