A couple endures a series of mishaps right before their wedding day.

　　The moon rises at a predestined angle and awakens the sleeping Dr. Phibes in 1928, three years after the events of the previous movie. To his dismay, he finds that his house has been demolished and his papyrus scrolls stolen, the scrolls he needs to find the Pharaoh's Tomb in Egypt, where the River of Life flows. After identifying the source of the papyrus theft, he packs and leaves for Egypt with his assistant Vulnavia - whose face displays no effects from the acid shower she received at the end of the previous film (although the character is now played by a different actress, Valli Kemp). His primary goal is the awakening of his dead wife, Victoria.
　　The thieves of Phibes' scrolls suffer an attrition problem as Inspectors Trout and Waverly chase Phibes across the world. The party is led by Beiderbeck (Robert Quarry, best known for playing Count Yorga). Although he looks young, he is several hundred years old and wants to find the River of Life in order to stay alive and be with his lover Diana (Fiona Lewis) forever. This time Phibes' murders all have an Egyptian theme to them; for example, one character is sand-blasted to death. Other deaths include someone being stung to death by scorpions, being eaten by an eagle (in the original script impaled by a gold eagle in the same way a doctor in The Abominable Dr. Phibes was impaled by a golden unicorn), and a golden snake piercing someone's skull.
　　At the climax, Beiderbeck sacrifices his life in order to save Diana. The film ends with Phibes riding a raft down the River of Life with Victoria, while singing "Over the Rainbow" (which is strange, as this film is set in 1928 but "Over The Rainbow" wasn't written until 1938). It is left ambiguous whether Victoria is resurrected or not, although a picture inside the DVD shows her in the raft with her eyes open and smiling at the camera

　　尽管全球通力协作，地球还是不可避免地要与太阳相撞了，英国记者报道这个即将到来的灾难。

薇拉·菲利普斯（凯拉·奈特莉 Keira Knightley 饰）和凯特琳·托马斯（西耶娜·米勒 Sienna Miller 饰）在对天才诗人迪伦•托马斯（马修·瑞斯 Matthew Rhys 饰）爱的沦陷中构筑着深厚的友谊。一方面，薇拉是托马斯青梅竹马的灵魂之友，初恋 相逢却终因托马斯的无法专情而嫁给军官威廉姆·克里克（希里安·墨菲 Cillian Murphy 饰）。在威廉姆出征期间用着他的军人津贴来维持托马斯花天酒地的巨大生活开销。另一方面，凯瑟琳是对托马斯不离不弃的妻子，虽然被托马斯的滥情一次又一次的伤害折磨，却始终深深爱着他。薇拉，凯瑟琳，托马斯三人就这样在战乱的年代保持着令人不解的暧昧关系，直到从前线归来的威廉姆听闻了薇拉和托马斯的绯闻，盛怒之下将枪口指向了托马斯….