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Five decades in, one of Vincent Price s best roles endures – and inspires.
By Andrew Crump · @agracru · May 18, 2021, 4:42 PM EDT Vincent Price in THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES.
“She was a tall, attractive young lady. She didn’t speak much, as I remember, but she was…”
“Smart, sir?”
Fifty years and nine eternities in doom later, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Robert Fuest’s magnificently gruesome art deco horror comedy, remains in fashion. No passage of time could rob the film of its abiding style and cultural impact; the moldy old chestnut that “they don’t make them like this anymore” remains, in the case of