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The Oblong Box [DVD] [1969]

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Vincent Price (Actor), Christopher Lee (Actor), Gordon Hessler (Director, Producer) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Peter Arne, Hilary Dwyer
  • Directors: Gordon Hessler
  • Producers: Gordon Hessler
  • Format: PAL, Colour, Anamorphic, Widescreen, Mono
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Studiocanal
  • DVD Release Date: 16 Mar. 2009
  • Run Time: 92 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001NDT9XW
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 23,906 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Gordon Hessler directs this 1960s horror starring Vincent Price. Lord of the manor Julian Markham (Price) is ashamed of his mutilated brother Edward (Alistair Williamson) and keeps him hidden away from public view in the tower of his vast house. However, when Edward escapes he attempts to get his revenge on his overbearing brother. The cast also includes Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies and Sally Geeson.

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4.0 out of 5 starsClassy Poe adaptation
By Mr. Jonathon T. Beckett on 15 Oct. 2009
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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
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4.0 out of 5 starssilly but fun
By Ian Williams TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 15 Sept. 2008
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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.
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4.0 out of 5 starsthe oblong box
By edward pink on 3 Mar. 2011
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a pervasive aura of evil is summoned up in this well mounted shocker starring the ever watchable vincent price. directed by gordon hessler in 1969 it follows witchfinder general which was directed by michael reeves who should have directed this but committed suicide weeks before production began. much better than cry of the banshee,i would recommend this to any horror fan.hilary dwyer is as beautiful as ever and i wish she had made more of her career but christopher lee is wasted in this film. 8/10
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3.0 out of 5 starsOne of the oddest horror films you'll ever see...
By gustavus on 18 July 2013
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This 1970 British horror film was reportedly greatly admired by Fritz Lang. This is worth noting, as hardly anyone else seemed to like it, back in the day. One can see why - it's extremely nasty, nastier in its implications than in its details, and they're gruesome enough; it hardly bothers to explain itself, plot-wise; it seems to move around from one storyline to another, more or less at will, without resolving anything; it gives us nobody we can actively like, and the only person who can draw our sympathy is a man whose identity we never learn, and who exists in the film merely to be the victim of abominable cruelties; and it doesn't even have a central character. What, you say, how can that be true when the three greatest horror stars of that era are all in it? Therein lies the rub; it advertises Messrs. Price, Lee and Cushing as its stars, and they're not. From that angle, the film is a monumental swiz. It's a bit like those terrible Universal horror films of the war years - "House of Frankenstein" or the interchangeable "House Of Dracula" - which piled in all the monsters who'd made the studio fortunes in days gone by, and then kept them apart inside the film itself, so that we had a bit of plot with the Creature and a bit more plot with the Wolf Man and then a bit more plot with the Count, and by the end, we realised we'd been dunned by the advertising, and there was nothing to the actual movie. Here, Price and Lee occupy separate plot-strands which finally come together (well, sort of...) right at the end, when they share one very brief scene together; Cushing has nothing to do with either one, and has only one scene, maybe two or three minutes of screen-time.Read more ›
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