(The Abominable) Dr. Phibes: C or D?

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I was thinking this could have been a Kubrick film...the symmetrical composition of Phibes' grand room, the "Clockwork" big band and corny numbers, the baroque organ music, the grotesque frog mask, etc. Vulnavia the mute assistant = hottie.

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Total classic.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 March 2003 01:05 (twenty-three years ago)

aside from Vincent saying stuff like NINE...NINE KILLED YOU, dud.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 14 March 2003 01:07 (twenty-three years ago)

classic.

creepy as anything

― A.H. (A.H.), Saturday, 15 March 2003 08:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Do a Google image search. Incredible!
Classic. Have to see it again, it's been awhile.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Saturday, 15 March 2003 09:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh so classic.

I had a really big thing for Vincent Price movies when I was five.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 15 March 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I love Vincent Price. I think it's sad he didn't retire a bit sooner, but there are so many instances of his giving some quality to movies that would otherwise have been wretched. He had real class.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Saturday, 15 March 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Neither of the Phibes films are a patch on 'Theatre of Blood'.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Saturday, 15 March 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Now I'm getting reminded of Robert Morley again. Amazingly, my mother made a reference to that scene a couple of weeks ago, for reasons I forget (or blank out).

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Saturday, 15 March 2003 21:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"ooooh, my babies!!"

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 16 March 2003 01:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Vulnavia is played by a different actress in each of the Dr. Phibes films. AND strangely Price pronounces the name different in each film. In one it's vulNAHvia and the other it's vulNAYvia.

― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:06 (twenty-three years ago)

There's one scene in particular (from the first movie): she's cleaning up while the Clockworks band plays "One for My Baby and One for the Road." Casually, she walks over and sits on the ledge near the mechanical piano player, in that outfit with the Russian hat and gloves, and attentively lights her cigarette, not saying a word...just a simply marvelous touch.

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Price was a so-called Anglophile. I guess he was torn between US and UK pronunciations. :)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Sunday, 16 March 2003 02:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic all the way! Vincent Price is so cool and his female assistants are always supersexy. Gaudy, psychedelic, creepy, sophisticated, darkly humorous and nothing less than brilliant.

― chris sallis, Sunday, 16 March 2003 12:16 (twenty-three years ago)

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