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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Managed to track down these classics from my childhood - The Oblong Box is a horror classic in the traditional Hammer / Poe vein. Scream and Scream again is a trashtastic horror flick that packs everything into one movie (will not be to everyones taste, but a must for lovers of traditional, trashy horror.
37 of 42 people found the following review helpful
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Vincent Price and Christopher Lee co-star in this pair of British-made not really golden oldy horrors from 1969.
In Edgar Allan Poe's (oh no it isn't!) The Oblong Box, Vincent's brother has been disfigured by an African curse. Naturally Vincent keeps him in a locked room and when he gets out, boy is he mad! He's so mad he goes on a rampage of swiping peoples' throats with a rubber knife smeared in red paint -sorry, throat slitting, though you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference. His sex drive hasn't disappeared either. And he's so hideous that grown men faint at the sight of him (in the movie, that is. Anyone else would note bad case of acne and barely bother with a second glance.) Oh, and it's set in Victorian times.
Scream and Scream Again (the title, because there is no other apparent explanation, comes from a guy who wakes up in hospital, finds he's a leg missing and screams; wakes up again, second leg gone,screams; wakes up, arm gone, screams; and so on until someone opens a cupboard and there's his head, audience screams -well, I suppose they did in 1969). The plot keeps jumping from the hunt for a rapist/vampire/slasher/killer to a European fascist state (it's set in the then-present day) for various obscure reasons. Vincent Price is a doctor, Christopher Lee (who was a doctor in The Oblong Box) is a senior government official. At least 15 minutes of the running time is spent on a car chase and on-foot pursuit of the rapist/vampire/slasher/killer for no real reason other than to pad out the running time but it passes the time nicely in between plot developments. Everything is tied up by the end, thank goodness as I was getting confused. And all policemen and women smoke a lot.
Art these are not, good they are not, fun, well if you're in the right mood, these are.
In Edgar Allan Poe's (oh no it isn't!) The Oblong Box, Vincent's brother has been disfigured by an African curse. Naturally Vincent keeps him in a locked room and when he gets out, boy is he mad! He's so mad he goes on a rampage of swiping peoples' throats with a rubber knife smeared in red paint -sorry, throat slitting, though you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference. His sex drive hasn't disappeared either. And he's so hideous that grown men faint at the sight of him (in the movie, that is. Anyone else would note bad case of acne and barely bother with a second glance.) Oh, and it's set in Victorian times.
Scream and Scream Again (the title, because there is no other apparent explanation, comes from a guy who wakes up in hospital, finds he's a leg missing and screams; wakes up again, second leg gone,screams; wakes up, arm gone, screams; and so on until someone opens a cupboard and there's his head, audience screams -well, I suppose they did in 1969). The plot keeps jumping from the hunt for a rapist/vampire/slasher/killer to a European fascist state (it's set in the then-present day) for various obscure reasons. Vincent Price is a doctor, Christopher Lee (who was a doctor in The Oblong Box) is a senior government official. At least 15 minutes of the running time is spent on a car chase and on-foot pursuit of the rapist/vampire/slasher/killer for no real reason other than to pad out the running time but it passes the time nicely in between plot developments. Everything is tied up by the end, thank goodness as I was getting confused. And all policemen and women smoke a lot.
Art these are not, good they are not, fun, well if you're in the right mood, these are.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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The film starts with Sir Julian Markham(Vincent Price), witnessing his brother Edward's terrible disfigurement at the hands of an African witch doctor. The story then carries on in England, with Sir Julian keeping his now mad, horribly scarred brother locked in a room. However, Edward has other ideas and enlists the help of the Markham's crooked lawyer Trench(Peter Arne, wonderfully slimy) to carry out an elaborate plan of escape. Trench gets some medecine that temporarily renders Edward into a catatonic state. However, he is mistakenly buried alive, only to be exhumed by grave robbers, who take him to the house of unscrupulous Doctor Neuhart(Christopher Lee), who shelters him, on the understanding that Edward will keep quiet about where he gets his cavaders from. Edward then sets out on a trail of revenge, to gain vengeance on those who wronged him
This was another teaming up of director Hessler, star Price, cinematographer Coquillion and scriptwriter Wicking. Its probably the most straight laced of the three, the other two being 'Cry Of The Banshee' and 'Scream And Scream Again', both wildly erratic and very entertaining. This one does seem a bit stodgy and leaden footed in comparison, but give it a chance as it does liven up considerably when Edward starts to go about his murderous work, his face hidden under a crimson mask.
Vincent Price is a little lacklustre as Sir Julian, but he was always better playing evil or unhinged characters anyway. Rupert Davies is wasted in a bit part as an artist, but Peter Arne is excellent as the unctious Trench, and Hilary Dwyer and Sally Geeson also provide good support.
It once again looks great, thanks to Coquillion's cinematography, and it provides some atmospheric moments, if it is a little overlong. Well worth investing a few pounds in. 4 out of 5
This was another teaming up of director Hessler, star Price, cinematographer Coquillion and scriptwriter Wicking. Its probably the most straight laced of the three, the other two being 'Cry Of The Banshee' and 'Scream And Scream Again', both wildly erratic and very entertaining. This one does seem a bit stodgy and leaden footed in comparison, but give it a chance as it does liven up considerably when Edward starts to go about his murderous work, his face hidden under a crimson mask.
Vincent Price is a little lacklustre as Sir Julian, but he was always better playing evil or unhinged characters anyway. Rupert Davies is wasted in a bit part as an artist, but Peter Arne is excellent as the unctious Trench, and Hilary Dwyer and Sally Geeson also provide good support.
It once again looks great, thanks to Coquillion's cinematography, and it provides some atmospheric moments, if it is a little overlong. Well worth investing a few pounds in. 4 out of 5
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