House of Wax
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Movie Reviews of House of Wax
Movie Review: WOW!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am reviewing Mystery of the Wax Museum, not House of Wax. I just rented this DVD today and I've just finished watching Mystery of the Wax Museum. I was suprised to see that the whole thing was in two-strip Technicolor, and that defineitly added some nice pastel quality to the picture. All I could say was wow after I was done. Lionel Atwill did a great job as Igor. I felt sorry for his character in the beginning, but after it was revealed that he was so crazy for his old wax figures that he started to kill people to to recreate them, I had no pity. What an wacko! Lionel Atwill was believable in this role that I found myself scared at sometimes. Glenda Farrel as the reporter in this is perfect. This is the 2nd movie of hers I've watched. She really was a good actress, not just a pretty face. Fay Wray was also good, even though her role was not very big. The sets were beautiful, and it was thrilling right to the end. Did Atwill actually kill Joan Gale or was it suicide? Now, I just love this movie and I'm gonna buy it tomorrow, beacause it's too late now. You won't be sorry if you watch this great movie, and now I've gotta go, beacause I'm gonna watch House of Wax, which is in the same DVD. Toodles, mystery/horror movie lovers!Movie Review: one of Price's best films
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has wit, excellent pacing and a strong supporting cast (including a blonde Carolyn Jones "Morticia" from the Addams Family) and a small role for Charles Bronson (playing Igor and billed as Charles Buchinsky). Prince gets to be both understated and hammy in the brilliant film, that he is likely best know for.
It catches the atmosphere of the Gaslight period, and is lighting speed, as Price goes from a brilliant artist of life-like wax figures, to a scarred man, nearly killed by his partner wanting the insurance. He is forced to watch his two crowning glories, his Joan of Arc and his Marie Antoinette destroyed in the fire. With scared hands, he is forced to use bodies to fill his new house of wax, while Price also manages to meet out a little revenge to his former partner.
At first bodies are vanishing from the morgue, but when Price sees Jones - the living image of Joan of Arc - and Phyllis Kirk, his Marie Antoinette come to life in his mind - he knows he must possess the bodies of both women to see if greatest works recreated.
Is so spooky, and Kirk ably screams her way from one mishap to the next. Just does not get any better.
Movie Review: One of the greatest horror films of the 50s
Summary: 5 Stars
This re-make of "Mystery of the Wax Museum" surpases 1933 technicolor original because the scenes are more paced, elaborate and suspenseful. The scenes, script and acting is amazing. One of those few gems that you can still watch even today 50 years later and still find it genuinely creepy. Very few horror films have managed to stay scary and genuinely suspenseful to new audiences 53 years later, but me, as a teenager seeing it for the first time just the other day, i found it really creepy and the story is great. why can't they make movies like this now?? The new house of wax is decent in it's own respect, but doesnt hold a flame to this one. Sorry Paris. But this Vincent Price version is much better then the 1933 version only because the other one is a bit slower and the scenes are less suspenseful (due to the low budget and obvious old tricks, but come on it was the 30's) The 50's version has advanced budget, lighting, makeup, directing, script and acting, i give the 1933 film a B-
The '53 one an A
and the 2005 one, a C+
Movie Review: The best thing about watching this movie at home-No 3-D glasses
Summary: 5 Stars
Yes! When this movie was first released I was around to see it. I saw it in the local movie house. It was great then and it is still great.Most movies of this genre were B movies filmed in black and white on small budgets. This movie wasfilmed in technicolor and 3-D. I had to stand in line that stretched for a block. The ticket was a quarter and a large popcorn was a dime. Charles Bronson hadn't changed his name yet, but who was Charles Bronson? Carolyn Jones was still a blonde, but who was Carolyn Jones. This movie made Vincent Price a major horror star. You sat on the edge of your for the entire movie. The only bad thing was those blanky-blank 3 -D glasses. You left the movie with one massive headache, but it was worth it. Now you can see a great movie at home without those headache producing glasses. I wish the DVD had come with a commentary, but it does come with film of the various cross country openings. Evelyn Ankers was there with hubbie Richard Denning, Sad note Bela Lugosi date was a man in a gorilla suit.Movie Review: It can be seen in 3D on your TV or Computer
Summary: 5 Stars
If you have polarized glasses, any film shot in the 1950s using the polarized method, like House of Wax, It Came From Outer Space, and Dial M for Murder, will play on your TV in 3D. I got a free set of polarized glasses for the broadcast of the episode of 3rd Rock from The Sun "A Nightmare on Dick Street." This was broadcast with the dream sequences in 3D (glasses were available if you bought a case of Barq's Root Beer -- I got several) and I taped it and found that my VHS recording retained the 3D information. When I started the DVD of House of Wax and saw the claim that it was in "Natural 3D," I knew they had to be referring to the polarized system, because anaglyphic films from that era cannot be viewed without the glasses (unless they are running in a non-3D format), hence they are not "natural." Cardboard framed polarized glasses are available for a few bucks on the Internet. I'm glad I kept the glasses I got for 3rd Rock.