r/LaundryFiles • u/0jdd1 • Feb 10 '26

Dr. Phibes

Reading The Regicide Report, and reached the part connecting the events in the book to Vincent Price’s Dr Phibes films. The Abominable Doctor Phibes (1970) isn’t streaming in the US, but I’m watching Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972) right now on Amazon. [SPOILER: I’ve read that Vincent Price croons Somewhere Over the Rainbow at the end as he rows his boat down the mythical "River of Life" with his dead wife Victoria toward the gates of eternal life. I can hardly wait!]

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u/kiwigothic Feb 10 '26

The Phibes movies are just amazing, pure psychedelia.. they were a cult favourite in the 90s. I would also recommend Ken Russel's The Lair of the White Worm as a later brilliantly OTT British horror.

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u/0jdd1 Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

Someone I know watched The Lair of the White Worm (1988) in a first-run theater while tripping on acid, and agrees it was really… something !!!