Phantom of the Opera | Universal Classic Monster Movies #RANKED Ep. 18

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↪ Night 18: Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera is certainly a unique installment in this series, as it doesn’t have anything supernatural going on. No walking corpses, no mythological creatures nor mad scientist concoctions that make you crazy, but rather the story of a good and normal, docile man going insane from injustice, transforming into a monster that was there all along, his inner monster, upon the realization that life is inherently unfair and being polite and nice within a professional context is rarely rewarding to those with actual merit, but instead often rewards those willing to be the biggest buttheads. This fallen man transforms into the phantom, a living ghost that haunts the opera house, sabotaging anybody that gets in the way of a young actress that he has been secretly sponsoring for years, now doing what he can from the shadows to save her from suffering the same fate as himself, protecting her innocence as an artist and a person from being tainted by the cruelty of the dog eat dog nature of the entertainment business. He murders a whole bunch of Parisians via chandelier before stealing her down to his sewer kingdom to play some music with her before her goofball suitors rescue her, accidentally causing a cave-in that crushes the phantom, and then he dies...

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00:00:00 Phantom of the Opera Intro
00:01:34 McCurdy Trivia
00:10:35 Enters an Outlier
00:22:27 A New Kind of Monster (The Worm Turns)
00:41:34 The Love Triangle (or Square?) | Choosing the Life of an Artist
00:49:55 Growing a Spine
00:56:51 Simp!? ...or Daddy?
01:07:20 Final RANKING
01:30:20 A Toast to Nelson Eddy & Edgar Barrier

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