The Oblong Box (1969)

Once again, voodoo is up to no good. It ruins the party, gropes your girlfriend, and will never pay back that $10 it owes you. Won't people ever learn? The Oblong Box is one of those Technicolor horror-themed period pieces that was so popular in the '60s during the heyday of Roger Corman and Hammer Stuidios. Although the story revolves around white British aristocracy -- including Vincent Price, who we're expected to believe is not ony British, but is also something less than 60 years of age (as his fiancee is 20-something) -- the minor black characters play a pivotal role in the tale. They of course are responsible for the placing of the aforementioned voodoo curse, but the natives here are far from out-of-control heathens; they actually represent the horrors of the colonization of Africa. Sort of like The Ghost and the Darkness (and, God help us all, Curse of the Voodoo), the British colonizers incur the wrath of mystical forces from the "Dark Continent" as a result of their evil actions. Now, if we could only make them pay for the Spice Girls...

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