Opera Lon
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2000 SIDESHOW Universal Studios Lon Chaney PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Silver Screen $9.99 |
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Sideshow 8″ Lon Chaney PHANTOM OF THE OPERA – Silver Screen Universal Monsters $68.99 |
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NEW Sideshow Silver SCREEN EDITION 12″ LON CHANEY PHANTOM OF THE Opera Figure $99.00 |
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NEW SIDESHOW SILVER SCREEN EDITION 12″ LON CHANEY PHANTOM OF THE OPERA FIGURE $40.00 |
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LON CHANEY PHANTON OF THE OPERA MONSTER PUZZLE B. GOGOS $19.99 |
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OFFICIAL LON CHANEY as the PHANTOM OF THE OPERA BUST, Life-size 1:1 Scale $99.95 |
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Sideshow Phantom of the Opera 8″ Figure Lon Chaney Universal MOC $39.99 |
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Sideshow Phantom Of The Opera, Silver Screen Lon Chaney 12” 1/6 Figure Halloween $110.00 |
Defining Movie Genres Horror Movies
One of the most popular movie genres is the Horror Movie, and it is also one of the oldest. Film pioneer Georges Melies made supernatural events the subject of many of his silent film shorts, his most notable being Le Manoir du diable, or The House of The Devil, in 1896, which some consider to be the first horror film.
The first Movie Monster in a feature length horror film, per se, was Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Before that Wegeners The Golem, in 1915, and Robert Wienes The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and the first vampire movie, Nosferatu.
Lon Chaney Sr. was the first American horror movie star, playing the leads in both The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1923 and The Monster in 1925. He is best known, however, for his title role in the 1925 version of The Phantom of the Opera. In the 1930s Gothic Horror films became all the rage in Hollywood. These included Dracula in 1931, starring Bela Lugosi, The Mummy in 1932, and one of the most controversial horror movies ever made, Freaks, based on the short story Spurs by Ted Robbins. How controversial. So much so that the studio burned at least thirty minutes of the films footage and then disowned it completely.
The horror movie genre expanded in the 1950s and 60s to include movies that featured threats from the outside, such as mutations, aliens, and zombies. This was also the era of 3D glasses and the Percepto electroshock technique used on theatre audiences during showings of the movie The Tingler.
In 1964, the Production Code of America fell by the wayside, and movies focusing on gore and the occult began being produced, starting with Rosemarys Baby in 1968 The Exorcist in 1973, and The Omen in 1976. The first adaptation of a Stephen King novel, Carrie, was also released in 1976.
In the 1980s, the horror movie genre saw the inclusion of films like Nightmare On Elm Street, starring Robert Englund, Friday The Thirteenth, Childs Play, and Creepshow, all of which spawned several sequels. This trend continued in the 1990s, and the trend of self reflective horror films, like Carrie, continued as well with movies like Interview With The Vampire, which was based on the popular Anne Rice novel of the same name. self parodying movies, like the Scream trilogy were popular as well.
Modern horror films place more of an emphasis on gore and torture than their predecessors, as evidenced by the success of the Saw films. Remakes of classic horror films, such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Dawn of The Dead have also gained followings in their own right. The horror movie genre is one that is both timeless and constantly evolving.
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who would have done a better or bela Lugosi Dracula Lon Chaney sr.?
as much as I like Bela Lugosi's Dracula is one of my favorite movies of all time. I think Chaney has done a better dracula.why? because in all his "monster" Chaney papers brought tragedy, humanity and pathos of performances in the roles made characters.his audience root for him, but knew it was wrong to think guy.i in the great line of Phantom of the Opera after that he learned that the ghost and say "yes, but only because the cruelty of man has made me so, now that can not sympathize with that.ok, Lugosi was charming and charismatic in the role, but his performance was pure evil, there was nothing we (the public) feel sympathy for me the best him.to villains are those who have some level of sympathy.
Well, when you take into account Chaney functions, which were written as worthy of pity in his novels original. Quasimodo, Erik, etc., tragic characters very general. Lugosi, but does not cause much sympathy was more than follow the original novel in which Dracula was a crazy monster, with the calculation in terms of both the human race as a bunch of pieces of meat. They were not intended to look upon it, we were meant to fear him. (Although, honestly, I was almost killed him mourn when bemoaning the end) Lugosi was definitely capable of playing the tragic character; check a look at his performance in The Black Cat. It is only rarely have to play with characters such as people, after his success playing Dracula, immediately the actor listed as a terror, and nothing else. Very sad, really. Although I have done an impressive Chaney Conde. Conrad Veidt would have been interesting on paper too.
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