House of Wax

Name: House of Wax
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: May 6, 2005
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 41
Cast: Chad Michael Murray, Elisha Cuthbert, Paris Hilton

2005

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Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews

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Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: May 6, 2005 | R

Starring: Chad Michael Murray, Elisha Cuthbert, Paris Hilton

Summary: What begins as a weekend getaway for six friends becomes a terrifying fight for their lives in House of Wax, an exciting re-imagining of the 1953 horror classic. (Warner Bros.)

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 113 min

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98	#98 Most Discussed Movie of 2005
69	#69 Most Shared Movie of 2005

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Stephen Hunter

This movie gives it to you, as no movie has in some years. Okay, if that's not your part of the swamp, don't go into it. Read full review

David Hiltbrand

A sturdy and cohesive representative of what tends to be a flimsy and tawdry B-movie genre. It even has a moral: People who live in wax houses shouldn't start fires. Read full review

Dana Stevens

The set design is fairly elaborate by the standards of the genre, and the victims don't die in precisely the order you might expect, but everything else goes pretty much according to formula, including a last-minute plot twist that opens the creaky door to a sequel. Read full review

Jack Mathews

It's a good thing Jaume Serra's House of Wax wasn't shot in 3-D like the original 1953 horror classic - Paris Hilton is in it and she doesn't have a third dimension. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Paris Hilton is the big draw in Jaume Collet-Serra's not-really-a-remake horror-slasher thriller House of Wax, and she'd have to be: There's so little else going on in it that you find yourself waiting for her few brief scenes. Read full review

Wesley Morris

For Hilton haters, the stupid and grotesque remake of House of Wax will only stoke their schadenfreude. Read full review

Scott Foundas

Direly predictable, with candle-drip pacing and a pervasive unpleasantness. Read full review

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Jul 13, 2015

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RafaFigueiredo

Jul 9, 2016

É um filme perfeito, com ótimas atuações principalmente da Elisha Cuthbert, que dá ao filme uma forte dose de entusiasmo com o seu desempenho semelhante ao de Jamie Lee Curtis

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Rikiege

Jan 22, 2013

A movie very unpredictable and full of gore and scenes that will leave you open-mouthed.

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bfoore90

May 12, 2020

I liked "House of Wax" for what it was, the plot is predictable and goofy at times but for here it works. The cast was filled with many young up-and-coming teen heart throbs like Chad Michael Murray, Paris Hilton and Elisha Cuthbert and some of the horror and gore aspects work. Again, not aI liked "House of Wax" for what it was, the plot is predictable and goofy at times but for here it works. The cast was filled with many young up-and-coming teen heart throbs like Chad Michael Murray, Paris Hilton and Elisha Cuthbert and some of the horror and gore aspects work. Again, not a perfect film by any means but its good. Also props to it being the film that introduced me to "Helena" by My Chemical Romance… Expand

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WallyS.

Dec 8, 2005

The remakes just keep getting worst, and here it achieves the unnatural gift of beeing stupid and dreadfull, the teens have no skill, and even though the art direction is excellent, everything else is trash.

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Manio

Mar 21, 2013

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The only take-away is seeing Paris Hilton getting a spear impaled through her head.

The movie on its own is incredibly dull, and the characters are extremely unlikeable, case in point with Paris Hilton, who at-least gets killed off in a hilarious way. The horror is really dull too. You'd think a film relying on a town full of "wax figures" would be able to employ some great horror feeling, but all it pulls off is lackluster fluff.… Expand

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AndrewB.

Feb 28, 2007

HORRIBLE MOVIE! I never seen the original but this movie is bad, just the main point in travel, they left to go to the super bowl which they didn't even have tickets to and if they scalpt tickets they would be REALLY expensive. but they make it far enough to a town they never heard of HORRIBLE MOVIE! I never seen the original but this movie is bad, just the main point in travel, they left to go to the super bowl which they didn't even have tickets to and if they scalpt tickets they would be REALLY expensive. but they make it far enough to a town they never heard of before(well two of them do) and the others go on even farther to the super bowl and then deside to turn around and go back after being stuck in trafic on a highway which there is no turn around while people in the back seat are sayin "TURN AROUND, LETS GO BACK!" STUPID!!! so they do turn back, retarded. and the other part i remember is when those 2 first go into the wax house and then she see's something outside in the window looking in and gets freaked out, and he goes outside to see what/who it was, it's a free country, people can be outside, and besides that whoever it was, they were just looking in the window, no actually walking into the place and touchin and metting a little wax. and she stays INSIDE the wax house while he goes outside to see what it was outside, f-ing stupid.… Expand

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