House of Wax
6.7
4,107
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- Original title
- House of Wax
- Year
- 1953
- Running time
- 88 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Vincent Price
- Phyllis Kirk
- Frank Lovejoy
- Carolyn Jones
- Paul Cavanagh
- Paul Picerni
- Roy Roberts
- Charles Bronson
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Horror. Mystery | Serial Killers. 1900s. 3D. Remake
- Synopsis
- 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.
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