But what’ll make you wince is the flesh-suturing and slimy gooey suture removal scenes with sticky skin flaps being peeled off.įresh on the set of his second horror film, director Dwight H. Skinned victims, rat-eaten flesh-gnawed faces and severed heads are just the basics. So it comes as no surprise that his reverence for his murders and impassioned charismatic flair smack of familiarity. It’s pretty awesomely gross.Īt this point with five NOESfilms under his belt as Freddy, Englund breathes strong personality into The Phantom, and the make-up department followed suit accordingly.

The Phantom is a horribly disfigured composer introduced to us as he sutures flaps of flesh over his own gaping facial wounds. And just in case the book’s appearance wasn’t warning enough, visions of musical notes on the pages seeping blood foretell misfortune.Ī lovely young Julliard singer Christine (Jill Schoelen Curse II: The Bite, The Stepfather) sings the piece and is transported through time to London (in a similar past life), where she finds herself the fixation of The Phantom (Robert Englund A Nightmare on Elm Street, Galaxy of Terror, Hatchet II). MORE MOVIES LIKE The Phantom of the Opera: Easily A Cure for Wellness(1994) is the closest match, and packing the budget to support its grandiose vision.įar before her Saturday Night Live days and in her first role ever we find Molly Shannon ( Lawnmower Man II, Scary Movie 4), who discovers a time-forgotten page of music composed by the serial killer Erik Destler in a book that looks like a cross between the Necronomicon and Hellraiser’s (1987) puzzle box. MY CALL: If someone used a more serious Freddy Krueger to ambitiously reimagine Gaston Leroux’s classic… and it’s actually pretty decent.

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