The Abominable Doctor Phibes (DVD)

...heavily reminiscent in places of The Avengers. Really, it is just a collection of impressive set-pieces, as embittered Doctor Anton Phibes seeks revenge on the medical staff who failed to save the life of his beloved wife. Setting out to kill the nine doctors who assisted in the operation, he follows the path of the nine biblical plagues, and so one by one the doctors succumb to rats, locusts, hail etc. The police are baffled, as always, and even ...
...his wife's death. While the plot is a simple linear affair on which writers James Whiton and William Goldstein hang outrageous death upon outrageous death, the script is a delight, from which the cast have a ball. The cast is an impressive one, and really it is difficult to imagine anyone other than Vincent Price in the role of Phibes. Robbed of his voice, as Phibes was so badly injured in the car crash, also having all of his facial features burnt ...

dadmancat 30.03.2003 · Read full review
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...of blood" and "masque of the red death". price stars as a concert organist who is rushing home from a performance to see his wife when she dies on the operating table. supposedly dying himself as well in accident, dr. phibes (who has a doctorate in theology) is really still alive, although a mangled mess, and uses the ten plagues of egypt to kill off the doctors that allowed his wife to die. terry-thomas and hugh griffith are delightful in cameos, ...
...can i begin when dicussing the merits of this film? firstly, price manages to be menacing yet a sympathetic character all at the same time as phibes through the use of carefully-placed monologues, even though he BARELY SAYS A WORD throughout the film (only when hooked up to his grammaphone and delivering the above-mentioned soliloquys). the deaths are creative and amusing (my personal favorite is the nurse being eaten by the locusts...whoa), all ...

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Every now and then in the early 70`s someone would employ Vincent Price and place him in picture that fitted him like a pair of comfortable slippers this along with Theatre Of Blood and to a less extent Dr Phibes Rises Again is such a film Price plays Dr Phibes a concert musician turned mad with grief due to a group of surgeons messing up at his beloved wifes surgery leaving her for dead Phibes turns to the good book for ideas and begins to despatch ...
...The support class includes Joesph Cotton, Hugh Griffith and Terry-Thomas and all enter into the spirit of the movie well One critism I would have of the DVD is that extra wise this is a non starter with only a theatrical trailer on show apart from the scene selection and language options. My advise to you if you are a fan of this movie is maybe wait and see if a special edition pops up at some point. But if you are viewing for the first time this ...

Clemenza30 17.06.2005 · Read full review
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