Phantom of the Opera (1943)
By far the worst of the Universal Monster movies, Phantom is practically redundant as a horror film and the great Claude Rains suffers from barely being in the middle third despite being the star of the show as the masked phantom who haunts a Paris opera house. Instead we get Nelson Eddy and Edgar Barrier bumbling about attempting to woo lovely Susanna Foster.
Having said that the chandelier sequence remains a classic slice of grand guignol and the classic Universal sets and sound stages look terrific in stunning high definition.
I'm biased about Phantom. I don't like any of the movies made other than the 1925 silent version and Dario Argento's slasher style reinterpretation.
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