House of Wax (1953)

Cast

Charles Bronson
as Igor
Vincent Price
as Prof. Henry Jarrod
Dabbs Greer
as Sgt. Jim Shane
Roy Roberts
as Matthew Burke

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Genres & Description

Horror

7.1 / 10

Professor Henry Jarrod is a true artist whose wax sculptures are lifelike. He specializes in historical tableau's such a Marie Antoinette or Joan of Arc. His business partner, Matthew Burke, needs some of his investment returned to him and pushes Jarrod to have more lurid exposes like a chamber of horrors. When Jarrod refuses, Burke set the place alight destroying all of his beautiful work in the hope of claiming the insurance. Jarrod is believed to have died in the fire but he unexpectedly reappears some 18 months later when he opens a new exhibit. This time, his displays focus on the macabre but he has yet to reproduce his most cherished work, Marie Antoinette. When he meets his new assistant's beautiful friend, Sue Allen, he knows he's found the perfect model - only unbeknown to anyone, he has a very particular way of making his wax creations.

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Johnny Angel

This was a sexy film for its day! - @Tuesday, October 23, 2018 7:20 PM

snarkus63

Even without 3-D,an entertaining movie...and there's only a few of the 3-D movies of that era that can say that. - @Sunday, April 2, 2017 8:47 PM

MrCarter0975

The movie "Comin' at Ya!", the film that ushered in the 80' 3-D craze, had advertising that didn't have footage from the film either, but had a man talk about the film and the 3-D that the film had while things associated with western films, like cacti and tumbleweeds, moved around him. - @Monday, October 24, 2016 3:58 PM

kalsolarUK

I actually bought Dial M for Murder in 3D and I think that although most people never got to see it in 3D originally the fact that it was shot that way forced Hitchcock to make some very interesting choices in terms of angles etc to make the most of it. That fact that most of the movie is set in one room, shooting it in 3D ironically added something to it even though it wasn't released in 3D originally. - @Friday, March 7, 2014 1:10 AM