Watch The Oblong Box (1969) Free Online

Release Date: 1969

Cast: Hilary Dwyer, Harry Baird, Rupert Davies, Uta Levka, Christopher Lee, Peter Arne, Sally Geeson, Vincent Price, Alister Williamson

Categories: Movies, Gothic Film, Horror, Costume Horror

The Oblong Box (1969) is a British horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Alister Williamson. This was the first film to star both Price and Lee. Like The Mummy (1959), The Reptile (1965) and The Ghoul (1975), the film's story details guilt-ridden Britons paying a bitter price for their colonial crimes. Ostensibly part of the Edgar Allan Poe series of American International Pictures, this later film (made after Roger Corman's Poe set) has nothing to do with Poe's story of the same name, apart from the title. The film takes place in England in... MORE

The Oblong Box (1969) is a British horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Alister Williamson. This was the first film to star both Price and Lee. Like The Mummy (1959), The Reptile (1965) and The Ghoul (1975), the film's story details guilt-ridden Britons paying a bitter price for their colonial crimes. Ostensibly part of the Edgar Allan Poe series of American International Pictures, this later film (made after Roger Corman's Poe set) has nothing to do with Poe's story of the same name, apart from the title. The film takes place in England in 1865. Having been grotesquely disfigured in an African voodoo ceremony for a transgression against the natives, Sir Edward Markham (Alister Williamson) is kept locked in his room by his guilt-ridden brother, Julian (Vincent Price). Tiring of his captivity, Sir Edward plots to escape by faking his death. With the help of the crooked family lawyer, Trench (Peter Arne), they hire witchdoctor N'Galo (Harry Baird) to concoct a drug to put Sir Edward into a death-like trance. Before Trench has time to act, Julian finds his 'dead' brother and puts him in the oblong box. Embarrassed by his brother's LESS