The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera (1998)

Il fantasma dell'Opera

A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a man raised by creatures of the underworld.

Date of release
1998-11-20
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (201)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Horror, Romance, Mystery
Director
Dario Argento

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera is a 1998 English-language Italian romance horror film directed by Dario Argento, adapted from the 1910 novel of the same name by Gaston Leroux and starring Julian Sands and Asia Argento. It is not to be confused with the 1987 film Opera, also directed by Dario Argento.

Production

Argento described Arthur Lubin's Phantom of the Opera as a film that "marked his youth", leaving him "shocked and fascinated". After considering a film adaptation in the 1970s which would have been shot in Moscow and would have mixed the figures of the phantom and Rasputin, he returned to the project in 1992 while filming Trauma in Minneapolis, after casually watching the Rupert Julian's 1925 adaptation on television.

Argento shot the film between Cinecittà, the Hungarian State Opera House, the Pertosa Caves and some other caves in Slovakia. Argento had initially hoped to film at the Paris Opera, but said that its performance schedule and status as a national monument made filming there impractical. After searching for a similar theatre, he selected one in Budapest.

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