"And he stood there staring and staring at me. It felt as if he was trying to burn a hole in my brain."
- When the body of a hanged stagehand unexpectedly swings out onto the stage during the opera's opening night. The real terror isn't the corpse, it's the screams that erupt from the performers and audience.
- The Phantom in this version looks incredibly intimidating, and that's with the mask on. He wears what appears to be a handmade papier-mâché mask that covers his entire face except for his one good eye. There isn't even a hole for his mouth, so when he speaks his voice is muffled. His skin is also a sickly grey all over, and he's got pale, stringy hair. His clothes are also raggedy and aged.
- There are several times when the camera zooms in on Box Five, a small area of curtain rolls up, and we suddenly see a closeup of the Phantom's single eye as he watches a performance onstage. It's very eerie, especially on the first time seeing it.
- The dwarf jumps out and murders the rat catcher by stabbing him in the eye, for no apparent reason.
- The moment when Christine opens up the curtains of the window in her room to see the creepy dwarf staring back at her.
- The acid-scarred face of the Phantom when it is finally revealed after he removes his mask at the end of the film. Large portions of his skin have peeled off, leaving patches of red, raw flesh. And as could be gathered by the fact that there was only a single eye hole in his mask, one of his eyes is gone.
- The Phantom's expression of horror when he sees the falling chandelier coming towards him, and then his dead body after he is crushed by it.
