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THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

1989 US HMDB
November 4, 1989

An aspiring opera singer finds herself transported back to Victorian-era London -- and into the arms of a reclusive, disfigured maestro determined to make her a star.

Directors

Dwight H. Little

Cast

Robert Englund, Jill Schoelen, Alex Hyde-White, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Lawrence, Terence Harvey, Nathan Lewis, Peter Clapham, Molly Shannon, Emma Rawson
Horror Romance

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

A musician to achieve success makes a pact with the devil: he obtains musical genius but at the price of a horrible physical disfigurement that drives him to isolation and madness and that will lead him, in the end, to commit a series of horrible murders. This time the "ghost" has the face of Robert "Freddy" Englund; but his makeup is a bit too similar to the one he had in "Nightmare" and, after a few minutes of the movie, you will seem to be watching yet another episode of the Freddy Krueger saga. Boring and permeated by a continuous sense of "seen before". Avoidable.