Dr Phibes Dr Phibes Rises Again
Dr. Phibes Rises Again is a 1972 sequel to The Beastly Dr. Phibes directed by Robert Fuest, starring Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, and Peter Cushing.
This film sees Phibes rising once again, and then heading to Egypt, considering the river of immortality is cached underneath an ancient temple, and he's pretty sure he'south figured out how to discover it and bring Victoria back to life. Unfortunately for him, Adventurer Archaeologist Darius Biederbeck is afterward it, too. And then Phibes does the most logical thing he can: he kills all of Biederbeck's earthworks crew in overly elaborate, desert-themed ways.
Dr. Phibes Rises Once more contains examples of:
- Charlatan Archaeologist: Biederbeck
- Ambiguous Ending: We never observe out if Phibes gets Victoria dorsum. Or what Diana's reaction is to losing her hubby. Or if Biederbeck is dead, or but very old.
- Creature Assassin: Played with: Phibes sends a robotic snake to threaten one of his victims, who destroys information technology with a pool cue. Then another snake making the same clockwork audio approaches, then the victim picks information technology up in fascination at the realistic robotics; he finds out the hard mode that information technology'due south a real snake with a clockwork noisemaker fastened. Bitten, the victim grabs a telephone to call for help, and a snake-shaped fasten pops out of the earpiece and stabs him through the head.
- Phibes too uses a eagle to kill one victim.
- And scorpions to kill another.
- Another Dimension: Vulnavia is summoned from, and at the end returns to "The Other Side".
- Artistic License – Chemical science: The xanthous fluid extracted from Phibes' body is labeled "Formaldehyde", but the chemical is fatal to a living being.
- Back from the Dead: Phibes, of course, although to what extent he was really expressionless is a bit vague. Besides, with no explanation, Vulnavia. If she'due south a robot, maybe this 1's another copy or something.
- The rather trippy scene in which she reappears suggests that she is a supernatural being of some sort.
- The Bad Guy Wins:
"What kind of fiend are you?"
"The kind that wins." - The Cameo: Terry-Thomas (who plays a different office this time), and Hugh Griffith.
- Peter Cushing was to be cast in the get-go picture show as Vesalius, but had to bow out because of his wife'due south illness.
- Camp: Much more so than the showtime movie
- Elaborate Undercover Base: While Biederbeck and his team are camped out in tents at the foot of the mountain containing the Egyptian temple, Phibes has a spectacular Fine art Deco lair inside the mountain, complete with his trademark organ and clockwork musicians.
- Elixir of Life: The reason Biederbeck is obsessed with reaching the River of Life. His supply has finally run out and he cannot get more than.
- Middle Scream: That affiche to the right. Shows up in the film when Phibes' pet eagle pecks out a human's optics.
- For Want of a Boom: Phibes' program to impale the manservant only works because the manservant a) evades the commencement snake, b) kills the second one and discovers that information technology'south a clockwork, c) sees the third i, d) assumes the clockwork device strapped to information technology means that it's clockwork as well, e) is bitten by it, and f) goes to the phone to call for aid so that the snake-spike kills him.
- Admirer Adventurer: Biederbeck
- Hero of Some other Story: He's not quite a hero, but there's a lot going on with Biederback that is never explained. At that place is an unsaid rivalry going on between him and Phibes, such that Phibes immediately assumes Biderbeck stole the papyrus. Only Biederback was never mentioned in the outset movie. Biederbeck has a longevity potion, and implies he'due south been alive for centuries.
- Large Ham
- Ham-to-Ham Combat: Robert Quarry can ham information technology up, too, although Price is clearly the winner.
- Immortality Immorality: Phibes and Vulanavia give off this vibe, what with coming back from the dead to resume their murderous antics. Biederbeck is a much straighter example.
- Lip Lock: Phibes still talks through electrical speakers.
- Peradventure Magic, Mayhap Mundane: Whether Vulnavaia is magical or mundane is unanswered. Phibes summons her from "The Other Side" after he emerges from a iii-twelvemonth coma, and a unlike actress plays her (because the original was significant). At the end Phibes tells Vulnavia to meet him on The Other Side. In that location are other instances of seemingly supernatural going-ons, such as Phibes and Vulnavia wearing white in Phibes' tomb, just instantaneously change to different, blackness vesture in the seconds information technology takes them to achieve the surface by organ-elevator.
- Nec Romantic
- Never Hurt an Innocent: Averted. Everyone Phibes' kills is innocent, every bit in that location's no criminal offense that he's avenging. In the beginning picture show he judged the medical staff guilty of Victoria'south death fifty-fifty if they were seemingly innocent of it.
- Hackett and his team really come up across equally being rather shady, with it being implied they were planning to boodle the site. Diana, on the other hand, was only guilty of going with Biederbeck and being his fiancee.
- "Not So Dissimilar" Remark: Phibes gives a damn fine statement why Biederbeck isn't really any meliorate than he is.
- No Immortal Inertia: Afterwards Phibes opens the gate and begins his journey down the River of Life with his beloved Victoria, Biederbeck dives in and tries to follow after them. Unforunately, the gate had already closed and Biederbeck is left crying afterward Phibes as he degenerates into an ancient onetime man and likely dies shortly later on.
- Rapid Aging: Biederbeck
- Really 700 Years Sometime: Biederbeck
- Rule of Cool: Phibes and Vulnavia having a stylish dejeuner in the center of the desert is cool. His cloak-and-dagger lair is awesome!
- Say My Name: After The Bad Guy Wins, all Biederbeck tin can practice is yell "PHIIIIIIIIBES!"
- Scary Scorpions: In ane of the deathtraps.
- Sequel Escalation: The movie features more than flamboyant deaths than the original, a more over-the-top performance by Vincent Price, and more one-act.
- Sickening "Crisis!": Bakery is crushed to death in a man-size vice past Phibes, with the advisable audio.
- Skull for a Caput: Phibes is essentially this, to the point that at 1 signal he poses as a discarded skull in a tomb.
- Soundtrack Racket: Sooooooomewheeeeere, over the raaaainbooow...
- Sundial Waypoint: Phibes emerges from the mechanized tomb when a axle of moonlight strikes a specific spot on the crypt'south archway.
- Sympathetic Inspector Adversary: Once over again, Inspector Trout (Peter Jeffrey). He is even more than useless than he was in the beginning movie.
- Theme Naming: Both Biederbeck and a minor character called Lombardo are named subsequently bandleaders of the fourth dimension.
- Those Two Guys: Trout and Waverly.
- Unexplained Recovery: Vulnavia seems to accept come through okay from getting drenched in acid at the end of the first moving-picture show. Although the fact that Phibes summons her from "The Other Side" strongly implies that she is supernatural in nature.
- Vulnavia ia played past a unlike extra.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Biederbeck is repeatedly called out on his utter disregard for all the deaths happening effectually him. The writers have realized, by this point, that we're all rooting for Phibes anyhow, so why bother pretending his nemesis is at all likable?
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