Abominable Dr Phibes
Horror
MGM / UA  (1971) 184 mins NR

7.0 (3,424 votes)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes Vincent Price plays a diabolical doc seeking the ultimate in revenge with precision creepiness - and surgical wit! After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities - from a plague of locusts to an attack of rats - on his enemies that climax in what may be one of "the eeriest endings on screen record" (Syracuse Herald-Journal)! Dr. Phibes Rises Again! Vincent Price breathes life back into "one of his most perfect horror villains [in a sequel that's] even better than the original" (The Hollywood Reporter)! The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corpse of his dead wife...which he intends to resurrect by murdering people in strange and heinous ways to invoke a magical incantation!...

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Cast and Crew
Vincent Price  ......  Dr. Anton Phibes
Peter Cushing  ...... 
Virginia North  ......  Vulnavia
Joseph Cotten  ......  Dr. Vesalius
Hugh Griffith  ...... 
Terry-Thomas  ......  Dr. Longstreet
Director  .....  Robert Fuest
Producer  .....  Louis M. Heyward; Ronald S. Dunas; Ronald Dunas
Writer  .....  Robert Blees; Robert Fuest; James Whiton; William Goldstein
Notes
Goofs:
Factual errors: In the closing sequence, when Dr. Phibes has the surgeon's son chained to the operating table, he states several times that he will have 6 minutes before the acid falls. The sequence, which follows continuous and uninterrupted runs 5 1/2 minutes from the time Dr. Phibes starts the flow of the acid to the moment when it falls in Vulnavia's face. Was Dr. Phibes a cheat? (more)

Trivia:
Dr. Phibes' first words are spoken 32 minutes into the movie. (more)

Filming Locations:
Elstree Film and TV Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK (more)

Quotes:
Dr. Anton Phibes: Where can we find two better hemispheres, without sharp north, without declining west? My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, and true plain hearts do in thee faces rest. Within twenty-four hours, my work will be finished, and then, my precious jewel, I will join you in your setting. We shall be reunited forever in a secluded corner of the great elysian field of the beautiful beyond! (more)

Awards:
1 win (more)