Lon Chaney's The Phantom of the Opera (1925) features the legendary "Man of a Thousand Faces" in his most iconic role, with self-designed makeup so horrifying that preview audiences reportedly screamed and fainted during the unmasking scene. Chaney used wire to distort his nostrils, painted his eye sockets black, and applied fish skin to create the Phantom's death's-head appearance—all without any studio assistance. The massive Paris Opera House sets, including the iconic chandelier that crashes during the film's climax, were constructed on Universal's largest soundstage and remained standing for decades of subsequent productions. The film's two-strip Technicolor sequences for the Masked Ball scene made it one of the earliest horror films to incorporate color photography.
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