The Oblong Box is a 1969 horror film produced in the UK starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Alister Williamson. It was directed by Gordon Hessler.
Like The Mummy (1959), The Reptile (1965) and The Ghoul (1975), it shows guilt-ridden Britons paying a bitter price for their colonial crimes.
Ostensibly part of the Edgar Allan Poe series of American International Pictures, the film has nothing to do with Poe's story of the same name, apart from the title.
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town. Written by Colin Tinto
Sir Edward Markham is the victim of a voodoo curse which has caused his face to become horribly disfigured. He is kept captive in the attic of his house by his brother Julian. Sir Edward escapes, moves in with an unscrupulous doctor who hires grave robbers to steal bodies for his research, wears a red hood over his face, and kills a good number of townspeople before the surprise ending. Written by Marty McKee
