Dr. Phibes Rises Again/Fun Facts

• Just before being crushed in a giant press-screw, Baker can be seen reading "The Turn of the Screw".

• When the pregnant Virginia North was unable to reprise her role as Vulnavia for the sequel, Valli Kemp was cast instead.

• Many of the characters were named after famous jazz trumpeters, (Biederbeck being the most obvious).
• The desert sequences were filmed in Spain.

• Vincent Price's final film for America Internatonal pictures.

• There was a lot of hostility between Vincent Price and Robert Quarry, particularly when Price discovered that AI were planning on replacing him with Quarry as their major horror film star.

• Phibes originally had less dialogue. However, new lines were added after a lot of scripted sequences were cut out for budget reasons.

• Frankie Howerd was asked to be in this project.

• The Bach Singers, a volunteer group, worked for free, agreeing only to a donation to charitable purposes.

• In the original script Beiderbeck's first name was Jonathan.

• Shavers was originally meant to be impaled by a golden eagle, ala The Abominable Dr. Phibes.

• The Scottish fusiliers, who are mentioned in the finished film, were originally meant to have an on-screen role.
• Vulnavia was originally going to be a new character, but the studios insisted on keeping her name. This explains why the character returns despite being killed in The Abominable Dr. Phibes.

• The Pyramid which features in the climax was intended to consist of levels filled with traps and have boiling oil filling into it. It was changed for budget reasons.

• The second of a planned trilogy. The third would have either featured Phibes fighting a group of Nazis, or him searching for the key to Olympus. A film treatment still exists for the latter. The title would have been Phibes Resurrectus, The Seven Fates of Dr. Phibes or The Brides of Dr. Phibes.