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Dominican Rep. House of Wax
- Original title
- House of Wax
- Year
- 1953
- Running time
- 88 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Vincent Price
Phyllis Kirk
Frank Lovejoy
Carolyn Jones
Paul Cavanagh
Paul Picerni
Roy Roberts
Charles Bronson
Nedrick Young- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Horror. Mystery | 3D. 1900s. Serial Killers. Remake
- Synopsis
- 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.
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- Critics' reviews
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"Casting is competent, Vincent Price is capital as the No. 1 menace."
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"House of Wax was stunningly directed by Andre de Toth who used the new 3-D process to its fullest potential without bogging down the narrative with too many 'gee-look-what-I-can-do' tricks."
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"The effects are done with playfulness, zest, and some imagination, making this the most entertaining of the gimmick 3-Ds."
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"[A] glorious-looking slice of gothic horror, which also helped establish Vincent Price as a horror icon."
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"A film in which just about every technical and dramatic gambit has been judged to near perfection"
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