Last night was the Season 7 debut of
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs on the Shudder streaming service. As opposed to last year's one movie per week, it's now a double feature on the first Friday of each month with a few of the usual holiday specials sprinkled in.
The first movie was the 1925 silent version of
The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Rupert Julian and featuring Lon Chaney. It's admittedly a film I'd somehow never gotten around to, despite watching other, more obscure titles from the same era. Of course, I've long been familiar with the amazing, classic Lon Chaney makeup as The Phantom.
Glad I finally watched it, it's awesome, haha. While experiencing movies for the first time via The Last Drive-In can be hit or miss depending on the movie, this was a great one and was what I like about the show, all the information and trivia about the movies. Definitely intend to revisit the 1925 The Phantom of the Opera in the future. Frankly, it's also gotten me in the mood to explore more of Lon Chaney's other roles.
I just wish his version of London After Midnight wasn't a lost film.
The second movie was one that I've seen numerous times but is still enjoyable, director Dario Argento's 1987 movie
Opera. Arguably the last of his great streak of movies before his work fell off in quality in the following decades. I like most of it, save for the ending, and it's one of those movies that I try to watch sometime in Autumn each year, though it doesn't always make the cut.
Overall, good double feature!
Also, dressed my Pocket Camp character up for the occasion: