House of Wax

Name: House of Wax
Released: 2005-5-6
Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki

House of Wax

R
1h 53m
2005

27%

age 18+

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A group of friends on their way to a college football game falls prey to a pair of murderous brothers in an abandoned small town. The friends discover that the psychotic siblings have expanded the area's main attraction--the House of Wax--and created an entire town filled with the wax-coated corpses of unlucky visitors. Now the group must find a way out before its members also become permanent exhibits in the House of Wax. Remake of the Warner Bros. horror classic, which was the first release of a 3-D film by a major studio.

Director:

Jaume Collet-Serra

Producer:

Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis, Susan Downey, Herbert W. Gains, Steve Richards, Bruce Berman

Writer:

Chad Hayes, Carey Hayes

Cast:

Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Brian Van Holt, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Jon Abrahams, Robert Ri'chard, Dragitsa Debert

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

27%

Critics Consensus: Bearing little resemblance to the 1953 original, House of Wax is a formulaic but better-than-average teen slasher flick.

Reviews

Stuff.co.nz

James Croot

Holding the movie up to a flame shows it can't hold a candle to its predecessor.

Although it's filled with stupid characters who make basic horror movie mistakes (they take the detour, accept a ride from a stranger, investigate the creepy town, etc.), it also has a way of getting under the skin.

Collet-Serra delivers a pleasingly ruthless nightmare that does especially well with creepy visuals and bodily harm, resulting in one of the best Dark Castle Entertainment offerings.

While House of Wax certainly delivers what it promises the film only half works for me because I'm more invested in the aesthetics than the actors. Still, for a big budget studio effort it's certainly watchable...

Somehow manages to be even worse than the 21st century renditions of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Amityville Horror (the mind boggles).

July 17, 2021

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Common Sense Media

age 18+

Common Sense Says

Bloody slasher film is nothing like the original.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this movie contains repeated gross-out horror images, including skin ripping off faces; bodies subjected to stabbing, chopping, and piercing; girls screaming and weeping; shotguns blasting; deer carcasses rotting; bugs crawling; even a finger being cut off with wire cutters. The killers keep fetuses in jars, blame their mother, and target boys and girls equally, though Paris Hilton is the only victim to strip to her red bra and panties and give her boyfriend (off-screen, but plainly indicated) oral sex. The killer superglues one girl's mouth shut, and she cuts it open so it bleeds and she can summon help; characters drink, smoke, and use harsh language.

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Additional Info

Genre:Drama, Horror
Release Date:May 6, 2005
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
5.1
Screen Pass Eligible:Yes

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House of Wax

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