Friday's Fright Film Fact

 

Stage 28 which was used as part of the opera house in Phantom of the Opera (1925) remains standing nine decades after it was first built, making it the oldest standing interior film set in the world.


According to urban legend whenever workers have try to tear the building down there have been fatal accidents caused by the ghost of Lon Chaney Sr. who starred in the original Phantom of the Opera (1925). Some people have claimed to have seen man resembling Chaney wearing a cape who suddenly appears and then disappears.