OGUNQUIT, Maine — It was a film considered so frightening when first released that theaters were advised to have doctors standing by in case moviegoers fainted. It was the original big screen ...
French author Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera was released in 1910, based on rumors he'd heard about the Palais Garnier, the Paris opera house, one about a fire in the roof of the opera ...
When "The Phantom of the Opera" premiered, 100 years ago, the term "horror film" didn't exist. "Spook melodrama," it was called. A new — and offbeat — thing. "I spoke to a lot of old-timers who saw it ...