Christine Day (Jill Schoelen) is looking for the perfect piece of music for her audition and finds an obscure, unfinished opera deep in the archives of a library. It is the lost work of Erik Destler (Robert Englund), a composer and serial killer from Victorian England who had grown obsessed with the career of a young soprano (also Jill Schoelen) and would stop at nothing to see her star rise. Horribly disfigured from a deal with the devil, Destler hunts fresh victims for their skin, the only way he can appear semi-normal to Christine in order to woo her.
This was weirdly soothing to watch, especially after the crapfest that was yesterday's movie. It does kind of feel like a Nightmare on Elm Street prequel but that's probably just because it's Robert Englund in a whole bunch of facial prosthetics. Bill Nighy also appears as one of the theater owners, so that's fun. I very much enjoyed this. It is a little hard to track down but it's worth it if you're into classic horror.
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