The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Dr. Phibes' wife has dead on an operation by him and 9 associates of his. He thinks that these 9 doctors has responsibilities for his wife's death. Being a doctor, scientist, organist, he decides to kill them in a weird way, using bats, bees, killer frog masks, etc..
29 June 1927, Gorleston, Norfolk, England, UK
22 October 1927, Edmonton, London, England, UK
17 June 1918, Sydney, Australia
6 August 1900, Dublin, Ireland
9 September 1917, Simla, India
18 February 1939, Chelsea, London, England, UK
18 September 1929, Australia
1938
15 April 1904, Scarborough, England, UK
October 19, 2016
A sardonic wink, back at The Phantom of the Opera and ahead toward Phantom of the Paradise, with The Avengers as structure and plenty of Franju in the mix.
October 19, 2016
A former art director, Fuest gives the film a preposterously lush, Ken Russell-ish look. Highly enjoyable.
October 22, 2013
Fuest plays up the 1930s-by-way-of-the-1970s set design, but any atmosphere gets lost in scene after scene that's lighted like a TV show.
June 24, 2006
Often amusing, occasionally sickening, always impressive for the imaginative Art Deco sets, it's pretty flatly directed.
April 08, 2012
Arguably the single greatest AIP release made without Roger Corman on hand as either producer or director... One of Price's signature roles.
November 14, 2014
High-camp horror with its tongue firmly in its gruesomely deformed cheek, this British oddity features Vincent Price in one of his most memorable roles.
March 09, 2009
"The perfect combination of horror and humor."
October 19, 2016
No film can be all bad which opens in a vast Art Deco chamber... with Vincent Price, masked, cloaked and hooded, rising out of the floor at the keyboard of a Wurlitzer organ playing Cole Porter melodies.
October 31, 2013
There's camp to spare -- check out the doc's house band -- but there's also plenty of innovation on display, to say nothing of ample amounts of effective humor.
March 26, 2009
Anachronistic period horror musical camp fantasy is a fair description, loaded with comedic gore of the type that packs theatres and drives child psychologists up the walls.
