Vincent Price’s revenge-driven roles feature elaborate, creative killings tied to Shakespearean works, wax sculpture, and biblical punishment. In Theatre of Blood, a protagonist returns to murder critics by staging elaborate death sequences based on the Shakespeare plays they condemned. In House of Wax, a sculptor character kills an unscrupulous investor and entombs the corpse inside a new wax figure after a museum fire leaves him scarred. In The Abominable Dr. Phibes, a grief-stricken concert organist with a Theology PhD seeks out his late wife’s doctors and eliminates them using the Ten Plagues of Egypt. Each death is carried out with inventive devices, dark humor, and theatrical set pieces.
"Left scarred in the aftermath of a museum fire set by an unscrupulous investor hoping to collect on the insurance money in House of Wax (1953), his character, a sculptor, kills the man and entombs his corpse within a new wax figure. The merciless quest for vengeance was taken to particularly vicious yet inventive ends in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), released 55 years ago today, in which Price's grief-stricken concert organist is determined to seek out and eliminate his late wife's doctors, believing their incompetence to have caused her death."
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