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The Abominable Dr. Phibes
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy flamboyant murder set pieces, grotesque humor, stylized production design, and theatrical villains over realistic horror.
- Tone
- campy, darkly comic, eerie
- Payoff
- amusement, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- revenge, grief, justice, religious symbolism, theatricality
- Setting
- early twentieth-century, art deco interiors and shadowy London streets