Universal Horrors - The Phantom of the Opera

Classic Horror – The Universal Phantom of the Opera Movie

Hi

The last one, this time we have something a little different from the other films in the Universal Legacy Collection. Instead of a set of classic horror movies, there is just a single movie; along with the usual collection of extras such as a documentary, film commentary, still photographs, and the theatrical trailer.

Universal actually made two versions of the Phantom of the Opera. The first, a black and white silent film from 1925, starred Lon Chaney Sr.

The second – which is the film on the Legacy Collection disc - is the 1943 sound version with Claude Rains (previously the first Invisible Man) as the Phantom, and singer Nelson Eddy as the hero. It was filmed in colour, on sets made for the 1925 original.

This is the only one of the Legacy Collection films to be a solo release, and the only one in colour. Just a pity they did not include the 1925 silent version as well

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Silver Shamrock! Just Click!

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Halloween Caption Comp!

Drac needs a caption! C'mon! He's count-ing on you!

The Witching Hours: Witch Doll Was It in The Witches?

 Watching the old 60's chiller The Witches with Joan Fontaine I saw the votive dolls again, the props being two 1960's and contemporary toy dolls.

Two schoolkids buy them from a table top sale.

Here, the young actress is holding both dolls, a dark suited boy and a chestnut haired girl. 

I think the young lad is holding the boxes but I cant be sure. You?

Probably not Barbie and Ken, Are they a Sindy and a Paul like these collectables on the left from Jenjoys All Dolled Up online?

Here's the girl doll on its own in an earlier shot.

and a bit closer

Ive no real idea what the femail doll is [or where the male doll went] and besides it reminding me of the deadly doll in TV21's Agent 21 I wondered if Fairylite's Wendy might be a contender?

She's got the big hair but not the right colour. neither are the wigs. 

Maybe Sindy and Paul after all?

Have you any ideas readers?

Thank you and happy Halloween!

I've gone Bats!

 We picked up a jiggler sucker bat tother day 

Perfect for Halloween!

It reminded me of a 1979 toy I would have loved as a kud in the Sixties,

Mattel's Gre-gory!

The big bad vampire bat.

Here's a comic and. I couldn't find a TV spot.

Besides it's rubbery action, Greg's unique selling point was a blood pump in its chest!

 I wonder if it sold well?

Operated by a pump button on its back, this feature has dried up now in most Greg-gories by the sounds of it ( as attested by You Tube videos on the toy).

Is this haunted tree mouse a toy you had or remember Gruesome readers?

Every Room is a Living Tomb

 

Not two old horror films I know at all but I love the garish poster art. There's just something about them.

Do you like them?

What are you doing This Halloween?

Trick or Treating? Watching movies? Making food? Dressing up? What you up to this October's End?

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The Tin Man Film

Does this short film count as a Frankenstein movie ? It is about a Mad Scientist who builds a robot, which then goes on a rampage.

Thelma Todd (1906-35) and Patsy Kelly (1910-81) made a total of 21 short films for Hal Roach, released by MGM, between 1933 and 1936, the last being released after Todd's death in 1935. They were basically a female Laurel and Hardy team, and very funny.

In The Tin Man (1935), the two are trying to find a house at night, but have not written down the address, and stop at a strange house to use the telephone. It turns out to be the abode of a Mad Scientist, who wants revenge, and unleashes his creation on the pair.

In the end they escape, and capture an escaped convict. Great fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQDTemOMU4

Paul Adams from New Zealand