Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For The Pop Culture That Made Us Who We Are
Displaying 3 items of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag "phantom of the opera".
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Darkman
July 20th, 2026 | 2 hrs 19 mins
1990s, 90s, action, coen brothers, comic book, comic books, comics, cult classic, cult classics, cult film, cult films, cult movie, cult movies, danny elfman, film, films, frances mcdormand, horror, liam neeson, movie, movies, phantom of the opera, sam raimi, the coen brothers, the phantom of the opera
Who is Darkman? That question, posed by the film's marketing, is answered with a laundry list including creator Sam Raimi, actor Liam Neeson, and a slough of influences from The Shadow, to The Phantom of the Opera, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Batman, and many more. A true Frankenstein of a film lurching wildly from comic book action, to horror, to tragedy, to manic comedy, the movie walks a hard-to-resist tightrope that only Sam Raimi can pull off. We're joined by guest filmmaker Alex Sosin ("The Canyon") to peel back Darkman's many faces to explore what lies underneath.
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The Masque of the Red Death
October 26th, 2024 | 25 mins 15 secs
death, disease, edgar allen poe, halloween, horror, literature, masquerade, phantom, phantom of the opera, poe, short stories, short story
It's a bonus episode on top of a bonus episode! We're doing another Halloween reading, this time we're commemorating the Phantom of the Opera's favorite costume by revisiting Edgar Allen Poe's immortal classic, The Masque of the Red Death. The short story features Poe's gloomy mysterious prose, and strikes at our shared anxieties about pestilence and mortality.
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The Phantom Of The Opera (1925)
October 18th, 2024 | 2 hrs 3 mins
andrew lloyd weber, film, films, gaston leroux, halloween, hollywood, horror, leroux, lon chaney, makeup, movie, movies, musical, musicals, opera, paris, phantom, phantom of the opera, silent film, silent flims, silent movie, silent movies
We can't stay silent about the classic 1925 version of The Phantom of the Opera. From Lon Chaney's iconically inhuman make-up to his all-too-human performance, the film still thrills and chills nearly 100 years later. We're joined once again by writer/director of The Canyon, Alex Sosin, to venture into the depths below the Paris opera house and revel in the true face of what dwells within.