The Phantom and Halloween 10/20/2015 Halloween is coming, which means there are lots of chances to connect with the Phantom – particularly Lon Chaney's Phantom from the 1925 and 1929 Universal Studios' "The Phantom of the Opera." The original POTO was, of course, a horror film, without the romance found in more recent versions of the story. Comparing parallel scenes in the Lon Chaney films with the 2004 Warner movie starring Gerard Butler demonstrates the story's evolution from almost exclusively a horror story to almost
Halloween is coming, which means there are lots of chances to connect with the Phantom – particularly Lon Chaney's Phantom from the 1925 and 1929 Universal Studios' "The Phantom of the Opera." The original POTO was, of course, a horror film, without the romance found in more recent versions of the story. Comparing parallel scenes in the Lon Chaney films with the 2004 Warner movie starring Gerard Butler demonstrates the story's evolution from almost exclusively a horror story to almost