Great care is always taken to choose the perfect film for Halloween season — and this year is no exception! There are so many amazing silent suspense/horror films, and this one is often requested. 

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star. The film remains most famous for Chaney’s ghastly, self-devised make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film’s premiere. The picture also features Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. Polis and Snitz Edwards.

Get ready to come in your best masquerade attire….. There will be prizes!

“First released in 1925, the Chaney Phantom lets the drama of Gaston Leroux’s novel play out on exaggerated sets inspired by German Expressionism, but seemingly projected from the villain’s twisted psyche. The atmosphere matches Chaney’s performance perfectly.”
–Keith Phipps, The A.V. Club