We attribute the dragging pace to Julian, as well as the at-times melodramatic gesticulation and posturing of Mary Philbin and the pulp-story spookiness of Inspector Ledoux. Much of the blame lies with director Rupert Julian. But the film itself has aged poorly due to its slow pacing and maudlin moments. The Phantom of the Opera (1925) has acquired an apocryphal reputation over the years as one of the quintessential horror films, due in no small part to Lon Chaney’s deserved reputation as a makeup master and character actor, Universal’s reputation as a horror film producer in the 1930s and 1940s, and the stills from the film reproduced on countless pages of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine.
One of the best-known of all silent era films is hardly one of the best.
Reviews of silent film releases on home video. Silent Era Home Page > Home Video > The Phantom of the Opera
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