Brand new factory sealed dvd is Out Of Print and no longer being manufactured. Featuring a pop art cover, this appears to be letterboxed so newer widescreen owners might have to use your zoom mode. Hammer's most expensive production at the time was released as a stand-alone rather than on a double bill.

Except for the jarring performance of Michael Gough as the malicious theatre manager who steals Lom's opera and also causes his disfigurment, the movie is an intense love story, acted with great sensitivity by Herbert Lom and Heather Sears.

In spite of that, there are some traditional Hammer nods, a stabbing in the eye, a hanged man bursting through the stage curtain, and the phantom's underground lair. The obligatory shock elements are largely delegated to the phantom's misshapen servant (Ian Wilson), which puts the story's emphasis on the tragic love of the composer/phantom for the opera singer Christine.