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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781578482542
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 1578482542
Label: Allumination
Manufacturer: Allumination
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Allumination
Release Date: November 23, 1999
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 14717
Studio: Allumination
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
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Mysteriously, a series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leaves a bloody body trail in the subterranean caverns of an opera house basement. Born into the murky sewer waters below the theater stalks a man/monster raised by creatures of the underworld. This Phantom's dark and grotesque life is shattered when he becomes obsessed with a beautiful young singer, seducing her with his chilling but exotic presence. The blood-curdling terror and disturbing eroticism of this classic story make this horror film one that will haunt your dreams forever.
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Leaden horror costumer that takes its tenuous starting point from the classic Gaston Leroux novel of the same name. The twist in this variation is that the Phantom was raised by telepathic rats in the subterranean caverns beneath the opera house. Thus our feral Phantom (Julian "Ratboy" Sands) develops an obsessive love for up-and-coming diva Christine (Asia Argento), and sets about to seduce her to his dark, rodent existence. Although beautifully photographed, with lots of ornate period detail to catch the eye, this is largely a by-the-numbers supernatural horror story with scant gory set pieces as diversions. Fans of Dario Argento will yell "Rats!" and all else will merely shrug. And why are the rats telepathic, anyway? Screenwriting credits go to Gerard Brach, best known for his many collaborations with Roman Polanski, most notably Repulsion. However, none of his absurd sense of humor comes through in this film, which really needs it. A shame all around. The DVD includes a short interview with the film's star, Julian Sands, as well as a photo gallery, some dispensable making-of clips, spliced together to appear as a featurette (mostly in untranslated Italian) and a very informative article from Fangoria Magazine. --Jim Gay
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Rating:  -
As most Argento fans know, Daria was Dario's partner and collaborator from Deep Red on through Opera. In other words, she helped Dario achieve his great artistic peak that spanned about a decade, and spawned the lead actress of this film, Asia Argento. Well, if Daria can be given shared credit for Dario's greatest successes, perhaps we should blame her absence for this dismal, cheesy atrocity.
I imagine this film would be painful and numbing for any viewer to watch, but it is especially ... Read More
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Admittedly I still haven't seen "The Card Player," which is supposed to be completely rotten -- but I've seen nearly all of Argento's other films, and this is BY FAR the worst. The acting, the script, the 'special' effects -- dear god it is just unfathomably bad. The two leads are godawful in their roles, and the script is no help!
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Once upon a time, a baby boy was washed into the Parisian sewers, where he was raised by telepathic rats to become the Phantom of the Opera, a serial killer, rapist and rat fetishist.
Yeah, it sounds ridiculous. It IS ridiculous. And Dario Argento is clearly not even trying to make this gory, schizophrenic "The Phantom of the Opera" work. Instead, he apparently is determined to eradicate any traces of Gaston Leroux's original novel, and load the remaining shreds down with lots of gore, poor ... Read More
Rating:  -
Now I might not be the typical Phantom phanatic, but I thought this was the second best Phantom of the Opera movie I've ever seen (the first is the version with Robert Englund). Yes, better than the 2004 musical, I never really liked that version. I know the Phantom in this movie does not wear a mask, he does not have a facial deformity, but he is the Phantom all the same.
This movie is graphic in its violence and...other things, but being a horror movie fan I found that the bloody murders ... Read More
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If you need all kinds of money thrown at a movie to make it good than your just shallow and boaring. This is an excelent work of cinematic art directed by one of the most talented cult film directors in the world. Dario Argento is the italian legend of horror...so if your just out of the loop than don't bother rating a perfectly great gothic masterpeice. Julian Sands is wonderful...the film is cool...get some class!
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