Thrills and chills ooze all over you in House of Wax, from Dark Castle Entertainment and ... more
legendary horror producers Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis (Gothika, House on Haunted Hill).When their car breaks down on a trip, six college friends are sidetrack...
In the gleefully wicked performance which made the gothic master of the macabre. Vincent ... more
Price is Professor Harry Jarrod, a renowned wax sculptor plunged into insanity when an arsonist destroys his life's work. Unable to use his flame-scarred hands, he comes up with a new way of restocking his House of Wax. Aided by Igor (Charles Bronson), he dips his hapless victims in wax! Jarrod's new creations are widely praised, but a lone voice cries murder.When the dauntless Sue Allen discovers a wax figure strongly resembling a missing friend (Carolyn Jones, later immortalised as Morticia in The Adams Family), Jarrod decides to line up the very same fate for her! It's anyone's guess who will end up in the bubbling cauldron. But that doesn't lessen the sweat dread and sheer fun of this all-time classic.
Thrills and chills ooze all over you in House of Wax, from Dark Castle Entertainment and ... more
legendary horror producers Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis (Gothika, House on Haunted Hill).When their car breaks down on a road trip, six college friends are sidetracked into an eerie backwoods town. Curiosity gets the better of them when they are intrigued by its macabre House of Wax. They soon find out that the town is not what it seems and they must find their way out before they fall victim to its ghoulishly inventive killers.
The Legacy Of Lust:In this House of Wax, when the heat turns up, the statues turn on. The ... more
most beautiful and powerful people in the history of the world, immortalized in wax, are about to come back to life for an exotic extravaganza of ecstasy.
Advantages: Good film with excellent special effects Disadvantages: none
good and evil, but with cutting edge special effects and action scenes galore this is a great film to watch.
The blu-ray version i watched was a 2 disc set with the second disc full of extras. There was a section on the history of transformers, and interviews with executive producers Steven Spielberg and Brian Goldner, writers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci, and director Michael Bay. There were also features on the animation used and the way they worked out where to do scenes. You also get a look at the military equipment seen and used in the film.
This additional information is something you do not want to skip over, because it gives you a much deeper understanding of how much planning and work went into the final production. If you are into cutting edge special effects and head banging action then beg, borrow, rent, or if that fails buy ...
House of Wax features a cast apparently chosen from their headshots rather than any particular ability or connection to the material. Loosely remade from the Vincent Price classic, Paris Hilton herself says this film's major improvement is that "The original didn't really have a hot cast." Says it all really !! Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, This is his 1st film that he has done. In my opinion he's done a good job.
The main plot is a group of teenagers on a road trip to go see a football game the next game. Of course they have to camp out in the middle of know where. This is when strange things happen. Though I would have like to have seen more strange things happen. Like kill Paris off in the 1st few minutes would have been nice.
Of course with most teen horror the car breaks down and of course they have to go and find ...
Advantages: All the things I expected from a horror film and more Disadvantages: Predictable ending
***Why did I watch House of Wax***
As an avid horror fan I do try to watch any new horror films that have been released. If the film looks really good then I head the girls to watch it, if it looks fairly average I will wait to hire a copy. Unfortunately my partner does not share my enthusiasm!
I actually missed watching this film at the cinema so I rented a copy.
***Cast****
Elisha Cuthbert as Carly Jones (24, The Girl Next Door)
Chad Michael Murray as Nick Jones ((One Tree Hill, Gillmore Girls)
Jared Padalecki as Wade (Supernatural, Friday the 13th)
Paris Hilton as Paige Edwards (The Simple Life, Paris Hilton's My New BFF)
***The plot***
House of Wax is remake of a 1953 film that goes by the same name.
While the opening credits roll we get to see a brief scene where a couple are forced to put their child into its highchair ...
A group of friends experience car troubles on their way to a college football game, and so go for help. On their way, they come across the town's museum, which houses a strange number of exhibits... the wax covered corpses of previous visitors!
In this remake of the classic 1953 Andre de Toth film that starred Vincent Price, horrors abound in a creepy wax museum. A group of road-tripping Florida teenagers (Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Paris Hilton, Robert Ri'chard, Jared Padalecki, and Jon Abrahams) stop to camp near a small town where an abandoned wax museum draws their curiosity. Upon exploring the scary cobwebbed space, they find that the figures are not only eerily lifelike, but that the entire museum--floor to ceiling--is actually made of wax. If that wasn't enough to scare them, they encounter a couple of very unsettling characters who seem to be the only people around for miles. One is a blood-splattered redneck who collects roadkill, dumping the bodies of dead deer into a fetid carcass swamp. The other is Bo (Brian Van Holt), a gas station attendant who lures the kids back to his house. Soon, through a series of stomach-turning slasher scenes featuring scissors, long knives, and even a pair of pliers, the teens get to know Bo a whole lot better. They even meet his insane brother Vincent (also played by Van Holt). Brief interludes of teen squabbling and a Hilton strip tease in red lace lingerie temporarily break the tension, but for the most part this HOUSE OF WAX stays the course with shockingly gory moments that earn grosser-than-gross status. Sick predilections involving an experimental surgical station and an elaborate wax-coating machine reveal Vincent's artistic process. But before the bloodbath is over, more twisted secrets about Bo and Vincent bubble to the surface, resulting in a spectacular grand finale and total meltdown.
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