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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790736051 Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 0790736055 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: July 28, 1998 Running Time: 90 minutes Sales Rank: 17956 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: April 25, 1953
Amazon.com: House of Wax brought Vincent Price into the horror genre, where he fit as snugly as a scalpel in a mad scientist's hand. A remake of the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum, this entertaining Gothic shocker casts Price as a sculptor of wax figures; his unwilling victims--er, "models"--lend their bodies to his lifelike depictions of Marie Antoinette and Joan of Arc. The film was one of the top 10 moneymakers of its year, thanks in part to the 3-D gimmick, which explains why so many things are aimed at the camera (why else would the paddleball man be there?). Footnote to history: director Andre De Toth was blind in one eye, and thus could not see in three dimensions. --Robert Horton
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Rating: - Tepid Remake of the l932 Original
Once you've seen the gloriously depraved and wicked l932 original--Mystery of the Wax Museum--this remake is terribly anemic and vanilla. In Mystery of the Wax Museum, you had a horror masterpiece made during those notorious pre-code days. Themes of necrophilia, drug addiction, prostitution are all crucial elements of the story in this fascinating tale of a sculptor who is hideously disfigured by a fire. Yet, he survives to rebuilt his wax museum by encasing corpses in wax and transforming them into historical figures. Lionel Atwill made a terrifying monster and he had the gorgeous Fay Wray as ... Read More
Rating: - Grab Your 3-D Glasses for This One!
Vincent Price's "House of Wax" (1953) is a striking 3-Dementional movie adaptation of Lionel Atwell's classic "Mystery at the Wax Museum" (1933)- the '33 flick is on the reverse side of the 2003 DVD. As an emergent technological wonder, the 1953 version used interlocking 35mm camera filming on mirrors from 45-degree angles to make the movie. At the theater, the dual projection system showed its startling effects to 3-D glasses wearing viewers.
This macabre tale of beauty, death, and evil psychosis features spears thrown towards you, paddle balls slapped at you, doors open upon you, ... Read More
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Rating: - Arguably the best 3-D movie--ever! (Even without 3D)
The fact that this is one of the few 3-D movies that plays just as well WITHOUT 3-D, says something. A great, grisly story (based upon the 1933 "Mystery of the Wax Museum" which is found, coincidentally, on the other side of this DVD), and a magnificently oily performance by Vincent Price make this a great ride. Andre de Toth, the director, was blind in one eye, so was probably not interested in doing a lot of 3D gimmick shots. In fact, the only scene that really gives away the film's 3D heritage is the paddle-ball sequence at the beginning of Act Two. Rumor has it that Warner Bros. is considering a ... Read More
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