The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

Robert Fuest

Escritores:

James Whiton (writer) &
William Goldstein (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

18 mayo 1971 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Horror | Misterio

Frase comercial:

Revenge Is The Best Medicine.

Plot:

A doctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar, Dr. Anton Phibes, seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for his wife's death.

Plot Keywords:

Doctor | Biblical Plagues | Frog | Organ Player | Revenge

Premios:

1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

One of the greatest horror movies ever

Reparto

Vincent Price	...	Dr. Anton Phibes
Joseph Cotten	...	Dr. Vesalius
Virginia North	...	Vulnavia
Terry-Thomas	...	Dr. Longstreet
Sean Bury	...	Lem Vesalius
Susan Travers	...	Nurse Allen
David Hutcheson	...	Dr. Hedgepath
Edward Burnham	...	Dr. Dunwoody
Alex Scott	...	Dr. Hargreaves
Peter Gilmore	...	Dr. Kitaj
Maurice Kaufmann	...	Dr. Whitcombe
Peter Jeffrey	...	Inspector Trout
Derek Godfrey	...	Crow
Norman Jones	...	Sgt. Schenley
John Cater	...	Waverley

También conocida como:

Dr. Phibes (USA) (promotional title)
The Curse of Dr. Phibes
El abominable Dr. Phibes (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some horror violence/gore.

Duración:

94 min

País:

UK | USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

UK:X (original rating) | Australia:M (DVD rating) | Finland:K-18 | Norway:16 (1972) | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:GP (original rating) | USA:PG-13 (re-release) | West Germany:16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Elstree Film and TV Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Compañía:

American International Pictures (AIP)

Trivialidades:

Vincent Price commented that Joseph Cotten was very uncomfortable doing his scenes, so he intentionally made a lot of funny faces to make him laugh.

Errores:

Continuidad: After her initial ballroom dance with Phibes, whereupon he proceeds to lower the cage of bats into the cellar, Vulnavia proceeds up the stairs, only to be seen seconds later downstairs and having undergone a complete wardrobe change as she receives the cage still being lowered.

Citas:

Goldsmith: Good day, Inspector Pike.
Inspector Trout: Trout, sir.
Goldsmith: Ah, yes, of course.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Fog (1980)

Banda de Sonido:

One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)

One of the greatest horror movies ever

Sheer terror doesn't get much more frightening than this. Scare-master Vincent Price plays a doctor who loses his voice in a car accident, but can still speak by way of an electronic device. He vows revenge on the nine doctors that were responsible for an unsuccessful surgery attempt on his wife, Victoria. He, along with his fiendish but sexy assistant Vulnavia (Virginia North), murder them one by one in such grotesque ways as draining one guy of all his blood, attacking a nurse with a swarm of locusts, and giving an attendee of a costume party a frog mask that becomes so tight around his neck that it snaps his head off. The sheer audacity of these grisly murders, along with Price's meticulous and methodical planning, make for a one-of a-kind scary experience.