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Monday, February 1, 2010

Dario Argento's Phantom of the Opera


I don't know many movie buffs who know the actor Julian Sands, but I love him. He was the "Warlock" in the 80s and had smaller roles in "Turn of the Screw" and "A Room with a View," but my favorite was "Boxing Helena." By most standards, it was a bad movie, but he was hot and the story was unusual. "Phantom of the Opera" was also very unusual. Not really a horror movie, but definitely gross, sexy and creepy classic Dario Argento. The beautiful daughter or Dario, Asia Argento, plays his overly-passionate subservient lover, and Sands plays the phantom who's really just a man abandoned at birth in the catacombs below an opera house. To be honest, the story is a bit of a let down, but if you like Julian Sands, its a movie worth watching.

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