
Christine Daee (a luminescent Emmy Rossum) is a tortured young star who is haunted by the voice of the phantom (Gerard Butler-who also played the lead in DRACULA 2000), a musician who hides in the shadows to hide a facial disfigurement, yet sings to her obsessively. In Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, these moody set devices-and countless others-make every scene an atmospheric vision of souped-up 19th-century Gothic bliss.



Those who thought that smoke machines and cobwebbed candelabras were the stuff of Halloween parties and dance clubs need to think again.
