Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
In 1972 Vincint Price gave us perhaps his most original and iconic Horror Villain: Dr. Anton Phibes. A well crafted revenge film where the villain offs the doctors and persons responsible for the death of his wife. Thought dead himself, Phibes survives but with hideous scars where his face is nearly skull like uses the nine Biblical plagues as inspiration murdering using bats, bees, killer frog masks as weapons.
My first memory of seeing Phibes would be in a book called A Pictorial History of Horror Movies where Phibes is kissing Vulnavia. The idea of this chick kissing the skull faced monsters instantly seared my brain, the image would haunt me.
It would be years later until I would finally see the film and instantly fall in love with it. A minor masterpiece of its time, the film was directed by Robert Fuest (Dr. Phibes Rises Again, Devil's Rain) and written by James Whiton and William Goldstein. The movies also stars Joseph Cotten (Lady Frankenstein, Baron Blood), Virginia North, Terry-Thomas (Vault of Horror), Sean Bury, Susan Travers and David Hutchenson.
So here it is ... The Abominable Dr. Phibes
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