When a break-in occurs at a secretive genetics institute, blind puzzle-maker Franco ArnĂ², who overheard an attempt to blackmail one of the institute’s scientists shortly before the robbery, teams up with intrepid reporter Carlo Giordani to crack the case. But before long the bodies begin to pile up and the two amateur sleuths find their own lives imperilled in their search for the truth…
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Horror History: Tuesday, May 18, 1971: The Abominable Dr. Phibes was released in theaters
Love means never having to say you’re ugly.
One by one, Vincent Price kills off a team of doctors who failed to save his wife on the operating table. Due to injury in an auto accident, Phibes has no face or voice. He devises gruesome ends for the doctors, each death patterned after one of the plagues brought down on Ramses in ancient Egypt — from bats to locusts.
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