When "The Phantom of the Opera" premiered, 100 years ago, the term "horror film" didn't exist. "Spook melodrama," it was called. A new — and offbeat — thing. "I spoke to a lot of old-timers who saw it ...

F. Murray Abraham in "Amadeus" (Credit: Dick Smith); Lon Chaney in "The Phantom of the Opera" (Bettmann Archive); Gary Oldman in "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (Columbia Pictures) March is a busy month for ...

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 ...

Did you know?Actor Lon Chaney was given the freedom to create his own makeup as the Phantom in the 1925 movie. Chaney painted his eye sockets black to give them a skull-like impression. He pulled the ...

Born Alonso Chaney in Colorado Springs in 1883, Chaney was the son of deaf and non-verbal parents. He found work as an actor and travelled the country, eventually arriving, broke, in 1912 at the ...