I suppose, when it was made, it was a serious horror, but I think, that to truly enjoy it now, you have it take it as a comedy horror film. It is wonderfully terrible, or terribly wonderful. I have not decided as of yet. The horrifying Dr. Phibes has done it again! Gruesome, and what I suppose was then considered to be psychologically disturbing. It has a wonderful feel, the mood of the film. It is, I have concluded, wonderfully terrible. In a cheesy, 1972 kind of way, but wonderfully terrible none the less. Liked it.