House of Wax
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Movie Reviews of House of Wax
Movie Review: I'm Melting! Melllting!...
Summary: 5 Stars
Poor Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price). He's a wax-sculptor / wax museum owner who just wants to bring a little beauty into the world w/ his life-like, historical figures. Unfortunately, the public doesn't want beauty, it wants wax versions of murderers and sensationalism. Jarrod's partner knows this and decides to torch the museum for the insurance money. When Jarrod resists, he gets torched as well. Years later, a new wax museum opens, run by Henry Jarrod! He didn't die after all. Now, people are being murdered by a mysterious, disfigured man in a black hat and cloak. Their bodies are then stolen from the morgue! Where are they going, and why are Jarrod's new wax figures so eerily familiar looking? HOUSE OF WAX is the first of a long line of horror / revenge movies for Vincent. You can see the same tormented / demented soul here that would later shine in movies like PIT AND THE PENDULUM, THEATRE OF BLOOD, MADHOUSE, THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, and DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN. HOUSE OF WAX is an excellent remake of the 1933 film MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM w/ Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray (both are also in The Vampire Bat and Doctor X). I love both movies! While HOUSE is more gothic, MYSTERY is more '30s pulp. They each have their own creepy charm and interesting plotpoints. Atwill is sedate yet sinister, while Wray is her usual beautiful, vulnerable self. HOUSE OF WAX / MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM make a great double feature...Movie Review: Suspenseful and well-made
Summary: 5 Stars
In turn of the 20th century New York, wax artist Henry Jarrod (played by Vincent Price) is more than happy running his wax museum, displaying tastefully done historical portrayals. However, when his greedy partner torches the museum to cash in on an insurance policy, Jarrod is maimed, and his hands too damaged to create new masterpieces. When he opens a new wax museum, the public marvels at how lifelike his new exhibits are...how terribly lifelike. [B&W, created in 1953, with a running time of 1:30 minutes.]
My fourteen-year-old daughter has recently discovered horror movies, and I wanted to show her something from the golden age of Hollywood. OK, this is not a mad-slasher movie with lots of blood. Instead, this is a suspenseful and well-made movie that can be watched by the whole family. (As added cheesecake, there is a Can Can dance scene thrown in. I don't care what the hero says, in the era when women were covered from neck to toe, that dance hall would have been shocking!)
I really liked Vincent Price's portrayal of the main character - it certainly is easy to see why he was considered the king of horror in his day. Also, I was pleasantly surprised to see that one of the characters was a young Charles Bronson (then Charles Buchinsky)! So, overall, let me just say that I really liked this movie, and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to see some early horror!
Movie Review: Its a shame
Summary: 5 Stars
I love older horror movies, they didnt try so hard to have all these effects. They didnt need blood to make it scary. House of Wax is one of my fav horror movies. Vince did so well in the movie, it also showed that you didnt need to do all these special effects to make it so scary. The new house of Wax looks like they tried to hard to make it. The older one didnt take long to make cause they didnt have these makeup effects, didnt have to make all these things for the movies. The newer ones about kids at a house, the older one was nothing about 4 kids finding a house then just going overboard no... The older one was more like: A man who creates wax dolls, gets burned up along with his wax dolls. He then turns to a ugly burned up man, and the only way he can get his wax dolls and to take this girl who looks almost like one of his dolls and make her into it. Her friend later on finds out that he took her body and put a wig on it and everything. The ending he falls into wax.
The newer ones just looks like a bunch of horney kids who find a house and stay there. Then things just go wrong, newer movies with all these specail effects are not anything scary at all. I mean yes I heard most older scary movies used real people dying but that was because they had no computer and showed to us that we dont need no computer to make all these special things to happen in the movie.
Movie Review: The House of Whacks
Summary: 5 Stars
In the tiny print on the "House of Wax" cover it says that you are also getting the 1933 classic, "Mystery of the Wax Museum." Which makes this DVD a great deal. The House of Wax is the classic 1950's remake of the Lionel Atwill/Fay Wray classic. Both movies are great and present great villians who stalk great beauties. They are equally eerie and scenic but the "Mystery of the Wax Museum" has the advantage of being pre-code which allows it to be saucy and even a little daring.Both films have fantastic supporting casts. The Mystery... has the wise-cracking Glenda Farrell and House... has Frank Lovejoy and an early performance by the great/late Charles Bronson.
Both films have wonderful sets and fine mad sceintist's labs (well, insane wax modeler's museums) The Mystery...is also a nice example of early two strip technicolor process. Also both movies are presented in good clean, clear form. I applaud the company for using good master copies to create this DVD.
Halloween is coming and you need a good movie to watch. These films are two goodies from days gone by that are good to watch and hear. Lose youself in foggy streets and shadowy museums. They are of an age when masters created horror forms of wax and whacked-out disfigured artists created figures in boiling wax.
Movie Review: Great V. Price Classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is an example of classic moviemaking, since it's full of gothic thrills and atmospheres, great plot and flawless camera work. It might not appeal to modern horror fans, but what Vincent Price delivers here is a masterfull work of art, staged as straightfoward as it can be so the viewer will be hooked from scene one. The overall feeling is a perfect vintage look graphically with the crisp image conveying its classic noirish and macabre tones. Charles Bronson stars as the mute assistant in a stellar performance showing his concrete sculpture-like expressions and genuine rudeness. The Premiere Newsreel extra is an odd one, themed with the film eerie score as it shows the opening night screening at the time, with lots of highlight stars of the 40's and 50's. Look for Bela Lugosi's monkey pet! Really bizarre!!!
On the flip side, the Mystery of the Wax Museum is a collectors item offered as an extra to personal delight.
As for the edition, I think snap cases aren't practical anymore since cardboard is easily damaged. I would also have preferred a 2-disc edition since dual-sided discs are more easy to get scratches from handling than normal discs.
Nonetheless, this is great fun all the way, although this disc would have deserved some extras for the plus side.