10 Weirdest Ideas Turned Into Horror Movies
4. The Phantom Of The Opera
This isn’t about the 2004 musical version, or the 1928 Universal silent movie, but in 1989 Dwight H. Little decided that making a slasher movie version of The Phantom Of The Opera was a very good idea.
This version of The Phantom Of The Opera plays very loose with Gaston Leroux’s original novel by having a phantom, played by 80s horror legend Robert Englund, who instead of just wearing a mask, makes masks out of the skin of his victims.
He still obsesses over Christine in this adaptation, and he murders anyone who gets in his way, only this time in many grotesquely violent ways. It takes a story about devotion and desire, and turns it into a gore-drenched horror flick for the 80s audience who have no idea what The Phantom Of The Opera is.
That’s not all, as this movie also adds in satanic elements and aspects of time travel. It’s a real hodge-podge of mis-matched ideas all shoved into one little ball of horror with a very famous name attached to it. Whilst not objectively terrible, as it does have quite a few good things going for it, it’s nonetheless a very strange movie to muster, especially if one is already familiar with the story of The Phantom Of The Opera.