SESSION: Wednesday 7th October at 7:30pm



The Abominable Dr. Phibes

(1971, dir. Robert Fuest, w/ Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Hugh Griffith, Terry-Thomas)

Doctors are being murdered in a bizarre manner: bats, bees, killer frog masks, etc., which represent the nine Biblical plagues. The crimes are orchestrated by a demented organ player with the help of his mute assistant. The detective is stumped until he finds that all of the doctors being killed assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involving the wife of Dr. Phibes, but he couldn't be the culprit, could he? He was killed in a car crash upon learning of his wife's death... (IMDB)

FILM INFO 3.63.63.63.6(IMDB rating)

Dr. Phibes Rises Again

(1972, dir. Robert Fuest, w/ Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Cushing, Beryl Reid)

Dr. Phibes Rises Again will start at approximately 9:30pm, and finish at approximately 11:05pm.

The moon rises at a predestined angle and awakens the sleeping Dr. Phibes three years later. To his dismay, he finds his house has been demolished and his papyrus scrolls stolen, the scrolls he needs to find the Pharoah's Tomb in Egypt, where the River of Life flows. After identifying the source of the papyrus theft, he packs and leaves for Egypt with his assistant Vulnavia, still intent upon awakening his dead wife Victoria. The parties responsible for the theft of Phibes' scrolls suffer an attrition problem as Inspector Trout chases him across the world. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 3.23.23.2(IMDB rating)