Dario Argento’s Phantom of the Opera

There are moments of romance horror on the pages of Gaston Leroux’s Gothic masterpiece of art and obsession. But as Andrew Lloyd Webber went all in on the soft-focus romance for his musical, maestro of gore Dario Argento bled the book dry of every moment of terror and added more than a few of his deeply personal kinks. After all, why have the Phantom be a talented composer mutilated in an accident when he can be a handsome albino (Julian Sands) who was raised by rats in the Paris sewers and may have gained psychic powers in the process. Argento...

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