

Flesh crawls! Blood curdles! Phibes lives!
The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corpse of his dead wife, which he intends to resurrect by murdering people in strange and heinous ways.
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Unpretentious, resolved, classical in form and plot-driven.
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
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Cast
- Vincent PriceDr. Anton Phibes
- Robert QuarryDarius Biederbeck
- Valli KempVulnavia
- Peter CushingShip's Captain
- Beryl ReidMiss Ambrose
- Terry-ThomasLombardo
- Peter JeffreyInspector Trout
- Fiona LewisDiana Trowbridge
- Hugh GriffithHarry Ambrose
- John CaterSuperintendent Waverly
Crew
- Robert FuestDirector
- Robert FuestScreenplay
- Robert BleesScreenplay
- Alex ThomsonDirector of Photography
- John GaleOriginal Music Composer
- Tristam ConesEditor
- Louis M. HeywardProducer
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