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Description: Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy - Fantasy / Theatrical Release: 1971 / Director: Robert Fuest / Actors: Vincent Price, ... more
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (DVD) ... Joseph Cotten ... / DVD released 20 February, 2001 at MGM / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC / The Abominable Dr Phibes is an unusually beautiful horror classic in which Vincent Price stars as the titular genius who specialises in organ music, theology and concocting bizarre deaths for anyone who wrongs him. Discovering why is half the fun, so for now let's just say that Phibes is a little mad and very, very angry. Aided by his assistant, the lovely, silent Vulnavia, Phibes begins cutting a gory swathe through London's medical community, with the dogged Inspector Trout hot on his tail. The film contains many pleasures--exquisite art direction and a dark sense of humour among them--but the real treat is in watching an old pro such as Price at work. Whether he's playing his organ, staring down a victim or drinking through his neck, Price is at the top of his game. He mixes dark menace with wry comic touches, revealing both Phibes' maniacal obsession and offhanded confidence in his own genius. Settle in for an evening of elegant gore--and if an attractive, mute deliverywoman comes to the door, whatever you do, don't answer! --Ali Davis

Newest Review: ... anyone any real harm. But he works his way through the medical personnel gradually, saving the worst fate for th ... more

 ... e chief surgeon, Vesalius (Joseph Cotton). Unlike most similar Price vehicles (especially Theatre of Blood), most of the doctors are played by fairly obscure actors, although one is that guy from the Onedin Line. The exception is Dr Longstreet, played with typical gusto by the great Terry-Thomas. He's just getting a bit of vigorous enjoyment from some (extremely tame) porno movies when Phibes turns up and drains all his blood. Bit unfair on the o...more

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hogsflesh
Crowned Review The Abominable Dr. Phibes (DVD): The Amazing Vincent Price (1325 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 17.10.03 (Very useful, 110 readings)
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This is a fantastically stylish little horror film from 1971. It was one of the last handful of gothic horrors that Vincent Price made in the Seventies, and was the first that was as over the top and camp as he was. Presumably developed as a vehicle for his flamboyant persona, the film is far more than that, being one of the most charmingly eccentric of all horror films, combining broad comedy, incredible art deco styles and some deeply peculiar attempts at the macabre. Price plays Dr Anton Phibes, a brilliant organist who is officially dead, his car having crashed some years previously (the film is set some time in the 1920s). His wife died at about the same ...

mercy9
Premium Review The Price is Right, Vincent Price that is (738 words)
by mercy9 - written on 28.06.00 (Very useful, 21 readings)
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Note: this opinions reveals alot about the movie, so unless you've seen it, just read the first paragraph at your own risk and assume its excellent and give it a very useful rating :-) In a nutshell, Vincent Price plays the part of Dr. (Anton?) Phibes, a horribly disfigured surgeon, who survived an automobile crash that mortally injured his wife. She lived long enough to get to a hospital, and to survive 7 minutes of surgery, at the hands of a team of surgeons. Dr. Phibes holds the surgeons responsible for his wife's death, and kills them, one by one, throughout the movie. He does so by inflicting the plagues that Pharaoh endured for his treatment of ...

wampyrii
Premium Review The Abominable Dr. Phibes (DVD): Abominable Movie? Hell No! (274 words)
by wampyrii - written on 09.07.01 (Very useful, 55 readings)
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Clearly meant as a goofy homage to some of the sillier horror movies released in the 1930s, The Abominable Dr. Phibes is an extremely entertaining piece of cinema. Taken as a serious horror movie its probably going to bore the pants off you within the first half and hour as the whole thing seems kind of ridiculous but viewed as a camp wander through the annals of horror movie history then its great fun. Following a horrific car crash Dr. Phibes is left horribly disfigured and his wife dead, a team of surgeons having been unable to save her life. Dr. Phibes, now completely insane, blames the physicians for her demise and sets about wreaking his revenge on them ...

 
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