The Abominable Dr Phibes Dr Phibes Rises Again

Dr. Phibes Rises Again is a 1972 sequel to The Abominable Dr. Phibes directed by Robert Fuest, starring Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, and Peter Cushing.

This film sees Phibes rising again, and so heading to Egypt, because the river of immortality is buried underneath an ancient temple, and he'due south pretty certain he'southward figured out how to discover it and bring Victoria back to life. Unfortunately for him, Adventurer Archaeologist Darius Biederbeck is after it, too. So Phibes does the most logical matter he can: he kills all of Biederbeck's excavation coiffure in overly elaborate, desert-themed ways.

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Dr. Phibes Rises Again contains examples of:

• Adventurer Archeologist: Biederbeck
• Ambiguous Ending: We never find out if Phibes gets Victoria back. Or what Diana's reaction is to losing her married man. Or if Biederbeck is dead, or simply very old.
• Animal Assassinator: Played with: Phibes sends a robotic snake to threaten i of his victims, who destroys it with a pool cue. Then another ophidian making the same clockwork sound approaches, so the victim picks it upwards in fascination at the realistic robotics; he finds out the hard way that information technology's a real snake with a clockwork noisemaker attached. Bitten, the victim grabs a phone to call for help, and a serpent-shaped spike pops out of the earpiece and stabs him through the caput.
  • Phibes also uses a eagle to kill one victim.
  • And scorpions to kill another.
• Another Dimension: Vulnavia is summoned from, and at the finish returns to "The Other Side".
• Artistic License – Chemical science: The yellowish fluid extracted from Phibes' body is labeled "Formaldehyde", just the chemic is fatal to a living beingness.
• Back from the Dead: Phibes, of course, although to what extent he was really dead is a bit vague. Also, with no explanation, Vulnavia. If she'south a robot, maybe this one'south another copy or something.
  • The rather trippy scene in which she reappears suggests that she is a supernatural being of some sort.
• The Bad Guy Wins:

  "What kind of fiend are you?"
  "The kind that wins."

• The Cameo: Terry-Thomas (who plays a unlike role this time), and Hugh Griffith.
  • Peter Cushing was to be cast in the first movie equally Vesalius, simply had to bow out considering of his wife's illness.
• Camp: Much more so than the beginning film
• Elaborate Cloak-and-dagger Base: While Biederbeck and his squad are camped out in tents at the human foot of the mountain containing the Egyptian temple, Phibes has a spectacular Art Deco lair inside the mountain, complete with his trademark organ and clockwork musicians.
• Elixir of Life: The reason Biederbeck is obsessed with reaching the River of Life. His supply has finally run out and he cannot become more.
• Eye Scream: That affiche to the right. Shows upwards in the film when Phibes' pet hawkeye pecks out a human's optics.
• For Want of a Nail: Phibes' plan to impale the manservant merely works considering the manservant a) evades the first snake, b) kills the second ane and discovers that it's a clockwork, c) sees the tertiary one, d) assumes the clockwork device strapped to information technology means that it's clockwork besides, east) is bitten by it, and f) goes to the telephone to call for help so that the snake-spike kills him.
• Gentleman Adventurer: Biederbeck
• Hero of Some other Story: He's not quite a hero, only there's a lot going on with Biederback that is never explained. There is an implied rivalry going on between him and Phibes, such that Phibes immediately assumes Biderbeck stole the papyrus. But Biederback was never mentioned in the first moving-picture show. Biederbeck has a longevity potion, and implies he's been alive for centuries.
• Large Ham
  • Ham-to-Ham Combat: Robert Quarry can ham it up, too, although Price is clearly the winner.
• Immortality Immorality: Phibes and Vulanavia requite off this vibe, what with coming back from the expressionless to resume their murderous antics. Biederbeck is a much straighter example.
• Lip Lock: Phibes still talks through electric speakers.
• Possibly Magic, Maybe Mundane: Whether Vulnavaia is magical or mundane is unanswered. Phibes summons her from "The Other Side" later on he emerges from a iii-year blackout, and a unlike extra plays her (because the original was meaning). At the cease Phibes tells Vulnavia to meet him on The Other Side. In that location are other instances of seemingly supernatural going-ons, such as Phibes and Vulnavia wearing white in Phibes' tomb, simply instantaneously change to different, black clothing in the seconds it takes them to reach the surface by organ-elevator.
• Nec Romantic
• Never Hurt an Innocent: Averted. Everyone Phibes' kills is innocent, as there'due south no law-breaking that he's avenging. In the first picture show he judged the medical staff guilty of Victoria's expiry even if they were seemingly innocent of it.
  • Hackett and his team actually come across as being rather shady, with it beingness implied they were planning to loot the site. Diana, on the other paw, was only guilty of going with Biederbeck and being his fiancee.
• "Non And then Different" Remark: Phibes gives a damn fine statement why Biederbeck isn't actually whatsoever better than he is.
• No Immortal Inertia: After Phibes opens the gate and begins his journey downwardly the River of Life with his beloved Victoria, Biederbeck dives in and tries to follow after them. Unforunately, the gate had already closed and Biederbeck is left crying afterwards Phibes as he degenerates into an ancient old man and likely dies soon afterwards.
• Rapid Aging: Biederbeck
• Actually 700 Years Old: Biederbeck
• Rule of Cool: Phibes and Vulnavia having a stylish lunch in the middle of the desert is cool. His underground lair is awesome!
• Say My Name: Subsequently The Bad Guy Wins, all Biederbeck can do is yell "PHIIIIIIIIBES!"
• Scary Scorpions: In one of the deathtraps.
• Sequel Escalation: The movie features more flamboyant deaths than the original, a more over-the-height performance by Vincent Cost, and more comedy.
• Sickening "Crunch!": Baker is crushed to death in a human being-size vice by Phibes, with the appropriate sound.
• Skull for a Head: Phibes is essentially this, to the point that at 1 point he poses as a discarded skull in a tomb.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: Sooooooomewheeeeere, over the raaaainbooow...
• Sundial Waypoint: Phibes emerges from the mechanized tomb when a axle of moonlight strikes a specific spot on the crypt'south entrance.
• Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: Once once more, Inspector Trout (Peter Jeffrey). He is even more than useless than he was in the first picture show.
• Theme Naming: Both Biederbeck and a minor graphic symbol called Lombardo are named later bandleaders of the time.
• Those 2 Guys: Trout and Waverly.
• Unexplained Recovery: Vulnavia seems to accept come up through okay from getting drenched in acid at the terminate of the first film. Although the fact that Phibes summons her from "The Other Side" strongly implies that she is supernatural in nature.
  • Vulnavia ia played past a dissimilar actress.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Biederbeck is repeatedly chosen out on his utter disregard for all the deaths happening around him. The writers have realized, past this bespeak, that we're all rooting for Phibes anyway, so why bother pretending his nemesis is at all likable?

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