Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
- egypt
- immortality
- organ
- sequel
- murder
- mad doctor
- tomb
- egyptian mythology
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Vincent Price
Dr. Anton Phibes
Robert Quarry
Darius Biederbeck
Valli Kemp
Vulnavia
Peter Cushing
Ship's Captain
- Beryl Reid — Miss Ambrose
- Terry-Thomas — Lombardo
- Peter Jeffrey — Inspector Trout
- Fiona Lewis — Diana Trowbridge
- Hugh Griffith — Harry Ambrose
- John Cater — Superintendent Waverly
- Gerald Sim — Hackett
- Lewis Fiander — Baker
- John Thaw — Shavers
- Keith Buckley — Stewart
- Milton Reid — Manservant - Cheng
- Directed
- Robert Fuest
- Written
- Robert Blees, Robert Fuest
Production
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 162 ratings
- Studio
- American International Productions (England)
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1971The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Where it starts.
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
1972 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
