10 Monster Movies The Mummy Needs To Improve Upon

10. The Phantom Of The Opera (2004)

Based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical (and bearing little resemblance to the Universal or Hammer adaptations of Gaston Leroux’s novel), The Phantom Of The Opera has the distinction of being the first film that put yours truly to sleep.

You settle in for an epic gothic melodrama, but it’s just two and a half hours of luvvies addressing each other in rhyming couplets that could’ve been written by a pretentious English student. “Sing once again with me our strange duet,” croons the Phantom at one point. “My power over you grows stronger yet.”

The Phantom is played by Gerard Butler, who despite having previously fought mummies and dragons (he’s also the lead in Dracula 2000) doesn’t rival our memories of Lon Chaney, Claude Rains or Herbert Lom (or Julian Sands, for that matter). After a first half where nothing much happens, you begin to nod off only to wake up moments later wondering if you missed anything.

Nah.