Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When "The Phantom of the Opera" premiered, 100 years ago, the term "horror film" didn't exist. "Spook melodrama," it was called. A ...

Lon Chaney was a legendary American who was also known as "The Man of a Thousand Faces." This was because he brought rich character portrayals and transformative makeup skills to the silver screen ...

A masterpiece of silent horror cinema is coming to one of San Francisco's Gothic revival jewels just in time for Halloween. Director Rupert Julian's 1925 adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel "The ...

Certain old horror movies are so iconic, but countless others are great and have fallen out of the canon.

OGUNQUIT, Maine — It was a film considered so frightening when first released that theaters were advised to have doctors standing by in case moviegoers fainted. It was the original big screen ...

Critics rank this 1925 feature by Rupert Julian well below Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, but Lon Chaney’s performance as the hideous organist prowling the sewers beneath the Paris Opera ...

Fans of the movie gathered to see the 100th anniversary screening of “The Phantom of the Opera” and listen to a live performance of the soundtrack in addition to a panel featuring several people ...

The first week of January 1926 in Uniontown was unseasonably warm, with high temperatures bumping up close to 60 degrees, which might have made the post-holiday doldrums a little easier to bear. But ...

What is old is new again when it comes to silent films, now making a comeback in metropolitan areas such as New York City. “The Wall Street Journal” notes that venues such as Film Forum routinely ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The 1925 silent adaptation of “The Phantom Of The Opera” will screen for free with live music at UPAC in Midtown and also at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie. There will be a live ...

"The picture is one of the best ever shown in Memphis, barring none," raved a movie reviewer credited as "A.M.D." in the Feb. 2, 1926, edition of The Commercial ...