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- 1953
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 28 m
- 1953
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 28 m
Summary An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
Directed By: André De Toth
Written By: Crane Wilbur, Charles Belden
- 1953
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 28 m
- 1953
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 28 m
House of Wax
68
6.4
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Summary An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
Directed By: André De Toth
Written By: Crane Wilbur, Charles Belden
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
68
64% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
9% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
68
64% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
9% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
A stylish remake of Michael Curtiz' shocker "Mystery of the Wax Museum"--about a museum-art gallery filled with wax-dipped murder victims, run by the fiendish Vincent Price. [25 Jul 2003, p.C1]
House of Wax is great entertainment, an exciting, diverting thriller.
It’s Price that gives House of Wax its characteristic balance of elegance and lurid theatricality.
Scriptwise, it's as stilted as any other 1950s studio horror flick, but De Toth does a great job at making the melting waxworks look genuinely creepy, and, yes, that really is Charles Bronson (credited with his original surnme, "Buchinsky") loping about the museum as Price's deaf-mute assistant Igor. [28 May 2005]
Price is fun (this was the film that typed him as a horror star), the fire in the waxworks is good for a gruesome thrill, and De Toth brings off one classic sequence with Kirk fleeing through the gaslit streets pursued by a shadowy figure in a billowing cloak.
The major causes for anxiety presented by this film are in the savagery of its conception and the intolerable artlessness of its sound. It is thrown and howled at the audience as though the only purpose was to overwhelm the naturally curious patron with an excess of brutal stimuli.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
6.4
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
6.4
40% Positive
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Production Company
Bryan Foy Productions,
Warner Bros.
Release Date Apr 25, 1953
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating Approved
Genres
Tagline UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE! (original print ad - all caps)
Awards
National Film Preservation Board, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Nomination
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
