There's strange '70s neo-deco disco aesthetics, musicological themes, revenge murders based on the plagues visited on Egypt, and the detectives get all the comedy lines.
Vincent Price is a disfigured organist, believed dead after a car crash, who seeks revenge on the surgeons who failed to save his wife. His plots are bizarre and ridiculously elaborate, and yet he manages to stay just ahead of Scotland Yard through most of the film.
Some details of "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" are a mess. There's questions... But the film is just so ridiculous on the face of it that it just doesn't matter. It's a dark and twisted tale, with more than a touch of camp, that plays like an episodic album of gothic macabre set pieces.
Just to add to the oddity, since the character is using extensive prosthetics, Vincent Price does not move his face through the entire film.
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