The Oblong Box (film)

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The Oblong Box
Directed by	Gordon Hessler
Screenplay by	Lawrence Huntington Additional Dialogue: Christopher Wicking
Based on	"The Oblong Box" by Edgar Allan Poe
Produced by	Gordon Hessler
Starring	Vincent Price Christopher Lee
Cinematography	John Coquillon
Edited by	Max Benedick
Music by	Harry Robinson
Production company	American International Pictures
Distributed by	Anglo-EMI Film Distributors Warner-Pathé
Release date	11 June 1969 (1969-06-11)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£70,000[1] or $175,000[2]
Box office	$1.02 million (US/ Canada rentals)[3]

The Oblong Box is a 1969 British gothic horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Alister Williamson. This was the first film to star both Price and Lee.

Taking its title from the 1844 short story "The Oblong Box", it explores and combines several themes typical to the work of Edgar Allan Poe, such as premature burial and masked figures, with the non-Poe theme of voodoo ritual killings.