I understand all of the other displays but why was the Phantom of the Opera in the displays. If you notice every display that the people went into it showed what i was about. EX-----Tony=Wearwolf, China=Dracula, The Cop= The Mummy, Sara and Jenny= Marquise de Sade and Mark= night of the living Dead. But the football player what made that display a scary display? Somebody please help.
shareWell. What wouldn't be scary about it? The Phantom of the Opera killed him, just the same as the werewolf killed Tony, the mummy killed the cop, etc.
shareWell. But how? In the book he is not a killer but a man obsessed with Christine.
shareHonestly, I'm not sure, I haven't read the book. There have been quite a few movies made from the book, maybe that's what they were basing the display off of. Or...It could have been the musical, I believe it started in 1984. (I could be wrong, though.) Since Waxworks came out in 1988, that seems possible.
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Actually, Wikipedia said that the musical started in 1986, in London. So I was wrong before.
8/1/2007
Perhaps the Phantom murdered Jonathan because he thought he was trying to take Christine away from him. It was never shown what actually happens, which I think works for this movie. Sometimes the scariest things are what you don't see and your imagination can cook up all sorts of alternate versions of what could have happened.
Besides, unlike Sarah and Gemma's encounter with the Marquis de Sade, China's encounter with the Count, etc., we don't really know what makes the Phantom so wicked that he has to be ranked with these guys, "the most evil souls" that had ever existed. But since he is among the other displays' characters in the Waxwork, it's fair to assume this obviously is a different kind of Phantom than what we've seen in the past.
"You're making me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." (Eric Bana as Bruce Banner - "Hulk")
In the original novel and in the silent classic, the Phantom of the Opera is believed to be a dangerous murderer, who knew how to use a particular noose/knot to kill people. There was a whole scene in the silent version where the hero and his friend go into the tunnels below and his friend warns him to keep his hand up in the air beside his head - in case the Phantom drops his noose down to strangle him - so that he'll have a fighting chance.
shareI know this is an old question, but I have an answer.
In the novel, Erik (The Phantom) had traveled to Persia and worked in the employ of the Shah. Besides building the Shah's palace (with a network of secret rooms and passages), he worked as a political assassin, using the Punjab lasso as a garrotte. Long story, but he escapes an order of execution issued by the Shah and ends up in Constantinople, doing pretty much the same thing for the sultan there. In the opera house, he has an elaborate torture chamber that involves mirrors, intense light and heat and 'mirages' that makes for a slow death. Joseph Bouquet ended up in the chamber and killed himself with the Punjab lasso to end his agony. The Persian and Raoul also spent some time in the chamber before being saved. Erik also chains up Raoul in a dungeon.