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Universal's Legacy of Horror: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Universal’s Legacy of Horror: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Date: October 30 at 7:30pm
Location: Samuel Goldwyn Theater 8949 Wilshire Boulevard Beverly Hills, CA 90211
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Description: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science wraps up A Monstrous Centennial: Universal’s Legacy of Horror – a month-long series of Halloween screenings and an exhibition of art work from classic Universal Studios horror films [...]

A Monstrous Centennial: Universal's Legacy of Horror

A Monstrous Centennial: Universal’s Legacy of Horror

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences celebrates the Halloween season with this tribute to the 100th Anniversary of Universal Studios, the production company that launched the first great wave of Hollywood horror movies back in the 1930s, with Dracula, Frankenstein & more.

2012 Halloween Screenings: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) with live organ accompaniment

2012 Halloween Screenings: The Phantom of the Opera (1925) with live organ accompaniment

Location: The Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond Street El Segundo, CA 90245
Description: Just in time for Halloween, the Old Town Music Hall presents a three-day run of this black-and-white 1925 silent classic horror film starring Lon Chaney as Erik, the deformed “phantom” haunting the catacombs beneath the Paris opera house. Director Rupert Julian’s cinematic [...]

The Phantom of the Opera (1925) at Old Town Music Hall

The Phantom of the Opera (1925) at Old Town Music Hall

Date: October 28-30
Location: The Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond Street, El Segundo, CA 90245
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Description: It’s an annual tradition: for Halloween, the Old Town Music Hall screens the 1925 Phantom of the Opera, the black-and-white silent classic starring Lon Chaney, with live musical accompaniment on the theatre’s Mighty Wurlitzer organ. The [...]

The 1925 Phantom of the Opera

The 1925 Phantom of the Opera

This silent film adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s novel is one of the classics in the history of the horror genre, although it actually predates the widespread use of the term “horror film.” With its static camera style and sometimes slow pace, this old-fashioned gothic-mystery-romance about a deformed madman-musician, who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris [...]