The Oblong Box

19th English century grave robber Weller (Godfrey James) and his mates have killed a groundskeeper while stealing a body for scientist Neuhartt (Christopher Lee, his first scene), expecting extra pay, unaware that they’ve grabbed an insane mutilated nobleman who faked his death using a magical potion, in The Oblong Box, 1969.

English nobleman Julian Markham (Vincent Price) is concerned about his brother Edward (Alister Williamson), mutilated and thereby driven mad, and unaware that he’s entered into a plot with their lawyer Trench (Peter Arne) to obtain an African potion that simulates death, tensions high, in AIP’s The Oblong Box, 1969.

Full-on spooky voodoo and probably deplorable, from AIP and director Gordon Hessler, Vincent Price is a helpless Englishman outside as a fellow visitor is tortured by African tribesmen, opening The Oblong Box, 1969, with Christopher Lee, little more than the title from an Edgar Allan Poe story.