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: 3697 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: - My favorite Vincent Price Flick
The 3D aspect was there and if it weren't for the mention of it in the intro I would not of known why things were sometimes thrown towards the camera. I am sure back in the day it would of blown people away and it sounds so great in a time of simple movies trying to do new things.
I have watched a lot of Vincent Price movies lately and I have to say first this is far by my favorite I have seen right now. I kept thinking to myself about the time this movie was made and how much work was done with the mannequins and even the fight scene at the very beginning of the movie in a burning building. Price's acting shined for me in this movie and I find it strange how I have seen some of his movies with nothing going for it yet Vincent Price is always the shining piece in it. For me the most annoying part was the blonde hair woman at the beginning (whose name escapes me right now) kept doing this laugh ... Read More
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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 his terrified heroine. Better yet, it was filmed in a beautiful early Technicolor process, with the pastel shades of blue, red, gold and green giving it an eerie dream-like effect.
Switch to the House of Wax and you see a movie that's been squeezed dry of everything colorful. The heroine does all the stupid horror ... 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, blood flung on to you, and (just before the closing credits) a young Charles Bronson's wax head thrust at you... all in frightening 3-D. Phyllis Kirk, the beautiful heroine, is chased through the rainy midnight streets of 1902 New York City by the murderer madman (Price) his sliding gape always close behind her- clip-clop. ... Read More
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