Review – The Abominable Dr. Phibes

This famous Vincent Price classic features some of  the strangest revenge murders ever, each ostensibly based on one of the biblical plagues on Egypt. Some of the killings are bizarre to the point where they almost become surreal. For example, there’s the little-known plague of bloodsucking fruit bats. Or how about the plague of green goo that apparently induces grasshoppers to eat people’s faces? Implausibility aside, this is one of the better examples of its era in horror history. Sure, it’s loaded with clichés. But to give credit where credit is due, it’s the original source for at least some of the old saws featured herein. Mildly amusing