Craig Ian Mann

Craig Ian Mann is a film historian, writer and researcher. He is the author of Phases of the Moon: A Cultural History of the Werewolf Film (2020), booklet editor for Eureka Entertainment and founder of the Fear 2000 conference series on contemporary horror.

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The phantom that birthed Hollywood monster movies: The Phantom of the Opera at 100

Released 100 years ago, Lon Chaney’s grotesque yet sympathetic turn as The Phantom of the Opera marked a primordial moment in Hollywood history when melodrama morphed into horror and Universal noticed an appetite for monsters.

By Craig Ian Mann

The phantom that birthed Hollywood monster movies: The Phantom of the Opera at 100
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