# The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

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**Runtime**: 95 min
**Genres**: Horror, Comedy
**Directed by**: Robert Fuest
**Written by**: James Whiton, William Goldstein
**Starring**: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Hugh Griffith, Terry-Thomas, Virginia North, Peter Jeffrey

> *Love means never having to say you're ugly.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A blackened London winter, rabbi’s candle guttering. A clockwork orchestra tune-box left ticking on a velvet table.

The surgeon’s widower strums hymns on an organ wired to ravens. Each evening’s feast arrives on a gold tray wired to explode.

Beyond Hammer’s baroque fright-machine, one man conducts his grief.

**Mood tags**: playful, unhinged

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