Robert Quarry, alias Count Yorga, takes over from Joseph Cotten as the new adversary for a Dr Phibes (still Vincent Price) reactivated by fresh blood to replace the embalming fluid which has preserved him since his last adventure. This time the sense of the ludicrous is not used so well to the film's advantage, although there is a good quota of splendidly ingenious deaths, topped by Hugh Griffith being flung overboard from a liner in a giant gin bottle. Price's performance, though, is less subtle than in the first film, and Robert Fuest's rather clumsy direction fails to make the most of the film's ideas.