Atomic wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 3:45 pm
Vincent Price's
Dr Phibes series (two movies) were really slick romcom/horror at the time with some pretty good special effects. Worth the popcorn on a rainy day if you like that sort of thing.
Quite so... some of his more memorable performances. I was also fond of "The Raven" with Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff which had just the right touch of tongue-in-cheek to it.
Wikipedia notes that there were several more Phibes sequels considered, but none of them were ever produced. I heard about one that they don't mention, in which the evil Dr. Phibes kidnaps a group of his enemies, carries them off into the Himalayas, and abandons them on a plateau to freeze to death.
He arranges their bodies in a semicircle, with a giant statue of himself in the center, creating a huge sun-dial. That way, every day that the sun shines, he (literally and symbolically) casts his shadow on those that he hates.
The working title of the story was "Dr. Phibes and the Abominable Gnomon". It's a shame it wasn't ever filmed; I'd have gone to see it.