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Theatre of Blood
Why this pick
Its vengeful, theatrically minded killer stages ornate murders with the same grand guignol wit, period luxuriance, and gleefully artificial horror-comedy spirit as Dr. Phibes.
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MOVIE1971 1h 34m GBR
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Dr. Anton Phibes, a famous concert organist and expert in theology and music, is thought to have been killed in a car crash in Switzerland in 1921, while racing home upon hearing of the death of his beloved wife, Victoria, during surgery. Phibes survived the crash, but he was horribly scarred and left unable to speak. He remakes his face with prosthetics and uses his knowledge of acoustics to regain his voice. Resurfacing secretly in London in 1925, Phibes believes his wife was a victim of incompetence on the part of the doctors, and he begins elaborate plans to kill those he believes are guilty.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Vincent Price
Dr. Anton Phibes
Joseph Cotten
Dr. Vesalius
Terry-Thomas
Dr. Longstreet
Hugh Griffith
Rabbi
Virginia North
Vulvania
Barbara Keogh
Mrs. Frawley
Peter Jeffrey
Inspector Trout
Norman Jones
Sgt. Schenley