| | House Of Wax DVD (4 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Mystery DVDs, Horror Movies, Murder Videos, Psychos, Art/Artists | | Starring | Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Dabbs Greer, Roy Roberts, Paul Picerni, Carolyn Jones, Paul Cavanagh, Frank Lovejoy, Angela Clarke, Phyllis Kirk | | Director | Andre De Toth | | Composer | David Buttolph | | Director of Photography | Bert Glennon, Peverell Marley | | Editor | Rudi Fehr | | Producer | Bryan Foy | | Production Designer | Stanley Fleischer | | Screenwriter | Crane Wilbur, Charles S. Belden |
Museum fire turns handsome man into human monster who steals bodies from morgue to create lifelike images in wax. André de Toth's remake of MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM is one of the first and best 3-D (stereoscopic) feature films, an alternative technology (like Cinemascope, Cinerama) used by 1950s directors attempting to compete with the new threat of television. Professor Jarrod (Vincent Price) is a devoted wax figure sculptor for his museum in 1910s NYC. When his financial partner, Sidney Wallace (Paul Cavanagh), demands more sensational exhibits to increase profits, Jarrod refuses. The vengeful Wallace torches the museum, leaving Jarrod for dead. Miraculously, Jarrod survives (though his hands and legs are rendered useless) and builds a new House of Wax with help from threatening deaf-mute sculptor, Igor (Charles Bronson). The museum's popular "Chamber of Horrors" showcases recent crimes like the murder of Wallace, a victim of a cloaked, disfigured killer along with his fiancée, Cathy (Carolyn Jones). When Cathy's friend, Sue (Phyllis Kirk), visits the museum she makes a discovery that leads to the horrifying truth behind the House of Wax. With gasp inducing (and tongue-in-cheek) 3-D scenes like the museum fire, paddleball man, and can-can girls, de Toth creates an atmospheric film which stands up as a horror classic in 2-D as well. When theatrically re-issued, "House of Wax" received an MPAA GP rating.
Filmed in Technicolor and Stereophonic sound.
Rated BBFC PG by the British Board of Film Classification.
Andre de Toth had one eye while directing the film and was unable to enjoy the groundbreaking 3-D effects. House Of Wax Reviews: "...Great fun..."
-- Susan King, Los Angeles Times "[O]ne of the most popular 3-D movies..."-- Mike Clark, USA Today "[W]ith Vincent Price on fine form as a mutilated, murderous maniac..."
-- Peter Hogan, Uncut House Of Wax | List Price | $14.96 (You save $5.81) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 1953 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  2818  | | CD Universe Part number | 5933109 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Sep 26, 2006 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 88 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color |
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