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Halloween DCOM Review: Phantom of the Megaplex

 Spoliers ahead . I chose to start with Phantom of the Megaplex, as it's the DCOM I remember the least. I can't tell you the last time I saw this movie, or even the last time it was aired on Disney Channel. I don't think I've even seen the movie all the way through. I do remember the masked phantom being scary.  Phantom of the Megaplex premiered in 2000. And yes, it is based on Phantom of the Opera. The movie is set in a town whose original movie theater opened in 1925, where the first movie they first played was Phantom of the Opera. Fast forward a few decades and the old cinema was knocked down and replaced by a megaplex with 26 theaters. A rumor started up that a man was trapped in the old theater as it was knocked down and his soul now haunts the megaplex. The assistant manager of the megaplex, Pete, treats the Phantom rumor as a joke until things start to go very wrong on the night of a midnight premier.  My first qualm with the movie was that half a dozen characte