THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

5Music of the night: All Christine (Emma Rossum) asks of Erik (Gerard Butler) is that he not break into random Spartan mode all of a sudden.

Through countless reincarnations over the generations (most notably the celebrated Broadway/West End musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber), French auteur Gaston Leroux's 1920 gothic novel has stood the test of time and seen its protagonist's stylish face mask reduce in size with each updation. By the time Joel Schumacher got to it in 2004, barely half was left. Maybe the disfigurement ain't that bad to begin with?