Joel Schumacher directs this lavish, Oscar-nominated screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical, itself based on the classic horror novel by Gaston Leroux.
Emmy Rossum plays Christine Daae, a promising soprano who takes singing lessons from the mysterious Phantom of the Opera (Gerard Butler). Employing a regime of fear, he forces the opera's diva to depart, leaving his protégé to take centre stage, but she falls for the opera's new patron, Viscount Raoul de Chagny (Patrick Wilson), her childhood sweetheart. Enraged, the Phantom, passionately in love with Christine, kidnaps her and takes her to his subterranean lair, while unleashing death and terror on the opera house's audience and workers.
Can Raoul rescue Christine from his clutches before he has his evil way with her?