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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5050070010565
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 187228
Theatrical Release Date: May 18, 1971
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This unusually beautiful horror classic features Vincent Price in the title role of Dr. Anton Phibes, a genius who specializes 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. With his assistant, the lovely, silent Vulnavia, Phibes begins cutting a gory swath through London's medical community, with the dogged Inspector Trout hot on his tail. Phibes contains many pleasures--exquisite art direction and a dark sense of humor among them--but the real treat is in watching an old pro like 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's 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Ancient history
I was a G.I. in the early '70s. In the enlistedmen's club on our forward airbase every Saturday PM, 100-200 drunken sailors and marines would gather and watch either Return or Abominable and cheer when someone got slaughtered or Phibes' well-endowed assistant appeared.
I don't know if I should watch it again. It's probably not as good in a contemporary setting.
Rating: - "Revenge is the Best Medicine..."
OK, I'm on a kick now. After reviewing The Gorgon, I just had to give some props to the immortal Vincent Price. This terrifying thriller was actually Vincent Price's 100th movie! A sad, chilling tale of a concert musician's wife who falls prey to a botched surgery, Phibes takes his revenge on the medical team responsible for her demise. He then unleashes a wave of atrocities in true fashion of the plagues of the Old Testament. From locusts, to rats, to a brilliant twisted climax that was unsurpassed ... Read More
Rating: - the abominable dr. phibes
One of Price's best, this casts him in the tailor made role of Dr. Anton Phibes, a horribly disfiqured musical genius and religious scholar who avenges the operating table death of his beutiful wife by murdering the doctors he holds responsible in grisly methods inspired by the old testement plagues. campy good fun, this sports a rich ambiance of 1920's art deco elegance and a cleverly inventive script perfectly suited to Price's arch, tongue - in - cheek screen image. Sequel: DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN
Rating: - A fun,charming film from the old Horror master,Vincent Price.
The plot seems like a chilling hodge-podge, from all the horror flicks,of the old Hollywood.Paying tribute to the Spook-Greats,like Lon Chaney and Karloff.It's a fun film to watch ,if you're a Vincent Price fanatic.His Corman-Edgar Allen Poe films are still gems for all Horror film buffs.This Dr.Phibes film is in the twilight of Vincent's career ,yet still as sweet, as a dry sherry , on any misty autumn evening.
Rating: - "There are some very strange people practicing medicine these days."
Billed as Vincent Price's 100th feature film, The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) is one of my more favored Price features, right up there with House of Wax (1953), The Fly (1958), and House on Haunted Hill (1959). Directed by Robert Fuest ("The Avengers", Dr. Phibes Rises Again), the film stars, as I've mentioned, Merchant of Menace himself Vincent Price. Also appearing is Virginia North (Deadlier Than the Male, On Her Majesty's Secret Service), Joseph Cotten (Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Soylent Green), ... Read More
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