House of Wax [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of House of Wax [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: I would advise purchasing this Blu-Ray.
Summary: 4 Stars
Picture - 8 (1/10)
Sound - 8 (1/10)
Movie Content - 8 (1/10)
A fairly good horror movie with gritty horror scenes. Paris does a decent job acting but probably will be most noted for looking fantastic by gaining weight. I think this remake is a good buy, I personally have never seen the old House Of Wax so I cannot comment on whether or not this movie was an improvement over the original, but I can tell you it was entertaining and the Blu-Ray looked really nice.
Movie Review: I liked it
Summary: 4 Stars
I expected it to be horrible...and it wasn't. The transfer was good. The acting was ok. It was interesting. The special effects were good. It's not a Vincent Price movie but it was pretty good.Movie Review: Waxed out
Summary: 1 Stars
The primary appeal of this movie seems to be: Paris Hilton dies. Come on, most of the people who went to see it were probably dying (no pun intended) to see it happen. Sadly, Hilton's death is attached to the remake of "House of Wax," a campy screamflick about Madame Tussaud's gone bad. Good Lord.
Six nubile twentysomethings are en route to a basebell game when (surprise surprise) they break down. They stay overnight in a creepy forest, only to have their car sabotaged by a mystery driver -- and just how does a fan belt break in a stopped car? Sabotage. A few hitch a ride into the town, and soon find that the town is even weirder than an episode of "The Simple Life."
The feel is 1960s-ish. The buildings are literally made of wax. Corpses are being dumped in pits in the woods. And there is a creepy museum called the House of Wax, with some very suspicious-looking figures in it. And worst of all, someone seems to be hell-bent on adding our clueless protagonists to the House of Wax.
To be honest, "House of Wax" reminds me of an old "Get Smart" episode I once saw, except that that episode was more fun. In fact, "House of Wax" is so cliched and so bad that it actually comes across as a parody. We have clueless young people, girls in skimpy attire (including Hilton in red lingerie), redneck psychos, blood and body parts, and death by sharp objects. All it needs is a screaming virgin.
Well, at least it doesn't pretend to be clever or innovative. It doesn't even try.
What is good? The wax effects, and the climactic blaze. And it does have some entertainment value as a cliched cheesefest. The script is a bad hybrid of "Halloween," Vincent Price, and one of the worse episodes of "X-Files," and sadly the direction follows in kind. It has a B-movie flavour, despite the more polished filming techniques.
The climax is probably the most worthwhile part of the whole movie, when a fire causes the House of Wax to melt. The special effects are pretty amusing. Seeing people fall through stairs and walls is actually kind of fun, as is the gruesome scene where we see someone getting a wax job. (Rim shot)
The acting here is strictly scream-horror fare, meaning it's bad. Not entertainingly bad, just forgettably bad. Despite the unsurprising disaster of Hilton's performance, she's no better or worse than the other stars here, such as Elisha Cuthbert or Chad Michael Murray. All of them are playing one-note idiots -- acting doesn't enter into it, and the best moments are right before people die.
The most entertainment "House of Wax" can bring you is a drinking time, where you take a swig every time a horror cliche comes up, or a character does something moronic. You'll be passed out before Hilton dies.
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