The Abominable Dr. Phibes

"Love means never having to say you're ugly."

May 18 1971 PG-13 1h 34m
Comedy, Horror

After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.

Plot

Doctors are being murdered in bizarre manners - bats, bees, a killer frog mask, etc. - which represent the nine Biblical plagues of Egypt. The crimes are orchestrated by an organ-playing, demented madman (from his home base, replete with a clockwork orchestra and help from a beautiful, mute assistant). Detectives are stumped until they find that all the slain doctors once assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involving the wife of organist Dr. Phibes, killed in a car crash upon learning of his wife's death. He couldn't be the culprit, could he?

Written by

James Whiton, William Goldstein

Directed by

Robert Fuest

Production Countries

United Kingdom

Production Companies

American International Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

1 win & 2 nominations total

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Average Rating
7 out of 10
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