You can't beat the old classic horror movies.

The organ plays till midnight... Best Vincent Price movie.

But there's only one true Vulnavia! Virginia North! I think I stumbled across this movie late on TV one night, about 30 years ago. It became something of an obsession. All you say is true, thanks for a great review.

Saw this at the drive-in in 1971 and have loved it ever since.

@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I wish we had drive ins in the UK.

This is Vincent Price in his element. That's why he's my favorite.

@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse

11 ай бұрын

Could Phibes be the perfect Vincent Price vehicle? Maybe that and Lionheart in Theatre of Blood?

This is my favorite Vincent Price film. I was so delighted to see it here in my Notifications. It is a ghastly delight from start to finish. The visual style, the colors, the deaths, the score ... so much fun. I hope anyone who hasn't seen TADP yet will watch the movie before watching this review, because the revelation of Phibes' actual face is superb to witness when you have no knowledge of what he truly resembles. One of my favorite scenes, oddly enough because it is quiet and not frightful, is a short one where Inspector Trout visits the goldsmith (Aubrey Woods, who played the Candy Man from the Willy Wonka film). Woods is hilarious as the proper and condescending character, and I wish the scene had been longer. He treats Trout like a moron, and you get the feeling he is that way with everyone who comes his way. Great review, much appreciated. Your use of the word preposterous hit the nail right on the head; this movie is just that, and that's why I am so fond of it. There's nothing like it, though obviously it has since had its imitators and homages. Thanks.

@athenastewart9167

2 жыл бұрын

The Phibes movies and The Tingler-- Vincent Price at his most outre! My favorites, too! :-)

@eduardo_corrochio

2 жыл бұрын

@@athenastewart9167 You have sublime taste, my dear.

@athenastewart9167

2 жыл бұрын

@@eduardo_corrochio Thank you! Nicest thing I have heard in a long time! :-)

"A brass unicorn has been catapulted across a London street and impaled an eminent surgeon. Words fail me, gentlemen." That's everything you need to know. Also, the horrible strapline on the poster which was clearly cashing in on Love Story's popularity, and has absolutely bugger all to do with the film still adds to its campy charm. I compared it to Saw and Seven too in my own write up of it, but did I also spy an influence on Sam Raimi's Darkman too? I think I did!

@flushfries5633

2 жыл бұрын

Dr. Phibes, House of Wax, and Theater of Blood all are ancestors to Darkman I think. A good man who is thought to have died in a horrible accident comes back as a master of disguise and picks off each individual who wronged him.

Really love this film. Not as much as 'Theatre of Blood', but close.

This is my all time favorite Vincent Price movie! Thanks for giving it some love.

ha ha you had me at Vincent Price. Ticket? omg I would kill to see this in the theater - nine times! I'm so sorry that they didn't make a third movie. I think the only Vincent Price movie I like more than The Abominable Dr Phibes is Theater of Blood. Thanks for the review.

My Top 5 Horror from my D.O.B. 1971 includes this movie! Damn it man LOL I'm gonna go with Willard, Duel, Play Misty For Me, Black Belly of the Tarantula & the aforementioned Abominable Doctor! Cheers, mate!

It is awsome!!! The sequal is a bit weaker. My favourite Price film is THEATER OF BLOOD, which follows the same basic formula.

My aunt got me an original still from the movie for Christmas. Hahaha, love your impression! While not my fave Vin movie, definitely a great one! Nice to see VP still getting some love these days.

@AJ-tp9bk

3 жыл бұрын

He could never be forgotten! One of a kind!

Clássico absoluto Price interpretação magnifica nesse filme

Have always loved this movie and always will. He did very good revenge movies Theatre of blood being in my mind the best. Look and we can’t go past the Hayward’s pickles “ The first pickles to bite back” oh my miss spent youth ha ha

Great review. Vincent Price is my favourite filmstar of all time. This movie is an all-time favourite, that with it's sequel, and 'Theatre Of Blood', I watch at least once a year, and all three still tick all the boxes. I like how Phibes' spree has started before the movie starts - and it's noticeable, for such intricate and vicious deaths, there's very little blood. It's tremendously nasty, in a very inventive way - Dr Hargreave's ("I'm a head-shrinker.") muffled cries as his skull is crushed, slowly, by the frog mask are genuinely unnerving, and yet Dr Whitcombe's death - , impaled by a brass unicorn fired from across the street, is played for laughs as the police try to un- pin him from the door, and find the horn has a left-hand thread, and Whitcombe has to be unscrewed unceremoniously from the door. Price is obviously having a blast - rejecting sprouts for a later murder, for example - and it is obvious that nobody today could replace him, as you said. The great comic artist Jack Kirby actually started a Doctor Phibes comic strip, which looks, as you'd expect, astonishing. Yes, a great, fun movie. The sequel is great, too. I'd like to see both in the cinema, actually.

@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not as enamoured with the sequel, but Theatre of Blood is a real high and it's got mentioned enough times in the comments for this video that it only makes sense for me to take another look at it next, I think.

@brianartillery

4 жыл бұрын

@@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse - Nice!

@pauljackson2473

2 жыл бұрын

The thing about the sequel that’s unsettling is he kills innocent people for no reason. In this movie he’s getting revenge.

@brianartillery

2 жыл бұрын

@@pauljackson2473 - In the sequel, the people he kills are simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and in his way - he's working to a strict time scale here, and cannot be late. If Phibes hadn't killed these people, there's a good chance that Beiderbecke would have.

Great review! I love this film and the sequel.

One of my favorites! I remember renting the VHS tape many years ago and I instantly fell in love with its wonderful weirdness. Great review, Andrew!

@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse

4 жыл бұрын

I paused the VHS when he showed his true face and put a piece of tracing paper up against the TV screen so I could get a drawing of what he looked like. Many things in that last sentence make me sound ancient!

@ReginasHauntedLibrary

4 жыл бұрын

@@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse I love that! The fashion alone in Phibes is to die for.

@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse

4 жыл бұрын

Vulnavia's outfits are to die for!

@ReginasHauntedLibrary

4 жыл бұрын

@@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse Agree!

@brianartillery

4 жыл бұрын

I was fascinated to see this movie after I saw a picture of Phibes' 'skull head' in a copy of Denis Gifford's 'Monsters Of The Movies' - a paperback bought from the school book club in 1977 - I still have it. It cost me 45p. Amazon have a copy for £129.

great review!!! i love this movie!!!!

Vulnavia was the greatest horror assistant of all time. Totally dedicated and stylishly professional.

@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Vulnavia deserves more recognition!

@independentpuppy7520

Ай бұрын

Yes, she was loyal to Phibes.

It's a shame that the proposed 3rd Dr Phibes film never came to pass.

@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

Beautifully articulated review! I think this was the first Vincent Price movie I saw as a kid and is still my favourite

@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man :)

I remember first watching this film when I was at high school. What a film it made me want to see more of Price The bloke made some great movies a great review Andrew Looking forward to seeing your review on the sequel nice one mate

Vincent Price was superb in this ! Thank you for the informative and entertaining review. Very well done indeed.

@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and thank you very much for your kind words :)

Such a strange, and lovely movie. There really is nothing like it. And totally agree with you that Price isn't camp, he's only camp when the performance calls for it. He's got many great roles that aren't camp. If you haven't done Theater of Blood yet, I'd love to hear your thoughts on that, and he totally camps it up hard in that one! Which also has a Avengers link just like this one!

@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse

4 жыл бұрын

I haven't done Theatre of Blood yet...it might fit in nicely after the 2 Phibes movies. It always feels like an unofficial Phibes film to me...and you've reminded me of the first time I watched Theatre of Blood and got into a mix up with Blue Velvet. I may have to tell that story.

@FrightfullyForgotten

4 жыл бұрын

@@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse Do it! Looking forward to it if you do!

Great review of a fantastic film. I've always loved this film, is so cooky and such a joy to watch. 👍 😎

Wonder if remake with WILLEM DEFOE will happen?

Awesome review dude.A really cool in depth of the film without giving to mujch away. Look forward to the next part.

My fave price movie

@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse

Жыл бұрын

I've never given my favourite Vincent Price movie much thought, but this one would certainly be in with a very strong shout.

I wanted to like this film more than I actually did.

@AJ-tp9bk

3 жыл бұрын

Not for everyone.

Yeah it’s amazing though.

You need to look up the novelization of the two movies by William Goldstein, and the other books in the series. The character is simply brilliant and one of my favorite movie characters ever.

@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip, I would love to get my hands on some Phibes books!

@tiralana8360

9 ай бұрын

@@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse Amazon carries them all.

Andrew, your partner needs to watch the opening to Takashi Miike's Dead Or Alive 🤣 The full version mind you (not the truncated version which has been uploaded to KZread).

i feel this is the high water mark of early 70's horror and one of price's best i would also check out pit and the pendulum and masque of the red death from the corman /poe series

@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse

Жыл бұрын

I love the Corman/Price Poe films. I have definitely covered them for the channel in the past.

oh by the way i would recomend listening to vincent price on a old radio show called one skeleton key its really cool its about a man in a lighthouse who is affacked by rats lol

@brucegame1458

Жыл бұрын

or three skeleton key ?

@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse

Жыл бұрын

Occasionally BBC Radio 4 his radio serial The Price of Fear, which I enjoy greatly.

@AndrewNutley-lf9uy

Ай бұрын

I read somewhere once that one of his favourite roles was as Egghead in the aforementioned Adam West Batman series