Review – The Oblong Box

The Oblong Bore. The premise is simple Poe, typical skulduggery about burial alive, grave robbers and the like. Even the nonsense about the protagonist’s disfigured brother might have been okay if handled differently. Unfortunately, this picture gets packed with far too much baggage to successfully find its way to its destination. The result is an experiment in wasted time, a relentless parade of supporting characters engaged in pointless pursuits with obscure motivations. And of course there’s the business with the brother’s mask: spending so long being so coy about what the red cloth hides guarantees disappointment no matter how good the makeup turns out to be (and in this case it ain’t great). What a pointless squandering of Vincent Price and Christopher Lee. See if desperate