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This is the original film version of Phantom. It stars Lon Chaney in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.  Chaney was allowed to create his own make-up.  He said:  “In The Phantom of the Opera, people exclaimed at my weird make-up. I achieved the Death’s Head of that role without wearing a mask. It was the use of paints in the right shades and the right places—not the obvious parts of the face—which gave the complete illusion of horror … It’s all a matter of combining paints and lights to form the right illusion”.