{"id":29747,"date":"2022-05-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29747"},"modified":"2022-05-24T07:14:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T11:14:41","slug":"the-abominable-dr-phibes-1971-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29747","title":{"rendered":"The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z052422zview_drphibes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"759\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Abominable Dr. Phibes <\/strong><\/em>(1971)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Robert Fuest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>James Whiton, William Goldstein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Vincent Price, Joseph Cotton, Virginia North<\/strong> and<strong> Terry-Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Dr. Phibes has great vibes!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Anton Phibes (Price) is out for revenge.\u00a0 When Phibes learned his wife was in a terrible auto accident, he jumped in his car and raced to get to her.\u00a0 Sadly, Phibes was also involved in a wreck.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Dr. Phibes&#8217; wife died on the operating table.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four years later, disfigured due to his accident, Dr. Phibes is ready to extract his revenge on the doctors who failed to save his wife.\u00a0 Phibes plots to kill each based on one of the Ten Plagues of Egypt.\u00a0 After the third doctor is murdered, the police figure out Dr. Phibes is the killer.\u00a0 Always a step behind the insane Dr. Phibes, the police continue to search for clues as the bodies pile up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Abominable Dr. Phibes<\/em> is supposed to be a dark comedy, but there aren&#8217;t any real laughs.\u00a0 Dr. Phibes often kills his victims using elaborate Rube Goldbergesque contraptions.\u00a0 In between murders he spends time dancing with his mute assistant with music provided by his large wind-up animatrons.\u00a0 The advertising for <em>Dr. Phibes<\/em> &#8211; &#8220;Love Means Never Having to Say You&#8217;re Ugly&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;Dr. Phibes has great vibes&#8221; &#8211; indicates they weren&#8217;t sure how to sell the film to the public.\u00a0 Once you&#8217;ve seen the film, that is understandable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Abominable Dr. Phibes<\/em> isn&#8217;t a great film or a bad film.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a strange film.\u00a0 For that reason <em>The Abominable Dr. Phibes<\/em> rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z052422zview_drphibes2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) Director:\u00a0 Robert Fuest Screenplay:\u00a0 James Whiton, William Goldstein Starring:\u00a0 Vincent Price, Joseph Cotton, Virginia North<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29808,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29747\/revisions\/29808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}