House of Wax (Widescreen Edition)
by Jaume Collet-Serra
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Actor: Brian Van Holt, Chad Michael Murray, Elisha Cuthbert, Jared Padalecki, Paris HiltonDirector: Jaume Collet-Serra
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Bruce Berman
Producer: Erik Olsen
Producer: Herb Gains
Producer: Joel Silver
Writer: Carey Hayes
Writer: Chad Hayes
Writer: Charles Belden
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
DVD Reviews of House of Wax (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Excellent Service
Summary: 5 Stars
Disk was brand new, I received it within three days. Very fast and I would do business with them again.DVD Review: Impressive
Summary: 5 Stars
I've noticed a new trend in the newest horror movies lately where things seem to have gone back to nothing gorey happening until half way through the movie, like they did 20 or 30 years ago. It is like this in House of Wax. I'm not sure whether I like this new development or not but it works with House of Wax.
It starts off with a theme that many other horrors movies have used; a group of teenaged friends have car trouble in the middle of nowhere, half of the friends stay at the car and the other half go to a nearby "deserted" town in search of help.
This is a slasher movie that kills the charactors in origional ways, sometimes involving wax and I was impressed with how gorey this movie was for a fifteen.
Impressive slasher movie with plenty of gore and a good ending. And, come on, who doesnt love it when Paris Hilton gets killed? :P.
DVD Review: HAI!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is so good, I just had to buy it. I wonder if they are going to make a sequel? They should.DVD Review: Terrific Remake!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been so disgusted and furious at the latest batch of remakes of horror classics that I wasn't expecting much at all when I finally got around to watching yet another remake of that great old classic: l933's Mystery of the Wax Museum. This was remade in l950 with the 3D version called "House of Wax."
Now we have the 2007 version and I was really surprised at how entertaining this proved to be. But first, I had to get used to the fact that this wasn't set in a big city like the other two. We're taken along a trip to hell when a group of young people decide to camp out in an isolated woods.
Okay, this has been done a million times, and of course, this is their fatal mistake, as we've seen a million times over in other flicks. This time, though, they're right next door to a deserted village which had once been the locale for a popular wax museum.
The young cast gives it their all and Chad Michael Murray (i hope I've got that right) is fantastic as the tough, macho hero. He plays the bad boy, whose always in trouble, but when it comes to surviving, he's right there and on the ball. Girls--and gay guys-should swoon when he strips off his jersey. For once, a man provides the beefcake instead of the usual bikini clad, or nude, girls.
The final part, where the heroine and the hero (Chad) battle it out to escape the nightmarish house of wax revs up the excitement and thrills. On top of that, we discover that the whole house is literally made of wax, that melts at an alarming degree because of fire.
If you've never seen that old pre-code classic, Mystery of the Wax Museum, you should definitely rent it. The Warner Brothers movie was filmed in a beautiful, early Technicolor process that gives the whole film an eerie, beautiful look of pastel greens, reds and blues. The cast is fantastic--the shrieking Fay Wray, the demonic Lionel Atwell as the disfigured monster, and the hysterical, wise-cracking reporter, Glenda Farrell. You're also treated to typical pre-code forbidden topics--like prostitution, drug addicts, etc. And best of all, it's directed at a furious pace by Academy Award winning Michael Curtiz--who gave us Casablanca. Also, filmed in the same year, also in early Technicolor, and using most of the same cast was the equally bizarre, Dr. X.
Dr. X, along with Mystery of the Wax Museu, should definitely belong in your horror movie collection.
DVD Review: Better Than Expected
Summary: 3 Stars
HOUSE OF WAX is a remake of a 1953 picture of the same name that starred Vincent Price. Having never yet seen the original, I can't comment on comparisons between the two films. This version of the story was produced by Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis, among others, and was the feature directorial debut of Jaume Collet-Serra. I was a bit hesitant to watch the movie because the picture was promoted as Paris Hilton's breakout role. In fact, she was the first person cast in the movie and the rest of the cast was built around her. However, despite my reluctance to originally watch the movie, HOUSE OF WAX is actually a fairly decent slasher-suspense movie.
The plot of the movie is fairly simple. A group of six college-age friends leave together on a roadtrip to see the biggest football game of the year in Louisiana. They leave the main road to take a shortcut. The shortcut ends up having a detour and the group camps for the night in a woody field. That night the group is harassed by a man in a pickup truck. One of the friends, Nick Jones (Chad Michael Murray), throws a beer bottle at the truck, breaking a headlight which for whatever reason causes the driver to leave. That night Nick's twin sister, Carly (Elisha Cuthbert), is awaken by noises she hears outside of their tent. She investigates, but doesn't find anything. However, the next day Carly's boyfriend, Wade (Jared Padalecki) discovers that the fan belt to his car has been cut. Wade and Carly hitch a ride into a nearby town with a creepy guy who picks up road kill for a living to get a fan belt while the rest of the group leaves to go to the game. Traffic is so bad that the group misses most of the game and comes back to the campsite. Meanwhile, Wade and Carly find themselves wandering around a dingy looking town that looked like it once was quaint. The town professes to have a famous wax museum that Wade and Carly investigate. As it turns out, the wax house is literally made of wax as is most everything in it and the figures are so lifelike. Of course, there's a reason for that as Wade, Carly, and the rest of their friends soon find out.
You would think that the worst part of this movie would be Paris Hilton. That's really not the case. Her character is very wooden with hardly any emotional depth, but that's exactly how her character is supposed to be. There's a fair enough amount of suspense and just enough gore to give the film an overall eerie mood.
The film has one huge weakness: the stupidity factor. I realize that horror films in general require a huge suspension of disbelief and almost always have characters doing things very, very stupid. However, in HOUSE OF WAX that seems more prevalent than normal. For instance, take the character of Wade. As an audience member, you're supposed to like Wade. He's Carly's boyfriend and is supposed to be a nice guy, the kind a girl can take home to her parents are ask move to New York with her to begin a new life. Yet, Wade once Wade meets the guy who picks up road kill, he turns rude and abrasive. I couldn't wait until he got killed because the whole time he was in Ambrose, he was a complete jerk: smarting off to strangers, breaking into closed buildings, searching through people's personnel items. Or take Paris Hilton's character, Paige. At one point Paige is being chased by a killer and arms herself with a pole, but eventually leaves the pole behind. Or how about the fact that while wondering around the town the only person anyone ever sees and meets is Bo? I grew up in a town smaller than Ambrose and even late at night your bound to see cars driving around or someone walking around.
Overall, despite starring Paris Hilton and filled with bad acting, HOUSE OF WAX is a better-than-expected suspense-slasher movie.
The DVD special features include an alternate opening scene, b-roll and blooper video with cast commentary, Joel Silver revealing HOUSE OF WAX (watch Joel get ran over by a car), "Wax On: the Design of the House of Wax" featurette about how the town of Ambrose, Louisiana was created, "The House Built on Wax" featurette about how the actual wax house in HOUSE OF WAX was created, and the theatrical trailer.
Description of House of Wax (Widescreen Edition)
House of Wax tells the story of a group of friends who fall prey to a sinister plot while passing through a small town on their way to a college football game.You know the one about the group of horny kids who get offed one by one? Yeah, so do director Jaume Collet-Serra and his screenwriters, who have updated an old Vincent Price flick and sandwiched it between hearty slices of The Blair Witch Project and various Friday the 13th films. Lots of WB and Fox network hotties--including 24's Elisha Cuthbert, One Tree Hill's Chad Michael Murray, and, well, Paris Hilton--have car trouble and stumble onto a town populated by real killer personalities. The R-rated result is fairly gruesome and, though no one ever quite looks frightened enough, Collet-Serra knows his way around a jolting suspense sequence or two. Cuthbert and an unintentionally funny Murray (striking ludicrous poses as some kind of real toughie) act more like angry ex-lovers than the fraternal twins they're supposed to be; Hilton acts bored while her real-life video scandal is exploited for ironic kicks; and the film heads shamelessly over-the-top with each new twist. As an exercise in bloody mayhem, it has a few novel touches, but you can easily find better scares. --Steve Wiecking
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