Englund stumbled a little later with Tobe Hooper’s Night Terrors (1993) which I find plain awful. This version of the Phantom of the Opera was made between Englund’s continued success in the role of hideously disfigured serial killer Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) and Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991). Especially so since Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical was travelling across America to great success on tour at the time the film was produced.Ĭannon’s Platoon Leader (1988) is better than its reputation suggests
So, to find Towers producing another remake of the Phantom of the Opera is only natural. Towers was the type of producer to work on remakes such as And Then There were None (three of them), Count Dracula (1970), the Fu Manchu movies of the 1960s starring Christopher Lee… the list goes on. Since Cannon was involved, it is not surprising that Harry Alan Towers (1920-2009 after short illness) is producer as he worked on that studio’s Platoon Leader (1988) and American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989) among others before they went bust. However, it wouldn’t be O’Hara’s script which would be used in the end, and if it is his, it has been altered, especially the fact that it was originally set in Paris. The Phantom of the Opera was a flop both commercially and critically and led to the eventual perishing of 21 st Century Film Corporation as well.Īs for this movie, which I hold in pretty good esteem as a 1980s horror movie, its original script was written by Gerry O’Hara (1924-) who wrote and directed the Joan Collins (1933-) movie The Bitch (1979) based on her sister Jackie Collins’s (1937-2015 breast cancer) book. What appears to be originally a The Cannon Group film, it was inherited by Menahem Golan (1929-2014) under his new aegis as CEO of 21 st Century Film Corporation, which he joined after resigning from the soon to be dissolved Cannon banner. What must be horror actor Robert Englund’s (1947-) best performance outside of the Freddy Krueger franchise has to be the Phantom of the Opera (1989).
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