When Dr Phibes drains all the blood out of the doctor, helped by Vulnavia, it kinda reminds me of the scene in Theatre of Blood when Lionheart is depapitating the critic's head. Look at the similarities, the woman assitant, the aparatuses uses, and the way in which it is done are clearly similar!
What do you think?
"I'm not kind, I'm vicious. It's the secret of my charm"- Waldo Lydecker
True enough, I have all three on DVD, and I think of them as a trilogy almost.
shareI agree. Theatre of Blood is practically a Phibes movie, just without Phibes.
shareThere's also Madhouse (1974), Price's last film for American International Pictures, which was shot in England (the same as the Phibes movies and Theatre of Blood). Price plays Paul Toombes, an actor famous for appearing in a series of horror films as 'Dr. Death', an evil genius who kills his enemies in elaborate ways, aided by a glamourous female assistant. Toombes marries his beautiful co-star, but she is gruesomely murdered on their wedding night, causing Toombes to have a complete mental breakdown. He spends several years in an asylum before being released. The police consider him the prime suspect in his wife's murder, but have no evidence to enable them to charge him, and due to his confused mental state, even Toombes himself isn't 100% certain that he didn't do it.
He travels to England to reprise the role of Dr. Death in a new TV series that is reviving the character, whereupon members of the cast and crew start being murdered in suitably bizarre ways by a mysterious figure dressed as Dr Death...
Sounds great, doesn't it? Like a meta-homage to the Phibes movies. In addition to Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry and '70s British horror starlet Linda Hayden are in the cast. But sadly, I have to report that (in my humble opinion) it isn't very good. It looks shoddy and cheap, with production values way below those found on the Phibes films. It's also marred by an out-of-left-field WTF ending.
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