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FAVORITE MONSTERS OF FILMLAND

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Lelia Loban		#101	[-]
Posts: 5872 Aug 6 09 9:07 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yes, I've got the DVD of the 1937 Chinese version. It's well worth watching. I've also got Ronny Yu's excellent version from 1995, THE PHANTOM LOVER, but I'm looking for the others, especially the one from 1962. There've been at least six or seven Chinese versions: SONG AT MIDNIGHT, PART I / YE BAN GE SHENG (Chinese, 1937) aka SONG AT MIDNIGHT; YEBAN GESHANG; MIDNIGHT CHARM. Featuring Gu Menghe and Hu Ping, directed by Wei-bang Ma Xu. I have it. SONG OF MIDNIGHT, PART 2 / YE BAN GE SHENG - XU JI (Chinese, 1941), AKA SONG AT MIDNIGHT, PART 2, sequel to the above, dir. Wei-bang Ma Xu. THE MID-NIGHTMARE, PART ONE / YE BAN GE SHENG - SHANG JI (Chinese, 1962), aka MID-NIGHTMARE (Hong Kong: English title) AND THE MID-NIGHTMATE, PART ONE (literal English title). Remake of the 1937 Chinese film, directed by Qiu Xia Yuan, starring Zhao Lei and Betty Loh Tih. THE MID-NIGHTMARE, PART TWO / YE BAN GE SHENG... (Chinese, 1963) [The information that there's a 1963 Part 2 comes from questionable sources and may be wrong.] YE BAN GE SHENG / MIDNIGHT SONG (Shanghai, 1985), directed by Yang Yanjing and written by Xu Yinghua and Shen Ji, starring Ju Naishe, Wang Weiping and Wei Guochun. YE BAN GE SHENG / THE PHANTOM LOVER (Chinese, 1995) Mandarin Films, dir. Ronny Yu. I have it. YE BAN GE SHENG (2005) - TV mini-series? Hong Kong? If anybody knows where I can get copies of the ones I haven't got, please let me know. These are all legit adaptations of Leroux and there may be others as well. The popularity of this theme in China makes me think there've gotta be Japanese versions out there, too. I thought I might have a line on one from the Philippines, but no -- that was an artifact of misleading information on the IMDb and mistakes in Phantom fans' blogs -- DANCE MACABRE (1991) is not Filipino and not a Phantom of the Opera movie, either. http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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HarryLong		#102	[-]
Posts: 25161 Aug 8 09 11:47 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	DANCE MACABRE was filmed in Russia, but given Harry Alan Towers' involvement, there may have been Phillipine money involved. The Mysterious Mr. Long
Lelia Loban		#103	[-]
Posts: 5872 Aug 9 09 8:20 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	>>DANCE MACABRE was filmed in Russia, but given Harry Alan Towers' involvement, there may have been Phillipine money involved. >> I don't have evidence one way or another about financing. I didn't see any Filipino names or companies listed in the credits, but then I didn't do any further research, after I watched the movie and realized it's not about a Phantom of the Opera, except to the extent that a few tenuous parallels with the Phantom may have been inspired in part by Leroux and in part by Golan's earlier, shelved plan to star Robert Englund in a sequel to their 1989 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA that Dwight Little directed. The IMDb lists alternate titles for DANCE MACABRE. According to the IMDb, DANCE MACABRE is known by the English-language title of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA in the Philippines and in the USA, the movie supposedly goes by the alternate title of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA II. If DANCE MACABRE did get released in the Philippines or anywhere else as PHANTOM OF THE OPERA or as PHANTOM OF THE OPERA II, it was misleading promotion. I think it's more likely (although I'm surmising; I can't prove it) that the IMDb's original pre-production information for the abandoned Phantom sequel project, which was to have been filmed around the same time that DANCE MACABRE really did get filmed and which also may have been titled DANCE MACABRE, got confused and mixed with the information for DANCE MACABRE. The IMDb thinks this entry is for one movie when it's really for two. The IMDb needs to delete the artifacts of the abandoned sequel. http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban

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