The Abominable Dr Phibes - Deusdaecon Reviews

[@nicupetricas9718]

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Me too. It works so very well too!

[@imajica1863]

"A brass unicorn has been catapulted across a London street and impaled an eminent surgeon. Words fail me, gentlemen."

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Me too, there's no way someone didn't see them catapult that sucker into a gentleman's club. Haha.

[@jameswalker4397]

Part of the charm of Phibes is the stylish way it's filmed. I loved it when it came out, and I still love it. A more interesting movie for you might have been Theater of Blood.

[@char1737]

I love theater of blood where do I begin? Vincent Price, Dianna Rigg the whole Shakespeare vibe it a sublime delight

[@sawyertilley4469]

So happy you're back man. Breaks are vital sometimes, life happens to us all.

[@SeptienPatterson]

I’m glad you took time for yourself to get your head right. GoodBadFlicks and Brandon Tenold kept me company in your absence.

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[@confuseddescendantofrebelc3005]

great stuff...if you're doing more Vincent Price then please do "Theatre of Blood" at some point

[@governmentgum8583]

Last man on earth?

[@virolance]

glad your back. NOW I DEMAND MORE CONSTANTINE TV SHOW REVIEWS

[@randykowal3397]

Heyy. So happy to see you again. Never clicked off another video so fast (except for when jon tron temporarily came back)

[@shadowleon659]

I can't blame you for your hiatus. It's just KZbin nowadays

[@bethoraathkorius7005]

yeah! you're back and to kick things off with vincent price - awesome!

[@joedivito4949]

You do what you must and take as much time as you need. Loyal fans like myself are willing to wait and don't begrudge you time for yourself: you're entitled to a life outside of us. Your reviews are amazing. I turned a friend of mine on to your channel and she's shown snippets of your work (specifically the Lovecraft month videos) to her students. Keep up the good work. We'll be here waiting.

[@stanleyteriaca2184]

It should be noted, Vulnavia was supposed to be a robot.

[@charlitabunny]

So glad to see you again!! Don't leave us again !

[@oddeyes9413]

Great to see you back. I'm looking forward to your next review. Have a great holiday season. Reccomendation: The original House on Haunted Hill, and Theater of Blood. Those two are very good, and Vincent Price does so well.

[@karldettlinger467]

I remember watching this with my dad and sister and loving the movie. Glad to see that you reviewed it.

[@andrewmatseshe7343]

Glad to see you back brother

[@reasonablecheese]

Glad to see you back dude, we were all here patiently awaiting your return bud, damn near smashed my screen hitting the link to this video!

[@devynkumar1997]

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[@gabrielfricker1761]

No rush, sir. Everyone needs a break from time to time. I was so bummed when Fox blocked your Boondock Saints review. Glad you’re back, & with one of my favorites!

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Thank goodness your back!!!

[@markl.3528]

Good to see you back!

[@ΝίκοςΜπράτος]

Glad to see you back! ^_^ Great choice, Price is Gold!

[@TStyx]

Great to see you back :) 22:13 just about sums up watching the Dr Phibes films. Don't think, just run with it!

[@GrayWolf5000]

Almost 2 years since this review, I hope more Vincent Price is coming soon

[@ErikMeinhardtAnacortes]

Theater of Blood next!

[@cassyblack3346]

Glad to see you are back and I do hope things go progress better in life for you. You certainly picked a hell of a film to come back on, and really chose an amazing actor to highlight.

[@RazireKVD]

Good to have you back with the reviews!

[@davidhobson2807]

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[@Regmuslima]

Yay! You're back! So glad and I get wanting to take a break. Your old vids honestly got me through the tail end of the last school year and an unbearable roommate. With finals week rearing it's ugly head, I'm Happy to see you're back dude!

[@deusdeaconReviews]

happy I could help, Hope I can continue to help as well.

[@lukemcgahern2357]

So happy your back.

[@andrewcook2625]

Welcome back, missed your work

[@ptonpc]

Good to see you are back. As for the film? It was the 70's and large amounts of drugs were around at the time.

[@NeroundCo]

Hell yeah! Happy to see you back. Love your reviews.

[@joshuapeterson8575]

Good to have you back.

[@char1737]

I loved him in the second installment and also in theater of blood with dame Dianna Riggs

[@solidsnack352]

I always figured that his assistant was a more sophisticated mechanical "being" from the orchestra.

[@calendarpage]

I saw this in the movies. I had forgotten the nurse & the locusts until I saw it again here. Man, that freaked the heck out of me at the time - and I was in high school.

[@mercurywoodrose]

ok im hooked. never heard anyone make the connection with saw. just "saw" this film hours ago, and that fact leaps out.

[@benhramiak8781]

good to have you back. your video was the thing that got me to watch hellraiser

[@Danovio]

Glad you are back.

[@fishushu]

We're all happy to have you and your content back, sweetheart! I hope you had a good time while getting yourself and your stuff together and can enjoy being here again with us.

[@SuperSwordman1]

Glad to see you back. Your videos are always a treat. That being said, I would have loved seeing you talk about "The Mad Magician", the first movie of the titan Mr. Price I ever saw...unless you count his voice than it's Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. But that's not really letting Vincent flex his skills.

[@pyeac]

Glad to have you back

[@lastofmygeneration]

Great to see you back in the saddle after your hiatus. Take it easy, good sir.

[@JamiJR]

YAY! Not only are you back but you reviewed a Vincent Price movie! You made my day!

[@adampoll4977]

Damn, you gotta love those sets!

[@HanaBakemono]

I have a theory about the psychiatrist and why he was involved in the wife’s death. We’re not sure what the surgery was, but perhaps the wife was convinced to take the operation to assist her mental health. Maybe it was a misdiagnosis (especially given the time period and how people with mental health issues were treated) and the psychiatrist explained the only way to help her would be to have an operation performed on her. Then again, I’m trying to make sense out of a movie that thinks adorable fruit bats drink blood and locusts can eat anything with gross vegetable slime plastered on it.

[@deusdeaconReviews]

"An immediate radical resection" is the vague term they gave doesnt specify much but it absolutely has nothing to do with the brain, and is 100% abdominal cavity surgery, usually the bowel.

[@HanaBakemono]

Deusdaecon Reviews well, shows how much I know about medicine! All that brain storming for nothing; I didn’t even look up radical resection, which could have prevented this embarrassment. I’ll be digging a hole to bury myself, if anyone needs me!

[@SuperSwordman1]

@@HanaBakemono If it helps at all, I've seen a few people theorize that the guy went into psychology as a result of Mrs. Phibes' death. So you aren't the only one trying to make more sense out of the guy being a therapist.

[@Kenshiro3rd]

Actually we are, thanks to the novels. "Inverse Radical Resection" means you had part of your anatomy or an organ removed. It was used by the stuio to cover up/censor the type surgery she really had, a hysterectomy. She had Uterine Cancer, as revealed in the novelization by the script's writer. THAT i why a psychiatrist was part of her surgery team, as a consultant... as they use to require psychological evaluation and approval prior to having one.

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Glad you are back. you were missed.

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Glad to see you're back!

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KZbin didn't notify me that you had a new video. The bastards! And welcome back man!

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welcome back and great reviews

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We've missed you. Although I'm late, I'd still like to say welcome back!

[@nikkolaus91]

I hope you've got things figured out, my friend. I enjoyed your comeback-

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Missed ya, man!!! Glad to see ya. Hope you do more old horror movies no one's heard of or remembers

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Glad you had a good break dude 😃 welcome back.

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Glad to see your back. Another great vid. And gotta say love the rick and morty shirt. Looking pretty snazzy

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Welcome back. You were missed.

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Welcome back my friend, i hope you are doing well.

[@tenhirankei]

OK it's been nearly ten months afterwards. I hope you did the sequel.

[@DrNoeNutrologo]

02:42 I always thought of her as an emissary of the egyptian gods, sent to help Phibes.

[@sirene88]

Welcome back Deusdaecon!

[@char1737]

Rolls Royce approved the use of its cars and in the second film the use of its RR logo and grills a very early form of product endorsement/placement

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Welcome back! Hope you stick around a while.

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Great to see you back, fella. Hope you’re doing ok 😊

[@dustinspencer9278]

Yes there is a close resemblance with the Saw movies and Dr. Phibes. I was wondering if any one has seen the resemblance of Slither to Night of the Creeps?

[@thecountofmontecristo2796]

I love Vincent Price. I just watched to sequel to this yesterday.

[@mistermatix8241]

Thst should be the next review!

[@HanaBakemono]

The Count of Monte Cristo, how was it?

[@thecountofmontecristo2796]

@@HanaBakemono like most sequels, not as good as the first and it kind of just ends making you think there would be a third but there wasn't as far as I know. I still found it interesting but it left you asking questions. I'm waiting to see what deusdaecon thinks.

[@يوسفعلي-ل8س]

Welcome back

[@richardmeyer6807]

Welcome back!

[@MegaMyrow]

You should watch The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby Doo it’s got Vincent Price in it

[@shannonmccann3814]

Welcome back :)

[@oddeyes9413]

This also reminded me a bit of Se7en. With the Seven Deadly Sins, and all of that.

[@leadingblind1629]

Awww. Look at all the love

[@dejaporter7338]

I'm gonna enjoy this 🤗

[@bezoticallyyours83]

I saw this last year. This movie is very weird and elaborate and elegant. Fruit bats are sooo cuuuuute.

[@frankenoise]

Poe/ Price films are simply classic. The ones everyone remembers Price for.... and Edward Scissorhands or course.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

Your audio has improved over time ... it's noticeable. I recently complained about an older video because narration of you addressing the camera was much louder than narration during clips. On the film: Phibes is my favorite of Price's projects, because it's so strange, wacky and unusual. And they do so much with so little. The frog mask party scene is shot near a staircase, nothing much else, but it has the feel of a grand home. Clearly I enjoy "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" more than you do; this synopsis is hardly a love letter to the movie, LOL. Lastly, I enjoyed your casual mention of a chocolate bar wrapper, because the goldsmith character in this movie is portrayed by the actor who plays the candy shop gentleman in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". He sang The Candyman song in that film. 😀

[@deusdeaconReviews]

Well im just glad you decided to check out other videos.

[@andrewbeeable]

Nice work. For the best Price horror movies, look at the Corman/Poe cycle. Particularly Masque of the Red Death. Lovely and gothic.

[@RobsteinOne]

That bat is so goddamn adorable OMG.

[@chrisfields4092]

first time seeing this one. Who do you think could play the Price roll today if it was remade?

[@bertrodriguez2135]

I'd just assumed Nadia was some kind of clockwork robot. Would explain the wardrobe change, they're, hypothetically, being a bunch of them walking around.

[@shallendor]

You can never go wrong with Vincent Price movies!

[@kino_verite]

Saw was also inspired from the ending of the first Mad Max film, where one of the antagonists is handcuffed to a wrecked car that has been rigged with a lighter and spilling petrol that gets closer. Max gives him a choice - he can hack through the handcuffs with a saw which would take 10 minutes, or hack off his ankle, which would take 5. It is left ambiguous.

[@T5ComixCartoonz]

15:52 Think I'm really starting to get why this is considered a "comedy".

[@dangrus123]

Does anyone else think that the "headshrinker" might have recommended the surgery? To deal with some mental illness?

[@deusdeaconReviews]

not an "immediate radical resection" nothing to do with mental problems

[@InKY09]

@@deusdeaconReviews Looking at a few medical websites, it looks like "radical resection" can mean either removing an organ along with the the bits that supply blood to the organ or removing the "whole compartment" around a tumor (like amputating a leg for a bone tumor). The TV Tropes website guesses that Phibes' wife might have had a brain tumor, which fits with dangrus123's idea about the surgery taking place at a psychologist's suggestion, but a book on Google Play about Caroline Munro says an earlier version of the script said Phibe's wife experienced "'ten hours of dissection'" for uteran cancer, which would support the idea of 10 plagues but probably wouldn't explain the inclusion of a psychologist.

[@deusdeaconReviews]

Either way none of that is in the film and that is where it needs to be in order for it to matter as far as I'm concerned

[@JamiJR]

@@InKY09 She might've needed to see a psychologist to deal with the fact she had to go through surgery. Especially uterine cancer as that means taking away her ability to have children. Some women do feel like they're failures if they can't give birth. I don't know if you ever saw the old tv show Little House In The Prairie but there's an episode where the mom enters menopause and upon finding that out, even though she's already had kids, she goes through what is basically a nervous breakdown over the fact she'll never have them again, especially since she never had a son that lived to adulthood and having sons for some families, especially back then, is kind of a Big Deal.

[@InKY09]

Jami JoAnne Russell there’s no “Son of Dr. Phibes”, so it’s a possibility =-)

[@dwilson9546]

Since you mentioned House of Wax, what would it take for you to do a review of the remake, given that it is from the same distributor that did ghost ship and house on haunted hill?????????

[@warmbluewater]

My opinion for the Psychiatrist is that he was brought in for a medical consultation or assistance in the operation. Sounds like her Doctor was not sure what was going on and got all of his colleagues together for this one case. And even though the Psychiatrist specializes in mental health, he has attended medical school and is a MD.

[@georgerodriguez7160]

You know this is almost similar to the movie seven on how at the end the villains complete their plans

[@Baiswith]

Hmm...long shot perhaps, but could the radical resectioning have been in response to dealing with some sort of swelling/obstruction in the abdomen/bowels that Phibes wife was convinced was a pregnancy (hence the psychologist)? There might also be a tenuous link with the Egyptian plagues there, specifically the 'death of the firstborn'

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Was that the actor who played the professor in bedknobs and broomstick? Aww that sucks about the parkinsons

[@bezoticallyyours83]

There's a bit of this film's DNA in Sev7en as well.

[@gabrielalan9033]

The melting of the bust is the line across the name on the list.

[@lilyvillon8061]

I second the suggestion that you review some Hammer Horror. I think you would enjoy it, and I know I would! I agree that Terry-Thomas is a great comedic actor who was sorely under-utilized in this 1971 film. But, he does make a comeback, with more screen time, in the 1972 sequel (no one mentions that his character in the first movie was murdered, but heigh-ho). Also returning in the sequel is the always-entertaining Hugh Griffith (whose eyebrows deserve separate billing!), who played the rather erroneous Rabbi in this one. Caroline Munro, a Hammer fave, is the actress shown in the photos as Phibes' wife, and the great Joseph Cotten rounds out the cast. Since you made a point to quote Peter Cushing in your comments, I will also mention that he has a cameo in the sequel as well. As a sidenote, his Hammer vampire films with Christopher Lee are my absolute favourites! "Must see" vampire films IMHO.

[@jallenecs]

I think this movie fits best in the Bizarro Fiction category. That would explain a lot: shit happens in bizarro that would never EVER fly anywhere else.

[@bentramer682]

I think the point of the movie is to look scary, and have a silly plot about cool death. I watched this as a kid and loved it so obviously not much thought is needed.

[@deusdeaconReviews]

well that would’ve at least made the video easier to write, sad to say thinking about it and yes sometimes thinking about it too much is almost literally the job I’m here to do.

[@GoodMoviesForLater]

I absolutely love this movie. If you're looking for another good Vincent Price film, I suggest "The Bat". It's a nice black and white mystery also staring Agnus Moorehead. When I have friends who hate horror movies over for my annual Halloween movie fest, I show them these two movies (along with my minor collection of Bela Lugosi movies). Also, the unicorn scene always cracks me up. It's so stupid.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

I don't ever recall fruit bats, bronze flying unicorn heads and frost in the plagues. Lol

[@SuperSwordman1]

Don't quite get how the bats or the bronze flying unicorn head works (as he pointed out the later is suppose to be diseased animals. Bats could be water to blood maybe?), but the frost is suppose to be hail