This came with the first one as a double feature and I'm really glad because I would not have wanted to wait for as long as it takes a movie to get to the top of my Netflix queue. If you're wondering why I wouldn't just move it up, hi, you must be new here. Welcome to my blog.Master organist, biblical scholar, and vengeful killer Dr. Anton Phibes (Vincent Price) emerges from suspended animation in order to retrieve a magical cure from Egypt that will bring his beloved wife back from the dead. His faithful but silent handmaiden, Vulnavia (Valli Kemp), is right there to assist him. Unfortunately, while he was checked out, his house was destroyed and all his possessions carted off, including the priceless scroll showing the path to the Egyptian temple. Phibes realizes that the only other person who could have been interested in the scroll is Darrus Biederbeck (Robert Quarry), a millionaire with a secret of his own. The two men race across the desert, each determined to be the one to drink from the River of Life.
The deaths in the first movie were elaborate, over-the-top affairs but they made sense because Phibes had a decade or more to plan it all out. Here, he and Vulnavia are out in the middle of the desert with things like a gold chair shaped like a scorpion and a giant thumbscrew. Obviously, we've thrown plausibility completely overboard and are just going for the visual. Which is fine. It works. It's weird and campy, with a twisted sense of humor and it totally works. You just kind of have to let go and let it happen.
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