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weirdlookindog · 2 months

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The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) - OST by Basil Kirchin

#the abominable dr. phibes #ost #soundtrack #basil kirchin #vincent price #virginia north #1970s horror #lp cover #dr. phibes

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 10 days

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Vincent Price as The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) dir. Robert Fuest

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scottheim · 1 year

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Vincent Price Christmas tree

#vincent price #dr. phibes #christmas horror #christmas tree #tannenbaum #sears catalog

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stearixx · 3 months

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Nine killed you - nine shall die!

Also - plagues only version.

Please watch this fucking movie.

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machetelanding · 1 year

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#dr. phibes rises again #horror #movies #1972 #1970s #vincent price #robert quarry #peter cushing #beryl reid #terry thomas #dr. phibes #movie posters

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twistedtummies2 · 1 year

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The Price May Be Right - Number 13

Welcome to “The Price May Be Right!” I’m counting down My Top 31 Favorite Vincent Price Performances & Appearances! The countdown will cover movies, TV productions, and many more forms of media. Today we focus on Number 13: Dr. Phibes.

So, here’s a random fun fact for you Batman fans out there: apparently, this character was the inspiration for the version of Mr. Freeze that appeared in the seminal animated story, “Heart of Ice.” And, of course, that version of Mr. Freeze would become the inspiration for the character in nearly every other interpretation – both in and out of comics – to date. So, yeah, if you’re a Mr. Freeze fan, you can thank Egghead for it. :P ANYWAY…while Vincent did many, MANY horror movies – both serious and comedic alike – the one thing he never got was the chance to play a horror icon, so to speak. Which is to say, when you look at other great classic horror actors over the years, whatever else they do there’s always one specific character for whom they’ll always be remembered. For Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi, it was Count Dracula; for Boris Karloff, it was Frankenstein’s Monster; even with more modern actors, like Roger L. Jackson and Robert Englund, they have specific horror roles (The Voice of Ghostface and Freddy Krueger, respectively) for which they will always be most chiefly recognized. Vincent never had that; he never got that recognition of having a specific, classic monster he could be identified with. The closest we ever got was that he was so well-known for his work with the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, but that’s a bit of a different issue. However, in the 1970s, Price DID get a chance to ATTEMPT such a feat, in two films that were part gruesome, gory nightmare fuel and part witty, satirical humor-fests: these were the Dr. Phibes films. The titular character was a deranged musical genius, who wore a mask to hide his hideous skull-like deformities – all elements taken from the timeless tale of “The Phantom of the Opera.” However, the story of the good doctor is rather different: Phibes’ descent into evil began when his beloved wife, Victoria, was stricken with some unholy medical condition. In order to save her life, a risky surgical operation was needed, which was so tricky it required the aid of no less than nine people to even hope for a success. Unfortunately, something went wrong with the operation; as soon as he got the news, Phibes hurried in the direction of the hospital…but was ironically caught in a terrible car crash, and apparently burned to death in the wreck. Husband and wife were then interred together. The rumors of Dr. Phibes’ death, however, were greatly exaggerated. Phibes miraculously survived the crash, and later rose from the grave hideously disfigured by the accident. He brought his wife with him, and kept her body imprisoned in a sarcophagus filled with honey and special fluids, so that her beauty would forever remain intact. In the first film, “The Abominable Dr. Phibes,” the mad maestro goes on a killing spree, attempting to get revenge on the nine people he blames for the death of his wife and the ruination of his existence. In the second film, “Dr. Phibes Rises Again,” the musical maniac returns, now seeking to resurrect his beloved bride. The Phibes films were a bizarre sort of pair. In a way, I sort of see these as the precursor to both the Scream films and the SAW movies. Like the former films, the movies combine elements of parodical dark comedy with real chills and gory, brutal death scenes. Phibes, himself, is treated as a serious and tragic character, and the fear factor is upped by his appearance. The mask he wears to hide his deformities is basically just Vincent’s face with some uncanny valley makeup added to enhance the effect, giving Price a particularly ghoulish appearance. This combined with the special voice box Phibes uses to speak after his accident – which causes Price to speak in a robotic, mechanical, droning sort of way that is both odd and genuinely unsettling – makes the character truly chilling. At the same time, however, he’s a sympathetic villain, as everything he does is in the name of his precious Victoria, and while one recognizes he is the bad guy of the story, it’s hard not to feel sorry for him and understand his motivations. The methods through which he offs his victims are pretty messed up even by today’s standards, too. In all, I would say most of the scares from the film come from Phibes himself. The humor generally is the result of the other characters around him, as well as some the intentionally contrived elements of the plot that are meant to satirize various horror movie tropes. I’m a little surprised there weren’t more films in the Phibes franchise; if there had been, maybe Vincent could have had that one iconic horror character to be recognized by…but, on the other hand, one of the things that made Vincent so fascinating was that he wasn’t someone who could fit into a singular mold, so to speak, and instead had MANY roles for which any given person could recognize him for most keenly. Dr. Phibes was ultimately just one of those parts, but it’s a part well worth remembering. Tomorrow, the countdown continues with Number 12!

#list #countdown #best #favorites #top 31 vincent price performances #the price may be right #vincent price #actors #acting #horror #comedy #dark comedy #dr. phibes #the abominable dr. phibes #dr. phibes rises again #number 13 #movies #film

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rastronomicals · 2 months

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11:46 PM EST February 18, 2024:

Angel Witch - "Dr. Phibes" From the album Angel Witch (December 1980)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: NWOBHM

#Angel Witch #Dr. Phibes

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frankendavis · 2 years

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This is a photomontage I made a few years back, an emulation of a well known piece of Pop Art by Sir Peter Blake, Jann Haworth, (et al), which I made for a book published by We Belong Dead magazine (Eric McNaughton, ed.) titled "Into the Velvet Darkness: A Celebration of Vincent Price".

#vincent price #jann haworth #dr. phibes #oscar wilde #richard iii #the invisible man returns #the house of the seven gables #tales of terror #masque of the red death #tower of london

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scififorbiddenzone · 1 year

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The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

#the abominable dr. phibes #dr. phibes #vincent price #gothic #horror #movie #cult #70s

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faustiandevil · 2 years

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Making fanart for a horror movie maybe a handful of people know about. I really am my own audience.

Mostly to commemorate the glorious moment when @keycchan and I watched both movies back to back and screamed at the gay tent scene. The dialogue was adjusted to how we lived through that glorious moment.

Used screenshots from the movie as reference for both drawings, but as the scene with Phibes and Vulnavia was basically black, I took the colors from a promo photo and adjusted it after.

Second time uploading, because the tags didn’t work...

#The Abominable Dr. Phibes #Dr. Phibes Rises Again #Dr. Phibes #Vulnavia #Inspector Trout #Superintendent Waverly #Vincent Price #Valli Kemp #Peter Jeffrey #John Cater #Faustian Fables #Faustian Imagery

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weirdlookindog · 8 months

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