The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Love means never having to say you're ugly.
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A darkly comic, visually ornate revenge fantasy that treats biblical plagues and surgical murder as elaborate theatrical spectacle, balancing genuine grief with campy artifice.
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.
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