The Phantom of the Opera Movie Review 1998

Campy excess (and lots of gore) overwhelms Gaston Leroux's often-filmed chiller. This Phantom (Sands) doesn't have a facial disfigurement and goes unmasked but he's weird nonetheless. Abandoned as a baby, he's raised by rats (ewwww) beneath the Paris Opera where he becomes smitten by young singer, Christine (Argento), and does his best to make her his alone.

Distribution

A-PIX Entertainment Inc., 200 Madison Ave., 24th Fl., New York, NY 10016, Phone: (206)284-4700, Fax: (206)286-4433

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 100 minutes.
Originally from Italian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Opera, Period Piece: 19th Century, Adapted from a Play, Obsessive Love, Paris

Screenplay

Dario Argento, Gerard Brach

Cast

Julian Sands, Asia Argento, Andrea Di Stefano, Nadia Rinaldi, Coralina Cataldi Tassoni, Istvan Bubik, Zoltan Barabas

Cinematography

Ronnie Taylor

Director

Dario Argento

Music

Ennio Morricone

Other

Sergio Stivaletti