THE OBLONG BOX (1969)

Yet Another Vincent Price Film......

To sum it up, a very bizare, unusual film. Julian (Vincent Price) keeps his severley scarred brother Edward, locked in his room, isolating him from the world. Edward plans to escape, fakes his death.... But when Julian wants to display an unmutilated corpse to the public, his henchmen must find another body.... To make matters worse, Sir Edward ends up being buried alive, only to escape and meet up with  a twisted body-snatching Christopher Lee.

The plot complicates itself slightly early on, but once the film establishes itself, it shifts into pure horror. One can also call it a period piece and despite Vincent Price's screen time being more limited than other films he was top-billed in, there is more than enough to take our minds off of that. Christopher Lee is a menace as usual, and the other more minor actors give the film a nice touch.

The Oblong Box is another 1960's British horror film that doesn't cut back on violence. There is nudity, scenes of prostitution (shocking for 69) and a red cloaked man senselessly cutting up a woman. So it's fair to say the film doesn't hold back. It moves along at a good pace and keeps the viewer in until, (I feel) a little bit of a letdown at the end. Somewhat creepy though. THREE AND A HALF STARS OUT OF FIVE.