Finally, they’re screening the GOOD version! Just kidding, just kidding: Don’t want the real cinephiles and Universal-Monster heads to come for me in the Feedback letters. (Just kidding, again, let’s duel at dawn.) Back in the Aughts, Andrew Lloyd Webber hand-picked the man to make his gothic stage adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s serial horror into a film, and boy, did he choose well. Webber and Warner Bros. snagged camp legend Joel Schumacher for their musical drama after his song choice in The Lost Boys showed promise. His flair for lavish practical sets, over-the-top camera work, and handsome-if-underperforming male leads is on full display in this picture, with Gerard Butler struggling through his solos proving no deterrent for 13-year-old me finding him a magnetic presence. Drafthouse offers both movie party and regular-degular screening options. – James Scott
Feb. 25-26
