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Summary: The Abominable Dr. Phibes- - -The best horror movie ever....
Review: Here is the prime example of why the late Vincent Price was and allways will be the best horror star who ever lived. Price plays Dr. Anton Phibes a musician who seeks revenge on the doctors whom he feels are responsible for the death of his wife Victoria. Phibes uses the curses brought upon Egypt, in the Old Testement. Although movies have probably surpased The Abominable Dr. Phibes in the last 30 years, some movies copied Dr. Phibes (like Seven). But for a movie that is near 30 years old the suspence still holds up to todays standards, and the acting is great. Also can't wait for the sequel Dr. Phibes Rises Again to be re-released.
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Summary: Classic Vincent Price, quirky & interesting. Good music.
Review: Vincent Price is at his best. Supporting cast is fair. The set and costumes at Dr. Fibes recluse is very well done, creating a dramatic affect. The sound track is an exceptional collection of older scores. I am still trying to find the sound track on CD or tape.
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Summary: True classic horror!
Review: Loved this film! It sends your imagination on a grisley, dark tour. Dr. Phibes was very well directed and easily compares to todays horror titles. Vincent Price shows us how we would seek our own revenge by violin!
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Summary: Interesting.
Review: I love Vincent Price, and he was pretty good in this. The murders were visually stunning and Vulnavia played her part well. If horror is your thing, see this,
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Summary: DON'T BOTHER WITH THIS DVD
Review: MGM Midnite Movies, not to put too fine a point on it, stink! I bought this DVD at Best Buy and it didn't play. I returned it and got another one - and it didn't play. I tried a third time - and it didn't play. They actually had to give me my money back. So, then I see it at Amazon.Com. I bought it. It didn't play. I exchanged it, it didn't play. I finally had to send it back to get a refund. Is anyone awake at the quality control at MGM?I have not problems with the movie - I think they are great (incidentally, the Dr. Phibes Rises Again has the same problem), it's the DVD's that are bad. I thought it might be my DVD player - nope - nothing wrong with it. None of them played on any DVD player (we even tried ones at Best Buy).
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Summary: Saw it again today on cable!
Review: This was a favorite when I was ten years old and it came on TV for the first time in 1973. The look on Price's face when he is pushing the gold spray-painted wheelbarrow of brussel sprouts will never be duplicated...well maybe Johnny Depp could manage it someday. Five Stars!
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Summary: Surprisingly well-made horror nonsense
Review: This is an oddly captivating farrago of horror and comedy, with Vincent Price camping it up as the eponymous doctor, determined to wreak revenge on the surgeons under whom his wife died.
It's all rather gruesome and unpleasant, and yet at the same time, the film's dark, wicked sense of humour will surely raise a few laughs. Director Fuest milks the central character for all the pathos he can get, which only adds to the film's ironic undercurrent.
For its genre, The Abominable Dr Phibes is surprisingly well-made, with high production values, including splendid art-deco scenery by designer Brian Eatwell and a fitting score by jazz musician Basil Kirchin.
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Summary: The Man behind The Mask
Review: A tortured dark soul grieves his lost love who perished at the hands of nine physicians who could not save his beloved wife, so he becomes determined to avenge her death in this perceived wrong-doing. "Dr. Anton Phibes", a genius in theology and an expert organ player, formulates just punishments to deal with incompetence, using the Old Testament's theme of the plagues, and engineers their consecutive deaths in kind, inclusive of employing talismans bearing hebraic symbols representing each plague. In quite a ritualistic manner, using a torch, he melts the faces of their various waxen effigies to seal the deed done. With the precision of a veritable master Ninja, and with the aid of the silently succulent Vulnavia, a graceful creature who provides the charmingly seductive misdirection of a Satanic Witch to render victims agog, Phibes moves in for the kill. A wonderfully complimentary relationship. Also of remarkable note, she plays the violin as the doomed meet their demise; and at one point, Phibes applaudes the spectacle of a plane swirling down towards destruction after the pilot is attacked by a legion of rats in the cockpit. Personally, I found the rats, as well as the bats in an earlier scene, to be absolutely adorable, actually.
Phibes is a man haunted by his past, which he lives as the present, presiding in his total ball-room environment with automatons to create a wonderfully eerie atmosphere reminiscient of Dr. LaVey's Den of Iniquity. His throne is seated before a beautifully ornate crimson-phosphorescent organ, which he plays with diabolical fluorish into the night, channeling his pain through his music. He vows to avenge her death as well as join her by her side when the task is completed, and so it comes to pass in a glorious ending scene wherein he traverses the living realm, and is reunited with his beautiful wife in eternal darkness. For Phibes, a romantic in his black heart, this last noble gesture was indeed worth the world, who remained the god of his existence, and lived completely on his own terms. He himself fulfills the final element, whose death became just as mysterious as his life.
This is an aesthetically-beautious film, repleat with Satanic architecture as well as ideology. Those who know will recognize these subtle, and sometimes rather blatant displays {also note that this film is directed by Robert Fuest, who also directed The Devil's Rain}. Obviously, to those familiar with the life of our Founder, there are several parallels between the Dr. Anton Phibes character and that of Dr. Anton LaVey - they even share the same first name, and certain propensities. It is no wonder this film is recomended on The Church of Satan Video List. Take a perusal - these films are becoming incrementally more available.
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Summary: Come, Vulnavia! We have work to do.
Review: Wow is all I have to say. Well not really but its a start, I loved this film. And belive it or not the sequal is just as good if not better. This film is really creepy and falls into the Grand Guignol (geen-yol) catagory of horror films. While gore is kept to a minimium it is shown. A film called Theatre of blood was made after this also starring Price and it had the same revenge principal.
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Summary: Price is Princeless
Review: For Vincent Price's whole career, he was accused of hamming it up in his performances. So when handed a lemon...Price made "lemonade" with this film, going to the wall in high camp that is a gruesome delight. The tag-line for the film was "revenge is the best medicine", and that could apply to Price's outlook as well as to the plot of the film.
Scotland Yard is tossed a riddler when a rash of murders keeps happening. Obviously, they have a serial killer on their hands, but one with specific victims targeted rather than randomly selected. The audience is treated to an inside look into the killer's bizarre world, and learns the motive for the crimes. Dr. Phibes and his gorgeous wife were in a car accident. It left him speechless and only able to used an external voice box to speak to his helper. However, it's his wife's death Phibes is out to avenge. He blames the surgical team for his loss, and is very devilishly setting about to eliminate then staff one at a time, using the plagues of ancient Egypt to stage each murder. The demented doctor Phibes saves the chief surgeon, Joseph Cotton, for last, using the plague of the first-born son, making Cotton operate on his own son in a race to save him from descending acid.
It's high camp done in high style. So crank up the clockwork band and have a delightful time with Price at his most "Priceless". Followed a year later by the
sequel Dr. Phibes Rides Again.
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