Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. Rewind. This is Rob Lamb.
Speaker 2: And this is Joe McCormick. Rob and I are out
Speaker 2: this week, so we are bringing you an older episode
Speaker 2: of Weird House Cinema. This was our feature on The
Speaker 2: Abominable Doctor Fibes. I think one of my favorites. We've
Speaker 2: done an excellent weird outing of Vincent Price. This one
Speaker 2: originally published on April first, twenty twenty two, but there
Speaker 2: is nothing April foolish about it. We hope you enjoy.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema.
Speaker 2: This is Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick and wooh,
Speaker 2: I hope you like organ music because today we're doing
Speaker 2: Doctor Fibes.
Speaker 1: That's right, The Abominable Doctor Fibes from nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 1: This is a film that is frequently described as a
Speaker 1: dark comedy horror film, which is a It is kind
Speaker 1: of a way of saying, this movie's weird, and we
Speaker 1: don't really know how to classify it, you know, because
Speaker 1: it certainly has Yeah, it has comedic flair in it,
Speaker 1: it has horror flair, but it's it's ultimately its own unique,
Speaker 1: weird vision, and it's it's really difficult to compare it
Speaker 1: one hundred percent to just about anything else.
Speaker 2: I would almost say it's a musical, though the characters
Speaker 2: don't sing songs. There are a lot of musical numbers
Speaker 2: and dancing.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it's very theatrical. Like in trying to come
Speaker 1: up with an elevator pitch for it, I was thinking,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of Phantom of the Opera meets Batman
Speaker 1: meets a wax museum horror movie and a swanky, unoccupied
Speaker 1: nightclub for stylish madmen.
Speaker 2: But also you have to say the words Vincent Price,
Speaker 2: because I think that is a key element of establishing
Speaker 2: the themes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is our first Vincent Price film,
Speaker 1: and Fibes has been on our list. It's been on
Speaker 1: our radar for a while, and I know we've heard
Speaker 1: from at least a couple of listeners suggesting it, and
Speaker 1: it came up again recently when I was looking at
Speaker 1: films that had very well regarded movie scores, and so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is our first Vincent Price film. Though we did
Speaker 1: discuss The Tingler from nineteen fifty nine and an old
Speaker 1: episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, but that was
Speaker 1: pre Weird House. That was more of a like we
Speaker 1: used The Tingler as a springboard to discuss some science
Speaker 1: or vice versa.
Speaker 2: You know. I would say The Tingler is somewhat different
Speaker 2: because The Tingler is a William Castle movie that has
Speaker 2: Vincent Price in it. But lots of Vincent Price movies,
Speaker 2: it almost feels as if it doesn't matter who the
Speaker 2: director is, and it's just it just becomes a Vincent
Speaker 2: Price movie. I would say this is one of those.
Speaker 1: It is. And then on the same level, one thing
Speaker 1: I kept thinking about is, Okay, Vincent Price plays a
Speaker 1: character in this film that doesn't actually speak with his
Speaker 1: voice anymore. You hear Vincent Price's voice, but it's like
Speaker 1: a it's like a through a machine. And so it's
Speaker 1: unique to be watching this and you think, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know, Vincent Price is is great, like as a
Speaker 1: visual performer, he has this amazing voice, and yet we
Speaker 1: have a character who's in many ways mute in this
Speaker 1: film and it kind of it kind of applies to
Speaker 1: other characters in the film as well, like a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of the people in this film are
Speaker 1: just part of the set piece. It's about about creating
Speaker 1: this theatrical vision somehow.
Speaker 2: Though, even though he doesn't speak with his mouth in
Speaker 2: the movie, the price hamjuice gits on everything like the
Speaker 2: Vincent Price campiness comes through in the energy exuded by
Speaker 2: every other actor in the film. And I was going
Speaker 2: to compare it to another great horror movie that I
Speaker 2: just watched within the last year, because they are so similar.
Speaker 2: This other movie is called Theater of Blood from nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy three, so it came out two years after Doctor Fibes.
Speaker 2: But if you can believe this, listen to all the parallels.
Speaker 2: Both movies star Vincent Price as a performing artist of
Speaker 2: some kind who is presumed dead but returns to enact
Speaker 2: an elaborate plan of revenge on a list of nine
Speaker 2: specific enemies, targeting each one in a succession of sort
Speaker 2: of themed murders. And in Doctor Fibes, the themed murders
Speaker 2: are based on the ten plagues of Egypt in the
Speaker 2: Book of Exodus, and in Theater of Blood they're based
Speaker 2: on deaths in the plays of Shakespeare. And in both movies,
Speaker 2: the Price character has a cool, younger female sidekick. In
Speaker 2: Theater of blood. That is actually that it is Vincent
Speaker 2: Price's character's daughter played by Diana Rigg, who always great.
Speaker 2: Diana Rigg one of my favorites, and in that one
Speaker 2: she's great. But also in that one, Vincent Price plays
Speaker 2: a ham Shakespearean actor instead of an organist.
Speaker 1: All right, well, those are certainly some five vibes. You're
Speaker 1: definitely vibing with Fiby's there. Yes. You know. One thing
Speaker 1: that I was thinking about, especially towards the end of
Speaker 1: this picture, and we'll discuss the plot here in a bet,
Speaker 1: was that this film The Abominable Doctor Fibes. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like the precursor to such dreary themed murder films
Speaker 1: as seven as I'm thinking, like Resurrection and of course
Speaker 1: the Saw movies. Except this movie is like what have
Speaker 1: you had? Something like that? And it was at least
Speaker 1: ten times as fine, you know.
Speaker 2: Oh more than that. Yeah, this is the exact opposite.
Speaker 2: This is a weird, elaborate themed murders but just balancing
Speaker 2: on rays of sunshine. Yes, so, I think Doctor Fibes
Speaker 2: is one of my new show favorites. It's going on
Speaker 2: the list with I think some of the best movies
Speaker 2: we've watched on here Like I don't keep a running
Speaker 2: list of my favorites, but there's somewhere in my head
Speaker 2: it's gotta be like Mad Love, Robot Jocks, Ship of
Speaker 2: Monsters and oh and Inframan and this one's going up
Speaker 2: there too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's extremely watchable. I can easily recommend this
Speaker 1: one to film vans of different genres because it does
Speaker 1: transcend genre. It's not just a horror films. It's just
Speaker 1: so stylish, so lovingly stylish, that I feel like it
Speaker 1: can suck in just about anybody like you, just just
Speaker 1: about any given scene. Even the scenes that don't play
Speaker 1: take place within Doctor Fib's subterranean organ funhouse are still
Speaker 1: like lavishly decorated and ingeniously shot.
Speaker 2: Totally agree.
Speaker 1: All right, well, let's go ahead and listen to the
Speaker 1: trailer here.
Speaker 4: Lovely music for a murder or two or three or nine?
Speaker 4: Who is Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to meet
Speaker 4: your dear friend. Nine killed you, nine shall die your wife.
Speaker 1: No FIBs but you I will kill But you can't.
Speaker 4: Doctor, I am already dead. Will wats up the guitar?
Speaker 1: The ten Cousins visited among the Pharaohs before Exodus.
Speaker 4: Are you ready for Doctor Five?
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about some of the people involved
Speaker 1: in this motion picture. First of all, let's start at
Speaker 1: the top with the director, Robert Foost. Foost lived nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty seven through twenty twelve, British director noted for his
Speaker 1: unique genre style. It should come as no surprise to
Speaker 1: some fans out there that he came up through the
Speaker 1: Avengers TV show before making such features as nineteen seventies
Speaker 1: and Soon The Darkness a thriller, a nineteen seventy adaptation
Speaker 1: of Worthering Heights with Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff, followed by
Speaker 1: the two Doctor Fibes films, nineteen seventy three's The Final Program,
Speaker 1: which was based on a Michael Moorcock novel starring John Finch,
Speaker 1: and nineteen seventy five satanic melto Mania movie The Devil's
Speaker 1: Reign starring Ernest Borgnine, The Shat, Tom Scarett, Jondrev and
Speaker 1: of course Anton Levy.
Speaker 2: I was wondering if we should come back to The
Speaker 2: Devil's Rain on Weird House. It is notorious for being
Speaker 2: not very good but also be right sort of worth seeing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it has greatness. In it, and I think
Speaker 1: maybe we're in a better we'll be in a better
Speaker 1: place to understand it having experienced Fibes. But yeah, and
Speaker 1: also it is possible that maybe the world just wasn't
Speaker 1: ready for The Devil's Rain, especially when you look at
Speaker 1: his filmography, because it looks like he mostly did TV
Speaker 1: after The Devil's Rain. All Right, the writers on this,
Speaker 1: they're two credited writers, James Whitten born nineteen thirty die
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, American writer who wrote the story for nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty two's Murder by Phone starring Richard Chamberlain. And then
Speaker 1: there's also William Goldstein, credited on both Fibes movies. Plus
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six is The Amazing Dobermans, in which quote
Speaker 1: an ex con man and his five trained Dobermans helped
Speaker 1: a Treasury Department agent stop a racketeer and his gang.
Speaker 1: It starred James Franciscus, Barbara Eden, Fred Astaire, and Billy Bardi.
Speaker 1: It has an amazing poster, and my wife says that
Speaker 1: she remembered this movie. I think her family they always
Speaker 1: had Doberman, so I think they've watched any if there
Speaker 1: was a Doberman movie. They watched it.
Speaker 2: Imagine the pitch for that. What about Doberman's that solve mysteries?
Speaker 1: I think there was a They also tried to turn
Speaker 1: it into a TV show.
Speaker 2: Wait, what kind of dog was Scooby Doo? I guess
Speaker 2: he was supposed to be like a great Dane or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, not a The Dobermans have those like the
Speaker 1: pointy head, those really dirty pointed heads. Yeah, dirpy or terrifying,
Speaker 1: depends on how you look at them, but they can
Speaker 1: look quite dirty, all right. The star of this film,
Speaker 1: playing doctor Anton Vibes is Vincent Price, who lived nineteen
Speaker 1: eleven through nineteen ninety three. The legend himself.
Speaker 2: God to love them. An actor of great, genuine talent
Speaker 2: who could have kept pressing just to focus on serious
Speaker 2: film roles, but embraced camp and that's something I really respect.
Speaker 1: Yes, and it was really really a master of it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Price was active on screen from the late thirties to
Speaker 1: the early nineties. You know, great voice, great look, horror icon.
Speaker 1: You know, could could really play serious threat but also
Speaker 1: it seemed to have a great sense of humor and
Speaker 1: was able to play that up. Was active in various genres,
Speaker 1: especially early on in his career and you see him,
Speaker 1: you know, showing up in some serious pictures during that
Speaker 1: time period for sure. And then he did all sorts
Speaker 1: of celebrity appearances and product endorsements later in life, and
Speaker 1: it seemed to very much, you know, cash in on
Speaker 1: things to a certain extent. Again, God bless him, he
Speaker 1: earned it by that point.
Speaker 2: But time life enchanted world commercials. I think he did
Speaker 2: commercials for what are they called wine? What was that
Speaker 2: brain of wine coolers?
Speaker 1: Yes, where he's dressed like a polar bear. Like. I
Speaker 1: highly recommend anyone out there just do a like a
Speaker 1: YouTube search for Vincent Price commercials and you'll get numerous
Speaker 1: results and they're all great.
Speaker 2: Oh if you find the ones where he's doing wine coolers.
Speaker 2: I don't remember the brand name, but that same brand
Speaker 2: of wine coolers also has commercials with Grace Jones that
Speaker 2: are amazing.
Speaker 1: Ultimately, I would say the Vincent Price pop culture footprint
Speaker 1: is almost just too huge for us to possibly do
Speaker 1: justice here in a single episode. So for my part,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to mention a few of my favorites
Speaker 1: from a few different categories. So, first of all, in film,
Speaker 1: as much as I love this film, again, it is
Speaker 1: kind of weird to cast Vincent Price in a role
Speaker 1: where he doesn't actually speak. I think they're they're you know,
Speaker 1: they are much better examples of him acting both as
Speaker 1: a pure protagonist and also as an antagonist. You know.
Speaker 1: Roger Corman's Mask of the Red Death is a great
Speaker 1: example of him in pure villain mode, while in The
Speaker 1: Tingler we get to see him as a as kind
Speaker 1: of a tortured hero.
Speaker 2: Wait is he a hero?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, he's he's like trying to murder his
Speaker 2: wife and the Tinler.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, yes he was, but didn't he Well wait no,
Speaker 1: I think he's sort he sort of is the hero,
Speaker 1: but he's a bad dude. Is there a film where
Speaker 1: he plays like a pure protagonist?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure there are plenty of The Last Man
Speaker 2: on Earth, which is one of the many film adaptations
Speaker 2: of I Am Legend, Yes, by Richards, one of the
Speaker 2: earlier ones. He's in that and he plays the main character.
Speaker 2: Got how many film adaptations of I Am Legend are there?
Speaker 2: There's the Omega Man, Yeah, there's the one with Will Smith,
Speaker 2: There's the one with Vincent Price. There are at least three,
Speaker 2: but there may be more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think they're they're planning on making more now.
Speaker 1: Vincent Price also did a lot of television. One notable
Speaker 1: thing is he he appeared on Night Gallery I think
Speaker 1: a couple of times, including the nineteen seventy two episode
Speaker 1: The Return of the Sorcerer, which is one of the
Speaker 1: few adaptations of a Clark Ashton Smith short story. When
Speaker 1: it comes to just pure seleting, I'd say his nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy seven appearance on The Muppet Show is pretty stellar.
Speaker 2: That's right in his element. I mean, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Price can act opposite a puppet.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, very well. Though of those Muppet shows, some
Speaker 1: of the if you try and watch them in their entirety,
Speaker 1: some of them can be a little painful at times there.
Speaker 1: I mean there was a it was a Hammy show,
Speaker 1: and you know, not everything holds up all that well.
Speaker 1: But but Price was great on that. Now, when it
Speaker 1: comes to music and spoken word, this is fact. I
Speaker 1: wasn't familiar with the pure scope of this. But if
Speaker 1: you go to discogs dot com, Vincent Price has sixty
Speaker 1: eight listings. To put that into perspective, Christopher Lee only
Speaker 1: had twenty six, which is nothing to sneeze at. But
Speaker 1: sixty eight listings.
Speaker 2: Does that include Christopher Lee's metal albums.
Speaker 1: I think it did. Yeah. Now, I won't pretend to
Speaker 1: have heard even half of the releases from Vincent Price,
Speaker 1: but I've got to go with his excellent spoken word
Speaker 1: bit in nineteen eighty three track thriller that has loads
Speaker 1: of fun, the funk of forty thousand Years. And then
Speaker 1: when it comes to product endorsements again, the Time Life
Speaker 1: Books Enchanted World advertisement is great. But also he did
Speaker 1: run for Monster Vitamins. It's a lot of fun as
Speaker 1: animated monsters in it, and he's talking children's vitamin commercial.
Speaker 1: But you've got Vincent Brice there. Again. We can't go
Speaker 1: through everything that Vincent Price was in, but just to
Speaker 1: mention a few of the big ones. He was in
Speaker 1: The Ten Commandments, he was in House of Wax, The
Speaker 1: fly House, Unhunted Hill. He popped up on the old
Speaker 1: sixties TV Batman series. He's a voice in The Great
Speaker 1: Mouse Detective. He plays the villainous rat in that. And then,
Speaker 1: of course his final feature film appearance is in Edward scissor.
Speaker 2: Hands Rest in Peace Man.
Speaker 1: So Vincent Price is his character. Doctor Five's is listed
Speaker 1: in the end credits to this movie as one of
Speaker 1: two protagonists, which is humorous but also in keeping with
Speaker 1: the strange vibe of the film. The other protagonist is
Speaker 1: listed as Doctor of Vesalius, played by Joseph Cotton. Joseph
Speaker 1: Cotton is another legend star of film, stage, radio, and television,
Speaker 1: lived nineteen oh five through nineteen ninety four, probably best
Speaker 1: remembered for his roles in I think three different Orson
Speaker 1: Wells movies, Citizen Kane in forty one, The Magnificent Amberson's
Speaker 1: and forty two Journey into Fear in forty three. He's
Speaker 1: also known for The Third Man from forty nine. I
Speaker 1: think that was the first first thing I really remember
Speaker 1: him from, though I guess I probably watched Citizen Kane
Speaker 1: around the same time. He was also in nineteen forty
Speaker 1: four's gas Light, which is where we get the term
Speaker 1: gaslighting from, and later on he appeared in such films
Speaker 1: as Soilent Green in seventy three and such Italian films
Speaker 1: as Marcello Alprandi's nineteen seventy six film A Whisper in
Speaker 1: the Dark and Sergio Martino's excellent Island of the fish
Speaker 1: Men aka Screamers excellent son. Anything he's in, it's a
Speaker 1: solid screen presence.
Speaker 2: So in this he plays this character, Doctor Vesalius, who
Speaker 2: is the last of the enemies targeted for revenge by
Speaker 2: doctor Fibes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because this film ultimately follows a pattern that you
Speaker 1: see in a number of different revenge films with kind
Speaker 1: of an anti hero revenge killer at the center is
Speaker 1: he'll have a number of targets, and you'll start with
Speaker 1: the targets that are you either don't know much about
Speaker 1: or who are actively villainous in some way or another,
Speaker 1: and then you work your way towards a character who
Speaker 1: is more relatable, and so you know, it forces you
Speaker 1: to sort of enjoy the early kills but feel conflicted
Speaker 1: about the later kills that are planned. All right, some
Speaker 1: of the other people here, we have Peter Jeffrey in this,
Speaker 1: probably not an actor that a lot of people are
Speaker 1: familiar with. He plays Inspector Harry Trout. He's the hard
Speaker 1: nosed British detective on the case. Ultimately has a lot
Speaker 1: of screen time in this. He lived nineteen twenty nine
Speaker 1: through nineteen ninety nine, and he had roles in such
Speaker 1: films as The Adventures of Baron Muchausen Midnight Express, the
Speaker 1: Return of the Pink Panther, and he played the character
Speaker 1: Count Grindle on Doctor Who, among I think some other
Speaker 1: characters on Doctor Who. He did a lot of TV work.
Speaker 2: This is our main Scotland yard detective trying to solve
Speaker 2: the case of the doctors being murdered in bizarre ways,
Speaker 2: inspector killed or trout.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty fun because at times he comes up
Speaker 1: a little bit comedic. Other times he's just kind of
Speaker 1: just the hard nosed cop trope.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh oh, but we've got to talk about so
Speaker 2: in this movie, doctor Fibes has a sidekick. He has
Speaker 2: an assistant named Vulnavia and she's great.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's played by Virginia North who in my notes
Speaker 1: here I have nineteen forty six through two thousand, nine
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety four. I suspect that I have a
Speaker 1: typo there. And she actually lived to nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 2: Two thousand and four.
Speaker 1: Make that two thousand and four, not twy nine hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety four. Anyway, she was a fashion model who
Speaker 1: only appeared in a handful of titles, including this, which
Speaker 1: was her finer final film, and she also pops up
Speaker 1: in on her Majesty's Secret Service. She wasn't a bond girl, however,
Speaker 1: as the main love interest in that movie was played
Speaker 1: by Diana Rigg.
Speaker 2: The Great Diana rig But yeah, I really enjoy North
Speaker 2: as Velnavia in this movie. This is also both of
Speaker 2: our sort of villain roles. That the killers in this
Speaker 2: movie do not speak directly. Vincent Price only speaks through
Speaker 2: like a tube in his neck plugged into a phonograph
Speaker 2: in some scenes, and Velnavia doesn't speak at all, though
Speaker 2: she does play a mean violin as like doctors are
Speaker 2: being drained of all their blood and she can wield
Speaker 2: a golden axe.
Speaker 1: That's right, So yeah, she's stylish and she's helpful. Now,
Speaker 1: we're not going to list all of the various doctors
Speaker 1: who are murdered by doctor Phibes, but two of them
Speaker 1: are noteworthy. There's a doctor Longstreet played by Terry Thomas. That,
Speaker 1: of course is Terry hyphen Thomas, who lived nineteen eleven
Speaker 1: through nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2: This is one of those guys who you just see
Speaker 2: his face and even if it's a still photograph, you
Speaker 2: can imagine the sounds he's making and there's something like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, he tremendous British comedian and character actor who
Speaker 1: really excelled at playing kind of like kind of like
Speaker 1: bumbling fops and upper crust weirdos. And yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: certain type of role that Terry Thomas just absolutely excelled.
Speaker 2: At in this movie. He's a little bit Harvey Korman,
Speaker 2: but also a little you're gonna balk for a second,
Speaker 2: I think, but a little bit wings Howser.
Speaker 1: Well. He definitely choose the scenes with a wings howser
Speaker 1: Ian intensity. Terry Thomas was in a low oads of stuff,
Speaker 1: but I'd say probably the biggest film he was in
Speaker 1: the most well known as perhaps It's a Mad, Mad,
Speaker 1: Mad Mad World from sixty three. He also pops up
Speaker 1: in Danger Diabolic from sixty eight, which is another highly
Speaker 1: stylish film, and that one was of course featured on
Speaker 1: Mystery Science Theater three thousand. He was also a great
Speaker 1: voice actor. If you've seen Walt Disney's Robin Hood, the
Speaker 1: animated Robin Hood with all the animal characters from nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy three, he is the voice of Sir Hiss the Snake.
Speaker 2: He's sort of the toady to the cowardly lion Prince.
Speaker 1: I believe so yes, all right, another doctor. We have
Speaker 1: doctor Hargreaves, played by Alex Scott. Alex Scott was in
Speaker 1: Next of Ken from nineteen eighty two, which we just
Speaker 1: covered on a Weird House Cinema, so I won't go
Speaker 1: into detail about him, but you know, if you want
Speaker 1: to hear more about Alex Scott, we discuss him in
Speaker 1: the cast section for our previous episode.
Speaker 2: He was the doctor in Next of Ken. Yes, he
Speaker 2: was the doctor, and he's a doctor in this one too. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: still doing in this one he's a psychiatrist, right he
Speaker 2: puts on the frog mask.
Speaker 1: Now another small but fun roll. We have Hugh Griffith
Speaker 1: popping up playing a rabbi who's called in or called
Speaker 1: upon by the inspectors to give some expert advice on
Speaker 1: some of the clues they've discovered. Griffith lived nineteen twelve
Speaker 1: through nineteen eighty a Welsh actor who actually won a
Speaker 1: Best Supporting Oscar Actor Oscar in nineteen sixty for ben
Speaker 1: Her Now the next oh, this is one where I
Speaker 1: think you. I don't think she was actually credited originally
Speaker 1: on this film, but you might say that this film
Speaker 1: also stars a photograph of Carolyn Monroe.
Speaker 2: That's right when we actually see so she plays doctor
Speaker 2: Fib's deceased wife, and at some point later in the
Speaker 2: movie we actually see her dead body. But I don't
Speaker 2: think that's Carolyn Monroe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's just photographs offtware that are used,
Speaker 1: which is interesting, especially since since she did go on
Speaker 1: to she wasn't a number of films. She was a
Speaker 1: pent up model, an actress who I think ultimately stole.
Speaker 1: Seems to have stolen many, like seventies film nerds Heart
Speaker 1: because she pops up in films like The Spy Loved
Speaker 1: Me from seventy seven, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad from
Speaker 1: seventy three, Captain Krono's Vampire Hunter from seventy four, at
Speaker 1: the Earth's Core from seventy six, Star Crash from seventy eight,
Speaker 1: Star Crash, Yeah, Star Crash, Dracula AD nineteen seventy two
Speaker 1: from nineteen seventy two, and then she was in some
Speaker 1: stuff in the eighties of note like a Maniac and
Speaker 1: Slaughter High. But yeah, this is it barely counts as
Speaker 1: an appearance. Like you could say that Rita Hayworth is
Speaker 1: just as much an acting component in Shawsnitshank Redemption as
Speaker 1: Carolyn Monroe is actually a cast member of this film.
Speaker 2: Though her photo does get a lot of screen time,
Speaker 2: as we have multiple scenes of Vincent Price just worshiping
Speaker 2: a headshot of Carolyn Monroe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all but praying to her.
Speaker 2: You know. Another tie into a recent episode of the
Speaker 2: show with Beastmaster two. Apparently Carolyn Monroe was at some
Speaker 2: point in the running to play the character Ursa in
Speaker 2: Superman the Villain from the planet Krypton, the part that
Speaker 2: eventually went to the actress Sarah Douglas, who played the
Speaker 2: sorceress in Beastmaster Two and who I thought was by
Speaker 2: far the best part of that movie. But I think
Speaker 2: Monroe turned down the role in Superman so she could
Speaker 2: be in that Roger Moore movie.
Speaker 1: I don't have a real clear memory of that Bond
Speaker 1: movie other than Who Loved Me. Yeah, that's the one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the first one with Jaws. It established Jows, but
Speaker 1: it's in that regard it's just a necessary precursor to Moonraker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. So that one was actually well regarded
Speaker 2: by critics when it came out. If you watch it now,
Speaker 2: it's you know, like all those Roger Moore movies is
Speaker 2: extreme cheesy. I recall that one also being one of
Speaker 2: the ones with the most just evil James Bond in it.
Speaker 2: Like I recall, there's a scene where some assassins trying
Speaker 2: to shoot at him, and he's like kissing a woman
Speaker 2: and then he literally just turns and uses her as
Speaker 2: a human shield block the bullet from the assassin. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think it's implied that she's in on, she's like
Speaker 2: setting a trap for him, but still like, come on, dude,
Speaker 2: that's pretty rough. Yeah, so that's a mean Roger Moore
Speaker 2: James Bond though. Yeah, it has some good stuff about it.
Speaker 2: The villain in it likes to feed people to sharks
Speaker 2: because of course, or that's the guy he's got like
Speaker 2: a gun under the long table. I think that's also
Speaker 2: the one where it's the first one with Jaws in it,
Speaker 2: and Jaws gets thrown to some sharks, but he defeats
Speaker 2: the sharks by biting them.
Speaker 1: He bites the shark. Yes, okay, see, I mostly remember
Speaker 1: it for Jaws.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the music on this one. The music
Speaker 1: for this film, though a number of differ songs are
Speaker 1: featured in it. The actual scores composed by Basil Kirchen,
Speaker 1: who lived nineteen twenty seven through two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: a British composer and musician responsible for the scores of
Speaker 1: such films as sixty seven's The Shuttered Room starring Oliver Reed.
Speaker 1: This movie the nineteen seventy four movie The Freak Master,
Speaker 1: which I've been tempted to watch for this show. It's
Speaker 1: kind of a seventies take on Todd Browning's Freaks, and
Speaker 1: it has Donald Pleasance, Tom Baker, and Brad Harris in it.
Speaker 2: Oh well, I like that cast list, but something about
Speaker 2: the idea of a seventies take on freaks does not
Speaker 2: appeal to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this probably what's kind of held me back. I
Speaker 1: know it has I think Tom Baker plays like a giant,
Speaker 1: like a tall mutant character, and there's like a plant
Speaker 1: man in it. So it's got some attractive elements to it,
Speaker 1: plus Donald pleasants. But yeah, I haven't actually watched it yet.
Speaker 1: I've had it, like you know, in the playlist ready
Speaker 1: to go Now. Kirchin did not return for Fibes two,
Speaker 1: but he's he's pretty interesting. Fellow was looking into him
Speaker 1: a bit he came up in big band, but then
Speaker 1: he also got into electronic music and experimental music and
Speaker 1: tape manipulation, and so you've had a number of individuals
Speaker 1: have pointed to him as an important influence, like Brian
Speaker 1: Eno Broadcast. Also Nurse with Wound. That's the project from
Speaker 1: Stephen Stapleton. If you're not familiar with Nurse with Wound,
Speaker 1: it's a kind of an early industrial but also kind
Speaker 1: of noise, weird musical project that I have to say,
Speaker 1: I like Nurse with Wound, and then there's a lot
Speaker 1: of Nurse with Wound music that I cannot listen to,
Speaker 1: and if you played it for me, I would say,
Speaker 1: I hate that, Please don't play it. But then there's
Speaker 1: other stuff that's really solid, So I don't know. If
Speaker 1: you're gonna check something out, I would say check out Thunder,
Speaker 1: Perfect Mind or rock and roll Station. So I think
Speaker 1: the five score kind of reflects some of these elements.
Speaker 1: There's certainly a lot of big band notes as well,
Speaker 1: of course, and then we have all this organ music
Speaker 1: and other tracks that are featured. It gets a little
Speaker 1: noisy and per percussive in places, especially when things are
Speaker 1: getting weird or they want to amp up at tension,
Speaker 1: but it didn't really get like Nurse with Wound levels
Speaker 1: of strange. But this score is often held up as
Speaker 1: an excellent genre score, though it's again it's kind of
Speaker 1: a unique beast. It's widely available in all formats, though
Speaker 1: I think most of the vinyl out there is older.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any evidence of any like super cool
Speaker 1: re releases from recent years.
Speaker 2: Though. I would emphasize that the music in this movie
Speaker 2: is a kind of hybrid products because on one level
Speaker 2: you've got this weird score, but then you also have
Speaker 2: a lot of directly diegetic music taking place on the
Speaker 2: screen that's like jazzy big band numbers and old sort
Speaker 2: of Kruner standards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and finally, since this is such a visually luscious movie,
Speaker 1: we have to mention the set designer Brian eat Well,
Speaker 1: who lived nineteen thirty nine through two thousand and seven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the sets in this movie are just to die for.
Speaker 1: So props to eat Well and everyone else involved in
Speaker 1: creating these weird interiors. He was a British production designer
Speaker 1: and art director. He designed the sets for both Doctor
Speaker 1: Fib's movies as well. He also served as production designer
Speaker 1: on such films as the nineteen seventy one Australian movie
Speaker 1: Walk About, nineteen seventy three's Godspell, The Three Musketeers and
Speaker 1: the Four Musketeers from seventy three and seventy four, nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy six is The Man Who Fell to Earth starring
Speaker 1: David Bowie seventy eight, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,
Speaker 1: The Onion Field in seventy nine, and the nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: one Killer Lion movie Savage Harvest.
Speaker 2: See seventy three. Guy, I guess there was only one
Speaker 2: movie adaptation of Godspell? Is that with Victor Garber?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I assume this is. This is as far as
Speaker 1: far as I know, the Godspell. This is the one
Speaker 1: I've seen, and it does have I can see the
Speaker 1: connection here, Like there's a between this this, this Broadway this,
Speaker 1: you know, this weird Broadway musical brought to life and
Speaker 1: the you know, the visual elements that are in play
Speaker 1: in Godspell, like they compare reasonably well to some of
Speaker 1: the sensibilities we see in Doctor Fibes.
Speaker 2: Though Fibes never wears the Superman shirt. No, all right,
Speaker 2: you want to talk about the plot.
Speaker 1: Hello, let's talk about this plot.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it starts very strong. You know, lights come
Speaker 2: up on baroque organ music, and you see a player
Speaker 2: in a hood and cloak. So this black hood, it's
Speaker 2: kind of shiny. The cloak almost looks like it is
Speaker 2: wet or oily. Maybe that's just the material. But the
Speaker 2: the organ player is sitting at the instrument and then
Speaker 2: being like raised up on as if on an elevator.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is this, Yeah, this elevator powered super moody
Speaker 1: organ of the super villain organ playing area. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a familiar trope. It's very Phantom of
Speaker 1: the Opera, but then just played up tremendously. You know,
Speaker 1: the visuals of this are just again just just so luscious.
Speaker 2: And then like the movie just starts at maximum WTF,
Speaker 2: like how to describe what comes next? And it's a
Speaker 2: recurring theme. But so the organ player plays while the
Speaker 2: credits roll, and then he gets up and he descends
Speaker 2: a staircase and the camera pulls back to reveal what
Speaker 2: appears to be a musical ensemble made of embodied humanoid
Speaker 2: automata like the Rock of Fire explosion, like Chuck E
Speaker 2: Cheese or Showbiz Pizza but instead of having banjo bears
Speaker 2: and cool rats, they are tuxedo dudes in Michael Meyer's masks,
Speaker 2: and they're all playing tubas and drums and stuff. And
Speaker 2: then he conducts them as if they were an orchestra.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the the drum informs us what the name
Speaker 1: of this group is. It's Doctor Five's Clockwork Wizards. So
Speaker 1: it's it's already off to a tremendous start, like this
Speaker 1: is a film that's so bold and it's stylish weirdness
Speaker 1: that we just kick things off with an extended horror
Speaker 1: pipe organ number in this underground nightclub. And then we're
Speaker 1: getting no dialogue, no real you know, human faces or
Speaker 1: human voices or anything, just like pure performative weirdness.
Speaker 2: Yes, and it commits so hard, like it goes on
Speaker 2: like you're saying, without dialogue for a while. So the
Speaker 2: organist in the in the cloak steps back, and then
Speaker 2: there's a whole dance number. Virginia North comes out in
Speaker 2: this amazing I don't know what to call the sugar
Speaker 2: plum fairy costume. Like she's wearing this weird white dress
Speaker 2: with a strange golden vertical crown on her head, and
Speaker 2: they dance together while the while the robots play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's just it's tremendous, like it just it
Speaker 1: just sucks you absolutely and you're like, it's and it
Speaker 1: works on so many levels, Like it sets the tone
Speaker 1: for a film where it's really hard to have expectations
Speaker 1: about what's going to happen because you're not entirely sure
Speaker 1: what this film's values are. I kept thinking about that.
Speaker 1: It ultimately made the the you know, the last twenty
Speaker 1: minutes of the film extra terrifying for me because it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what how a film like this ends.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it considers a proper ending, because
Speaker 1: it feels like it's from another dimension.
Speaker 2: Can we stop, though and describe the set in this
Speaker 2: room because they will return to it many times throughout
Speaker 2: the throughout the movie, I was calling this the total
Speaker 2: party house because of course you have the ensemble there
Speaker 2: and and it's it's sort of always a party when
Speaker 2: when the when the autometer playing, but it's it's like
Speaker 2: a room with a giant I guess marble floor and
Speaker 2: then uh like balcony levels surrounding it all around, and
Speaker 2: what are some of the things in there, like there's
Speaker 2: a table on one side of the room that has
Speaker 2: all of these busts or the upper parts of mannikins.
Speaker 2: I think there are nine of them, each one with
Speaker 2: a ceiling lamp hanging over it that I think they're
Speaker 2: supposed to be made of wax or something like. We
Speaker 2: see them melting later. And the organ is up on
Speaker 2: the stage at one end of the room. The room
Speaker 2: is decorated with all these satin curtains and these paintings
Speaker 2: on the columns leading up to the balcony with like
Speaker 2: these I don't know what you like, like pharaoh heads
Speaker 2: and weird symbols. Yeah, it's a trip, Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: It is a space that, you know, it feels performative.
Speaker 1: It feels like a like a nightclub, but it also
Speaker 1: feels like a temple, and it is kind of like
Speaker 1: his temple to holy revenge, a temple to it's to
Speaker 1: his love for his departed wife. Those heads represent each
Speaker 1: of the victims that he is going to kill, the
Speaker 1: objects of his revenge. So it's yeah, it's it's It
Speaker 1: has a real, you know, strong ritualistic and performative vibe
Speaker 1: to it.
Speaker 2: Well, after the dance is over, the guy in the cloak.
Speaker 2: He goes to operate a chain pulley, and I guess
Speaker 2: we can refer to these characters because we know who
Speaker 2: they're going to be. This is doctor Fibes Involvania, and
Speaker 2: so he goes to operate a chain pulley in the
Speaker 2: middle of the room and it lowers something that looks
Speaker 2: like a shrouded bird cage into a subfloor basement, and
Speaker 2: then Volvania goes down to the subfloor and tends to
Speaker 2: she kind of straps it onto I think a trailer
Speaker 2: on the back of a car. She straps it down
Speaker 2: with a leather belt, and then they get into the
Speaker 2: car and drive away, and we see them driving the
Speaker 2: car and it's the funniest shot. So Volvania is I
Speaker 2: don't think that's supposed to be her hair. Maybe it is.
Speaker 2: She's got her head is covered in this big ball
Speaker 2: of fur, and I guess it's supposed to be a
Speaker 2: fur cap.
Speaker 1: I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Fibes is sitting in the back seat being chauffeured
Speaker 2: with just like wearing the black hood and with the
Speaker 2: stalking over his face, so he's just you know, faceless terror.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's worth noting that both of these characters have
Speaker 1: so many different costume changes that revenge. They say, revenge
Speaker 1: is a dish Beth serve cold. But that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you can't style it up. That means doesn't mean you
Speaker 1: can't change your cloak frequently, that you can't engage in
Speaker 1: any number of rituals. Yeah, they're heavy into this vengeance game.
Speaker 2: So they're headed out somewhere and we cut to a
Speaker 2: bedroom we assume is where they're headed. It's the guy
Speaker 2: in a lavish bedchamber with I don't know, fancy stuff
Speaker 2: all over the walls, like paintings of horses and markers
Speaker 2: to indicate this is a rich guy. But then in
Speaker 2: the ceiling above this guy's bed, a skylight in the
Speaker 2: ceiling opens up and we see fibes in Wolvania lowering
Speaker 2: in that bird cage from earlier, and then they retract it.
Speaker 2: They pull it back up with a trapdoor in the
Speaker 2: bottom of the cage hanging open, so it seems they've
Speaker 2: released something into the room. And this is the first
Speaker 2: murder of the movie.
Speaker 1: That's right, it's gonna be death by fruit bat, just
Speaker 1: like in the Old Testament.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll get into the biblical accuracy maybe a little bit.
Speaker 2: I don't know about that. But so the guy in bed,
Speaker 2: he is attacked by bats. They're like bats crawling on
Speaker 2: him and he's like h. And then we do the
Speaker 2: intro in reverse, the cloaked figure and Volvania. They return home,
Speaker 2: they turn off the Michael Meyers rock fire band and
Speaker 2: then he descends into the floor playing his organ. But
Speaker 2: the next morning, in the bedroom of the victim, we
Speaker 2: get to see some Butler action. Butler comes in with
Speaker 2: eggs on toast and like a bat lands on the
Speaker 2: eggs and there are bats everywhere and the guy's face
Speaker 2: we see him laying in bed. It has been fully oatmealified.
Speaker 1: Yeah, death by free bat.
Speaker 2: And then we see the first of a ritual that
Speaker 2: will repeat throughout the movie, which is that doctor Fibes
Speaker 2: back at his party house. He puts a appendant with
Speaker 2: a significant looking symbol on it on one of the
Speaker 2: heads of the mannequins or the busts on the edge
Speaker 2: of the big concert hall room, and then he burns
Speaker 2: the face of the bust with a candle. But the
Speaker 2: next morning we get to see the police investigating, and
Speaker 2: the police are they're played for comedy in this movie.
Speaker 2: They're all bumbling. One of them says, it's a strange business.
Speaker 2: Tom a man literally shredded to death right in the
Speaker 2: heart of London. We find out that the victim was
Speaker 2: a medical doctor, and the police noticed something. They noticed
Speaker 2: that this vicious fruit bat shredding is similar to the
Speaker 2: recent death of another doctor in town who was killed
Speaker 2: by a swarm of bees in his library, and they say,
Speaker 2: almost turning to look at the camera, they say, his
Speaker 2: face looked as if it were covered in boils.
Speaker 1: And that will be important shortly.
Speaker 2: So then we go back to the Total party house
Speaker 2: and we see Vincent Price putting on his face. We
Speaker 2: don't know what doctor Fib's real face looks like, but
Speaker 2: once he does a bunch of stuff to it, he
Speaker 2: looks like Vincent Price. And I love this. I love
Speaker 2: everything about it. I love the weird sets. I love
Speaker 2: Vincent Price with shaggy ringo hair, and I love how
Speaker 2: they make Vincent Price's actual face look like a sagging
Speaker 2: rubber mask on his head.
Speaker 1: They do, Yeah, they give him this really waxy color,
Speaker 1: and yeah, they add some other little elements to it.
Speaker 1: And he also, you know, of course it's Vincent Price.
Speaker 1: So he has a great mustache but also really nice sideburns.
Speaker 2: Yes, but also dark rings under his eyes always.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he looks very, very haunted like. Even though
Speaker 1: he's not in pure monster mode right now, he still
Speaker 1: looks kind of monstrous and unnatural.
Speaker 2: But the movie wastes no time. It is immediately on
Speaker 2: to the next Doctor Murder, so we meet doctor Hargraves again.
Speaker 2: He's he's at some swanky party where it's like fancy
Speaker 2: people all wearing animal masks of some kind, and Price
Speaker 2: is there in a mask. He gives a frog mask
Speaker 2: to doctor Hargraves. Doctor Hargraves seems to just accept it
Speaker 2: and Vincent Price helps him put it on. He like
Speaker 2: does the catch on it, and Hargraves introduces himself. He says,
Speaker 2: I'm a psychiatrist, you know, a headshrinker. But uh oh,
Speaker 2: this frog mask, it's a it's a track from Saw.
Speaker 2: It's like a head crushing action mask where it just
Speaker 2: keeps ratcheting itself tighter. And the doctor staggers around trying
Speaker 2: to get help from a drunken lizard and some oaf
Speaker 2: and a pig mask, but there's no way of saving him.
Speaker 2: He just his head is crushed and he lays there
Speaker 2: with the frog mask and blood coming out of it
Speaker 2: while people in horsehead masks and other weird costumes look
Speaker 2: on in amazement.
Speaker 1: So counting the offscreen death, that's like the third death.
Speaker 2: So three down right, And we get a rundown of
Speaker 2: this by the police in the next scene because there's
Speaker 2: a scene at Scotland Yard with cops. They're talking about
Speaker 2: how they don't want this story about animal themed doctor
Speaker 2: murders to get out to the press. There's something that
Speaker 2: characters say multiple times in this movie. They're like, medical
Speaker 2: men die all the time.
Speaker 1: I mean true, is because human beings die all the time,
Speaker 1: but under suspicious circumstances with animal themes. I don't know
Speaker 1: that that's like statistically a thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So Inspector Trout is he's tracking now, He's like,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, bats, bees and frogs, so what's going
Speaker 2: on here? But then it's immediately on to the next
Speaker 2: doctor murder. It's just they're coming thick and fast, and
Speaker 2: the next one is doctor Longstreet. Is this Terry Thomas.
Speaker 1: This is Terry Thomas, And it is such a Terry
Speaker 1: Thomas scene.
Speaker 2: So when we first meet him, he's immediately furtively ripping
Speaker 2: into a cylindrical parcel. I think he doesn't want his
Speaker 2: housekeeper to see what he's doing. And he's acting all
Speaker 2: sweaty and squirrely, and he appears to What's going on
Speaker 2: is that he seems to have received a canister of
Speaker 2: racy film reels from the East and he plans to
Speaker 2: watch them on his rattling projector while absolutely chugging red
Speaker 2: wine tonight, since the housekeeper is going to be out
Speaker 2: for the evening. Yeah, and this is the part, so
Speaker 2: we're watching, you know, he puts on his film reel
Speaker 2: and he's watching. It's of like a lady dancing with
Speaker 2: a snake.
Speaker 1: Yes, and it's like a belly dancing snake dance kind
Speaker 1: of a film, you know, but also a very old film.
Speaker 1: This is not something that well, you know. It brings
Speaker 1: me back to the question, I'm not sure exactly what
Speaker 1: when this film is supposed to be taking place. It's
Speaker 1: not supposed to take place in the seventies.
Speaker 2: No, I think it's supposed to take place in like
Speaker 2: the twenties probably.
Speaker 1: Okay, so maybe it is a current film that he
Speaker 1: has acquired here.
Speaker 2: Okay, but yeah, Terry Thomas, he is a dirty chap
Speaker 2: and he looks a little bit Wingshauser ish. Here he's
Speaker 2: watching inappropriate film reels, chugging red wine out of a
Speaker 2: sniffer and like licking his lips so that he's just
Speaker 2: being gross.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's a great scene.
Speaker 2: But then uh oh, here comes of course, doctor Fibes
Speaker 2: and Volvania show up at his house. You know, they
Speaker 2: walk in and he's just kind of like, huh, what's
Speaker 2: going on? And while they sit him down in a chair,
Speaker 2: strap him in and then drain out all of his blood.
Speaker 1: Yep, put it in bottles up there on the they're
Speaker 1: about the fireplace. I believe we're on a shelf. So
Speaker 1: that's four doctors down.
Speaker 2: But this one kind of breaks the animal theme. This
Speaker 2: one is blood. Huh, what's going on? But the police
Speaker 2: put together a different pattern. They figure out that all
Speaker 2: four of these doctors worked for another doctor named doctor Vesalius,
Speaker 2: and this is Joseph Cotton, and so Inspector Trout goes
Speaker 2: to his house to meet him and see if he
Speaker 2: can make any sense of this, and I like how
Speaker 2: when he gets there, Vasilius's teenage son Limb, is very
Speaker 2: impressed by the presence of Scotland yard. Yes, and Vasilius's
Speaker 2: house looks like a hair salon.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's so stylish, so stylish. There's like, you know,
Speaker 1: African masks on the wall. There's this like satyr statue
Speaker 1: with a light above.
Speaker 2: It, shiny surfaces everywhere, potted plants, mirrors on the walls,
Speaker 2: and a lot of fancy chairs just lined up along
Speaker 2: the walls. Does his house have a waiting room? I
Speaker 2: don't know. But doctor Vesalius we see is a model
Speaker 2: train guy. Rails and train cars are scattered all over
Speaker 2: the floor. When Trout shows up and Trout fills him in,
Speaker 2: he's like, Okay, here's what's going on. And he's like,
Speaker 2: do you know why someone would want to kill all
Speaker 2: of your associates? And of course Vassilius has no idea.
Speaker 2: He again, he says the same thing as the guy earlier.
Speaker 2: He's like, men in my profession die every day of
Speaker 2: the year. I don't know how often, in like frog
Speaker 2: related deaths though, But yeah, But anyway, when the police
Speaker 2: find out about the the Long Street murder here, they
Speaker 2: get a clue, which is the pendant left behind the scene.
Speaker 2: Doctor Fibes actually drops the pendant there by accident, and
Speaker 2: so they find it. They take it back to a goldsmith,
Speaker 2: the person who made it, and the goldsmith tells them, Yep,
Speaker 2: this is an ambulance. I made ten of them. It
Speaker 2: was a lady who ordered them. And Trout is like,
Speaker 2: was she smart? And then he says fashionable.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's a fun scene because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: goofy back and forth between these two characters.
Speaker 2: But the jeweler informs Trout that the sign on the
Speaker 2: ambulant is something requested by the person who bought them,
Speaker 2: and it's a symbol in Hebrew. So the inspector then
Speaker 2: has a new clue and takes it to a rabbi
Speaker 2: to get the run down, and here we get a
Speaker 2: major exposition scene. So the rabbi tells him that the
Speaker 2: symbol is Hebrew for blood, and ah, okay, this makes
Speaker 2: sense because Longstreet drained of all blood. But it's also
Speaker 2: notable for being one of the ten plagues of Egypt,
Speaker 2: of course, turning the Nile into blood, and so here
Speaker 2: we get a speech about the ten plagues of Egypt.
Speaker 2: So this is from the story of the Exodus in
Speaker 2: the Torah, and the context is that the Jews are
Speaker 2: in bondage in Egypt, and God keeps sending plagues against
Speaker 2: Egypt to force the pharaoh to release them. Here we
Speaker 2: get a list of the plagues which are in order.
Speaker 2: And I'm not saying these are necessarily the correct plagues.
Speaker 2: This is what the movie says. Says they are boils, bats, frogs, blood, rats, hail, beasts, locusts,
Speaker 2: death of the firstborn, and darkness.
Speaker 1: All right, we've had the first four, so we're almost
Speaker 1: halfway through.
Speaker 2: I feel like I must flag as kind of a
Speaker 2: Bible nerd like compare that to the actual list in
Speaker 2: a good translation of Exodus. I don't think that really matches,
Speaker 2: but anyway, so we get more scenes with doctor Fibes
Speaker 2: back at the party house, and this is where we
Speaker 2: first see him speaking to a shrine of the image
Speaker 2: of a woman. We find out his wife. This is
Speaker 2: the one played by the photo of Carolyn Monroe against
Speaker 2: Stella Star, and he's like worshiping this headshot of her.
Speaker 2: He's got a whole table I think of her belongings
Speaker 2: laid out. And we mentioned earlier that Vincent Price never
Speaker 2: actually speaks out of his mouth in this movie, so
Speaker 2: the only times he talks are by plugging a phonograph
Speaker 2: into a jack in the back of his neck, and
Speaker 2: this connects to another weird scene later where he looks
Speaker 2: it looks like he's drinking a beverage by pouring it
Speaker 2: into the back of his neck.
Speaker 1: Yes, At one point he tastes something he's mixed up
Speaker 1: on his finger by like sticking his finger back there
Speaker 1: to where they're when we never see it, but presumably
Speaker 1: there's some sort of a mouth hole back there that
Speaker 1: has been I don't know if it's surgical or technological,
Speaker 1: but not knowing for sure makes it all the more impressive.
Speaker 2: When he's tasting something, is that the Brussels sprout goo.
Speaker 1: Yes, the Brussels sprout.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that. But this also provides some exposition
Speaker 2: because talking through the phonograph, he gives this whole fiery
Speaker 2: speech and he says, nine killed you, nine shall die,
Speaker 2: nine eternities in doom. But we also get some exposition
Speaker 2: on the other side with doctor Vesalius and the police.
Speaker 2: So he and Trout do some research and they figure
Speaker 2: out that there was actually only one case where Vesalius
Speaker 2: worked with all of the doctors who are now dead,
Speaker 2: and that was on one patient named Victoria Regina Fibes,
Speaker 2: and we get the whole backstory. So she had some
Speaker 2: medical emergency they were operating on her. Her husband was
Speaker 2: someone named doctor Anton Fibes. And as Anton Fibes was
Speaker 2: racing to the hospital where his wife was in surgery,
Speaker 2: his car went off a cliff and exploded and he
Speaker 2: was incinerated or was he? And the reason from this Okay,
Speaker 2: so the rest of the surgical team that worked on
Speaker 2: this case of Victoria Fibes, they all need to be
Speaker 2: put under police protection, but the police don't really get
Speaker 2: there fast enough for most of them. Because the next
Speaker 2: scene is where Vincent Price uses an air conditioner in
Speaker 2: a car to kill a guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, like this in the carriage there, they
Speaker 1: just kind of like pull him over, take incapacitate the driver,
Speaker 1: and then just hook him up to the AC and
Speaker 1: freeze him solid.
Speaker 2: And there's like snow blowing in his face from this machine. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: And this one there's a scene too that's very feels
Speaker 1: very Avengers and in its weirdness, you know, because we
Speaker 1: got like a little bit of super science that in weirdness,
Speaker 1: and we're also getting into that territory here too with
Speaker 1: our villain. Where our villain is. He's not incapable of air.
Speaker 1: We saw him drop the amulet earlier, but he's really
Speaker 1: thought out everything and is a man of multiple talents,
Speaker 1: a real villainous polymath.
Speaker 2: Yes. In fact, the very next scene we start to
Speaker 2: learn about all of his different expertise. So first of all,
Speaker 2: we get a clue for Scotland Yard, which comes from
Speaker 2: doctor Vesalius's son Lim, who says he was in the
Speaker 2: music shop, I think, talking to the owner there about
Speaker 2: the great organists, and he just happens to name some
Speaker 2: of the great organists off hand, Bridges, Drew and Fibes.
Speaker 2: And so they're like, oh, oh, I see doctor Anton Fibes.
Speaker 2: He was a great organist, and he's apparently been paying
Speaker 2: the local organ shop guy recently, even though he's supposed
Speaker 2: to be dead. So they take a trip out to
Speaker 2: the crypt where mister and missus Fibes were supposedly laid
Speaker 2: to rest, and we get more discussion about his background.
Speaker 2: They say, okay, he's not only a concert organist, he's
Speaker 2: also a PhD in theology, And I thought this was hilarious.
Speaker 2: Inspector Trout is like, that would explain his knowledge of
Speaker 2: the ten Plagues of Ea seems like rather basic knowledge.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not really a deep cut.
Speaker 2: But another really weird thing here is that wait a minute, Okay,
Speaker 2: so Fibes is a concert organist and a PhD in theology.
Speaker 2: I started to wonder, that is a really weird coincidence
Speaker 2: if this is not supposed to be a play on
Speaker 2: Albert Schweitzer. But I don't know why else that would be.
Speaker 2: So do you know anything about Schweitzer.
Speaker 1: I didn't know a lot about him until you mentioned
Speaker 1: the possible connection, and I read like just a basic
Speaker 1: bio on him. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, He's an interesting figure who was a medical doctor,
Speaker 2: a concert organist, and one of the most important scholars
Speaker 2: ever of the New Testament. He's largely responsible in a
Speaker 2: historical Jesus scholarship for putting forward probably the reigning historical
Speaker 2: understanding of Jesus today, which is that he was an
Speaker 2: apocalyptic Jewish prophet, somebody who is predicting the imminent end
Speaker 2: of the world. But I was just thinking, like, it
Speaker 2: doesn't make a lot of sense otherwise, But it would
Speaker 2: be that is such a weirdly specific thing. An organist
Speaker 2: and a PhD in theology.
Speaker 1: I don't know, so yeah, I mean it makes sense.
Speaker 1: It's one way to flesh out your villain. Pick a
Speaker 1: pick an historical figure and say what if we made
Speaker 1: them into a supervillain, if if they were a supervillain,
Speaker 1: what would it be like?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, I don't know, strange choice, but interesting anyway.
Speaker 2: At the crypt we've got, you know, so they well,
Speaker 2: let's just pop open these coffins and have us looks here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no official process here. They just just rip them.
Speaker 2: Open, just pop them open. Yeah. So they pop open
Speaker 2: the Doctor Fibes tomb. It has only ashes in it,
Speaker 2: but whose ashes we don't know. They pop open the
Speaker 2: Missus Fibes tomb, nothing, completely empty. One of the next
Speaker 2: scenes I recall is Inspector Trout back at the office
Speaker 2: receiving just a whacking chew out from his superiors. They
Speaker 2: you know, he's what what is that? Do you remember
Speaker 2: this boss's name? The guy who's yelling at him for
Speaker 2: like a minute straight.
Speaker 1: I believe this is James Grout just playing sergeant. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong on that, but but it's a it's
Speaker 1: it's a real fun role because he's Yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: real he's a real hard ass.
Speaker 2: Yeah he's he's demanding that they solve the case immediately.
Speaker 2: You know, we can't have these weird doctor murders just
Speaker 2: hanging out there because there was public outcry and that's
Speaker 2: falling on me. And the Big Boss also yells at
Speaker 2: Trout for not wearing his suit jacket inside. He's a
Speaker 2: real stickler. And then we get another doctor murder scene.
Speaker 2: This one I thought was kind of strange, but it
Speaker 2: was the rat attack in the planes. One of the
Speaker 2: doctors is an amateur pilot. He takes his plane up
Speaker 2: and then while in there, I guess they, I guess
Speaker 2: doctor Fibes and Wilvania have put rats in the plane.
Speaker 2: The rats attack him, and then he crashes the plane.
Speaker 1: I guess part of it's the sequential nature of this
Speaker 1: and also the britishness of it. But I was reminded
Speaker 1: of Psychomania a lot in this, because it's a whole
Speaker 1: section in Psychomania where you have all the bikers trying
Speaker 1: to kill themselves in unique ways. They can come back
Speaker 1: as undead bikers, and there's kind of like each one's
Speaker 1: more ridiculous than the last.
Speaker 2: That is a great sequence. Oh psychomania. Oh, that's also
Speaker 2: one of the best, I.
Speaker 1: Think, speaking of the best, oh, the next murder, Oh
Speaker 1: it maybe it's one of the cheapest where you're kind
Speaker 1: of like, I don't know, fivees, you're kind of really
Speaker 1: stretching the theme here. But on the other level, like
Speaker 1: absolutely top marks for creativity and style.
Speaker 2: So the police have not been able to protect any
Speaker 2: of the doctors yet, so they finally get to the
Speaker 2: next one before Fibes can. They're at his Gentleman's club
Speaker 2: in London, I guess, and they're like, okay, we're going
Speaker 2: to take you into protective custody. We'll make sure nothing
Speaker 2: happens to you. So they're walking out of the club
Speaker 2: and as they open the door, you just hear like
Speaker 2: an arrow hitting the target sound effect, and he has
Speaker 2: been pierced through with the horn of a brass unicorn.
Speaker 2: Yes as oh when they say it was fired from
Speaker 2: a catapult.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is one of those moments in the
Speaker 1: village just reminds you like, don't try and think too
Speaker 1: forensically about this motion picture. If you're like, well, how
Speaker 1: did they get a cat they lay a catapult trap there,
Speaker 1: and how did they work out the aerodynamics of launching
Speaker 1: like this brass unicorn at this guy. They well, just
Speaker 1: don't worry about that. Just trust us. It happened.
Speaker 2: The unicorn horn has a spiral pattern on it, and
Speaker 2: they have to unscrew the guy from the wall. They
Speaker 2: show like his feet going around.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's such great gallows humor. I love it.
Speaker 2: But then so you've got this extremely silly scene, and
Speaker 2: then right after it there's kind of a serious scene
Speaker 2: where Fibes is he's again worshiping the headshot of Carolyn Monroe.
Speaker 2: But in this one he recites part of a wonderful
Speaker 2: love poem by John Dunn, The Good Morrow.
Speaker 1: Do you know this one, Rob, I wasn't familiar with
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 2: You might remember lines from it, you know, people might
Speaker 2: have read it at school, and sometimes it has the
Speaker 2: lines if ever, any beauty I did see which I
Speaker 2: desired and got twas but a dream of the Well.
Speaker 2: He doesn't say those lines in the movie. Instead, he
Speaker 2: quotes some lines from the last stands of the poem.
Speaker 2: He quotes them out of order. So the last stanza
Speaker 2: is my face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
Speaker 2: and true plain hearts do in the faces rest? Where
Speaker 2: can we find two better hemispheres without sharp north, without
Speaker 2: declining west? Whatever dies was not mixed equally. If our
Speaker 2: two loves be one, or thou and I love so alike,
Speaker 2: that none do slacken, none can die. It's a great poem.
Speaker 2: But he so he reads the first four lines of
Speaker 2: that stanza, but he reads lines three and four and
Speaker 2: then one and two, so the ones about the hemispheres,
Speaker 2: and then in the Face's Rest.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, he's put a lot of work into this
Speaker 1: whole revenge cycle and ritual, so you know, he's figured
Speaker 1: out how to mix it up a little. He's got
Speaker 1: to get it just right. There's been many takes.
Speaker 2: But then it goes straight from that into probably I
Speaker 2: would say, the weirdest murder in the entire movie, would
Speaker 2: you agree.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's And it's also and then this is
Speaker 1: nice that the murders all feel a little bit different
Speaker 1: and they're presented in different ways. Like we get no
Speaker 1: clue at all about the setup for the brass Unicorn
Speaker 1: catapult murder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they one making the unicorn or everything.
Speaker 1: No extended scenes of that, but this one is all
Speaker 1: about the prep work. In fact, you're just set You
Speaker 1: just set there watching this weirdness take place, and you're like,
Speaker 1: what are they doing? What?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: What? What of the ten plagues of Egypt involved Brussels sprouts.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about Brussels sprouts. What is happening. Volvania is
Speaker 2: walking around dressed like Queen Elizabeth and holding trays of
Speaker 2: Brussels sprouts, and Vincent Price is standing over a giant
Speaker 2: pot of boiling Brussels sprouts, and he's like picking Brussels
Speaker 2: sprouts from her hands and throwing some of them into
Speaker 2: the pot and throwing other ones away. He's inspecting them
Speaker 2: to see if they're just right. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I don't know how this works, but he's like making
Speaker 2: he's turning the Brussels sprouts into some kind of essence
Speaker 2: of Brussels sprout.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I wasn't sure what was going on. I
Speaker 1: was like, well, we know that, you know, obviously he
Speaker 1: was heavily disfigured, and we I think by this point
Speaker 1: we already know that he drinks through his neck. So
Speaker 1: I was thinking, well, maybe this is just what doctor
Speaker 1: Fibes consumes. Maybe he's on a liquid diet and he
Speaker 1: likes Brussels sprouts and Brussels sprouts are good for you,
Speaker 1: and Brussels trouts are great, so I mean, maybe not
Speaker 1: in this form, but.
Speaker 2: No, this is this is the world. I mean, I
Speaker 2: love Brussels sprouts like good and like roasted. The idea
Speaker 2: of boiling Brussels sprouts down to a paste is one
Speaker 2: of the most disgusting things. I can imagine Brussels sprouts
Speaker 2: in wet heat. No no, no.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah. Watching this, I was like, I have
Speaker 1: no idea where this is going, but I'm all in,
Speaker 1: let's say.
Speaker 2: Well, where is it going. We've got one last person
Speaker 2: on the list. It's a nurse who worked on the
Speaker 2: you know, the Victoria Fib's case, and so the police
Speaker 2: are trying to protect her. They send her into a
Speaker 2: room in some building where every surface is green.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very nice and fits with the theme of green goo.
Speaker 2: So they're like, okay, go in this room and sleep,
Speaker 2: and she's like okay. They tell her to take a
Speaker 2: sleeping pill, and I guess that would explain why she
Speaker 2: is slow to wake. Later, doctor fib sneaks into the
Speaker 2: floor above her, drills a hole in the floor, hooks
Speaker 2: up a machine to pump green goo. I guess this
Speaker 2: is what he made out of the Brussels sprouts into
Speaker 2: the room. It dribbles all over some globe lamp and
Speaker 2: then dribbles all over her face. And then he releases
Speaker 2: locusts into the room via a tube and they march
Speaker 2: single file and then they go down and I guess
Speaker 2: they start eating the green goo off of her because
Speaker 2: they like plants. I don't know. And then they just
Speaker 2: strip her flesh down to the bone.
Speaker 1: Ones, Yeah, just completely deflesh or skeleton.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pirhify her?
Speaker 3: M M.
Speaker 2: Is that weird enough for you?
Speaker 1: It's such a weird scene, and of course you know
Speaker 1: it's completely unrealistic, but kudos he was able to work.
Speaker 1: It was like, once I saw the bugs, I was like, ah,
Speaker 1: you're doing the locusts. Okay, now it all makes sense.
Speaker 2: He made Brussels sprout goo then used Okay.
Speaker 1: Well you know he's been working up again. A lot
Speaker 1: of work went into this. He probably tried different you know,
Speaker 1: liquefied vegetables and liquefied plants to see what would get
Speaker 1: the locust excited enough to completely consume a human human
Speaker 1: bodies flesh, And this is what.
Speaker 2: Worked, and she never woke up the whole time.
Speaker 1: No, Oh, she'd taken a sleeping pill, so she was out.
Speaker 2: But then finally we get down to the climax, which
Speaker 2: is when Vesalius realizes that, oh, the biblical plague falling
Speaker 2: to him is the death of the firstborn, his organist son,
Speaker 2: His son Limb has been kidnapped by doctor Fibes. And
Speaker 2: here here we come to our James Bond trap ending.
Speaker 2: So Visilius finds out that Vibes has his kid. He
Speaker 2: knocks out Inspector Trout, who tries to stop him, and
Speaker 2: then he heads over to the party house where all
Speaker 2: kinds of things are happening. Volnavia is wearing this amazing
Speaker 2: like red cloak with a with a golden sun, with
Speaker 2: all these like insect legs on it, and this this
Speaker 2: hat with peacock things shooting off of it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, she's the high priestess of the revenge.
Speaker 1: I think at this point.
Speaker 2: Yes, beautiful, and this uh, the Automata are playing their
Speaker 2: their big band music, and doctor Vasilius arrives and and
Speaker 2: oh god, they explained this whole thing to him. They're like, okay,
Speaker 2: you've got six minutes to operate on your son. To
Speaker 2: get a key out of his body that I've placed
Speaker 2: in his body that you will have to use to
Speaker 2: unlock the table, which so you can move the table
Speaker 2: that he's on so that this time doesn't release a
Speaker 2: bunch of acid onto him.
Speaker 1: Rights. It's like, this is very much this is where
Speaker 1: I was definitely thinking about, like the Saw movies and all,
Speaker 1: but like, really Jigsaw just a rank amateur with no
Speaker 1: style at all compared to Doctor Fibes. Because as grotesque
Speaker 1: as this sounds, and it does come off as like
Speaker 1: legitimately kind of uh, at this point, it's still beautifully rendered.
Speaker 1: You know, this white background, it's very stylish, and it
Speaker 1: also works really well. I feel like the tension really
Speaker 1: builds in this part of the movie because, like I
Speaker 1: referenced earlier, we're at the part where we're past the victims,
Speaker 1: where we can be like, Okay, that guy seems sleazy.
Speaker 1: I guess it's okay of our unrealistic movie villain kills them.
Speaker 1: But now like we're dealing with with the doctor alone,
Speaker 1: we haven't really seen anything to any reason to hate
Speaker 1: him and his son even more so, like he is
Speaker 1: an innocent when it comes to the death of Fib's wife,
Speaker 1: you know, no matter how you you know, tease apart
Speaker 1: the details of her demise, right.
Speaker 2: So Alias is he's he's sett into it. He's trying
Speaker 2: to get the task done. Meanwhile, Volnavia goes to grab
Speaker 2: a solid old axe and just starts hacking up the
Speaker 2: whole place. I guess you know, Fibes is like, we're
Speaker 2: done destroy everything. So she's at it. We get a
Speaker 2: Fibes face reveal. Yes, where what is his real face?
Speaker 2: It's I don't know how to describe it. It's a skull face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a very very phantom of the opera skeleton face.
Speaker 1: You know on the posters you see some like mechanical
Speaker 1: elements that are part of it. Like, you know, he's
Speaker 1: you know, touching on the fact that he's also kind
Speaker 1: of made a have some clockwork elements to himself because
Speaker 1: he has this big showdown right where he's talking about,
Speaker 1: you know how the doctors can't be trusted. The doctor
Speaker 1: said he wouldn't survive, but he used his own ingenuity
Speaker 1: to in his knowledge of music and acoustics to allow
Speaker 1: himself to speak again. And he also has that great
Speaker 1: line there where he's he says I've killed nine times
Speaker 1: in my life. How many murders may be attributed to you?
Speaker 1: Speaking to the doctor. Yeah, so he comes down there,
Speaker 1: he takes the mask off, because this whole thing is like,
Speaker 1: soon your son will be disfigured by acid and it'll
Speaker 1: look just like me. And then, of course the doctor
Speaker 1: continues to try and frantically work the surgery, and meanwhile
Speaker 1: he just kind of like backs up and gets into
Speaker 1: the elevator. It leaves him to try and pull it off.
Speaker 2: Now we Visalia succeeds. The sun is not harmed, but
Speaker 2: Fibes does get away and the police arrive. Oh and
Speaker 2: there when the police arrive, Volnavia is standing there, I guess,
Speaker 2: ready to attack with the golden the solid gold axe.
Speaker 2: But then she stands under the acid machine and ye,
Speaker 2: she gets she gets acid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she gets acid slimed. We don't actually see her
Speaker 1: melt or anything, but it's it's it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: in implied melting. And I guess you know, she's not
Speaker 1: a good character. She's not.
Speaker 2: She's been doing a lot of murder, a.
Speaker 1: Lot of murders, so it feels fair. Oh but then doctor.
Speaker 2: Fibes, he basically gets away with it, because what does
Speaker 2: he do? He goes down and we find out, oh,
Speaker 2: there's there's missus Fibes in a sort of crypt with
Speaker 2: a robotic lifting or mechanically lifting lid. He gets into
Speaker 2: the crypt next to her, I guess, planning to be
Speaker 2: interred alongside her body, and then hooks up a machine
Speaker 2: to replace his blood with embalming fluid and we see
Speaker 2: it like coming out of these yellow, very clearly labeled
Speaker 2: beakers that say embalming fluid. And so he's going down there,
Speaker 2: I guess getting embalmed in real time. When the when
Speaker 2: the police inspectors show up, they were like, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: what was the last plague big stinger? Of course, plague
Speaker 2: of darkness? And the lights go.
Speaker 1: Out, Yeah and yeah, we get the credits roll, and
Speaker 1: this is in the credits where we see both doctor
Speaker 1: the both doctors are listed as the protagonists, which I like.
Speaker 1: And then when oh, and then oh, what song is
Speaker 1: playing over the end credits just to add to the
Speaker 1: utter weirdness of this.
Speaker 2: Movie, Somewhere over the rainbow.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's so good. And then at the very and
Speaker 1: you get a little stinger, you get an evil doctor
Speaker 1: Fibes Vincent Price laugh. Oh God, I love it. There's
Speaker 1: just even the last twenty minutes, there's so many weird touches,
Speaker 1: like I love how the when he self embalms himself alive.
Speaker 1: The embalming fluid is this bright yellow opposite the bright
Speaker 1: red of the blood. It made me think. I think
Speaker 1: Phantasm two has bright yellow embalming fluid. I have no
Speaker 1: idea what color embalming fluid actually is, but I hope
Speaker 1: it's bright mustard yellow like in these motion pictures. There's
Speaker 1: the lid to the casket.
Speaker 2: Oh what about that?
Speaker 1: Oh it has like this elaborate sun, moon and Earth,
Speaker 1: this astrological thing going on.
Speaker 2: Amazing great set design. This one's a real winner. Doctor
Speaker 2: Fibes is the best.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah. This one's a lot of fun. Highly recommend it.
Speaker 1: Just just a weird fun picture. Yeah. Probably not for
Speaker 1: the wee kids or anything, but.
Speaker 2: It does get unless we say otherwise. That applies to
Speaker 2: any movie we talked.
Speaker 1: Right, right, But I've got a lot of fun for
Speaker 1: just about everybody else. This one is currently hard to
Speaker 1: stream anywhere as of this recording, at least in the
Speaker 1: United States. There's an old DVD available in the United
Speaker 1: States and that is what I rendered from videodrome to
Speaker 1: watch it. There's a nice aero video Blu Ray for
Speaker 1: regions b Slash two out there. But luckily the folks
Speaker 1: that Videodrome informed that a new Blu Ray edition is
Speaker 1: about to come out from Keno Lorber. It's going to
Speaker 1: come out next month and it's a two pack with
Speaker 1: both Fibes movies in it, Part one and the sequel.
Speaker 1: So if you're excited to check out this film, well, hey,
Speaker 1: it's about here. And who knows, a lot of times
Speaker 1: when these films come out like this, it opens up
Speaker 1: streaming options as well, at least in subsequent months. So
Speaker 1: I feel like Fibes is returning in grandiose fashion, which
Speaker 1: of course fits him perfectly.
Speaker 2: I can't wait. I will probably be trying to grab.
Speaker 1: One of those. Yeah, Keno Lber. They tend to do
Speaker 1: a really good job, all right, Anything else you want
Speaker 1: to say about Doctor Fib'es, I mean, there's so many
Speaker 1: This is one of those movies. It's just so rich
Speaker 1: with weirdness that we didn't even have time to touch
Speaker 1: on everything. There's so many great shots, you know, so
Speaker 1: many nice little details that are either added to a performance,
Speaker 1: or certainly to the background. For instance, I feel like
Speaker 1: we could have just described his organ that he plays.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the glowing red organ.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's just so beautifully gothically super villain stylish.
Speaker 1: Oh it's just it has to be seen.
Speaker 2: Don't watch this movie if you're making Brussels sprouts for dinner.
Speaker 1: All right, We're going to go ahead and close out
Speaker 1: this episode, But as always so we'd love to hear
Speaker 1: from everyone out there. Any FIBES fans have any tidbits
Speaker 1: they want to share with us, write in let us know.
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