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But when all the teenagers get on the sleeping mode, they are all filmed secretly by an anonymous figure. Suddenly a noise breaks the sleep of Carly, as she gets up but finds nothing after checking here and there.
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As in those movies, this updated "House of Wax" features a group of randy, quarreling young people who wander off the main road only to be dispatched one by one by a ruthless maniac. 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. After arriving at the gas station, Nick counters Bo, who cuts the fingertip of Carly while trying to escape from his clutches and drawing the attention of Nick to save her.
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A disfigured man in a cloak strangles him and stages the murder as an act of suicide, and a few weeks later the same man murders Burke's fiancée, Cathy Gray. Her unemployed roommate, Sue Allen, comes home and stumbles upon the murderer. After a brief chase with him, Sue makes it to safety at the home of her friend, Scott Andrews.
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Averill is then taken in by Shane for being in possession of a pocketwatch belonging to a missing deputy city attorney, though he states that he found it. Growing up in the 80’s he got to see some of the greatest horror movies play out in the best of venues, the drive-in theater. That’s when his obsession with the genre really began—but it wasn’t just the movies, it was the games, the books, the comics, and the lore behind it all that really ignited his obsession.
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M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma (Get Out’s Allison Williams), M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she is bonded to. Blumhouse is bringing killer doll M3GAN back to the screen in M3GAN 2.0 in 2025, and Deadline reports today that Ivanna Sakhno (Let It Snow, “Ahsoka”) has signed on to star. The other group including Paige, Nick, Dalton, and Blake who were heading towards the football game, turns back to the campsite. Seeing the absence of Carly and Wade, Dalton and Nick head towards to find the siblings. Paige and Blake sit behind the car to indulge in carnal intercourse with each other.
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The next day, when the Andrewses and Sue visit the police, Lt. Tom Brennan mentions that Cathy's body, as well as several others, have disappeared from the morgue. Meanwhile, Sidney Wallace, a wealthy financier, is contacted by a wheelchair bound Jarrod, who has survived the fire, but claims that he suffered permanent loss of his hands and legs. As he can no longer sculpt, Jarrod has hired assistants, the deaf-mute Igor and talented sculptor Leon Averill, to help him recreate his wax figures, and using a new procedure he has devised, build another museum.
Meanwhile, both Carley and Wade go to the wax museum, which is the main center of attraction in town. As the others journey on to the game (only to turn around after hitting a massive traffic jam), Wade and Carly hitch a ride into the nearby town of Ambrose, where they stumble upon the titular wax museum and its uncannily lifelike sculptures. Graham "Grace" Walker masterminds a spectacular closing sequence in which the House of Wax literally melts down, and characters sink into stairs, fall through floors and claw through walls. There is also an eerie sequence in which a living victim is sprayed with hot wax and ends up with a finish you'd have to pay an extra four bucks for at the car wash. No citizens prowl the streets, although some seem to be attending a funeral. Carly and Wade are attracted to a mysterious House of Wax that dominates the town much as the Bates home towered above "Psycho." Wade scratches a wall of the house and says, "It is wax -- literally!" This is either an omen, or the homeowners were victimized by siding salesmen.
House of Wax revitalized the film career of Vincent Price, who had been playing secondary character parts and occasional sympathetic leads since the late 1930s. After this high-profile role, he was in high-demand for the rest of his career to play fiendish villains, mad scientists, and other deranged characters in genre films such as The Tingler (1959), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), and The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971). Supporting actress Carolyn Jones, who had her first credited role in House of Wax, gained a much higher profile more than a decade later when she played Morticia Addams in the TV comedy horror spoof The Addams Family. With Jarrod presumed dead, Burke is able to get all of the insurance money for himself.
House of Wax This first 3D color film produced by a major studio was an instant box office success and helped usher in the “golden era” of 3D. Vincent Price is in top form as Professor Harry Jarrod, a late 19th century wax sculptor spurned by his business partner when the latter sets their museum ablaze for the insurance payout. Full of delightful gimmicks and blood-chilling implications—Why are bodies missing from the morgue? —House of Wax retains the wonder audiences felt nearly seventy years ago at the film’s release. The Mad Magician The tremendous success of House of Wax led Vincent Price to return to the screen with another 3D chiller just one year later, which helped confirm the veteran actor’s status as a top horror star. House of Wax screenwriter Crane Wilbur penned this original tale of Don Gallico, a 19th century magician who plots revenge when his stage illusions are stolen from him.
Somehow, even though none of the telephones work, and a Cadillac's G.P.S. navigation can't locate the town, cellphone reception is crystal clear. The climax of House of Wax reveals that the entire town of Ambrose is populated by wax figures brought to life by the deranged sculptor, Vincent Sinclair. The real residents of Ambrose were brutally murdered years ago, and their corpses have been replaced with eerily lifelike wax replicas. The wax replicas have since been manipulated to live a semblance of their former lives, trapped in a perpetual cycle of agony and torment. The movie, directed by Jaume Collett-Sera – who went on to make bats–t killer-“kid” movie Orphan, a bunch of Liam Neeson action flicks, and Disney’s upcoming Jungle Cruise – was largely lashed by critics (its Tomatometer is 26%) and ignored by audiences.
A character named Jennifer is killed by Bo or Vincent in an alternate opening scene available as a special feature on the DVD and Blu-ray. This character was stranded on the side of the road when she met up with one of the killers. She is still in the movie itself in form of the female wax sculpture that Vincent works on (later displayed with flowers in a pink dress outside of the movie theater). Derived from the Greek word for “immortal,” it reflects Vincent’s obsession with achieving eternal life through his wax figures. The scene where 'Picerni, Paul' is rescued from the guillotine by Frank Lovejoy seconds before the blade came down was filmed in one take, using a real guillotine blade. Picerni and director Andre De Toth got into a heated argument when Picerni, on advice from the film's stuntmen, refused to do the scene as too dangerous (a prop man was to hold up the blade off camera and tell the actors when he dropped it so they could yank Picerni away).
Direly predictable, with candle-drip pacing and a pervasive unpleasantness, pic arrives at a fortuitous moment given the box-office power of gory genre fare. But an R rating, the lack of an obvious “Amityville”-type hook and heavy opening-weekend competition from “Kingdom of Heaven” should keep business for “House” at the level of a solid, but unspectacular sideshow attraction. A Paris Hilton strip tease and some impressive special effects are the selling points of "House of Wax," an in-name-only remake of the 1953 Andre De Toth horror classic that reps the latest offering from Joel Silver's Dark Castle Entertainment. But an R rating, the lack of an obvious "Amityville"-type hook and heavy opening-weekend competition from "Kingdom of Heaven" should keep business for "House" at the level of a solid, but unspectacular sideshow attraction.
He takes them to a nearby town to find a new fan belt to replace the old smashed one. The story of the first part of House of Wax begins when a brother and sister named Nick Jones and Carly Jones are traveling with their friends Paige, Dalton, Wade, and Blake heading towards a football game. But before reaching the spot finally, all the teens stop midway during the evening due to tiredness.
The six hapless young folk stumble into Ambrose on their way to a football game, and in the midst of their own petty melodramas. Ms. Hilton is Paige, who is keeping a secret from her boyfriend, Blake (Robert Ri'chard). Carly and Nick's contrasting temperaments -- he sardonically refers to himself as "the evil twin" -- mirror the sibling dynamic of the killers, providing "House of Wax" with at least the hint of a psychological subtext. The vibe comes courtesy of producer Joel Silver, who directed the production designers to take inspiration from the Eritrean capital of Asmara, which is known for Modernist buildings built by Italian colonizers in the 1930s.
Director John Brahm unites the potential of 3D cinematography with the moody black-and-white visual style he brought to such thrillers as The Lodger (1944) and Hangover Square (1945). In another slight departure from convention, there are apparently two maniacs (twin brothers), but even so it takes them nearly an hour of screen time to claim their first victim, which may make you wonder if the filmmakers mislaid their horror-movie instruction manual. After a few too many teasing false scares, and some obligatory ogling of Paris Hilton and Elisha Cuthbert, the screenwriters (Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes), the director (Jaume Collet-Serra) and the maniacs (both played by Brian Van Holt) settle down to their sadistic business. There is some pretty bloody stuff -- decapitation, a severed finger, lips stuck together with high-powered glue, a snipped Achilles tendon -- all of which is a prelude to an exquisitely icky method of murder. The victims, sometimes before they are dead, are covered in hot wax and then carefully made over into uncanny, motionless reproductions of themselves. In New York City during the early 1900s, Professor Henry Jarrod is a talented sculptor who runs a wax museum that features wax figures of historical figures that have met grisly demises.
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